{"id":3238,"date":"2025-02-17T22:42:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T06:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2025-02-17T22:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T06:42:03","slug":"language-study-persistent-yet-also-lazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2025\/02\/17\/language-study-persistent-yet-also-lazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Study: Persistent, yet also lazy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"999\" height=\"999\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Duolingo-2025-days.jpg\" alt=\"collage of three Duolingo graphics indicating a 2,025 day lesson streak\" class=\"wp-image-3239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Duolingo-2025-days.jpg 999w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Duolingo-2025-days-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Duolingo-2025-days-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Duolingo-2025-days-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Duolingo-2025-days-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;ve been studying for TWO THOUSAND TWENTY FIVE DAYS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I am now doing this as lazily as possible: I&#8217;m in one of the lower-achievement leagues. And I&#8217;m comfy there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My katakana (Japanese alphabet for foreign words) is slowly improving&#8230;  But I&#8217;m studying so slowly that I&#8217;m forgetting kanji (more complex characters representing entire words) that I learned a year ago.  (Ooops.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#8217;ve been studying for TWO THOUSAND TWENTY FIVE DAYS. Yes, I am now doing this as lazily as possible: I&#8217;m in one of the lower-achievement leagues. And I&#8217;m comfy there. My katakana (Japanese alphabet for foreign words) is slowly improving&#8230; But I&#8217;m studying so slowly that I&#8217;m forgetting kanji (more complex characters representing entire &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2025\/02\/17\/language-study-persistent-yet-also-lazy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Language Study: Persistent, yet also lazy&#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-3238","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\/3238","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=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3242,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions\/3242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}