![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
disappointed_lesbianI feel worse than tired. Plus I have no appetite. I could get some cookies down. But I cannot eat cookies all day. At least one day off is needed.
Half quick-cooking oats, half regular oats—I still had that headachy feeling, but it happened in the middle of the walk instead of at the beginning. I guess the experiment has failed.
I finally felt a bit thinner today. Not sure what's different.
I found several male-led Taiwanese Mandarin podcasts today. One is too advanced, plus something about the guys' voice tones sounds sleezy. I sort of don't want to know what they are saying. They sound Americanized, even spoke a bit of English in the podcast. Maybe that's why they sound like assholes.
The other podcasts are all defunct. Two of them still have available episodes, but no transcripts. That's ok; I can still use them for pure listening comprehension. My ability to stand listening to Mandarin that I barely understand is utterly amazing. This is a recently acquired capacity. I tried so many times, for so many years to do this with French, and it just never happened. I had to build up from a French podcast that has a painfully slow rate of speech, I had to understand what I was hearing. A large part of reason for this new capacity is the excellent preparation I've gotten from my Mandarin textbooks.
I'm adding Mondly to my Korean study routine. I needed something with simpler repetition and more mindless point-and-click interactiveness compared to Lingodeer. I'm going to use them both, and I'm going to quit flashcards. I just cannot stick with flashcards for Korean, I don't know why. It's curious how things that work so well for learning some languages don't work for others. The multiple decks I'm goind for Mandarin certainly don't help. Besides those two websites, I'm still going through Pimsleur Korean. I'm almost halfway done with it. I've got another audio course lined up.
Half quick-cooking oats, half regular oats—I still had that headachy feeling, but it happened in the middle of the walk instead of at the beginning. I guess the experiment has failed.
I finally felt a bit thinner today. Not sure what's different.
I found several male-led Taiwanese Mandarin podcasts today. One is too advanced, plus something about the guys' voice tones sounds sleezy. I sort of don't want to know what they are saying. They sound Americanized, even spoke a bit of English in the podcast. Maybe that's why they sound like assholes.
The other podcasts are all defunct. Two of them still have available episodes, but no transcripts. That's ok; I can still use them for pure listening comprehension. My ability to stand listening to Mandarin that I barely understand is utterly amazing. This is a recently acquired capacity. I tried so many times, for so many years to do this with French, and it just never happened. I had to build up from a French podcast that has a painfully slow rate of speech, I had to understand what I was hearing. A large part of reason for this new capacity is the excellent preparation I've gotten from my Mandarin textbooks.
I'm adding Mondly to my Korean study routine. I needed something with simpler repetition and more mindless point-and-click interactiveness compared to Lingodeer. I'm going to use them both, and I'm going to quit flashcards. I just cannot stick with flashcards for Korean, I don't know why. It's curious how things that work so well for learning some languages don't work for others. The multiple decks I'm goind for Mandarin certainly don't help. Besides those two websites, I'm still going through Pimsleur Korean. I'm almost halfway done with it. I've got another audio course lined up.
