I’ve been listening to “Du bist schön” for months. I finally decided to “study” it today so that I can understand it. (IE: Google translate, Wiktionary, etc. etc.)
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Holy shit. I knew the words for mirror, beautiful, as well as Alligatoah makes it clear that this guy was talking to himself in the song. But the full understanding was lost until I studied now.
That’s a lot of self deprecating humor all at once. With a huge amount of social commentary.
I can highly recommend as a German language exercise, though maybe it’s a bit of a downer overall.
I knew this was a sarcastic and “biting” song even without study. But wow.
Du bist schön, aber dafür kannst du nichts
Weder lesen, noch schreiben, noch was anderes
Du bist schön, aber dafür kannst du nichts
Du kannst nicht mal was dafür, dafür kannst du nichts
Doing 90 mins Japanese, 90 mins Spanish, 60 mins Irish. Also about 15 minutes of maths. Way more than I usually put into my languages, but the problem I’m facing is I end up enjoying my time so much when studying Japanese, I end up doing more, then the same with Spanish, then the same with Irish. Maths is still difficult to push myself into, but it’s getting easier (I’m also trying to pavlov train myself into enjoying maths by treating myself everytime after (it’s working)).
New Spanish book to indulge in too. I had one before but it was very basic and I misplaced it. But the new book is Complete Spanish, Step-By-Step. It’s quite the thick book, and I’ll be reading it from top to bottom, even if my Spanish is somewhat of an A2 level, I don’t think a lot of the grammatical structures make too much sense, so it’s another reason why I’m rereading A1 grammar points.
My Japanese is going very well, after finally getting rid of the backlog, I’m pushing forward and making okay work towards N4, I’m only less than a month away from completing the N5 chapter in MaruMori (I redid it twice since I couldn’t read the text blurbs, they’ve since redid that entire section to make it easier, so I guess redoing it was completely worthless). The “te” conjugations so far have been a lot easier than I thought in the conjugation trainer. It seems to mostly be kute for i adjectives and de for na adjectives, or I just got really unlucky with my conjugation drills and got a really piss easy set of words. That being said I think it only drills one type of te until later, so that maybe it.
Indulging in Irish listening again, only can make out words, but only if I can read the English beforehand then end up paying extra attention to the sentence. Still overall, really basic Irish and need to get into it more. Spanish listening is way more in depth, I’m able to follow along with intermediate podcasts and get about 50-80% of it, what I seem to mostly be missing is the vocab. Then I’ll be using Conjugato for the conjugation trainer for Spanish. But after I read a bit of the book first.
Focusing in on fewer subjects instead of a breath of subjects has made me feel a lot better and gives me far more enjoyment, so I’ll stick with these 4 subjects now, and then maybe Draw or Blender for creative fun as well.
Really enjoying myself again. Not as prolific, but enjoying myself.
but the problem I’m facing is I end up enjoying my time so much when studying Japanese, I end up doing more, then the same with Spanish, then the same with Irish.
Good problem to have! I know there are many things you want to do and time is finite, but it’s great to hear you’re really enjoying the studies.
Yeah, in an ideal world I’d be able to sink hours into literally everything I want to do in a day, but also in an ideal world I would have the time to sink all those hours into things, so I have to be more realistic.
Honestly when I wake up, I realise there’s a high mark of study I want to do in the day, which throws me quite off, but when I start up and actually go through with the motions, I’ve already hit my goals without stressing about it during. I feel my worth ethic grow a spine somewhat, which is nice. So much to do though even with hours long study sessions a day!
Tea, studying and lofi music. Can’t be beat!
