friendship ended with NAAN BREAD now LEBANESE FLATBREAD is my best friend

this week's #langsky goals: - reach unit 7 of teach yourself romainan - read 2 chapters of Siostrzeniec czarodzieja - read 2 chapters of Gwiazd naszych wina - listen to something (anything!!) in welsh

Not done much languageing this week but I've read a fair amount! Books I've read a chunk of lately include: Jane austen - sense & sensibility Roberto bolaño (transl. Natasha wimmer) - 2666 Fyodor dostoyevsky (transl. David mcduff) - crime & punishment Jasper ridley - tito: a biography #booksky

two days in a row I'd have killed for a chinese but I resisted both times 💪💪 self control king!!! bulimia who???!

thinking about finally actually really this time starting german! a) my SIL and her family are German and some don't speak English, b) my dad was fluent and published a few books in German, and c) because of b) we have a mini library of German history books at home 👀👀 ...d) I love Tokio Hotel 😅

although I've been using my Post-Transition Forever Name for about 5 years now I kinda wanna change it again... my name's 100% male-leaning but as I've become more aware of my inner identity I want sth at least a little bit gender-neutral. but my nephews would be confused ;__;

📔How would you split the word p̓x̣ʷłtłp (bunchberry plant) into syllables? The study of Nuxalk's syllables actually traces back to at least 80 years ago, longer than I had first thought This week's essay gives an overview of how our understanding of Nuxalk syllables has developed over time! #langsky

As an often-not-passing trans person I think I'll just stop using public toilets wahooo

I'm one chapter into Siostrzeniec czarodzieja (Narnia #1 transl. into polish), so far it's been at my level and I only looked up ≈5 words per page. So easier than Wizard Book #1 and about the same difficulty as Śnieżna dziewczynka ^___^ (I'm now going through 4 Polish books at once 😅😅)

For possibly the first time this month? I've eaten a Not Wild + Crazy amount of food ^__^ (and rn fighting the urge to pop round the shop and get some doughnuts 😭😭 me vs food addiction but food addiction usually wins)

Yes: I read a whole page in polish without looking anything up ☺️☺️ But: ...it was 10 lines long 😅😅

cat's been having trouble toileting 😞😞 she finally does a wee! 🥳🥳 ...on my duvet 😩😩 (she has a vets appt booked don't worry)

I'm about 50% through śnieżna dziewczynka (children's book transl. into polish) and though my reading speed seems to have decreased slightly since starting 😅 I've been able to recognise and understand a lot of repeated words. so I'm not regretting quitting* anki (...yet!) :P #langsky

the Kitty wanted constant cuddles from 10 pm to 7:30 am so I only got about 45 minutes sleep 😭😭 but I'd totally do it again, she's so baby 🥰🥰

A neat Internet Archive find: Anna Karenina in Russian, adapted for learners! I'm looking forward to going through this, even with my poor Russian it should be easier than reading the full thing in English lol #langsky

I ate OK for a single day so in retalliation this is my 3rd night in a row binging for dinner 😞😞 I have been actually drinking water tho so it's not *all* bad

As someone with 0 first- or secondhand exp with drugs this is what I imagine ppl's expression to be when they're said to 'look high' lol

The fact that it's not rly feasable for Just Some Guy (me) to learn 18 languages well is the bane of my existence, wdym I have to chose like 4 tops 😭😭😭 (rn I wanna learn polish + slovenian + russian + french + romanian!! While keeping up with my welsh!!! AAAAAHH) #langsky my brain is Silly (/NEG!)

I'm playing around with romanian for the first time in 5+ years and I've been reminded that 'copiii' is a word 😭😭 what the orthography!! (.../pos)

I dropped some eaves on a polish guy this morning and literally only understood the word 'nie' 😅😅 I'll take that as motivation to *actually* practice my listening skills

She is a bookworm :)

I'm dnf-ing Blood Meridian (cormac mccarthy) after about 100 pages, its just not doing it for me. I was also bored reading The Road (same author) - though the ending of that one was good. I might watch an analysis vid on Blood Meridian and come back to the book at a later date... #booksky

She's a teenager and this is only like the third time she's ever slept in a box 😭😭😭 cat instincts where

I wish I had it in me to be one of those Reddit People who studies/uses their langs for hours a day + ends up at a good level in only a few years Then there's me, 8 yrs in and nowhere near fluent coz my depression+anxiety brain won't let me put in the hours or practice w people :-( feels baaad

Nawr dw i 'di rhoi'r gore i sgwennu dyddiadur - jyst oherwydd diog-wch (? alla i ddim cofio'r gair :|) - sa i 'di defnyddio cymraeg yn actif ers like dau fis. Darllennais i lawer ond still, *ochenaid*

Finished most 'stories of your life and others' by ted chiang, though I had to stop the story 'liking what you see' halfway through (as smn tormented his whole life for being so ugly it was far too upsetting lol). Aside from that I much preferred it to 'exhalation' (same author) :-) #booksky

I often see people online strongly advocating for others to get most of their books from libraries, which makes me wonder... is my local library an outlier for making you pay for interlibrary loans? 90% of what I want to read is only available that way + buying ebooks is usually cheaper :/ #booksky

My family's copy of Crime and Punishment has a nice cover + it's got some illustrations! I started reading it last night :) I've never read Dostoyevsky + I'm surprised how easy the language is (tho it may be bc of the translation). For comparison I'm struggling with Sense + Sensibility 😅 #booksky

It's not yet midday and I've already read in 4 languages 😎😎 one was a graded readwr but it STILL COUNTS!!

