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You have a huge adventage point with Japanese since you have already immersed yourself in their media. (Check this website out https://www.learnwitholiver.com (the most underrated lenguage learning resource that there is.) I been getting tons of "Your chinese is so good" from Chinese people after studying nonstop in this site for 1 month, and the chinese are very direct, they usually don´t sugarcoat their words, so you know you are doing something right.
The site has everything you need: SRP, built in dictionary, thousands of phrases with high quality audio to drill. You can save any word you don´t understand and build your own deck of flashcards for review using SRS (Anki and memrise style, I dare to say it has better algorythm-magic behind it´s code). It SHOWS you WHICH meaning every word has IN the context of the phrase you are looking at. IT HAS A TEXT ANALIZER APP. I FUCKING LOVE THIS SITE. I´M ADDICTED FOR FUCK SAKE........ I don´t know if it´s this good for japanese, since I only have experience using it as a chinese learning aid.
Another useful tip: Since japanese has a character writing system, you should use mnemonic techniques to aproach character and word memorization. example: this character here 字 looks to me like a person under a roof. So I use my imagination to construct a quick story about this particular man under a particular roof, then I somehow link this scene/story in my mind to the pronunciation of the character. As you learn more and more characters and you start to learn about the ins and outs of the writting system, the easier it gets to use mnemonics. it´s a good idea to learn how to write them by hand.
Disclousure: I´m not sponsored by Learnwitholiver, I´m just a very happy free user.
Saw some GZBz on Twitter speculating that “Chuck” might be a romanization of 척. Mamamoo has a song titled Chuck. It means “pretending.”
“All great achievements require time.” Maya Angelou ^^^^^^^thanks_momentumdash
available time: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 [5 hours]
MORNING
8 AM - 3 PM:
- [X] School
AFTERNOON
4 PM:
- [X] Grocery (1/2 an hour)
~~* [ ] Routine care (1/2 an hour)~~
5 PM:
~~* [ ] Begin Chess (1/2 an hour)~~
~~* [ ] Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1/2 an hour)~~
EVENING
6 PM:
- [X] Bake (1/2 an hour)
~~* [ ] Dinner (1/2 an hour)~~
7 PM:
~~* [ ] Mess around with Python (1/2 an hour)~~
~~* [ ] Old Goriot (1/2 an hour)~~
8 PM:
~~* [ ] Daily language (1/2 an hour)~~
~~* [ ] Read epub of thinner, leaner, stronger (1/2 an hour)~~
9 PM:
~~* [ ] Sleep~~
[baking took the entire day up due to lack of an oven working : < experimented w/ microwaves, a quarter success]
At least for me Duolingo didn't work at all, although maybe my memory just works in a crazy way? In any case, these are things that have helped me:
*Swedish, an elementary grammar/reader by G. Hird: Book. Very good approach to teaching. The choice of vocabulary in the last (advanced) chapters is not too great. I think it is worth it, especially for the first 10 or so chapters. It also gives you a perspective of Swedish culture/history.
*The 8sidor easy-to-read online newspaper (8sidor.se). For the most part understandable after reading the previous item.
*Teach yourself Swedish: Book. The teaching strategy is less good than in the other book, but still OK, and the vocabulary choice is fine. The audio that comes with it is kind of annoying.
*Essentials of Swedish Grammar (Å. Viberg and K. Ballardini): Book. Not critical but nice to have for doubts, quick study of a particular topic, and the like.
*Watching movies with Swedish subtitles (when you get better you can try movies that are not in English). TED can be a good source of these kind of videos, or you can downloads Swedish subtitles for random movies.
*https://www.learnwitholiver.com/swedish/ These guys send you a daily email with words and sentences. I have used it not to lose my Swedish when not studying otherwise.
*I definitely second the idea of having a Skype teacher.
*I use the online Folkets lexikon dictionary. There are offline versions for Android (I would assume also for iOS but not sure) which are great to have in your phone. The online version can pronounce words for you which is great.
*Suscribe to /r/sweden. Not super helpful but it's so easy to do and you get Swedish while redditing.
My thoughts on possible concepts for the new songs:
Chuck—Possible romanization of 척. Mamamoo and Yang Yoseob from Highlight both have songs titled "Chuck"/"척." It means pretending? Would really love if a native Korean speaker could confirm or explain the meaning.
Xai—TBH, no idea what "xai" means. The only google results I get are "explainable AI." CL going to Kwangya?
Let It—Maybe about accepting something or letting it go. Like "Let It Be" by The Beatles or "Let It Go" from Frozen lol.
Tie a Cherry—I think this is going to be a sexy track. Tying a cherry stem with your tongue is supposed to be like a "seductive" party trick. I remember this trick being shown or talked about in US movies/TV shows in like the early 00s?
Paradise—Possibly another sexy track about being in paradise with your lover? I envision this being like an EDM track with "heavenly" vocals.
My Way—I think this one is going to be similar to the songs from her post-YG In The Name of Love EP. Probably about finally having control and being able to do things her way.
Siren—"Siren" could mean either like an alarm or the creatures from Green mythology that lured sailors to their deaths with their singing. Really excited for this one either way!
Honestly, I don't know so much about Anki(I tried to get into it but didn't like it much) but I think they don't have the pronunciation of the words?
This website lets me choose words by level Here
And I can add the example sentences to my sentences list to review later. I like learning a new word while listening to how its read and try to understand the sentences they are used in. For example there are many words that mean "to take" but you see there are special usages to them and you can learn it by studying the sentences. Also if there are separable verbs in a sentence you can see what they are when you hover over the words. You can hover over any word in the sentences, listen to them and see what they mean. When you review they give you random words that you added to your list and you can choose to study them again in a day or in 5 days or in 5 mins.
It depends on how you study a language. For me, I like getting into grammar and then build vocabulary. I usually don't follow a plan so it is always a mess. As for kypros, they have useful content, I used to study the notes for lessons, check the vocabulary and compare with the text they give, listen to the podcast and follow the text. Also check https://www.learnwitholiver.com/, and subscribe to their daily email alerts. I found them really helpful. They send you a sentence, and then below they break it into its parts with translations.
As I said earlier, I think 2-way reproduction is a good thing, and it's something I do regularly. I'm just curious about how people handle sites or resources that force them to memorize or recall something when they have certain things that aren't ready to stick.
As far as Duolingo, I don't really use it (and I'm not learning Vietnamese either; I just tried it out as an example). It's a fun little site, and I recommend it wherever possible, but the English/Audio->native portion turns me off. Same with repeatedly running into its flashcards that aren't ready to stick yet.
Right now, I'm pretty happy with Anki, LWT, and doing lots of listening and reading on my Kindle. Though, I have tried Learning With Oliver for the past few days, and so far I really like it because it offers me sufficient control over my process.