{"id":2005,"date":"2022-01-14T21:11:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T05:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2022-01-14T21:11:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T05:11:11","slug":"language-still-studying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2022\/01\/14\/language-still-studying\/","title":{"rendered":"Language: Still Studying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_6168-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_6168-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_6168-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_6168-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_6168-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_6168-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_6168.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And Duolingo gives me a chance to brag about it EVERY SINGLE DAY!  <span class=\"has-inline-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color\"><em>(Well, every day I study, which is the same thing.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, if I haven&#8217;t mentioned this since switching from other languages to Japanese: <strong>Japanese is difficult for me! <\/strong> My reaction when the program shows me an exercise is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Oh, no! I have no idea what this says!<\/strong><\/li><li>Oh, wait, I know <em>that<\/em> word.<\/li><li>Okay, I also know that <em>phrase<\/em>.<\/li><li>Well, maybe I do know what it says.<\/li><li><em>[complete answer] <\/em><\/li><li><em>[receive happy success chime]<\/em><\/li><li><em>[repeat with the same lack of confidence, again and again]<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m still struggling so much over the little connectors, like [o], [ni], and [te\/de].  I still fail to see the pattern of when they are appropriate, but&#8230; hopefully I&#8217;ll get there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Duolingo gives me a chance to brag about it EVERY SINGLE DAY! (Well, every day I study, which is the same thing.) Also, if I haven&#8217;t mentioned this since switching from other languages to Japanese: Japanese is difficult for me! My reaction when the program shows me an exercise is: Oh, no! I have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2022\/01\/14\/language-still-studying\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Language: Still Studying&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}