When I started to learn mandarin in 09/2020 I never thought it would take me 3 years to be able to read native novels 🤍the path has never been easy, &still isn’t easy.🫣I’m just happy I can enjoy reading novels💗I’ll start soon my 6th novel&want to read more bcs it’s amazing🤍
Today was my last “official “ day studying HSK5. Idk how to feel, 3 years ago I started learning Chinese without thinking that to this precise day I’d be here…learning it, having fun and specially feeling as intrigued as I was the 1st day💗 a new chapter begins now🤍🫶🏻
Some people came to my DMs asking why is it so “easy” for me to learn languages?
It isn’t easy. I spend many hours to improve and it’s a long term. No secrets, that’s all 😞
Sometimes language learning is NOT all 🌸🌸 and ✨✨ bcs you can actually learn easily one language and another super super slow. You think you don’t progress or you don’t do enough but that’s not true! You just need time, take as many time as needed.
I usually take photos when I’m done studying each language and it’s so pretty 💖 plus the hardwork + consistency is the key to never stop learning the fun way 🤍
Sometimes you struggle to learn a language. Sometimes you feel you don’t improve, that you are stuck learning it but in the end with time,patience and consistency you can reach everything you want. In summer 2022 I was really stuck trying to learn N5 (and A2) now B1 and N3 🫶🏻🌸💗
I rescheduled my language studies two weeks ago and I’m super happy and proud of how much I remember and how I can improve day by day 🥺 it makes me super happy to learn new stuff and to be able to understand what I read / listen to 💖
Today was my 1st day studying the JLPT N3 books and honestly unit 1 was so far good!🤍💗
I’m thankful to my past self for being consistent and didn’t give up!! After a 3rd attempt to learn japanese here I am 😍 intermediate japanese here we are ✨🫶🏻
I did it again!!! Here I go N3 I will catch you even if I stay one full years studying it✨🫶🏻 I PASSED THE N4 with a similar score to my N5 score AAA🤍💗🤍💗🤍💗🤍💗
I’ve been seeing on youtube so many videos about “learn x language in 3 months “ and it sound sooooo soooo fake 😓 you can’t learn a language at a very good level in just 3 months! 😭
Where is the honest & realistic side???
Hello! i'm new to
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-Patri, she/her🥰
-23, spanish & french
- Native 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 & catalán
- Advanced 🇬🇧 and HSK1 🇨🇳
-lang. studying: 🇨🇳 🇰🇷 🇯🇵 🇬🇧
-chemistry degree 👩🏻🔬
pic not mine
I’m focusing on mandarin chinese & japanese till January 2024 bcs exam season is approaching 👀 honestly, I’m so so SO happy with these two languages 🤍 I don’t care about the slow process of improving them, I’m happy that I have consistency, I make mistakes and I correct them💗
Recently I started reading 你是我的荣耀 and somehow I find it easy to read! 🥰 There’s still unknown words but someday I will learn them and keep progressing on my language path 💗 so far I’m extremely happy that in 2 years I’m studying chinese I’m able to do such things🤍
I’m dealing with some issues irl so I can’t study that much but every night I try to spend 15 min reading 💖 I started this novel and, for now, I have 0 trouble to understand it✨🤍
Dad told me yesterday he’ll do anything in his hand to let me study abroad, wherever I want and I’m interested to, and I’m still thinking about it bcs I didn’t expect it at all.🥺
Sometimes for your own good, for your mental/physical health, you need to make a pause from studying or doing what you have to do. Please don’t blame yourself for it and don’t feel sorry bcs of it. You health MATTERS!! Once you recover and you feel stable again you can go back.
