Misc: Xenoblade X something something once again xdd
And yep, 17 lessons today because I’m halfway through Level 30 and just wanted to get all kanji out of the way, should get to level 31 next week ^^
The post-N3 pause on Bunpro is real, because today I passed myself a few grammars thinking “my answer wasn’t that far off, it’s a valid synonym, right?”, that I probably shouldn’t be doing, but I’m trying to balance the overwhelm xddd
But yeah, WaniKani reviews went pretty smooth today and I will be very sad when WaniKani goes down tomorrow at 10PM of my local time xdd
I probably won’t even notice, but I’ll have 215 reviews tomorrow (including some burns) and 65 Bunpros and might start doing the reviews a bit early, like 10:30pm, today’s review took 55 minutes across all services.
Sooo, life today, I finally sat down and got to journaling and you’ve gotta love it when you stop rushing and you go like “okay, are we still moving in the right direction? how we feelin today?”, and the hand keeps going like “NOT GREAT CAPTAIN. WE SHOULD PIVOT” and then you go like “whoa whoa whoa” xddd
there definitely was waaay less kindness involved than I should be having towards myself and I’m feeling definitely lost in some regards, but I’m glad I went through the “underjournaled” part to the “moderately journaled, time to come up with action items” part of the journaling and I started grieving what-could’ve-beens and thinking about things on a bike today, had a tasty focaccia and a decaf coffee, so here’s hoping that I’m on the path to realignment, even though I really crave for like, no human beings, silence, back at home, another fifty hours with Xenoblade X, presumably over the course of a single week xdddd
In terms of Xenoblade X, got my skell license today and did the first quests for the new characters in remake: you can very easily tell which scenes are original and which have been added in the Definitive Edition because:
the new scenes are much more cinematic and pack a stronger punch
the new scenes are muuuuch longer (ehhh, why did I set it to German xdd)
the new scenes allow for less player dialogue choice, sometimes not giving a prompt to make a reaction, sometimes giving only one prompt despite showing the choice modal regardless xddd
Now I need to intensively survey one of the regions (the desert - Oblivia) in order to hit the research criteria for unlocking the next story chapter, but that’s the fun bit, I think this is one of the few games, alongside things like WaniKani and Balatro, that make grinding fun xddd
Hello ~ I’ve been backreading your study log and I just wanted to say that it’s so nice to see everything you’re sharing with your German learning journey, not only Japanese! It’s nice not to be the only one talking about my other languages all of the time, haha. Best of luck with your studies of both languages!
Thanks, really appreciate it ^^
I kinda feel like German might be getting some bad rep compared to Japanese because it seemingly doesn’t open as many doors and it isn’t as interesting to learn as Japanese, but I really want to do something about this notion and make the language and the culture be cool for both myself and potentially other people to enjoy, so that’s an ongoing task ^^
I definitely will try to insert bits and pieces of German(y) here and there, especially tomorrow when I finally get to the Little Tokyo there in Düsseldorf ^^
March 24th, 2025
215 reviews on WaniKani (haaaaaaaaa. 56 burns.)
15 lessons on WaniKani
65 reviews on Bunpro (HAAAAAAAAA.)
