 It's 8.40 in the morning and I'm about to start my Anki review, so this morning I'm going to review Chinese, German, and what was it, Marvel language? Oh, Esperanto! I almost forgot about the most important one. So I've got to review those, but last night I was thinking about how I want to push my Chinese to the next level, because I do enjoy the way I'm doing it at the moment, but I'm always thinking about how can I improve the way I do things. And one thing I was thinking was potentially doing a HSK test. Now I'm assuming I'm somewhere around the level of HSK 3, maybe a little bit above, maybe below, I don't know, but potentially I could set myself up with doing a HSK test 3, finding out what I need to learn for that test, and go and doing that, and that could be a good way of just tracking progression, but at the same time I'm also kind of like, I don't like doing tests overall. In fact, if you look at my Esperanto studies, I've never taken an Esperanto test, and there was like a few years ago there was this big thing about, I think it was the European framework where they opened up to Esperanto and everyone was like, hey, if you speak Esperanto, go take the test to bump up the numbers of Esperanto speakers, etc. And people kept asking me to go do it, but I didn't want to do it because I just don't like doing tests in general. And I feel like if I go do it, I'm somehow going to fail it. I'm like, I'm going to overanalyze every single question on the test, and I'm going to answer incorrectly. And then I'm going to walk away feeling like a total fraud with imposter syndrome on the next level type of thing. So I just never did it. And that may sound a bit weird, but yeah, that's the truth of the matter. But at the same time, no one in the Chinese speaking community knows about me. So if I fail at a Chinese test, miserably, it doesn't really matter. Like, it's a different thing to fail at for me. But yeah, that's what I was thinking about. But first up, I'll probably do some research into that today. But I got to get these Anki decks out of the way. Oh, and one last thing. So one of you guys commented, I've actually got the comment in here. Oh, it's such a long username user GM to IY blah, blah, blah. They said like, they like doing Anki, but they end up getting like hundreds and hundreds of cards. And then it just becomes too much. I totally know what you're talking about. So with Anki in my Chinese deck, I've actually like, I've got 150 new cards that have created. So I'm like way ahead of schedule. I'm creating 30 to 40 cards a day. And most days I do like 30 review, like 30 new reviews. And then maybe if like, I'm feeling good that day, I'll check an extra 40 in there. But I've somehow ended up being like way ahead in card creation versus card absorption. And I've actually set my cap at 50 reviews of like current cards per day, which means I've actually got a massive backlog of reviews. But that doesn't bother me. Because the way I've set up my cards and I built my system around, especially recently around the whole AI revolution and making like the sound files and all that type of stuff, I actually kind of like I said, already know the words quite well by the time they go into the deck. Because I know a lot of people when they use Anki, they just like make a bunch of cards, but they don't prior study that stuff before it actually gets into the Anki. And then they rely on Anki to actually learn it. I could never do that. Like I tried, that's why I can't download decks. Because if I download a deck, I didn't create those decks. I have no prior absorption of those cards. And to me, it's just like, it's totally overwhelming. So I always suggest like if you're creating a card, you're putting it in your deck, make sure that before that card ends up in your deck, you've already like practiced it a good six times. And I don't just mean practice it as and say the same thing over and over six times on the spot. Like, I mean, you know, you've looked into the words of the sentence, you see how it works together. Like yesterday in my video where I looked up the differences between two words visually. And then I created a bunch of sentences to wrap around it. And so basically I actually ended up with six cards about the one particular word that include words that I previously studied. So whether I've got cards in my backlog a lot or not really doesn't matter. They're just there because maybe six months down the line, I need like a hint type of thing. And the card creation process, it's all, it's, it's actually almost kind of pointless, but it forces me to go through a process of learn a word, wrap that word in related sentences, create audio, listen to the audio, then create speaking like cards, practice those speaking cards. And then I put that all into Anki and then the Anki things just like an extra additional stuff. So I say Anki is, it's meant to be just like the holder of knowledge that you've already acquired in a way. Okay, so let's start this review. So I've got, as you can see, I've got quite a bit of Chinese to do. And then also Esperanto added in 15 extra Esperanto words yesterday. One last thing I want to mention is this is something that always hits me when I get like a lot of cards to review. I'll look at this and I'll be like, I really don't want to do like 80 plus because it's not really 80. It's like 50 review than 30 new, which is like 60 