lvb learns languages

the brain does not accept reading today so instead of hitting the books and studying languages like a normal person, i have been aimlessly switching between languages (japanese, french, dutch, and now tagalog) and apps (renshuu, busuu, and mondly)

i need to figure out how to go back into language learning still but for now i guess i'm going to focus on reviewing on renshuu! i'll try and review everything from n5-the last thing i learned in n3. so far i have finished reviewing n5 kanji and n3 vocabulary, and i'm now reviewing n2 kanji (my kanji is ahead of the grammar and vocabulary because i know some chinese)

eventually i should also relearn croatian, because the university of zagreb has just released an app that starts at b1. previously their croatian learning site stopped at a2, which was why i stopped there because i couldn't really find any resources for b1 and above. anyway any croatian learners at the a2 level should check out the learncro app!!

reading totto-chan in the original japanese (one of my best japan purchases!) and surprised to find out that (so far, 1.5 chapters in) i understand most of the words???????? i know it's just a children's novel but i am feeling pretty proud of myself. however, my reading stamina for japanese texts is also still pretty weak, so i really am doing this piece by piece and the longest i have read in one sitting is a couple of pages.

also i have heard horror stories on social media about people in themore touristy part of japan being unwelcoming to tourists but everybody we met was so nice! one time we were at a matcha shop and like, i didn't know a lot about matcha so i asked 「パウダーだけですか」 and the shop assistant simply switched to こな, correcting me very very gently.

in japan and i can't believe we have been getting around on my potato japanese????????

finished renshuu's n3 materials! i went super fast (like, 18 days? inspired by my favourite manga translator saying she went from n5 to n3 in only 2.5 months). a lot of the vocabulary words are chinese-based and i was able to learn hard on my knowledge of mandarin (and my itty bitty knowledge of how sound changes from mandarin to hokkien lol). but i'm going to take the month of october to really review, let what i've learned sink in, immerse myself in even more reading and listening materials and maybe even dip my toes into speaking and writing. come november, depending on how things go, i may start trying out renshuu's n2 lessons. i'm also almost done with the n2 level kanji but that's easy enough because most of it is just the kanji version of the n3 vocabulary + again, leaning hard on my chinese knowledge.