3 lessons on Bunpro
1 lesson on Duolingo
Misc: Xenoblade X something something once again xdd
Some really cool clips in German today, I wish I could get myself into the swing of just clicking on German things on YouTube when they show up because they aren’t that hard anymore and with Language Reactor I can understand 100% of things without that much effort, but I just need to get myself into a mindset of understanding German language, and that’s hard xddd
So, tomorrow after work going to the most Japanese city in Germany for the FFVII Rebirth concert ^^
I made this one for me and my friend and printed it in two copies on photo paper, will stick my copy to the wall after I’m back from Düsseldorf ^^
Japanese reviews took me 1h10m today, but I had a really good focus throughout: I think I activated the part of the brain that’s responsible for conscious practice and remembering things, but tomorrow’s practice might be a bit funny, as I’m meeting up with the friend at 22:18 at Düsseldorf Central Station and most of my WaniKanis (AND 67 BUNPROS) are going to come at 10pm xdddd
One rare chance when I’m actually hoping for the train to be delayed, but alas xdd
Also, queen Contrapoints finally dropped a new magnum opus
only watched an hour of it so far, but it’s really good stuff, what can I say ^^
Regarding the things I journaled about yesterday, I booked a session with a mental health coach for tomorrow to help me come up with an accountability plan for some things: I imagine that the thing that I need is most likely just a push or a thing like “WHAT, YOU SAYING I CAN’T DO THIS? JUST YOU WATCH”, but would be fun if the coach were able to clear up a few things in my head, so I’m hopeful ^^
Also, public transit strike in Berlin this week, we might have to call the Taiwanese place off on Thursday, sighh xdd
I have always heard such amazing things about her videos, but I have not actually ever watched! The production quality on the one you linked looks INCREDIBLE though omg?! I may have to finally bite the bullet and get in the loop with her work!
It’s funny when you rush from work and go like “oh NO IM GONNA BE SO LATE” and then you go like “OH SHUCKS I FORGOT TO BRING A BOARD GAME” and cry in spirit about having missed it and then you arrive at a station early and then awkwardly look at the magazines there for like half an hour xdd
I don’t think I have time blindness, but time paranoia might be a thing xddd
The train was fashionably late by 20 minutes allowing me to do exactly all reviews I had scheduled for today, and now me and my friend share a bed together, because they gave us a queen-sized bed, what’s that AO3 trope for “hurr we’re two people bUT THERE’S ONLY ONE BED???”, should be good though xddd
There’s a YouTube channel I watch sometimes called Easy German, they have a regional variant for Japanese too, but I think German is their first channel, and I watched their video on the train about diplomats getting to C1 of languages through an intensive course in 9 months, and yeah, immersion, immersion, immersion, I should be better at immersion, but since this video is mainly in German, we take it xdd
And the mental health coach today: it always sucks when you have a ton of journaling notes and go for like 10 minutes of explaining where did I get in the notes and then keep getting interrupted being “hmm I see that you have this cognitive distortio-” and you go like “no sorry sorry i read the notes in wrong order, sorry, i should’ve made it more obvious, here is the evidence for why i feel a specific way” and the coach goes like “ahh, okay”, so today’s session was, eee, bringing the coach up to speed xddd
Also, I have a Japanese version of The House in Fata Morgana on my Switch now!
But yeah, I’m with my friend right now, the town trip tomorrow, see you tomorrow again!
Misc: Ordering in a restaurant in Japanese, then asking to split the bill, then complaining about the spiciness level, I’m good at this entire Japanese thingy xdd
We went across Duesseldorf today, and it was fun, though I’ve only got 7 hours of sleep left so I’ll keep it short today xdd
The FFVII Rebirth concert: banger, as expected, I actually should’ve seen the fact coming that if the orchestra has a tour in many countries, they’re gonna be speaking English, so I needlessly offered my services as a live interpreter to my friend xdd
The music by itself, really strong sound design, but I felt that the original compositions for this game had some less memorable melodies? And then when something like Aerith’s leitmotif or Sephiroth’s theme drops, you INSTANTLY go like “aaah it’s that one, I love this one” xddd
But yeah, the more reason to keep playing the game now xdd
I got a CD of orchestral rearrangements and looking at the tracklist, there is a non-zero chance that the CD would have the same arrangements as today’s concert xdd
And yeah, went to a Japanese restaurant and ordered all in Japanese there, I’m addicted to edamame, what can you do xddd
That seems like such a fun day. And the food looks yummy .
Getting to speak two languages you put so much effort into learning must’ve been super rewarding, but you also used your English skills, so it was three!
