Hey guys! So ik there are a few posts abt this but wanted any thoughts??
This might be too long lol but tl;dr is I’m trying to learn three languages and unsure when to start italki
I’m (very aspirationally) trying to learn Greek, Italian, and Spanish rn.
I learned Spanish 6th grade until 11th then a semester in undergrad—it’s at least A2, I can read pretty well (working through bill Gates’s “cómo evitar un desastre climático” rn, i have to look up some more technical words and some basic words I don’t remember but able to get the gist) but my listening is pretty bad; also doing language transfer for it
I took Greek for two years in college but I was so dumb and didn’t pay attention 🥲 almost done w language transfer and feel p good abt grammar?? My biggest weakness rn is vocab, which I’m using Memrise for
My Italian is def the worst, I just started learning less than a year ago and I did language transfer but it’s just intro so there wasn’t a ton of grammar stuff 🥲
I’m kinda trying to learn everything through Spanish—I have a spreadsheet translating Spanish words into Greek and Italian, and my Anki deck is gonna be Spanish to those two
All in all my biggest weaknesses are listening and vocab, and I’m wondering if I should start doing italki this summer? I’m in grad school so this summer I’m just interning; my goal is to finish the summer where I can watch videos/listen to podcasts etc to an enjoyable, not discouraging extent (even at a slower speed) and perhaps read easier things to an enjoyable extent—I don’t know if it would be better to wait for italki until the fall/later? I would possibly do an hour each week in each (or 30 min twice a week)
Also any other comments/thoughts/tips would be amazing!
I have books for learners in Greek and Italian, and a ton of workbooks in all three; I also plan on working my way through il metodo natura
OH also I have social anxiety 😅 I had to do things like this in I think college for Spanish and I was so bad and I hated it 🥲 but my anxiety has improved and I’m kinda excited now to do it if that means anything
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