cards. And then you know, you're chucking that all on top. So it's like 140 cards just in my Chinese deck. And it's like, I really don't want to do it. And that happens sometimes. And the way I deal with it is I use a method I kind of stole from David Goggins, who's big in the fitness industry, where he says, you know, if you really don't feel like doing something, just trick your brain into it. So say to your brain, you know what, I'm only going to do five cards. So I'm just going to start to five cards and I'm tapping out I'm moving on. But what actually ends up happening is once you start your five cards, you then you get into the flow and your brain is like, you know what, we're here, let's just do this. And then you just go through the whole lot. So I'm going to quickly smash these out. Let's start with the, uh, Esperanto. So, whale ballendo. Passes 100 years. Depost Esperanto. Encontrucigis en chinio. So here I was practicing the accusative on China. Yep. Mi suruprizigis trovanta che ili malemis informigi peri miai excursoi. Excursoi. Excursoi. Excursoi. I, excuseoi. I don't know why I put an R in there. I guess I'm making that as wrong. Passes 100 years. Depost Esperanto. Encontrucigis en chinio. So again, I'm just going to go through this whole Esperanto deck. If I find anything interesting, I'll let you guys know. Okay. Easy one out of the way. That was the Esperanto. So now I'm going to do the Chinese speaking. According to this, I have about 100 postcards to review. So let's quickly go. So we've got, the first one is the bald man is sitting next to the river. So tuutou de nanren zuo zai hebian. Tuutou de nanren zuo zai hebian. Yep, cool. The container is gray. The light is far away from me. The man is holding his hat. Gotta be careful. I have this tendency in Esperanto also to get like halfway through a sentence where in like certain languages that actually is a word. Anyway, again, I'm just going to smash through these. Okay. So work is starting in about five minutes. So I'm just going to quickly fire up some food while I continue this study. Okay. So I'm going to grab some food out of the fridge. So let's do this. That dog is going away from me. Now, drugol liwa zokailo. Zol, yeah, is that one? Yeah, zokailo. Yeah, got it. Awesome. Okay. He's wearing jeans. Um, he's wearing jeans. It is daytime. Now it's daytime. Oh my god, my cat is here again. No, I'm not meeting you. Okay, so breakfast is ready. I've run out of time. I'm going to have to do the rest of this study during a break. Okay, so I've just finished my Chinese speaking. I now have remaining Chinese listen and German listen. What I'm thinking I'm going to do is I'm going to get the German listen out of the way. It's only 50 cards and I don't have too much of time in this break and I'm going to hit the Chinese listening probably at lunchtime and then I'll move straight into creating new cards because I always like to create new cards once I've reviewed everything. Now also in the last video in the comments, there was a little bit of discussion around Latin. See, you guys probably don't know this but a few years back, actually probably like six years back now, I actually spent a couple of months studying Latin from like this book where I forget the name of the book but I've still got the PDF. It's an amazing book. It basically uses a method similar to what I'm using now. However, I really want to find a text to speech system for Latin. Now, I know that sounds kind of crazy. Like why would you want to listen to Latin? Like Latin's not really a spoken language anymore. But I want to create my cards first as audio cards, get a passive understanding of Latin and then come back later and actually start like learning to speak Latin. Like the same as like how I'm doing with say German or Chinese type of thing. And for me, languages come alive when I can hear them spoken. And I know there's some good YouTubers who do Latin stuff because I've followed them and I've checked them out but I really want a text to speech system and I'm hoping one exists but I just couldn't find it. So if you guys know of one, please please drop it in the comments below because Latin will be the next language I'll be adding to my list at some stage in the future. Okay, so let's get this German out of the way, shall we? God, I gotta hear that again. So it's obviously the man something. I know it's like right there. Okay, no, don't. The man is being attacked. The man climbs on the cage. The hunter is standing next to the cage. Do something about it. There's a chair next to her bed. Everywhere is grass and rocks. It's in the kitchen. Brown eyes. 17. Why did I freeze on that? Okay, anyway, I'm gonna continue with this German and get this out of the way. Okay, so now we're down to the last big review of the day and that is Chinese. Listen, let's go. Do you want me to give your mom a phone call? Do you want me to give your mom a phone call? Do you want me to give your mom a call? So, he is an employee. He is a employee. Who is knocking at the door? Who is knocking at the door? I uploaded a video. I can't help him. I can't help her. So, I promised that I'd share some interesting things that I find along the way. So one of these things is in Chinese. So, you've got the word for tentacles, say of an octopus or a squid which is 铸 show or you could also say 铸 one anyway you've got this word and then you've got starfish now in English