Cenlyra

I’m still here I’ve just always been more of a lurker. I got rid of my Twitter account

A couple times. I’ll pack books to read during the drive to places (since I’m always passenger on long drives) but forget that I get carsick if I read in the car too much.

Also one time I had to go to emergency, knowing I would be in hospital for a few days. But I just watched tv while there

I speak English natively, and, after I spend some time trying to reactivate Spanish, I could probably help with that too. And maybe beginner level Dutch or German.

Seeking help with French, and eventually maybe Russian and Korean.

BUT I don’t have time for a tandem exchange right now 😢

Yay welcome to Bluesky Lindie!!

Page of a notebook with numbers (numerals and written-out words) in French.

Here ya go. Scribbly writing, all in pencil with no color, extra notes up top. In a notebook that is *not in any way* organized by language or topic.

From a numbers intensive study I did in French earlier this week.

Sure. I might not be super active, because I’m naturally more of a lurker in groups but I can give it a whirl

I’ve thought about dipping my toes into Old English before. I’m pretty much at my limit for this year, I think, but I might consider it in the future.

I’ve been so out of practice with French recently, that when I tried to get back to it recently, I found that Dutch kept horning in, especially with numbers which are a weak point for me in most languages anyway

Ooh it is on kindle unlimited. Nice.

I also nabbed the German/Dutch/Afrikaans/Yiddish/Frisian one to look through

But at least I wrote down what I did and can go back and update later. I’m tracking that in a paper notebook, similar to bullet journaling (which I don’t have the best history of consistency with, but it’s worth a shot)

It seems that in those cases, it takes longer to update the tracker than I spent working on the language, so I just don’t update and then that turns into abandoning the tracker.

I’m trying a newer method where I track tasks done instead of time spent, and honestly I forget to update that too (2/?)

I don’t track time, no. I’ve tried before and always end up forgetting to update trackers, and also sometimes I only get 1-5 minutes a day of exposure to a certain language (a couple review flashcards, or a single lesson in an app) (1/?)

I also have Krok po Kroku, and liked using it. My Polish learning is currently on hiatus, but I’ll be using that text if I ever do cycle back to it.

Explain your user name:

Cenlyra is the single last remaining piece of a childhood fantasy story I tried to create. She was the main character, and I remember nothing about her except that her name, like the Bel- and Pol- names in the Belgariad, was a prefixed Cen- attached to the original Lyra.

And I definitely recognize aro flag 💚

I feel like I almost recognize the pink/blue dark one. Is the light pink/purple/gray cupioromantic? I don’t know the first one at all I don’t think.

I have to have YouTube.

But I also have to have Anki/Flashcards app.

I’d be upset at the loss of some of my other apps, but those two are definite needs. If only 1, then I guess I’d have to go old school with paper flashcards 😔

And here it is
youtu.be/MDHpYNnVyWs

(please go easy on me, I haven't actually spoken with other people in any of these languages in years, if at all)

(Link will be in a few hours probably, I have family stuff to take care of first)

#langsky

Any of you recall where I was talking about how I might maybe record myself speaking in my target languages so I’d have a baseline to judge against as the year goes by?

Well I did the thing.

Stand by for YT link—I’m still exporting the video file from editing/subtitling.

Might try this if I can pull together some time for it.

I’m counting Basque as the new language for a new year, although I’ve already (barely) started on it

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Got pretty much all of it, that was pretty neat!

Gonna give it the rest of this month and if I continue to like it, I might pay for premium and add it to my app rotation. But it looks good so far

👀 👀

Ooh!

This is perfect! Bite-sized, pre-selected listening practice!

IPA: yes, since age 18
Least favorite thing about English: hard for me to find language exchange partners for it
Gave up on: Japanese (for now at least)
Useful where I live: which TL? Spanish, maybe. Dutch, probably not
😺
Spanish
Yes I have duo but I don’t depend on it entirely
Am from US so 🇺🇸

I’ve found I can ignore the gamification/point system in Polygloss, which pairs you with other learners to describe pictures and you match the other person’s description with the picture they chose. It’s good for output.

I posted mine already but basically:

Improve: FR, DE, NL (mostly on listening input, and output)
Maintain: ES
Reintroduce: RU, KO
Brand new: Basque

Nah I kinda have mine semi-outlined. Kinda wanna start trying to vlog my language learning journey next year. We’ll see how long that lasts though