What an achievement to be able to use three acquired languages in a day
That’s funny, I never thought of it that way, but maybe you’re right. One major point in favor of learning German, in my experience, is that Germans are more patient with people learning their language than people in other countries. I learned for purely practical reasons - and I am struggling to think of cool/fun culture reasons people should learn German - but it’s an amazing place to live. On the more serious side, I massively respect how deeply the Germans set about reckoning with post-war guilt and ethical questions. It turns out all that stuff I learned from them (and at the time I was like, aren’t you all overdoing it, it’s over?) is very topical and handy to be able to discuss with certain people right now. Yes it’s over (or is it?), no, people don’t need to feel personal guilt for their grandparent’s failings, but absolutely - having a huge discussion about what to learn as a society and baking that into trying their very best not to repeat history: that is very unique and worthy of respect.
on my list of places I want to visit!
Normally this kind of thing is eye rolling click bate, but yes, I can confirm, I came to Germany for a 9 month internship, and by the end I was definitely C1, probably a fair bit earlier than 9 months tbh. I had the benefit of a 30 minute car-sharing commute to work with talkative Germans, a patient boss who switched to German as soon as possible (6 weeks), and living in a WG with Germans, and it was before the internet (English) was all consuming, and I probably only skyped with English-speaking people once a week, so it was genuinely immersive. The break point for my brain was definitely 6 weeks, it got much easier after that. Tears before - fast progress and smoother speaking after. I’m not sure if that helps my intention was to reassure you - immerse, yes, it really works quickly! And then I realised maybe my situation and that time period had a lot to do with making that immersion easier. I wrote a daily diary in German and that is fascinating to read today, highly recommend that. And taking absolutely every opportunity to start conversations in German and keep to German. Did we discuss that here or somewhere else already? If a relationship starts in one language, it tends to be sticky, so where possible, starting new relationships in German pays off massively down the road. I have switched language with very few people and it’s a right pain each time.
OMG IM SO HAPPY PEOPLE TALKING IN MY STUDY LOG :DDDDDDD <3
I have a bit of a conversation backlog, so let me go back a few conversations ^^
Yup, she always invests heavily with her costumes and that’s why people are willing to wait an entire year for the next full feature film from her, and this one did touch on a lot of interesting topics…
ContraPoints Conspiracy video spoilers
…but I think it’s like, a few months late, because the climate in the American society had slightly changed just two months ago and the people that she’s having beef with in this video kinda… stopped existing??? xddd
Really fun to watch!
It’s something I have to actively keep reminding myself not to take for granted, because brains have this weird way of getting used to whichever level you’re at and no longer thinking it to be amazing, so thanks for another reminder!
In addition to languages, Düsseldorf is also a culmination of the different cultures I interact with, aside from Little Tokyo, for example, in the old town there’s an above-average amount of Irish Pubs for a German city and it’s still fairly studenty-internationally. There’s not that much Polish there, but me and my friend went to a cafe called Die Kaffee that had some transparent plastic separators between tables and people would write on them with markers, and the one we sat right next to had a couple of words and sentences written in Polish, so I showed him and I was like “LOOK LOOK LOOK THAT’S ME” xddd
As a piece of trivia, in 2010, Germany won the Eurovision Song Contest and the next year, in 2011, Düsseldorf hosted ESC there: one time before DoKomi anime convention two years ago I took a stroll to the holy site, where ESC had taken place, and it’s with those tiny associations that I grow fond towards all sorts of different places ^^
Barring the fact that it opens up the doors to other countries as well, like Austria or Switzerland, and the fact that all Germanic languages are pretty similar to one another, I can think of a few reasons from the Germany perspective specifically:
I have a feeling that FORESTS in German(y) just hit harder. When you think of a forest, you think of squirrels, of tree branches on the path, of fallen leaves, when you think of DER WALD though…
Part of it is that the trees and the foliage actually might be denser here and the trees might be taller, but another part is how people in Germany seem to think about them, there’s poetry and Grimm Brothers and other fairy tales that just emphasize how deep, gloomy and magical die Wälder are. I really enjoying watching The Dark on Netflix for this reason ^^
Also, speaking about feelings and emotions feels a bit more precise in German? It’s like, for every emotion in English, there seem to be three sub-categories in German for them, and I love descriptors, I love for stuff to be gemütlich (not cozy, not comfortable, not cushy, just gemütlich), and, there’s just a bunch of things that I’m trying to hype myself up around xddd
Another thing I just keep taking for granted. The fact I can take a high-speed train to Frankfurt and be there in 4 hours is absolutely mind-boggling from my Polish/Irish-brained perspective.