when we refer to the arms of the starfish we say the arms but in Chinese they say the tentacles of the starfish so when I discovered that I was like that's kind of cool I like it I guess they're not really arms either because they don't have fingers but like it was just kind of like left field random it it's just not something I would expect to be different okay sorry I'm on a roll right now here's another one okay so with crabs so crabs have claws in English um and the Chinese word well there's a few words again but one of the words is owl which is literally like the proper word for a claw primarily the big claw or whatever but then they've also got 铸 which translates as I guess claw but also tongs so they are the tongs you use in the kitchen which now that I know that every time I grab the tongs in the kitchen I'm like give me the claws 铸奶奶的健康现况如何 铸奶奶的健康现况如何 what is the state of your grandma's health 一些隔离是完全黑色的 um some clams are completely black 一些隔离完全是黑色的 一些隔离是完全黑色的 Can you describe what this fish looks like 你能描述一下这条鱼的外观吗 Done with the Chinese review that means all my Yankee reviews are now done except for like this random little bit about handwriting which is right here um I don't actually really learn how to write Chinese but I do learn how to write some characters simply so that I can identify them if they look very similar to another one okay so what's going to happen now is I've got to get back to work obviously um next time you see me will probably be lunch time when I will start adding some new Chinese cards to my deck it's lunch time which means it's sturdy turn okay so what we're going to do today is um we'll build a little bit on what we learned yesterday but also last night when I was like randomly walking along with the wife to the station um there's a couple of like things that I wanted to say that I just couldn't think of how to say them and one was like a super common like verb which is except so I don't know why I don't know that verb so I'm going to literally use that verb a lot today um and then before when I was with the cat in the kitchen I said why are you always wanting to buy me and I have this structure that I say a lot um like why something something always want stuff and I I believe I've been saying it right but I've never actually checked so I'm going to be doing that and also there is this okay bear with me for a second I'm going to find your picture of it mudskipper now mudskipper you probably have no idea what I'm talking about but it is this beautiful fish right here you see that guy this is called a mudskipper and it's a fish that can actually like hop across the land and into the mud and it's found in causeways and stuff and the reason I'm randomly bringing this up is because I was trying to tell a story to my father-in-law and it was about when I was a kid and I'd chase mudskippers and by God I did not know how to describe this animal so I'm going to learn its name okay so let's start with uh let's figure out if chap GPT even knows how to say mudskipper in Chinese and I am going to like take whatever it says with the like the largest grain of salt and I'm going to go look at what it suggests so I'm going to say hey how do I say a mudskipper as in the fish that can jump across mud um with its measure word I'm assuming its measure word is just tell like every other fish but we'll find out in a sec so it says so it says I am going to take whatever it says with the biggest grain of salt so this is what it's suggesting it's saying jure is like a like a small little creature or something like that or also it's using other context but need tell you so that's mud uh jump fish makes sense but that might be just a direct translation made by chap GPT so let's let's go like check this stuff yeah so I'm just going to go straight to images okay well um I'm seeing pictures that is the most epic picture ever oh my god okay this like mudskippers like singing okay uh so that looks like it's actually a thing let's let's just double check again this time we're going to go to wikipedia uh so we've got wikipedia here let's open this up yeah that's it that is it what's this here say though uh I'm just going to grab this I'm going to say can you break this down into its its parts so it says tongue tool you refers to mudskippers a type of fish know for their ability okay so hmm this is one of those hard ones because it's a pretty obscure word and like these types of things they can make mistakes I might text my wife so I've just sent this message to my wife now for those who don't know my wife is a chinese speaker but she hates teaching which is why I actually use AI to learn she's going to receive this and be like what is he why is he talking about mudskippers anyway um I actually burnt a good eight minutes just on this one topic now I'm going to focus on actual words that are going to be useful in like 99% of my chinese life but you know you've got to have fun you can't just be like well this is the 1000 most common word so I'm just going to learn this now you got to make it fun because otherwise you go insane there's too many words okay so I'm going to scrap this for now worry about mudskippers when I get a reply from the wife okay guys life responded she said I don't even know what that animal is why are you learning such useless words you learned something useful you idiot okay I'm gonna learn the word for platypus instead so mundane