#ch 4 is already like 12k fuck....what am i going to do to it????

[lackingspace]

Ch 3 of homecoming rewrite updated 🫠

It jumped almost 2k again.

Hope you guys like it 🥀

#i swear #idk how to NOT add more #ch 4 is already like 12k fuck....what am i going to do to it???? #writing update #dbd #ghostface #fic #fanfic

[nordic-language-love]

Norwegian

Read 1x article

Watched 3x Kveldsnytt broadcasts

Watched 2x Nytt På Nytt episodes

Listened to 1x Uillustrert Vitenskap podcast

Listened to 1h 8m of Hobbiten audiobook

Listened to the radio

Wrote 2x journal entries

Wrote 873 words of fiction

Chatted with @hopehav

italki session

Speaking practice: talked about learning languages and celebrity culture

Mysteriet Om Nils: finished ch 32, ch 33, read ch 34

Japanese

Japanese From Zero lesson 1 + started lesson 2

Kanji drills

Practised writing sentences in notebook (+ on Tumblr)

Watched 1x Pokémon episode

Duolingo: Hiragana 4, Katakana 2, Home 1 and Intro 3

Norwegian

So... after literally years of offering, this week I finally took up @hopehav on her offer to chat with me in Norwegian! And it went well! She’s super lovely and it was really chill (and I probably talked way too much whoops lol I’m so sorry :/). I’m super happy because this is a huge testament to how much my confidence has improved! And also because I didn’t have to switch back to English at any point. And because I got to talk to my friend, obviously!

I started listening to The Hobbit audiobook again this week. It’s been ages since the last I tried (maybe 2 years), and back then I kinda got the gist but only really knew what was going on because I knew the story. This time I understood a lot more. Not every single word all the time, but there were definitely whole paragraphs where I understood 100%. 

Also, my italki teacher implied I’m not too far off C1 level o_o I don’t believe him at all given I don’t even think I’m B2 yet, but it was very nice of him to say. Maybe I’ll push myself to take Norskprøve B1/B2 or Bergenstesten next year to assess my level. Still, he said he can hear I’m getting better (even though I didn’t feel like I managed as well as I’ve done previously) and I feel like I’m getting better on the whole, so that counts for something. As I mentioned earlier, clearly my confidence is improving!

Oh, and I hit my 10K words goal! So now I’m gonna try and push for 15K (including all the planning and the translation I did, so I’m already at around 12K).

Favourite moment: Talking to Amanda of course! I’m so happy this finally happened and it was so lovely to chat to you! <3

Some goals this week:

Mysteriet Om Nils ch 34

Speaking practice on at least 4 days

Write 500 words

Listen to 1 hr of Hobbiten

Japanese

I got round to watching another episode of Pokémon this week. I managed to recognise some of the new words I’ve recently learned (such as ‘what’ and ‘eat’), which made me really happy! I’m not sure I’d catch them without the subtitles to prompt me to listen out for them, but it’s still cool to recognise a few more words than I did before.

Things are starting to get a bit tougher now. I’m moving on from just learning how to introduce myself and starting to learn basic vocabulary and sentence structure, but I’m at that awkward phase where I can’t make immediately meaningful/useful sentences. I’m stuck saying things like “this is soap” and “the window is there”. I know it’s important to learn the related grammar and the vocabulary but man I’m tempted to skip ahead.

I was briefly tempted to try an italki session because they’re really cheap (like 1/3 the price of a Norwegian lesson) but I feel like I’m way too beginner right now to get much use out of it. I do want to start practising speaking asap because I absolutely do not want to end up in the same position with Japanese as I am with Norwegian, but I need to learn some more vocab and basic grammar first so that I can actually form more sentences. Maybe when I get to A1 (or N5) level I’ll treat myself.

Favourite moment: Realising I could already write the kanji for Tokyo because I’d come across both parts before (thank you random kanji app for teaching me the kanji for ‘east’ even though I was like ‘well I have no use for this rn ugh’)

Some goals for this week:

Pass Duolingo checkpoint 2

JFZ lesson 2

Consolidate new vocabulary with writing practice

Productivity Grid

Yeah I definitely didn’t stretch/exercise enough. I’ve been so tired this week, idk why. Possibly because I’m not exercising enough. Seriously though, fuck this pandemic, it’s ruined my motivation to work out. It’s hard to believe I used to happily do like 10-15 hours exercise a week and now I’m lucky if I do 3.

Goals for this week:

Sort my CV (including getting a photo)

Stretch on at least 4 days

Bake cookies

Finish reading The Heart of What Was Lost or 300+ pages of Ship of Destiny.

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