I think about this sometimes, and I know my German friends think about this often too, but ultimately I have a feeling that those that do not respect the history are deemed to repeat it over and over again and I really feel as if 2025 is a really weird year to be having this conversation again. The results of the German elections made me slightly impressed compared to the elections polling, and then the conversations about the coalitions that emerged made me think that it’s important to keep raising those talking points so that people remember that things like democracy is something you need to keep fighting for, and is not something that should be given for granted. In a way, I do think they’re overdoing it, but I think Japanese are UNDERDOING it, which is a huge can of worms to open up ^^
That would be a bit of a dream scenario for me, but I work for a company where we speak entirely English, and after work, most of the time, I’m too tired to study any language, I have to timebox myself to learn Japanese already, I kinda wish I could have something of a German bootcamp where I spend a month in a German-centric environment, but I won’t get this long holidays from work and I most likely will go back to my English-speaking Discord friends and English-speaking videos on youtube.com every chance that I get ^^
I have a feeling that this is a very strictly mindset-centric thing that I have to unlock both for German and Japanese, because otherwise I won’t succeed at this, but for as long as I set “making money” and “having an English-centric life” as my priority, I might struggle with this.
energy levels pleeeease
i dont want to bully myself into being more productive but i want to do those things
I think “conversation” here is a key bit - because most of the time, my “conversations” in German are just throwing a sentence or two at the hotel staff or train restaurant waiters, but that’s where my “conversations” end
You’re being really inspiring here and I really want to be able to commit to some of those things, but like…
there’s this German kids book that got popular lately called “The UniNOrn”:
Now I’m allowing myself to casually fail grammars that I won’t get in a few seconds, 次第だ victim number one, 一方だ victim number two xddd
Why do I fail them so much? They just never occur to me, I need to get better at making sentences with them, if I had some more energy, I’d probably just write a wall of sentences in Japanese on a piece of paper with my own different examples of 次第だ and 一方だ, but that might be a matter for another day yet again ^^
My idea for the next couple of days is that I intend not to start new lessons on Bunpro until I have everything in Adept, and let myself to fail multiple times, and then try to tackle N4 reviews just to round up my Japanese grammar knowledge - I probably know those grammars, but Justin Case ^^
Tomorrow I should be Level 31 on WaniKani, so new kanjis and new radicals incoming!
Life:
Speaking of Düsseldorf, I found this listing from a Japanese person there wanting to teach the language:
And yeah, the price seems great, she has the same timezone as I do, there’s an intersection of German culture and Japanese culture, what’s not to love?
Also, either YouTube is listening to my conversations really closely, or it’s just an amazing coincidence that this video showed up on my feed, because that was related to what I brought to the coach on Tuesday:
I watched the whole video and it sounded like something that I really wanted to hear, which I don’t know if it’s a good or a bad thing, but the tl;dr is that I have been in a cynic mode for a while, and escapism and perfectionism are definitely not foreign to me, I just didn’t know that they were opposite feelings as a function of ambition and curiosity
Especially with what mitrac wrote today, I really should be leaning more into the experimental side of things, but I know that being patient and gentle with yourself, not pressuring yourself into difficult things and knowing your limits is a part of the puzzle too. I just wish I could push my limits, but that’s just your brain on capitalism xddd
Ehh, where is my head these days, I wonder.
Topic #3: My train from Düsseldorf to Berlin today got delayed. BY FOUR HOURS.
