#refold

[asavt]

Hey guys, some little oneshot, this time centered on our beloved Captain T.Ode. No beta. I hope you enjoy.

[rigelmejo]

Chinese Study Resources:

Refold Mandarin Resources: https://zenith-raincoat-5cf.notion.site/Refold-Mandarin-Resources-d54bfade358b4d0a88b5600acb99582b

Beginner Immersion Content: https://zenith-raincoat-5cf.notion.site/Beginner-Immersion-Content-fb77202d5abc4409988ac42069bdad8f

Webnovel Recommendations: https://zenith-raincoat-5cf.notion.site/9d6eda0b2edd4723a664d92aeb47819f?v=b291b9bdc83c4c70893800c9a30d9b7d

[neurasthnia]

refold is a language learning method/community that is incredibly, incredibly popular in some language learning spaces. i haven't seen much on it here, and i really love their philosophy on comprehension.

[copied from their website.]

In general, comprehension tends to be domain-specific. For example, you might generally have around story-level comprehension when reading mystery novels, but around gist-level comprehension when watching the news. Further, even within a single domain, your comprehension will likely vary depending on the specific piece of content.

It’s completely normal for your comprehension to vary greatly from day-to-day or even hour-to-hour. It can even vary from episode to episode within the same TV show. Comprehension is affected by many factors, including your mood, energy level, and engagement in the content you’re consuming.

It’s also normal to occasionally feel like your comprehension has suddenly gotten worse. This is an illusion. As your comprehension increases, you become more aware of what you still don’t understand. This increased awareness of your ignorance is what causes the subjective experience of losing comprehension. It’s actually a good sign, not a bad one!

[benji-cheung]

Paradigma, Ekaterina Lukasheva || 30 units (6.00 x 6.00, square) || Instructions

[kiwilangblr]

Day 1 : 08.21.2023

Two of my friends from freshman Japanese class left to go study in Japan this last Saturday. They're going to be there until December 24th of this year. What the fuck!

I feel this profound jealously and also motivation to somehow be better at Japanese than them by the time they come back.

So with that newly found motivation, hello! Welcome to our first day!

So here's what today looks like, and what the next week should consist of generally:

WaniKani study

Anki cards

Grammar "Study" (30 min- 1 hour)

Active Immersion (1-2) hours

Ideally this will take me about 3-4 hours to complete, knowing me I'm likely to procrastinate a few days.

That's okay.

My main goal right now is getting used to immersion and starting a habit. I've done this day 1 bullshit like ten times now so I'm just gonna fucking go for it.

I'm thinking that for the first couple of weeks, I'll give daily updates if and when possible in an attempt to build my habit. When I feel confident that I will continue studying without updates, I will switch to a weekly update schedule. Then, once I get to a point where more noticeable differences happen over the course of months, rather than weeks, I'll switch to that format.

I will start studying ... NOW!

[butchniqabi]

i have a semi-funny story? fact? occurrence? about happy holidays vs merry christmas. i have a few speech impediments but the most obvious ones are R lisps (cant pronounce Rs) and S lisps (cant pronounce Ss). so when the holiday season comes around, naturally, i say 'happy holidays' since there are no Rs and a single S which i can say fast enough that not many people notice. whenever i say happy holidays at work and someone gets all pissy about it, i pause everything im doing and say merry christmas and, of course, it does not sound at all how its supposed to. so i go 'wait hold on, lemme try again' and i will make them wait a full minute+ as i try to garble out a phrase. it gets even more funny (for me) when my stutter kicks in and it takes me 10 seconds to even START the word 'merry.' and its like, what are they gonna say? 'stop trying to say the thing i WANTED you to say?''nvm just say happy holidays?' they think if they comment on it, it'll make me feel bad, so theyre trapped until i decide they've learned their lesson. ive been doing this for the past 3 years at multiple jobs and i have no intention of stopping.

can we kiss???

[paperzest]

Origami Patchouli, designed by Xiao Dai/zhangyifan_32, folded by me. 

1 uncut square of unryu paper, about 60 cm. 

I had fun with this one and am fairly happy with the result. 

[mittenlady]

circe has some of the most beautiful prose i’ve read in a while

[diabolicjoy]

Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out by Richard Siken

[aropride]

I HATE SEWING MACHINE BOBBIN GIVE ME TRHEAD SHOUT SEW GAY BOY SEW

[webatrocities]

reposting things here. combining my fixations into one horrible mass of Media [gone VERY WRONG.]

[asavt]

[ Scissors' centric ]

Memories blur and are made. Colors are related to feelings. Names are thought of. Days pass for the Duelist.

[rigelmejo]

I was looking up "how many words to learn to read japanese" and oh my was there a surprising result. The various reddit posts seemed to say at least 10,000 words as that is what is on N1, while also saying it may just be the beginning of reading at 10,000 words and you'll still be looking up many words per page.

