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disappointed_lesbianI'm tired of learning Mandarin from textbooks, I'm tired of being a beginner in this language. I tried a new podcast in Mandarin this afternoon. I didn't understand much of it even with the transcript. So I'm still not ready for such things.Still not intermediate.
My OCR software is giving me more and more errors with the Cantonese output, so I'll be getting Cantonese content from MangoLanguages until I can get a proper PDF textbook (one I can copy and paste from). Cantonese textbooks are difficult to find.
I keep trying to force myself to read more in Spanish. I keep failing. I checked out another Spanish novel from the library today. It's about someone who wakes up in a mental hospital with no memory of the recent past. Most of the Spanish novels at the library are boring as hell, "literary" garbage, same as the English novels. Mainstream novels are somehow set apart from "genre" fiction, but they have their own genre: drama. They're always chock full of it, overflowing with it. But this drama isn't necessarily dramatic. There's a crushing ton of dull scenes from routine happenings in everyday life. How did this boring trash become the default sort of fiction? Or maybe it's the default only in my mind. They make up the overwhelming majority of novels in every public library I've ever been in.
My OCR software is giving me more and more errors with the Cantonese output, so I'll be getting Cantonese content from MangoLanguages until I can get a proper PDF textbook (one I can copy and paste from). Cantonese textbooks are difficult to find.
I keep trying to force myself to read more in Spanish. I keep failing. I checked out another Spanish novel from the library today. It's about someone who wakes up in a mental hospital with no memory of the recent past. Most of the Spanish novels at the library are boring as hell, "literary" garbage, same as the English novels. Mainstream novels are somehow set apart from "genre" fiction, but they have their own genre: drama. They're always chock full of it, overflowing with it. But this drama isn't necessarily dramatic. There's a crushing ton of dull scenes from routine happenings in everyday life. How did this boring trash become the default sort of fiction? Or maybe it's the default only in my mind. They make up the overwhelming majority of novels in every public library I've ever been in.