so everyday animal we finally cracked it boys so uh after much persistence my wife finally cracked and she told me that the word is etel tell tell you which means uh jump jump fish so I searched online and yeah that seems to be a common word for it so she did know she just didn't want to teach me anyway I'm about 30 cards created well 30 like of the cards I intend to create in however I'm only introduced like six new words so I've got to probably make more today to introduce more words because I like to aim for about eight new words so I've created the list of sentences which I'll now turn into audio cards in total there's 42 however I'm only actually introducing six new words which is not really that many it's less than normal but I am introducing a few new grammatical structures one grammatical structure is like both a and b so to do that in Chinese it's like d a yo b so that's like a structure I want to practice quite a bit and I've also got some words that I wanted to practice a little bit more in here this one's a little bit more scattered today because I just wanted to have some fun with it so I'm going to quickly pump out the audio cards and then the next time you guys will see me will probably be after work after the gym because I've got a gym tonight and then I'm going to do the German cards then hey guys so it's a 8 o 7 p.m. at night right now I've finished at the gym I've just had a shower and as you can see on this other screen over here I've actually started just already putting this video together I'm just going to put something else up on there because it's going to be weird just look at myself there you go I'm going to put some code there so we're going to focus on German and what I'm thinking of doing based on my German reviews is I want to review the the who what where why those types of words are a lot more and create a lot more senses around them because they're just they're similar to English but they're similar in the wrong ways so they're like they create a lot of false friends just there so first up I'm just going to close that mirror as well okay I feel a lot better about that I don't like people seeing inside my cupboard okay so also I got this book while I was over in uh China I went to the Esperanto Museum over there it's called the Concisa Historia della China Esperanto Movado it's the concise history of the Chinese Esperanto movement I wanted to show you this because in a video coming up I plan to actually show you guys how I study at a much high level in Esperanto because someone actually asked about that in the comments today for my previous video so just letting you know that's going to come but it's not going to come in this video right now so we're going to do German well you know what we're going to do we're going to open up our good old notepad like we do notepad is the most powerful tool in existence and I'm going to open up a new chat with chat gbt I guess I should probably rotate this camera so you can see my screen hey yeah that'd be smart there we go look at that and maybe hide those drinks so I don't look like some type of weird alcoholic okay so I want to do some of the who I wear when what words so first up I don't know the word for like um brother and sister in German fully enough so I'm just going to say uh how do you say uh the brother the reason uh in German the reason I always say the in front of nouns is because I want to learn uh the dir das you know those actual articles along with the word itself so it just says der Buddha I guess that's how it's pronounced my pronunciation in German is shocking at the moment so the brother and we're going to do the same thing for how how do you say the sister it's actually quite interesting that I haven't learned these like really basic words when I know other things like you know lawyer and even nurse and plumber and words like that because for some reason at those moments I wanted to learn those words but right now I'm just like hey you know what I want to learn these words so we're gonna just start making our list and going through this and you guys get the idea about how this pretty much works so I'm going to disappear for a bit build out my deck and you'll see me in a bit okay guys so I've just created a I think it's actually I wrote down how much it is I've created 39 new sentences for German and I've got a total of nine new words I didn't do anything fancy today I just kind of stuck with like basic stuff that I should know but I haven't learned so like family relations and you know general introductions and stuff like that stuff I should realistically know like long ago but I just I always jump into crazy stuff learning about things that I've really not needed at that stage in my in my journey I guess but yeah today I just felt like just doing the normal stuff which is cool because I need it so I'm going to make the audio cards now and then we'll wrap up with one last spiel on something so I've just finished with my German study and German is such a perplexing language mainly because I'm mainly because of the pronouns at the moment so you've got the pronoun z which means she oh my god and the pronoun yeah which means he and that's in like in the subject position but then when it goes what's going on I've now got the I got the cat now coming at me okay guys I'm gonna have to cut this video short I've got cats I've got food I've got I'll talk to you guys tomorrow