as of this afternoon, since I started tracking in august I've listened to 200 different albums! most of them were old faves but I've also found some great new artists to listen to (shoutout to the band casey!!) ^____^

only two chapters left of narnia #1 in Polish! the amount of words I'm looking up varies quite a bit but I'm averaging around 5/page, which I'm OK with. I've got about 20 pages of vocab notes :') and will start Ankifying them at... some point, hehe. hoping the rest of the series goes well! #langsky

listening to a Blondie best of, it's so nostalgic! I have lots of warm memories of listening to Blondie while my mum would drive us to a local Italian restaurant :-) also, Denis was the first time I ever recall hearing a foreign language and actually realising it was a foreign language XD

a common sense realisation I've only very recently had: if I read 1 non-fiction book on a certain topic, my brain acts like a sieve and I forget everything the minute I put it down but if I read multiple books on the topic... over several months... learning happens! m-magic? #booksky

restarting my a1 latvian book for the gazillionth time >.< but I do love that 'meow' and 'woof' are some of the first words taught lol! meow = ņau /ɲau/ woof = vau /vau/ (and cat = kaķis /'kacis/, dog = suns /suns/) #langsky

nearly finished with I'w Ddiwedd Oer by jon gower... I'm enjoying the (vaguely based on fact) plot but as a book the writing feels quite meh, which is a disappointment as I've enjoyed the other JG books I've read. *BUT* I've come across a fair amount of new welsh words to learn hehehe >:) #booksky

if my anxiety doesn't anxiet too badly I might be seeing Jimmy Eat World play live a few days after my birthday!! (I just impulse spent so much money on a ticket ;___; ) with marina in june and then this, this summer will be a challenge but I might be??? up to it

teenage me was wrong, this is a 10/10 album and is city and colour's best by a mile <3 <3 <3

only 4 and a half hours til I can go to the coffee shop ^______^ don't think I'll go to the library after... after 3-ish days of keeping regular time my sleep schedule is upside down again so it'll be time to go to bed by the time I've had my coffee lol

15 years this month since it came out and I'm still so mad that so many fall out boy fans snubbed Soul Punk. SHE'S A GREAT ALBUM GIVE HER ENDLESS LOVE

first day back with bass went very well ^___^ *while looking at the tabs* I can play 2 MCR songs plus an LS Dunes one (the latter at half speed lol). once I've learned the MCR songs I want to experiment with zhuzhing the basslines up a bit to make them more interesting

also Helena 😍😍 I think most of Three Cheers should be fairly simple ?? my wrist now aches as well because *sigh* I'm having to relearn how to HOLD!! my bass coz the way I naturally do it is wrong lol. I'm using that as my excuse as to why I never got very far as a teen 😎😎

My Chemical Romance - In The End is super easy and I can 99% play it after 3 goes, but OWIE OWIE OWIE my fingies already hurt :(

ages 12-15 I played bass but was never very good (I only ever got to like a grade 3 equivalent >.<) but as of right now!! I'm relearning :) starting with super easy tabs (like basic only-following-the-chord-progression stuff) so my hands can get used to it again hehe

main welsh-language read atm ft a snoozy puppy. Gower's got an accessible writing style but I love that in the first 50 pages I've already found 20-odd new words to learn!! 🥰🥰 ...also I'm thinking about diving deep into flora and fauna words in welsh. even though idk many in English 😅😅 #langsky

library day today! planning to read some more Kate Roberts stuff and might start a modernised version of Y Mabinogion, and will hopefully do some danish and norwegian reading too ^__^ might challenge myself with a walk in the park too 😱😱 as I'm trying to get comfy with C— park

nes i ddechre llyfr cymraeg newydd (sef I'w Ddiwedd Oer gan jon gower), wedi gorffen y prolog yn unig ond mae'n fy sbrydoli i i fynd yn ôl i'r gŵyr achos sa i 'di bod 'no ers degawd falle 😱 a hyn jyst lawr y ffordd! nod newydd am y blwyddyn: cael bws i'r Gŵyr (er falle dim ar 'mhen fy hun eto 🫣)

I do worry a lot that the 3 people in my life think I'm a benefits scrounger coz my current life (ie sitting at home 95% of the time and sometimes going to the library) is mentally comfy. but the INSTANT I try to do something 'normal' I end up in a crisis state and like. legit nearly die :/

restarted Doraemon (issue 1, story 1) in Vietnamese. only read 2 2pages :') but it's going better than last time I attempted it. didn't understand much at first glance but after dictionarying the 'logic' of the sentences was clear ^__^ #langsky

I was never formally diagnosed with avoidant personality disorder (just told by 2 therapists that I pribably have it) but honestly going through the avpd subreddit is so cathartic. wdym I'm not a Freak Of Nature and that there are others out there who think exactly like me???! *__*

I love that orange juice with pulp is called 'with bits' here, genuinely so cute. bits 🥺🥺🥺

read another 2 chapters of the first narnia book in polish... I'd forgotten that it's a bit above my level and therefore quite hard 😅😅 well, not rly 'hard'... just a fair amount of unknown words, the actual sentence structures used are simple enough. but I'm having fun! #langsky

I love the idea of learning langs spoken in my area (like urdu!) but then I'd be pressured to... actually Interact with people... >:( (also BSL!) (+ the urdu script is soooo pretty 🥰🥰🥰 there are some urdu novels in the library and sometimes I just look at them on the shelf like :-) ) #langsky

for any #langsky users or non-fiction lovers who like textbooks: the website perlego gives you access to sooo many non fiction books and textbooks (including a bajillion by routledge) for less than £20 a month. I've been using it lately to dabble around, it's so much cheaper than interlibrary loans!

