{"id":2324,"date":"2024-01-15T19:44:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T03:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2024-01-15T19:44:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T03:44:12","slug":"language-still-studying-mostly-german","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/01\/15\/language-still-studying-mostly-german\/","title":{"rendered":"Language: Still Studying (Mostly German)"},"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\/2024\/01\/Duolingo-1639VIP-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Duolingo language app graphic that reads, &quot;I'm on a 1639 day stream and a Streak Society VIP!&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-2325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Duolingo-1639VIP-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Duolingo-1639VIP-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Duolingo-1639VIP-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Duolingo-1639VIP-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Duolingo-1639VIP-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Duolingo-1639VIP.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Special graphic from earlier this week.  I am still rolling along, and the lessons get updated around me&#8230;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am ridiculous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I usually practice German, and will eventually choose my alternate language this year.  I should go back to Spanish, but I forget it instantly.  I want to return to Japanese, but I found my study notebook, and I don&#8217;t understand my own notes!  (GAAAAAHHHHH! [Scream that sounds similar in Japanese, actually.])<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google Translate has improved, but often uses less common words or is too literal.  I use it when translating discussions of new subjects, but have had feedback multiple times from native German speakers that it isn&#8217;t quite right, and they prefer my efforts.  But&#8230;  But&#8230;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am ridiculous. I usually practice German, and will eventually choose my alternate language this year. I should go back to Spanish, but I forget it instantly. I want to return to Japanese, but I found my study notebook, and I don&#8217;t understand my own notes! (GAAAAAHHHHH! [Scream that sounds similar in Japanese, actually.]) Google &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/01\/15\/language-still-studying-mostly-german\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Language: Still Studying (Mostly German)&#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-2324","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\/2324","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=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}