finished level 27 of wk but going to pause new cards for a bit. I’m making a lot of mistakes of old cards lately and I think going a bit slower will help.
Finished lovely complex. Started doremi again. Will pick up another show that has jp subs as doremi has none.
Finished another satori reader story. Still having mixed feelings about this app but I think it’s the best option for now as I am not in the mood for picking up native novels.
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usual reviews
finished an audiobook (die gleißende welt)
read abit of der schwarm
a bunch of youtube content
Mostly that at this point, I think I should be reading real native content instead of it. Satori reader is convenient in many ways, I can easy see what kanji I know and should be able to read, if I have a question I will get an answer within a week from the staff there. But more and more I don’t get stuck and even the hard level stories feel not hard enough to be that challenging. It’s still decent reading practice , and I did pay for a year so I continue to use it at least, until I truly run out of ocntent.
(Also frankly the stories are boring. That’s to be expected I guess but there are a few good ones and I don’t know why the rest are such a drag comparetively. But then the comments seem to all enjoy the stories so what do I know)
It’s there to be a bridge, so it makes sense that you feel like you are/should be outgrowing it. The real benefit to it is the narration and the notes. Based on what you’ve logged on Natively already, and the way you’re feeling, it may be time to move on. Life’s too short to read boring stuff, if you’re not meaningfully benefitting from it, imo.
The stories there are hit or miss, in terms of being interesting (at least when I used it). I loved some, couldn’t be bothered with some, and got bored midway with others. Everything has its fans tho, and the Satori forums/comments are the place for them, so of course everyone there likes them. Outside of there it’s pretty common for people to feel they’re a bit boring.
(my c key seems to be broken it either doesn’t work or outputs multiple cs, and I don’t catch and fix it everytime, sorry!)
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wk level 28
reading: I thought about what @暁のルナ said but I don’t think I’m quite ready to give up on satori reader yet, I feel I still get value out of it. Also having something with audio is useful to me as sometimes I need to study in a noisy room and it’s hard to fous without audio. I started the sarin attack series and I think it’s one of the hardest ones on the site.
for native content I am working on either finishing or dropping my ongoing manga volumes. I also started an untranslated novel by Sayaka Murata マウス. I enjoyed her works I read in translation. The last proper novel (well, light novel , but there was nothing light about the language…) I read took me more than a year, it was far above my level and I don’t think I got anything out of it long term. I was simply looking up every other word and piecing them together. So I was hesitating to start native novels again. But I think it is going better now.
Anyway, I decided for myself to set a goal of 1 hour of reading each day. What I am reading doesn’t matter as much as I am reading for 1 hour each day. So it can be a novel, visual novel, manga, satori reader etcc.
Watching / listening: I watccched another episode of doremi. Aiko is definitely more understandable now. I want to start another harder series next to this but not sure what yet.
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reviews as usual.
I am reading Der Schwarm and reasonably enjoying it, but I was thinking I want to finish the physicccal books on my shelves instead. I have a lot of german books my father bought…
I’m also going to start trying to get some writing done each day this week…
wk level 28, i decided i will not go past level 30 until new years.
reading: some manga (csm & yotsuba), some satori reader (2nd fujiki story), 30% through マウス which is way more than i expected. I did succeed in 1 hour reading minimum everyday except today. I technically do not have enough time in the day left to hit it today even if I didn’t sit down to write this
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reviews are the usual
I think I will drop Der Schwarm. I enjoy it but not quite enough to read 1000 pages of it.
For writing I failed completely. Maybe I’ll have to talk to a german ai to get me started lol. While it might make mistakes I mostly just want to “activate” that part of my brain.
If you’d like you could write to me as well? (e.g. as private messages here)
I’m usually quite busy but if you don’t expect long essays from me then I can try to promise to respond more or less quickly.
I really appreciate the offer but I do actually have german speaking friends, but I feel too awkward to write to a person right now Like I will try and my brain will just be empty beyond the simplest stuff
Then why not start with the simplest stuff?
I’m currently practicing numbers and time of day with one of my Japanese language partners, can you find even simpler stuff?
just kidding - please don’t feel pressured or anything!
at least, until I truly run out of ocntent.
Like I will try and my brain will just be empty beyond the simplest stuff