It was an adventure for everyone on the train, because a traffic sign for trains fell on the tracks and the tracks were completely inaccessible, so what the train needed to do was a really precise operation of going off the high-speed rail and trying to take the regional rail for the least amount of distance so that it wouldn’t cause catastrophic congestion, so seeing the train slow down, speed up, ask for the permission to use this part of the rail, slow down, speed up, was an adventure to everyone on board, and I hope that the train driver got enough recognition for the stunt that they pulled off. Was interesting to watch, but really, REEEEALLY tiring, by the time I got back home, doomscrolling was the only thing on my mind xddd
Topic #4: Nintendo Direct, and OMG IT WAS GREAT :DDDDD
Remaster of Raidou with new gameplay mechanics! Patapon leaving the PSP/PS4 exclusivity! No Sleep For Kaname Date! New Everybody’s Golf! New Rhythm Heaven! New Tomodachi Life! This really felt like a direct for the AA-sized game fans like me, was really happy with the games they’ve shown ^^
Tomorrow, day of just laying down on the bed and thinking, in English once again xddd
Will definitely go for a Bubble Tea, and then, I don’t know, time to start reading the mangas in Japan but for real now ^^
Yes, 100%. It sounds like at the thinking level, you want fluent German, but at the ‘how is my life set up’ and ‘what are my current priorities’ levels, it doesn’t crack the top 5. It might just not be the right time! Or, if it is, then you’ll have to go through a process of connecting it to your values and life and letting some other things go or change.
It’s really OK if it’s not your focus now and acknowledging that can even simplify continuing to learn in a more realistic way
So here’s a simple low effort thing that helped. Before most German interactions I would preplan just one sentence and try it out and see how it went and wing the rest. It made whatever I learned from that conversation more memorable.
in my experience most Germans use the language much more precisely than most people use English. Saying that, living in the UK was eye opening and I discovered most people used British English much more precisely than I’d ever used English so maybe it’s me or the flexibility of English as a second / amalgam language might come at a cost of that precision. a linguist surely has cool thoughts on this
Maybe, I’m suspending judgment on the effect and just have respect for the incredible depth achieved. Surely a very subtle topic and agree total can of worms to discuss details. Here is a thought - your opinion may well change after you’ve had these conversations very intimately in German - it’s a much different experience. At least it was for me. I can only very humbly say for myself it was a process of me growing up and learning enough to have the foundation for these conversations, anything before that was superficial, quite rightfully sidestepped by more thoughtful folks until I was ready, and a gut punch revelation when it landed. Landing took years.
Anyway, why I brought it up - not to discuss the details (there are no shortcuts) but that I would have never had that experience without having learned German to a high level, so for me when I was thinking of reasons I’m satisfied to have learned German…
I think this is a very valuable piece of insight, because, yes, that’s not within the highest priorities right now, but I wish it were: I think it’s just worth acknowledging that I might be going through a burnout at the moment and I need to rework my life around, not the Japanese/German reviews, and then stuff might become a bit easier, but the number one thing that reworking my life would entail is just giving up of the expectation that everything has to be done for a specific purpose, I wonder if I can fit into my calendar just not doing things with a purpose for a change. Innncluding learning languages? xdd
Damn. Thanks for sharing that one, that hits strong. I think some of my friends that I tried talking this through have started developing functions that simply try to dismiss this conversation and not focus on it as much, regardless of the fact how deeply it affects them on the inside. They are interested in talking about the conversation, but there is a layer of disconnect that they have towards it, like looking at it through the glass and simply reporting facts about it. I wonder what kinds of unique conversation topics would I be able to bring to the table as a Pole, I mean, aside from the one about being an expat and evading national identity.