Months ago I was afraid to start HSK5 bcs I thought it was too complicated and the texts would be extremely difficult to follow. Turns out I was wrong. I had my 1st lesson today and definitely I ace it 💗💗💗 it was very easy to follow and understand 🤍🤍
Never believe that fluency & learning a language is easy in a short term is true. The amount of hours behind every study session. The frustration of not being able to understand something or feeling you aren’t improving is real. The struggle is real. It’s a long path but we ❤️ it
Guess who’s back on language learning?✨✨✨ I finally made a stable schedule for each week and I’m so so so excited to start learning new stuff and have fun! 💖🤍
I still have a long way to go and I’m hella scared of N3 but I’m ready to take everything in me to make it possible🌸
If you believe you can do it then you’ll be able to make it happen🤍
Who would have thought that after one year and half I would really be able to read The little Prince in chinese. I can’t believe it myself. I’m beyond emotional bcs this meant a lot to my path with chinese 🤍 Next step is a modern novel aside of a fantasy novel 💖 I DID IT YAY ❤️
Two months ago I bought a big box with japanese mangas in japanese! As I’m studying for finals and I can’t study langs as I use to…I just read in my tls💗 I finished my 1st japanese manga and I understood many many things, which makes me proud and extremely happy🤍🤍
I’m taking it easy learning japanese & chinese mandarin bcs the higher is the level the less I want to rush the process of lesrning💗🤍 I just love these languages so so much that I want to take lots of care to them🫶🏻🌸
I wish I had study buddies for any of my target languages. We could study together and prepare stuff and lots of activities. The sad true is that it never becomes a routine and after a couple of meetings it’s over 🥲
Today I studied korean and I see an improvement on my reading & grammar skills!!🥰🥰 I’m totally in love with the textbooks I’m using bcs they really help me to improve 🤍
Yesterday I bought these 5 small notebooks for language purposes and I can’t wait to be free and be able to go back to language learning 🤍🤍 10 days left ✨
Last Friday my mom told me that her clients were super surprised by the fact that I can understand chinese and that I’m also learning another 2 languages 😳 like they asked her if I go to an academy and when she said that I self study they were amazed 😭
Yesterday I started these beauties to learn a little more while I review HSK5! 💗🤍 I can’t believe I’m already at the doors of HSK6 🫣🫣 from now on till the end of the year I plan to use these textbooks + review HSK5 bcs I want to take the exam next year💪🏻 HSK6 see you soon🌸
This is the book I’m reading in japanese and thanks to chinese I’m not encountering many problems 🥰💗💗 I’m so happy hehe, I hope I can improve step by step japanese and get better at chinese too🌸🌸
We start the last week of 2022! ✨
Doing a small reflection about my 2022:
I advanced a lot in mandarin chinese, I got stuck in japanese & korean, I felt a huge improvement with japanese and I started another language✨(1)
As a language learner learning more than 2 languages at the same time it’s completely fine to feel you are improving in one or two languages and the rest feel like they are “stuck”. Don’t give up! Even if it’s a slowly improvement you are doing it okay 💗
I really love learning languages. Each one in a different level but never giving them up ❤️❤️
Pd: I like to write the meaning of the forgotten words in chinese, that way I won’t forget them anymore ✨🌸🌸
Today I spoke chinese to some tourists and they were surprised that I spoke chinese 😭 they even said I wasn’t doing it bad as I said my chinese is really bad 🥺💖 this is what I call a small steps 🥰
What made you pick your target languages? 👀
I always wondered why people picked up their tls bcs I’m very curious 🥺 mine were basically bcs I like how they sound, I wanted to watch media without subs and understand better people (also to read books in those langs) 💖
Ok so something weird happened today hahaha
I was in the train reading a little bit in chinese and a girl sat besides me
She started to talk to me and she said she’s part of langtwt/studytwt & studygram/langgram and if I was there too 🥺
I finally finished 蜜汁炖鱿鱼 ! ✨🤍 I bought it for my birthday in March and started it at the end of March. I had tons of things to do at university, lack of hype and more stuff going on. However Yesterday’s night I accomplished one of my biggest goals in 2022. I am so happy💖
New year new books to study japanese N3 after I finished Try! N3 & Tango N3 last month 💗
These books are for:
•Grammar
•Vocabulary
•Kanji
•Reading
•Listening
I really hope I can learn more and better with these books as I hope I can do the JLPT N3 test on December 🤞🏻💗
Let me introduce you my secret language🌸
I started learning Thai back in 11/2022💗🫢
The reason why I never said which language I’m recently learning was basically that once before I left thai and never came back 😓 yes, back in August 2021 I started thai but never came back!
This week I could study 3 chinese lessons and started the japanese N3 kanzen master books 🤍🫶🏻 I’m so glad I could make time to study these languages this weekend ✨
Next goal is to add korean/ french review on weekdays 🙏🏻💗
Hii! 🌸 Not new in
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#langtwt
but I’m making a new intro💖
• Patri, 26 , she/her
• Spanish & french so I speak 🇪🇸🇫🇷 & catalán
• Fluent in 🇬🇧
• Learning 🇨🇳 (HSK5), 🇯🇵 (N3) , 🇰🇷 (A2) & 🇹🇭(A1)
• I majored in music & now in chemistry🧪
Like or rt to be mutuals💗🤍
My parents are always so surprised when our neighbors start speaking in mandarin & they ask me to translate to them 🤣 today the little kid was trying to play with my dog and I talked to him in mandarin! He was so surprised that he went to his dad to tell him I can speak mandarin
Today I confirmed my japanese is in another league bcs I went to watch this movie in japanese with spanish subs and..I barely had to read the subs bcs I understood practically 80% of it😭 I’m crying in excitement, this was a long life goal since I was a kid💗
