That small gap totalled my motivation. Somehow it was just so hard to restart once the heat dissipated. Only touched my Japanese, and even then just 30 mins a day. Today managed to do more though. However I scrape by on my Spanish Duolingo, but that’s about it for Spanish. Irish? Not even touched.
That being said, yesterday I spent several hours tinkering with Godot, and was thoroughly enjoying myself figuring things out. So that’s also ramped up my desire to study my languages again. Did 200-ish reviews today instead of the usual 100. I’m finding leveraging other interests also helps in overall mood and motivation. The thing me and my girlfriend will be doing was put on hold, so I’ll be able to push forwards with languages again as well for the time being, so nothing holding me back now except myself.
I’m hoping the upcoming summer heat won’t completely waste me again.
Edit: a bit more for clarity of point I was trying to make*
I studied some more kanji this week, watched a few videos from Easy German.
Probably my best step this week was finally setting up Yomitan w/ AnkiConnect. Been meaning to for a while, now I can mine cards that aren’t so barebones.
Nice! AnkiConnect is a delightful tool. I use a modified version of the Lapis template myself. If you don’t have it already, AJT Japanese’s furigana tool is really great for this workflow too.
It really has been delightful! Once it’s going, really surprises me how quick and painless it all is. When I think of configuring Anki, I usually immediately think of how confusing the UI is for cards, notes, decks, deck options, etc. The yomitan > AnkiConnect workflow was only slightly confusing at first, then after that swift and smooth. I already had a reasonable note type from the optimized Core 2k/6k deck I use. Though it is weird how Yomitan won’t provide part of speech.
The furigana extension is this one, right? That does sound super useful, since the example sentences I pull from the page don’t get furigana by default.
I was also looking at https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1184164376 to maybe fill in better details and audio on the handful of cards I’d mined before, but not sure yet if it’ll be worth fiddling with.
Yep, that’s the one. It’s not 100% accurate but it’s saved me so much time. Ruby markup is so damn fiddly in Anki too, ugh.
I set up TTS service on Azure a while back for my audio since a lot of my grammar sentences are either stuff I generated or an LLM did, but I still don’t use it all that much. Almost all of my Anki audio is from pre-built decks still.
Two weeks off for surgery recovery. Might do a little Anki here and there.
I think I’ve only taken one week off from my study ever since I started my new plan last summer, so it’ll be interesting to see how I come back to it with a (hopefully) fresh brain.