I am a bit confused by this answer, and still looking for a possibly truer one. Im looking for: how many words must a person learn in japanese to start reading materials for native speakers, if they look up a word every few sentences? Or even 1-3 words per sentence to start. So this would be maybe 80-90% reading comprehension (and with word lookup they'd boost that to 90% or more), with some simpler materials (like say Yotsuba or Ranma or School Rumble mangas) being 90% comprehensible before word lookup (and 95% or more comprehensible after word lookup).

For comparison: in French the number of words to start reasing was 1000-2000 (at least what I personally experienced), with 1000 being when I could read if i looked up 1 word per sentence or a a few words a paragraph. Chinese was also 1000-2000, the average webnovel felt more comfortable once learning 2000 words (at which point looking up 1-3 words or less a sentence or paragraph became doable), and for novels for children and some manhua just knowing 1000 words was enough to read while looking words up (for example, 秃秃大王 would be very readable with a 1000 vocabulary you know and looking up a word every sentence or so, and if your vocabulary is higher you may only look up words once every few paragraphs). For both french and chinese, once i learned lets estimate around 3000 french words or 3000 chinese hanzi (which is ultimately over 3000 words they can combine into which you can guess the meaning of... maybe by several thousand more), then there were at least SOME reading materials that could be read extensively with NO word lookups and using only context to guess the meaning of everything. In short: french and chinese basically matched up to what most "learn to read in a language" articles suggest you learn, which is around 2000 words to start reading with the aid of dictionary/translation word lookup, and then eventually work your way toward a goal of ~9000 words to read most materials comfortably. And along the path from 2000-9000 words, you'll find some materials that become readable to you aa you learn more words - without any dictionary/translation aids.

With Japanese reddit learners (as thats the forums i could browse): Refold learning plan used to suggest learning Tango N5 and N4 and 1000 basic kanji, so around 1000-2000 words, then to immerse with reading (sometimes at first just japanese show subtitles). The older Mass Immersion Approach (same overall study methods) used to do the 2,000 Core Japanese deck, or a personally made variant, and then around the end of that suggest people start including practicing reading. Sometimes people used the Core 6000 Japanese anki deck (more words), or used the nukemarine Lets Learn Japanese deck (i did this... it had 6000 words, around 2000 kanji, and tae kims grammar guide in it, and then later on some additional vocabulary from specific shows... i only learned about 1000 kanji and 2000 words from this deck before stopping). So for MIA and Refold learners, at least SOME of them started reading with word lookups around 2000-6000 words learned.

My question is: when did YOU feel comfortable starting to read Japanese reading materials for native speakers, with the use of word lookup tools (translation/dictionary)? When do you see some people got comfortable starting to read with word lookups? Did some people do something like Satori Reader (graded reading app) when they'd learned X words, until they'd increased their vocabulary to Y words? What was the vocabulary level at which they started to read japanese with word lookups? I think that for a lot of people, the point when they started reading materials for native speakers (with the help of word lookup tools) was Before they had learned 10,000 words.

(Ignore grammar knowledge, yes that greatly effects reasing comprehension. Id just like to focus on number of words a person knows when they start reading with word lookups).

[existennialmemes]

I act like I'm fine, but I'm not

I am constantly afraid of Prion Diseases

You can't detect them

You can't kill them

They get inside your Brain and they REFOLD YOUR PROTEINS

Honestly they are way too overpowered, it's unfair to the others diseases

Nature needs to fix this in its next update

[hylianpixl]

there weren't any images I could find to show the size of the My Nintendo mario bag, so I got one and made my own. it's actually larger unfolded than I expected!

bonus img with switch for scale

[kiwilangblr]

力一杯！

Hello! こんにちは！

I've done this so many times y'all. I admit, I'm a lazy ass person alright? Yes I said it. I'm LAZY AS HELL.

I'm that person that puts off my household chores till the last minute, I prefer to procrastinate homework and play video games. Honestly, it's a miracle I've gotten A's in all my classes all these years?? Seriously, I've always just spent the last two hours before a due date finishing all the work, and have scraped by the skin of my teeth every time.

I suppose you could say I'm just lucky. I've been pretty blessed in the fact that I usually pick up on stuff pretty fast. I haven't revised an essay since middle school. And I always do just fine!

Maybe this is why language learning has always been so hard for me - so elusive. I cannot keep the motivation up to continuously do the work necessary. I simply cannot! It's heartbreaking!

So here's the deal, in two years, I'm going abroad to study for a semester in Japan. Cool Cool. But in six years, I'll fulfill my lifelong dream of living there.

What does this mean for Kiwi? It means I need to start taking this shit seriously and be able to live day-to-day life in Japan.

Here's the plan: A mix of literally fucking everything.

Refold

Genki

単語

Practice Tests

Pimsleur (eventually)

Shadowing

Immersion

Sentence Mining

Diary writing

WaniKani

and this mf blog

This blog will be my way of being consistent with studying. How do you come into the mix? I will be giving WEEKLY updates. If I haven't posted in 8+ days, spam me. You have permission.

I need your help accomplishing my dream. Thank you.