It's such a joke. I'm midway through N4, and focussing on consolidation of what I've already learned whilst I have some work in, and I've been at it for a much longer than a year (granted, that was life being life)

Skimming this (will read in full later), and it's really interesting. The bits I have read bring Terry Pratchet to mind

The matter of material, openings, rarely writing in defined chapters. And of course, his use of footnotes.

Definitely gonna read it fully later, and reflect on it for a bit

I've experienced that somewhat. I learn new vocab via SRS to start, but hearing/reading a word/grammar used in context can be really helpful for consolidating them. Sometimes, it also helps a word to 'click' in my brain, when I otherwise struggle to remember it

This is why I get mad when people say it's easy and imply that people who don't pass N1 after a few years aren't good enough.

As Dr. Robertson says, the JLPT isn't the only measure of Japanese ability. Speaking, reading, and writing fluency are different from test taking ability.

Exactly! Like. For me. I can read graded readers, and maybe understand a good. 40-50% of it, without much thought. The rest, I need to actively parse. And that is. Okay. For now. To be able to do that, in spite of life being. Life. Is big, for me. And I can still grow, however long it takes

It's taken me... Maybe, 5 or so years to finally get through learning N5 Grammar points. Largely due to turbulence in life (University, job, teacher training, etc.) and also finding the right way to learn for me. If I tried to just. Cram it, I would have burnt out, long ago

Probably 'forgive yourself when you haven't been able to do much study due to work. Life can be hard and busy, and accepting your small wins, even if it is just reviewing 5 pieces of vocab, can help keep you on track long term'

I've done a hard reset on learning cause I didn't do that to be honest

This is something I'm glad I have just seen! Been using Marumori for about two months, and really vibed with it. It's maybe the main resource that has fully clicked for me, so I'm glad to have seen their stance on AI, helps me feel a lot better about using it

When you look between the lines he's being very sneaky with his wording. They've already got rid of 'contract' linguists, but their 'emoloyees' (probably managers) are apparently safe.

The whole thing is super ick.

It's sad that everything has to revolve around money. I work in education, and a common discussion is a lot of 'I wouldn't teach, too stressful for the pay and... Very few, if any, people work in it for the pay. It's cause we actually enjoy the work we do, which... Is clearly weird to those people

It's really depressing that so much of just. Anything, really, is reduced to how you can make money from it. I'm sure there's a social side to it, but the way some people reduce everything to money is. Insane, to me frankly