DAY TWO
(Reading "Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World" by Benny Lewis)
”…put at least two hours a day into it, and ideally more.” No idea how much time I spent doing any kind of actual learning, I’m mainly looking for resources and not learning much.
“I made sure I processed sixty flash cards a day…” Think 30 sounds more manageable for me.
“Announce your mission to the world…” Does this count?
During my attempt to learn Spanish I made the shopping list in Spanish, I don’t write it in Spanish anymore but I will be in the store and think leche, huevos, chicle… I still use a whole bunch of keywords and phrases in Spanish just for fun. So let’s butcher the Japanese language and start making grocery lists in Japanese.
Milk ぎゅうにゅうGyūnyū (Or is it ミルクMiruku?)
Bread パン
Egg たまご Tamago
Rosemary ローズマリー Rōzumarī
Look for fresh フルーツ Furūtsu
HOMEWORK: Find a Japanese podcast that I like, listened to a lot that I didn't like. And find a flashcard maker.
Nice post. I personally like Anki for flashcards. Fluent in 3 months sounds very optimistic!
I walk around and say things in Swedish in my head. Katt, mjolk, fru, Katten vill har mjolk... It's funny. But I think that's how I learn.
@joeB The book mentioned Anki so I'm going for that one! Yeah the book is very optimistic. I think we all want to learn things without any effort but if we put in A LOG of effort for 3 months I'm sure we will learn a lot. I know I won't be "fluent" in 3 months but I'll probably know a lot more than I do now so that's nice :D
@AimeeMarie1978 It is fun! Try to say them outload as well, I'm super silly and think my neighbors will hear me and laugh at me. "Katten vill ha mjölk" The cat wants milk. Har is has. "Katten har mjölk" The cat has milk. Speaking of cats and milk... (I'll send you a message)
You can use both ぎゅうにゅう and ミルク to refer to milk, but in some context ミルク can also be "Non-dairy creamer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-dairy_creamer)". However, ぎゅうにゅう is strictly just milk.