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disappointed_lesbianToday was food bank day but I had another cold so I stayed home to avoid infecting anyone and exposing myself to the chilly air. I can go another week with the food/food stamps that I have.
I didn't feel sick last night. I wonder whether not sleeping last night (too much cocoa too late in the day yesterday) affected my body temperature in a such a way that leaving the bedroom window open, which I cannot sleep without (sometimes?) did me more harm than good.
I've been successful with Mandarin partially because I have a PDF textbook from which I can copy and paste text to digital flashcards. I need the same thing for Korean. I have two Korean PDF textbooks, but they must have been created as images somehow because I cannot copy anything from them in any of the PDF readers I've tried. So now I'm fiddling around with OCR and trying to extract text from images but I don't know what I'm doing and I don't expect it to work.
The other reason I've been successful with Mandarin is that my textbook came with a lot of audio files. I have audio files for my Korean textbooks, but listening does me no good because I can't comfortably read along with the text (I cannot bear to read PDF textbooks for more than a few pages) nor remember what I've heard/read because I cannot copy it to my flashcard software. I've been using online Korean courses from which I can easily copy and paste, but they come with no audio, and text-to-speech software allows me to listen to them only on the computer, so I don't get the massive amount of practice I get from listening to Mandarin while walking for hours every day.
I could bulk generate TTS audio and save it to my music player, but that'd be such a hassle, and hearing real people speak is better for aural comprehension and pronunciation anyhow. It would take forever, and copying and pasting Mandarin plus processing the Mandarin audio files already takes forever.
This is all a full-time job.
I didn't feel sick last night. I wonder whether not sleeping last night (too much cocoa too late in the day yesterday) affected my body temperature in a such a way that leaving the bedroom window open, which I cannot sleep without (sometimes?) did me more harm than good.
I've been successful with Mandarin partially because I have a PDF textbook from which I can copy and paste text to digital flashcards. I need the same thing for Korean. I have two Korean PDF textbooks, but they must have been created as images somehow because I cannot copy anything from them in any of the PDF readers I've tried. So now I'm fiddling around with OCR and trying to extract text from images but I don't know what I'm doing and I don't expect it to work.
The other reason I've been successful with Mandarin is that my textbook came with a lot of audio files. I have audio files for my Korean textbooks, but listening does me no good because I can't comfortably read along with the text (I cannot bear to read PDF textbooks for more than a few pages) nor remember what I've heard/read because I cannot copy it to my flashcard software. I've been using online Korean courses from which I can easily copy and paste, but they come with no audio, and text-to-speech software allows me to listen to them only on the computer, so I don't get the massive amount of practice I get from listening to Mandarin while walking for hours every day.
I could bulk generate TTS audio and save it to my music player, but that'd be such a hassle, and hearing real people speak is better for aural comprehension and pronunciation anyhow. It would take forever, and copying and pasting Mandarin plus processing the Mandarin audio files already takes forever.
This is all a full-time job.
