I am still going strong with writing every day. For Japanese, I have continued to write at least 1 sentence a day, sometimes more. I've only received 1 correction tho, and I don't think my Japanese is so good that I only one mistake. I think it's likely that Hellotalk just isn't a great place for corrections anymore. For Esperanto, I wrote a haiku 6 out of 7 days this week. On the other day, I just did a tweet in normal Esperanto. Maybe that's cheating a little; I'm fluent so regular tweeting and chatting is not really putting myself out of my comfort zone. I've decided to mirror my Japanese status updates, Esperanto haiku, and language learning log at Journaly. It seems like a pretty nice website, so I think the community is going to grow fast.

Unexpectedly, someone returned my old Kindle Paperwhite to me after six years. Somehow it still works, so I'm working on setting things up so I can replace LingQ with the Kindle. So far I've figured out (1) what kind of files the kindle can read (2) how to send files to the kindle (3) converting things from syosetsu.com to Kindle's mobi format and (4) this ancient kindle does have a full character set for both Esperanto and Japanese!

I am struggling with dictionaries right now. I found an Esperanto dictionary for the Kindle, but it is really bad. It can't identify any inflections and it apparently can't search for words that contain hat-letters. This may be a specific problem of my kindle being so old, the hat-letter thing seems like such a large bug that I can't imagine a dictionary was released in that state if its a widespread issue. It sucks that the dictionary is so messed up, but I decided I can live with this problem. My Esperanto is good enough that there are only 2 or 3 words per page which are unknown, and almost always I can guess the meaning from context.

The problem is more serious for Japanese. I currently have the default J/E dictionary on there, and it's unusable. My Japanese is not good enough that I can guess meanings from context in a consistent fashion, so I need to find a dictionary that works. The first problem is that the dictionary doesn't seem to be able to deal with inflections (yet again). The story I downloaded from syosetsu has the word お婆さん on the first page. This is a known word, so I though it would be a good test case. The dictionary cannot find お婆さん or 婆さん or even 婆! It can't connect verb conjugations to a dictionary entry. Sometimes, it shows the uninflected form of a word with no English translation. This is something which I will need to find a solution for before I unsub from LingQ.

I've also come to the realization that I need to stop jumping around in different books. I need to pick one book and commit until I finish reading it. This means there will be times when I don't read in my target languages because there are still books I want to read in English too. I accept this. So the first book I will be reading is 1984 in Esperanto. I might not have chosen this book on my own because I've already read it many times in English, but I want to participate in an Esperanto bookclub, and this was the book which we collectively chose even if I voted for something else. It seems comfortable to me to read between 3 and 5% of the book before bed, so that means I can wrap up reading this book in a month or two. After that, the plan is to read Dune in English because it is one of my husband's favorites and the movie is coming out this year. Then, I will choose to either finish 三姉妹探偵団 in Japanese, or find something else. This means I'm planning not to read in Japanese at all for about 2 to 4 months, which makes me nervous. But I feel I will have a more rewarding experience as a reader if I stop jumping around.

My kanji study kind of suffered this week... I studied every day but didn't finish my Anki reviews on 4 out of 7 days. I also didn't do as much listening practice as I wanted, but I did improve over last week. Mostly I'm listening to podcasts, but I feel kind of bored with them.