Fingers crossed that learning languages could drive me towards having some of those conversations one day, too ^^
March 28th, 2025
128 reviews on WaniKani
15 lessons on WaniKani
66 reviews on Bunpro
0 lessons on Bunpro - Break Day #1
1 lesson on Duolingo
I failed so much on Bunpro today it’s scary, the review wall will keep growing for a while xddd
But yeah, we’ll get there! That’s what the break is for! ^^
I got my N3 certificate in the post today, the postal worker bent it in half and it had one of this nice and luxurious papers and I’m like “aaaa” seeing the crack in the middle xddd
I’m thinking if I should find a document A4 picture frame and frame it above my head somehow, that would be fun xddd
Could do the same with the Betriebsverfassungsrecht certificate too ^^
I went in the city today to explore a new part of Berlin, I wanted to find a place where manga can be found in Japanese, but didn’t find one, found something called a J-Store instead:
and yep, speaking of third spaces, this works very well as a third space, it had gachapons, candies and drinks from Japan, artbooks from manga/anime, but above all, something I’ve been trying to track for a while, Manga Issho:
a brand new collaborative project between European artists to make something similar to a manga magazine in Japan, at a pretty low price point and held in German
More context on Manga Issho:
I think this is a really cool community effort and I’m really interested in digging in, I’ll find out if it’s any good compared to the Japanese ones ^^
On another note: next Friday is a Night of the Libraries in Berlin, and my slowpoke ass just discovered today that there’s a library I have a library card for 300 meters away from me, and that they’ll have a ton of programming for the Night of the Libraries:
Really interested in the manga/anime quiz and LEAVING PLUSHIES TO HAVE AN ADVENTURE OVERNIGHT LIKE WTF??? And they would take pictures of the adventures, I’m already envious xddd
We’ll see if I go for any of those ^^
Ooh, and I finally got around and sent a long letter on Slowly again, I wonder if I’ll get a response and what it’ll be ^^
I really only have like one plushie I care about that much, and I care about it too much to let strangers take it on an adventure because it’s one I’ve had since I was a baby. Lambchop will not go to the sleepover, what if he gets lost? But that’s still a very cute idea.
Since I mentioned him, here’s a picture of my childhood stuffed animal. A friend of dad’s bought this right before I was born and I’ve had it ever since. Mom has dutifully hand sewn him together a couple times from wear when I was younger.
That’s my Berlin bedtime collection, went out for a japanese dinner today after bouldering and one sporty girl who was there said that she has zero plushies and we started exchanging sights between one another being like “aww, poor her, missing out on the joys of life” xddd
But yeah, most of my toys plushies are girls, there’s a non-binary alligator named alligator, because I got them in Spain and alligators in Spanish are alligators, so that’s a very expressive names:
Bidoofs have both 3 balls on the back, meaning they’re both girls (and they’re such lesbians, look on the one on the left, she even rocks the flannel wtf ), and Hattifnatti j̷̢͎̤͌̑̂ủ̴̘̦̌s̶̢͇̱̳̆͊͠t̸̢̞͠ ̶̩͖͍̮͑ẘ̶̥̆̉͝ȧ̶̗̓n̵̮̖̈͊t̷͓̍̌̓̕s̸̨̯̣̭̍͗̀͝ ̸̙̟͋̆̀̚t̴̨͇̓̉͘ȍ̸̘͉̝̻ ̴̗͉̱̓͗̄m̷͕̦͈̠̌̅a̴̡͉͍͍̓̈̆̄k̵̝̈̑e̸͉̊ ̸̖̤̊͗f̷͇̟̒r̵̩̮̯͒̃̚ͅȉ̴͕͊͐ẹ̶̋̎̄̄n̴͗͜d̵͕͐́̓s̴̛͈̘̐,̵̺͈̩͒ ̷̦̖̓͑b̶̞̩̀û̴͚̩̪t̶̺͒̂̄̃ ̴̣̭͌̕d̶̮̤̺̓͠o̸͉̠̎͋̈́͘ẻ̵̘̀͆̄ŝ̴̻̰̎n̵̜̞̍’̶̢͙̘͛́ţ̷̘̯̓̍ ̵͚̹̑k̵͕̊͐̐ǹ̸̩͖̭͙̃͊o̸̯̣̓͒͐̋w̸̩̱͖͉̍͐ ̵̡̝̺̣͒̋́̀h̸̛̬̟̗͋ó̸͕̼̎̽w̴̱̔ ̶͚̗̝̫̈̾̽;̷͇̉̀_̶̟̣̍́;̴̠̠̘͋͑
Yoshi is the token cis-het of the bunch and Emil definitely is queer, but I don’t know in what way is he yet xdd
I really love your story of Lambchop’s inception though, seems you have a strong connection with him ^^
More than 3/4 to level 120 ^^ xddd
WELCOMEEEE
I really want to make this one everyone-adventure-friendly and I overshare so that if people want to share their own stories, they’re more than welcome to, so post your plushie collection or something and I’d love to say hi to them ^^
SO.