I've been playing the Pokemon Trading Card app for almost a year now and I'm still having fun with it! All the joy of collecting cards and building decks without paying a penny 😍😍 I need to up my skillz though, I've only ever played against the computer and I still lose a lot 😅😅

#booksky I hate DNFing books but I've given up on A Brief History of Time (stephen hawking) after 2 months and ≈50 pages. The language used is simple but the concepts are way too difficult for me!! I'll need to start with something geared towards children lol

#langsky I've started reading the first book in the wizard series by the nasty evil author in polish (books were second hand so I only felt kinda bad buying them, lol). So far it's quite a bit easier than Gwiazd nazych wina though I'm still finding about 10-15 unknown words per page 😅😅

#booksky Last night I finished The Unworthy (agustina bazterrica) - loved the vibes but a bit put off by the magicky bits. Circe has my whole heart 💛💛 This afternoon I started Stories of your life & others (ted chiang), my second Chiang book. Enjoying it so far (only like 10 pages in lol)

po lexoj një libër për të mësuar shqip 😁😁 To be fair it's the first time in months I've impulse-ordered a textbook so... I deserve it!! XD

Read chapter 3 of Charlotte và Wilbur this morning. Lots of repetition - great for learning! I think the word 'ngỗng' (goose) is seared into my brain 😅😅 #langsky

the bulimia has been bulimia-ing this week 😪😪 tbh I just stopped caring and willingly gave into my cravings But therr's no trigger foods in the house now so I'll try and do better over the next few days 💪💪

I've now read 2 chapters of Charlotte và Wilbur (Vietnamese transl. of Charlotte's Web) and even though it's a chapter book it's a bit easier than Doraemon! Unexpected Atm doing a readthrough with instant word translations on Readlang, but I'll go back and flashcardify everything later 😉 #langsky

I tried readlang - much better! and the premium plan's cheaper. Ill be trying this out to try and increase how much I read in Polish <3

tried lingQ for the first time :) it mangled every epub I tried to upload :( will not be returning, lol #langsky

I AM GARLIC SALT'S NO. 1 FAN!!!!!!

also, got bored with danish so I've started 'the fault in our stars' in polish. not because I like the book (it's pretty :/ lol) but I'm 3/4 through the danish one so the plot's still fresh in my mind - hopefully that'll be a bit of a help... coz my polish reading still sucks! #langsky #booksky

started an A1 german reader that includes grammar explanations and translations of key vocab, it's written for total beginners. makes a change from starting with a textbook! after 15 mins of ~studying~, it seems harder than yiddish :( wdym prepositions take more than just the dative ;__; #langsky

Other people have lofty career aspirations whereas I'm like 'I dream of working part-time in the local Polski Sklep and practicing my Polish with ppl 🥰🥰🥰'

What if I once again tried Yiddish but this time didn't let strangers on the internet make me feel bad about it 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 the urge to read Yiddish lit in its original form vs the fear of One Guy being judgemental

Lowkey thinking about stopping taking testosterone if I can be put on sth else that stops my period... coz that's the only reason I take it anyway + my gp's being a pain about prescribing it 🙄🙄

BAD BODY IMAGE DAY :( 1) I gained weight last month and 2) I just walked past a woman with perfect legs that I could only ever have in my dreams ;__;

#langsky Polish update: I read 7 pages of Śnieżna dziewczynka this evening - written for...maybe 10 year olds? - and it only took half an hour lol And I only had to look up 4-5 words per page, a big improvement already even though I'm only about 60 pages in Slowly but surely getting there!!

little anxiety win: I had a 20-second conversation with the Coffee Guy in costa 😎😎 anxiety not-win: I hate how I was during it, I couldn't hear him clearly so I kept going PARDON?????? and it was embarrassing :(

#langsky language goals for November... - Welsh: read 2 books and finish watching Stori'r Iaith on S4C - Danish: finish reading En flænge i himlen (w/o a dictionary) and Monsterblod (w/ a dictionary) - start a Stardew Valley save in either Russian or Hungarian

80% through the testaments (by margaret atwood - the sequel to the handmaid's tale). mostly enjoying it but omg jade is so irritating >:( #booksky