Can I be honest? Languages and specially learning them brought so much colour into my life. The fact of remembering how I started almost a year ago very serious and consistent with chinese, lately I added korean & japanese, is insane. I was so lost but very excited at that time
I was watching a chinese movie with chinese subs and mom came to the living room and looked at me as if I was crazy 🤣 then she asked me if I understood what I was watching and I said 85% of the words yes and I knew the dialogues bcs it’s my fav movie xD she was stunned 🥺🥺
The beauty of learning languages is how aesthetic can be sometimes🤍(you don’t need to make it aesthetic if you don’t want)✨ I always take photos once I’m done studying just to immortalize the moment, that way I can go back and remember I studied and I felt extremely happy🌸
Today I showed to my mom the chinese & korean textbooks I want to buy! She lowkey told me they were cheap and that I should buy them as soon as I can 🥺🥺 I love how supportive my mom is with my language learning 💖💖💖
Are you looking for a japanese course at your own pace? I have great news!!💗
Hiraki sensei is opening her courses for 3 DAYS!!! Her courses are AMAZING! She is a well known japanese teacher with thousand of students in her courses✨
Exams are over and what I did these past days is finish my last modern chinese novel💗💗 and today I’m going to study chinese with my textbooks 🫣 I’m so excited to get back to study languages🫶🏻✨
I spent all morning and part of the afternoon studying languages 🥰 from 7am till almost 5pm and I feel so great 💗 I still think my korean writing is not perfect but oh well even in my native langs it isn’t skfkskf🤣
Mom was watching tv & there was a documentary about japan and their food. I was reviewing for tomorrow’s exam and she was like “Patri what are they saying?” I translated it as if it was the most common thing 🫣 mom was shocked and I didn’t realize about it till a few mins passed
I realized I’m extremely happy while I study japanese & chinese and with korean is just like mhe. I think I lost the spark for it. However I will keep studying it as a 3rd tl but not my main tls as japanese and chinese are. I just love so much studying chinese and japanese 💗💗💗
I saw some ppl wanting to find some discord servers for languages! some friends & I have one called " the language garden" where we do weekly events streaming series, movies,etc🥰 but pls be active bcs ghost member will be kicked out at some point ( we are debating to do so)👀
Not long ago I started using Boya Intermediate 2 as a textbook to study more mandarin & despite some texts are a bit boring I’m having fun reading these texts & learning new words 💗
I really love mandarin & it’s that language that makes me happy so here I am giving it all ✨
I’m finally back from a week away with friends 😍🫶🏻 I missed my bestie so so much and spending a week with her was the best💗 Anyway, I’m back to study languages🤍
Languages studies log 🌸
Yesterday chinese studies consisted on 3 HSK5 下 lessons + a very fast (and small portion of time) grammar review ✨
Today japanese studies consisted on 3 Marugoto intermediate 1 lessons + review of 3 grammar points, very detailed explanations🫶🏻💗
Hii! 🌸 Not new in
#studytwt
&
#langtwt
but I’m making a new intro💖
• Patri, 24 , she/her
• Spanish & french so I speak 🇪🇸🇫🇷 & catalán
• Fluent in 🇬🇧
• Learning 🇨🇳 (almost HSK4) , 🇯🇵 (N5) & 🇰🇷 (A1)
• I majored in music & now in chemistry
• I like kpop, anime & animals
Can my dad stop pursuing me to learn russian & italian because “sounds very melodic”? PLEASE like I’m already actively studying 3 language, each each one in a different level 😩
I just love chinese mandarin so much🥹💗💗 I spent a big amount of the day reading, watching and speaking mandarin and it feels like being inside my safe spot 🤍💗💗
I swear to God I’m utterly in love with this serie of books for korean grammar🥰🥰 I prefer study grammar with these and to review with KGIU rather the inverse 💖 best purchase in my life!!
I’m about to finish reading my first mandarin chinese novel and idk how to feel. I still need to learn a lot, new vocabulary and more stuff but I feel a little bit proud of this accomplishment 🥺 only 2 more extra chapters 📚
Do you know that irritating feeling when you are on a group project and only YOU are the one who is doing almost all the assignment…and when you ask for the rest to help a bit to finish it…they just ignore it? THIS IS WHY I LIKE DOING THINGS ALONE 💀 I hate group assignments 💀
Today I finished my first japanese book, kind if a novel, more or less 🫶🏻 I feel so accomplished with this as it was one of my 2023 goals to be able to read a full book in japanese 💗🤍
Today I studied japanese intermediate 1 from my fav textbook series and I’m so excited hehe💗🤍
I did also watch a couple of lessons from a paid online course I have as a review and did some review on memrise ✨🫶🏻💗
I’ve been watching a vlog in mandarin about how young people go to Changsa to party and have fun and I understood everything in the video 😳 that’s when I realized my chinese isn’t as low as I thought and that MAYBE my level is way higher than "elemental/basic" 😬
I started to read this today and I’m half done with it 😭 So far I like the story, pretty simple but cute ❤️ can’t wait to be able to buy more easy readers of higher level (4-5) 🥰💖
This morning I woke up very early and I realized of how much I improved over the years (from 2020 till now) with the languages I’m studying🫣 my chinese had a huge improvement and now I kinda panic bcs once I finish all the advanced textbooks I’ll have to book classes bcs (1)
Finished!! In record time 💗 I spent 2 weeks reading almost every day a little bit of it and I finally finished it ❤️ I loved the ending and the extras😍 it was different from the cdrama hehe 🫶🏻
Today I studied japanese and I’m studying chinese right now.. I feel super productive today studying the languages I love the most💗 I’m extremely happy🫶🏻🌸💗
Please if you want to ask me to share you my pdf resources at least be nice 😭 I’m super tired of people just demanding me to give them my resources for free without even a thanks...please be polite and be nice when you ask for something 🥺