#Beginner Level

[languagegarden]

04 Slowing down & going back to move forward in my Korean journey

I think I started Korean with a routine that was just too much. I overdid it. Now it’s time to create a healthy enjoyable routine that I can stick to LONGTERM. I also need to slow down and go back to learning material I thought I left behind me for good. Since I was rushing in the beginning, a lot of material was left unfinished and not used in a way to reap the benefits from it: I used it in a passive way, an ”input way”. And because of this plus the rushing, I feel like a lot of useful vocabulary and sentence structures were not registered in my longterm memory. Using everything actively is harder than I thought and my brain seems to be a bloc of Swiss cheese.

So I need to climb down from my high horse, put my ego into the drawer and admit to myself: I need to go back to move forward. Because if there are cracks in the foundation like a lack of output (active use like writing and speaking/monologuing) and having more passive than active vocab, it will create problems later on. The cracks will grow bigger as I move forward and I will live in this illusion of being further than I actually am. You know, even if my reading and listening comprehension is better than my writing and speaking, it’s a wobbly foundation, because the difference is too big. I shouldn’t think of myself as being ”so intermediate baby yeah”. There are too many holes, too much I can’t recall in the second I need it, too much passive vocabulary rather than active one. I need to get all the aspects of the language to an +/- equal level and stuff the holes in the foundation.

Weak foundations will make the castle crumble. I don’t want that to happen.

Slowing down, going back, using (upper)beginner resources again, IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF and is not ”lowering” myself down to a less worthy level. It’s a good revision, it’s repetition, it’s learning new stuff. The awareness that I need to get stronger at the base to properly move forward is sth positive. And slowing down is not laziness, language learning is not a sprint anyway, so why not take my time, step by step and as a result enjoy it more. Sooner or later I will be where I want to be. I don’t care if it takes a few years longer, I’m not in the coffin yet lol, so let’s sail forward but first backwards.

xoxo,

A.

[artistxlin]

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[saturnvs]

and what if i pulled myself together and contacted the local riding school to tell them i'm interested in joining ....

[rosykims]

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[keferon]

Seeing other esl person using gendered pronouns for all kinds of random inanimate objects is always fun because

1. Wooooa they also got gendered words in their language cool.

2. What do you mEAN A BOOK ISN'T SHE/HER???

[keiksycake]

Hetalia Gangsta 544, 545

Summary: AmeChu talk about hotdogs; Ita and Fra react to the pineapple card

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I like to post up to the image count limit in these reposts to avoid too many posts so I wasn't sure if to hold off on these two or not since verus hasn't updated in like a month and idk when the next one will be. they've said they do plan on continuing but I feel bad for being so late in sharing their work here so I figured I should post these now.

Hetalia Gangsta Masterlist

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[marihem]

@fransweek 2024

Day 1: Blushing (literally)

[redstonedust]

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[helloimamistake]

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[carfuckerlynch]

I do love how I got a halfway decent handle on how cable knitting is supposed to work and immediately jumped into the most complicated cables I could find

[ghirahimbo]

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[amygdalae]

My partner wants to go to Spain w me this summer that's scaryyy

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[dokushoclub]

Japanese Reading Resources for Absolute Beginners

A question I encounter often is "How much Japanese should I study before I can begin reading in Japanese?"

From my experience as a learner and reader myself and from managing a Japanese book club for other learners I can honestly say that you can start way earlier than you probably think!

There are many resources that only require knowing hiragana. Those texts usually teach vocabulary through pictures and only use basic grammar.

Some are even simpler than that: The Japan Foundation's Hiragana Books are great for those, who are still remembering hiragana characters. Every short book introduces only 1-2 new characters, so it's a great reading exercise for those who've just started.

The free graded reader 「どうぞ、どうも」 by the NPO Tagengo Tadoku only uses the words 「どうぞ」 and 「どうも」 to write an entire story. Again, this makes for a great exercise in reading hiragana and understanding context. Another "level 0" recommendation by the same NPO would definitely be 「しろい？くろい？」. This book uses the full range of hiragana characters but the grammar is simple and all used vocabulary is illustrated.

Another site with great resources for absolute beginners is Nihongo Tadoku Dōjō. If you have memorized both hiragana and katakana and know how the particles を and で work you will be able to read this text about stationary (ぶんぼうぐ) and understand everything by looking at the pictures!

The resources linked so far can all be accessed completely free on the linked websites. If you have the money to spare, please also have a look at the box 「スタート」 from the series reberubetsu nihongo tadoku raiburarī published by the NPO Tagengo Tadoku and ASK (affiliate link). This box includes 8 little books in very simple Japanese.

All these texts for absolute beginners will get you started reading in Japanese with very little knowledge of characters and vocabulary.

Reading in Japanese is a skill that requires practice. But once you get used to it, it can be such a valuable tool to reinforce new vocabulary and grammar. So please don't wait until you're "ready" before you start reading - start early at your own level!