March 29th, 2025
129 reviews on WaniKani
15 lessons on WaniKani
62 reviews on Bunpro
0 lessons on Bunpro - Break Day #2
1 lesson on Duolingo
You’d think now that I don’t do lessons on Bunpro, sessions would be shorter; nope, 55 minutes today xddd
Lessons on Bunpro on a given day are in fact the fastest part of the grind, you see them for like 90 seconds and then you’re done, but the reviews of those new lessons linger for minutes each day xdddd
Got a bit of an out of the blue topic today, but as I’ve mentioned before, something something, politician, something something, having something to believe in, the last few months in terms of America have been pretty wild and I’ve been learning more into the BuyFromEU communities, as already a certified Europephille I’m just getting an extra layer of affirmation xdd
I checked out more about Manga Issho, and as it turns out, the same volume got released in four different countries, in four different languages: Spain, France, Germany and Italy, which makes it all of the EFIGS countries, minus Engla…United Kingdom xdd
The reason why my current icon in the thread is a bit misleading having a flag instead of something like or is that I’m not feeling very much like supporting either of those two, and is a different language, though wouldn’t be the same either, it’s Canadian French xddd
As much as Germans and I like to hate on and go like “booo, never going to learn the language…”
…I think that Manga Issho is such a banger project. I read 8 out of 14 stories together and I’ve been having this warm feeling in my chest being like “omg, that’s gotta be spanish, that one looks so italian”, but above all, there are two other things:
a) Manga Issho is not available in English, so you’ve gotta learn one of those to actually experience the culture
b) I have a feeling that being a translator of either of those magazines from Spanish or French or Italian literally is my dream job xdd
I don’t say it often, but I’m so, SO positively charged by this project that I’m smiling wide just thinking about it right now xdd
Of course, my Spanish is like, A0 with an A1 aspiration, Italian is an “it’s a me, mario” out of 10 and French I will never learn >:[[[, but if there was a way to involve the Polish community somehow? I know they won’t, because Poland is not an EFIGS country, but like, STUDIO JG, STEP UP YOUR GAME. I know it won’t go through, but should I email them and ask about this???
Legit considering adding a post about this magazine into my japanese magazines thread xddd
Aside from that, went for a resin pendant affirmation workshop and we did some journaling exercises to figure out what could be each other’s goals for the rest of the year and overshared significantly and look, here’s mine!
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my intention was to reassure you - immerse, yes, it really works quickly! And then I realised maybe my situation and that time period had a lot to do with making that immersion easier. I wrote a daily diary in German and that is fascinating to read today, highly recommend that. And taking absolutely every opportunity to start conversations in German and keep to German. Did we discuss that here or somewhere else already? If a relationship starts in one language, it tends to be sticky, so where possible, starting new relationships in German pays off massively down the road. I have switched language with very few people and it’s a right pain each time.
xddd
a linguist surely has cool thoughts on this
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flag instead of something like 
or 
is that I’m not feeling very much like supporting either of those two, and 
is a different language, though 
and go like “booo, never going to learn the language…”
