@lasta what language?

@emb I need to study more. I also made a new rule for myself that I’m not allowed to buy any more Japanese manga/books until I’ve read the stuff I have.

@arxaseus what are you using to study Irish?

@emb yes but I’ll take another look

@emb I’ve been reading lots in my mother tongue, English, and I wish I could read so easily in Japanese… I need to find some good books for beginners. And by that I mean regular reading, not manga. I do have manga I want to read too but it’s different…

@adhd_traco you could try looking here:

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading/_challenges/8c143534-34b4-41c9-9807-f6f89dc8f167

@recursive_recursion fish wife! looks cool

@emb I was having technical problems with anki but I think it’s mostly fixed now… I downloaded this deck for Japanese

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/911122782

#anki #LanguageLearning

@Lazycog I’m reading the Cure Dolly transcript.

https://kellenok.github.io/cure-script/

@arxaseus thanks!

@Lazycog one of my resolutions for 2026 is to learn and practice Esperanto and Japanese, so that will be my focus. I’m trying to find easy things to read in both languages.

Esperanto seems fairly easy to pick up but it’s difficult to find interesting things to read- at least for a beginner like myself. Japanese, on the other hand, has a steep learning curve but lots of books I want to read. I have some manga I imported a while ago and while I enjoy looking at the art, it would be nice to read it properly! No one else has bothered to translate them so this is my only option.

@emb thanks for sharing!

@emb I want to use a little bit of Esperanto and Japanese every day.

@Lazycog it’s easy to find lemmy communities on mastodon but following them is somewhat clunky… there’s no way to follow a lemmy and see just the original threads without replies. that’s probably why

@Lazycog I decided to set aside some time to study Spanish, but I haven’t done much yet.

@SonofaBixcuit you can call yourself cis or nonbinary or both or neither

they are all labels, no more or less

@SonofaBixcuit thanks for reminding me this song exists!

@Sunshine I hate how killing fish is considered a relaxing hobby, I hate how everyone treats it like a meme, and I hate how even “cozy” games have fish killing simulators.

There is an animated movie called Padak about fish who try to avoid getting eaten in a restaurant… it’s really fucked up but most people just joke about it since they see fish as objects…

@hamid looks really good!

@Samdell ghost romance is great 👻💞