The Welsh Government has just published its new Cymraeg 2050 Areas of Research Interest (ARI) & it marks a shift in how Welsh language policy is thinking about evidence. Here, @danielstrogen.bsky.social explores the strategy & what it means for linguists. 🔗 tinyurl.com/czhk3htv 🧵👇 #langsky

had a bad few days depression-wise & was in bed for 48 hours (aside from an hour-long break to binge on chinese 😫😫) but aside from getting up at 5pm lol today's started off okay. went outside, baked some fruit scones, and read a bit in polish. aiming to go to the library tomorrow 💪💪

skończyłem czytać książkę 'baśnie śnieżnego lasu', która jest napisana dla dzieci i chodzi o dziewczyne, która zmieni się w niedźwiedzia 🐻🐻 i jest po polsku, oczywiście ;) na początku była dość trudna by rozumieć i było dużo nowych słów ale na koniec umiałem ją czytać łatwo ^___^ #langsky

'exciting' plans for the day are to buy a cabbage and go to the library. what a life I lead!

#langsky had a bad day mood-wise but a good day language-wise :) did some reading AND audiobook listening (:O) in polish and read some of the hobbit in Welsh. just finished ankifying some slovenian vocab from a few days ago and now off to do the next unit in my slovenian book ;)

Language pals/leid freins - I've written a new blog post: "The linguistic adventures of Rupert the Bear - or we need to talk about Machine Translation." Also features Hendrix, spooky singing androids and philosophising about Gaelic translation. treanaichean.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/t...

currently obsessed with lentil bake, I've eaten almost a kilo (dry weight!!) of lentils since the start of the year ;___; ... healthier than my last obsession (ben and jerry's) though, lol *goes to cook more lentils*

only did danish and polish (I got eepy). but I did read a few pages of a bilingual welsh/english children's history book on the Rebecca Riots though, very interesting + once I've finished I'll read through one of the full-length (english-language) books available on the same topic :-)

I'm so invested in the polish book I'm reading even though it's for about 10 year olds. wdymmmm the weasel's doing his war dance in front of the evil dragon just as all hope seemed lost??! baby's gonna save the day I know it 💪💪💪

IIRC in my 3 months (lol) at uni this was touched on, part of understanding one's 'linguistic repertoire' is realising that knowing a language isn't a black and white yes/no thing. it's a useful way of looking at things imo!

actually gonna go to the library today after majorly sleeping in for the last week 🥳🥳 plans per language: - Welsh: read some more of Kate Roberts's misc writings - Norwegian: read + listen to some of Skrekkens Sirkus - Danish: finish ch 1 of Om udregning af rumfang - Polish: 1 chapter of baśnie...

kinda wanna restart therapy but both the therapists I've had have been so disconnected from reality :Z wdym say a jolly 'good day!' to strangers in the street?? wdym everyone has identical facial features until the age of 16+?? wdym my dr was wrong that I was medically obese coz I had a slim face??

practicing listening comprehension is so exhausting! even in English (native lang) I can't pay attention to audio for more than about 3 minutes so when it's in another language... 🤯🤯 I listened to 25 mins of a Norwegian book this evening and my brain feels FRIED!!! #langsky :')

the 1mm of snow we had has melted :( the soft cronch cronch of it underfoot was so good for my mental health 🥺🥺

instead of aimlessly dabbling what if I tried to learn languages spoken in countries I want to visit 👀👀 (me, being sensible???)

if I try to stay up all night again I need smn to shout at me coz I *have* to be awake to go to the library tomorrow (books that can't be renewed need returning) ;___;

#langsky Recommended YT playlist for Polish learners with very weak listening skills: Think In Polish's beginner playlist! my listening comprehension is soooo pants but these vids are easy to understand. the teacher's expressions + gestures are entertaining too! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I've asked mamà and starting ?? soon ?? she's happy to help me practice going to cardiff on the train (so I can ~overcome~ my anxieties and maybe see Marina in the summer) I'm mostly nervous about the return trips bc last time I went (15 years ago??) the cardiff station was rubbish :(

#langsky 3/4 through Baśnie śnieżnego lasu (current Polish children's book) and it's getting almost easy to read 🤯🤯 still a lot of totally new/unknown words, but I'm getting better at recognising semi-known words in context (and glossing over/guessing fuzzy words). a confidence boost, for sure ^___^

#booksky currently reading: Yiddish Folktales, collected/edited by Beatrice Weinreich. the one about the royals being tricked into kissing pooey rabbit bums made me chuckle! poor buns lol

new(ish) min album = once again thinkin bout vietnamese 🥰🥰 one day I will actually finish reading charlotte và wilbur!! even if it takes 75663 years!!

not relying on instant ultraprocessed foods update: made some more scones (:D) and a lentil bake, though the latter ended up as more of a lentil mash - apparently I should've left it in the oven longer. still tasty. the secret ingredient is MARMITE!!!

there's a nonzero chance that in the future my nephews might find my roblox account from when I was 12 so if they come across my cringe forum posts I'll tell them I gave my acct to a friend cause 'he wanted my hats' and it was 'the friend' who was posting 😏😏😏 got it aaaall planned out

I always thought that a lentil bake would be kinda fiddly to make but it turns out you literally just... bake lentils... that's me trying a new recipe this evening 🫡🫡 in my adventurous era

I'll have to fight self-consciousness when going to the library from now on... the only shoes I have that don't give me blisters are SANDALS 😭😭 so I'll have to walk around a) in socks and sandals and b) in them during the winter!! mamà says no one notices but 🤨🤨 sounds sus

I've started making my room less disgusting (it's been a bad 'depression nest' for like 3 years 😬), and making it clean and tidy + then being in a nice space actually... feels good 🤯🤯 it's taking a lot of mental energy but physically it's been no work at all >.<