I need to learn German, it's literally life or death situation for me, if I don't learn it very soon, I will not be able to remain where I am, and if I go back to the country I'm from they will kill me either slowly or quickly, but not pleasantly for sure.
The learning process is going not great. Not great at all.
Before a 4 month stay in Vienna, I tried upping my German game: consumed lots of German-language media (news, books, videos), attended a language course, really tried immersing myself as well as I could. It was enough to get by okay, but I felt frustrated not being to follow along always or express myself precisely. Since coming back I haven't been able to pick it up and in fact have come to associate the language with the sad realization that it's behind me.
Edit: just a positive note, I can now easily follow along with German-language talks, musicals, articles etc which feels like a superpower!
When I was in high school, the sequel to my favorite game didn't get translated, so I convinced my parents to sign me up for Japanese lessons on the weekend. But I didn't get all that far in it on account of having too much actual schoolwork to keep up with.
Last year I picked it back up again, just for fun, and I'm making a lot more progress using Renshuu than I did in a classroom environment. Earlier this year I bought one volume each of a bunch of different manga series, slowly working through the pile with the help of vocab lists from LearnNatively and Wanikani. So far I've finished Yotsubato, RuriDragon, and Look Back.
Not actively learning a language, but I have a degree in Spanish, though it's been years since I used it professionally and I no longer regard myself as proficient. Before that I took Latin throughout high school (a rare treat in a US public school AFAIK), and attempted to learn Mandarin via Duolingo in 2019.
As it happens I also construct artificial languages as a hobby after the manner of Tolkien.
I've started learning Catalan, it's going slower than I hoped because the class I'm taking is filled with people who already speak the language and spend the entire class discussing about technicalities instead of letting the teacher teach.
German. I'm not that motivated nowadays but my level improved a lot from the intense work I did between February and June this year
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