"My speaking skills suck, I should really spend more time working on them!" *Continues to exclusively work on reading*

Today's brute-forcing my way through the language barrier: couldn't remember how to say sunset, went with "太陽のさようなら時" (the sun's goodbye time) 🤣

Also my current listening practice includes transcribing quotes I like from the shows I watch to put in my journal. Probably not the most time-effective listening practice but it does force me to really listen properly and when I do I realise oh wait I do know all these words and oh yes I have heard that grammar pattern before. Makes me think I should try watching without subtitles sometime. Of course, I do learn a lot of new stuff too, and it helps me to fill in the gaps between the parts I do understand and gives me a fuller picture.

Trying to track down the history of why Norwegian and Danish use æ and ø while Swedish uses ä and ö and all I'm getting is "Norwegian and Danish use æ and ø while Swedish uses ä and ö" and I'm like YES. I KNOW. BUT WHY. WHY DID THIS HAPPEN. WHY IS SWEDEN THE REBEL CHILD.

Commented on someone's post on HelloTalk and also told them the post contained no errors, the English was perfect, and their response was "well I used AI to write it :)" and ????? I'm so ??? confused ????? why the fuck are you on a language learning app if you're just gonna use AI to speak the language for you anyway?????

me: *doesn't practice my productive language skills* me: why aren't my productive language skills getting better :(

Icelandic is right about þ and ð. We should bring those characters back into English.