Going Full Retard

Picked up the list from https://hsk.academy/en/hsk-3-vocabulary-list . Had to wish a friend a happy birthday. As such, I will be doing a Part 2 for this list even if I may have been able to go through it in one go. ... What? Most beautiful woman in the world, I lost contact for a while, and then she ends up married with the cutest kids. As such, she's still the most beautiful woman in the world to me since the lady from Japan hasn't reunited and completed the marrying process. ... The wife is automatically the most beautiful woman in the world. Until then, there's the one that I learned the lesson of "ask her to marry you as soon as possible" yet... I almost lost that chance with the lady from Japan, if not for God allowing people to be stupid and mistake the common cold (COVID-19, had we done our mathematics courses and seen that ALL viruses, when unmitigated, show the spread rate which spooked people in the news of "hundredfold increase") for the worst pathogen ever to exist and then shut the world down. ... However, while I asked the lady from Japan the important question... She's still in Cloud 9, refusing to come down, and like LADY THE HELL YOU THINK YOU DOING. ... She's in heaven and I wouldn't come down to earth, either. At least it's my friend's birthday. Angels do, eventually, come to earth; even if they have rough lives, too. Happy birthday. :)

Picked up the list from https://hsk.academy/en/hsk-3-vocabulary-list . Okay, so this one should have a better birthday message. lol. The silly reminiscing and what not is over with and, ya know... Just want to make sure my friend remembers she is special and loved. However, she also has two bundles of joy to remind her of that, now, so... Just doing my best to try to come up with a good message hahaha. :) She was the first example of an angel feeling that earth is okay to live on, even if life could become rough. Hope she has an amazing day and looks forward to the upcoming year! It is a dragon year, after all, and my Chinese Zodiac is... Dragon. :) Happy birthday!

Picked up the list from https://hsk.academy/en/hsk-6-vocabulary-list . Yay! I made it to the end! ... Feeling a little better about my Chinese pronunciation but, hey, whatever lol. Amusingly, I went from HSK 2 straight into HSK 6 since, if there's a longer list, do the longer one first. As such, it should be easier on me to go back to HSKs 3, 4, and 5. Not sure when that will be, since the Korean vocabulary sheets should take precedence given that I am currently in Korea but, hey, we shall see! Probably going to make more effort on Korean while, at the same time, filling out the HSK 3, 4, and 5; however, maybe I won't rush through the HSK as fast as I did for HSK 6 given that I didn't want to have a long break in the middle of this list. Regardless, the experience was nice given that it was a lot of Chinese practice that I hadn't done in the past. lol. Maybe if I end up back in Taiwan, it will be easier for me to pick up Taiwanese. Dunno. The future is the future. And I'm still waiting on "silly butt" to reunite with me.

Picked up the list from https://hsk.academy/en/hsk-6-vocabulary-list . Well, almost getting to the end! Next section is the "z" sounds, which for some reason is the ending but perhaps that is proper sorting per Mandarin Chinese. Dunno, lol. Not much added commentary, just wanted to get in and make a dent on HSK 6 lol. Perhaps there's only one last part! We shall see!

Picked up the list from https://hsk.academy/en/hsk-6-vocabulary-list . Maybe I'll have these done by tonight lol. The length of the HSK 6 list is like if you combined 3, 4, and 5, it seems. After I finish HSK 6, I am going back to HSK 3 and just going up the normal way. lol. Still got the "y" and "z" as well as definitely the "zh" consonants ahead, sure, but... As the idiom I ended up on, "steady progress incrementally". lol.

I found this list at Tammy Korean and you can find it here: https://learning-korean.com/pdf/ . I'd like to slow walk the first sheet, since it has phrases for me to do; as such, went to this sheet which is all just vocabulary words. Was fun getting into the rhythm and like, if I end up doing all of these sheets... I'm going to have to practice actually thinking in Korean and, like, uh... That seems difficult but is kind of the end result of all this practice, anyways, lol. Maybe I'll actually finally get a real Korean conversation in, by the time I leave Korea. lol. ... This time. XD

I'm reading off the list that I got here, https://keytokorean.com/grammar-blog/beginner/full-beginner-class-vocabulary-list/ , as well as adding my commentary along the way. Been here in Korea a few days. While I got into the commentary while doing some decent seeming practice, it was mainly focused on how weird the Nigerian prince thing was for the first week of me uploading to this channel. lol. Still, whatever regarding the current issue on my mind. ... I think I'll delay Part 7, maybe make a Part 8 for this sheet, too. Mainly, seems the other vocab sheets that I have do not have phrases, like this one, and as such I would like to save some phrases to record for after a lot of vocab. It is due to that consideration which may make for a Part 7 AND 8 instead of just breezing through the last portion of this particular first sheet. ... If someone is looking at the playlist, they may be surprised that these may be the most latest videos compared to what comes later. Whatever, lol; it's just content and, so, whatever.

Picked up the list from https://hsk.academy/en/hsk-6-vocabulary-list . Nothing really new on the commentary front, lol, given that I am doing these videos in quick succession (from Korean to Chinese, back to Korean and then Chinese again). The most important thing was near the end when I mentioned how I was using my finger for high, rising, dipping, and falling tones. If my finger wasn't in the right place, then I would stop pronouncing the next character. ... Kinda seemed to help and, well, you can be the judge. lol

Picked up the list from https://hsk.academy/en/hsk-6-vocabulary-list . Meh, picked this up for a bit and I think I've been able to get the tones down a bit better this time. Not sure wtf is going on around me while having the crazy Japanese lady blocked but, meh, I guess it's just whatever. Getting a sense that she has spies trying to make me think weird shit. Ugh. Why can't she just be normal? Been two years of this damn crap. I wish I picked up a hot Taiwanese lady and just let the crazy lady do her thing but far away from me. Sheesh. She can't actually be crazy, since why would I have known her for ten years at this point? Why must she pretend to be crazy and then double down on it? Ugh. Ended on "ran" and I wish I had ran away...

Picked up the list from https://hsk.academy/en/hsk-6-vocabulary-list . Okay, learned possibly that while the throat is, indeed, used to make the tones of (atleast) Mandarin Chinese... There is a requirement, phonetically, of reseting the throat before going to the next morpheme/phoneme. As such, that is likely why I am correctly hearing myself doing tones improperly: the mechanisms are right yet I am not reseting my throat such that the tones come out wrong to my ears. If I can practice reseting my throat before moving onto the next phoneme/morpheme, then I should be better at my tones and, as a result, I won't be thinking "I am messing these up so badly". lol. A nice thing about going for practice of a higher difficult than one is used to: while the pronunciation is not really the problem, the problem is the continuous pronouncing of the same sounds over and over again due to the length of the list in such a manner that I am encountering new problems which I would not have encountered had I not been working with the longer list from the highest difficult level. Fun stuff! Not sure if my Chinese is truly improving in any manner BUT... I think if I end up in a Chinese speaking environment again, then I'll be more adaptable to speaking properly (or, at least, be understood with less difficulty placed onto my unfortunate listeners).

Picked up the list from https://hsk.academy/en/hsk-6-vocabulary-list . Well, no cats on roofs before this video. lol. Felt a bit self-conscious while doing the tones and, like, I am pretty sure that I am messing them up. I dunno. Still, it seems like I made it through a bunch of these but, like, it's okay if the longest one has the most "parts" videos given to it lol... Bit by bit, the horse gets eaten.

I'm reading off the list that I got here, https://keytokorean.com/grammar-blog/beginner/full-beginner-class-vocabulary-list/ , as well as adding my commentary along the way. Been here in Korea a day and it's nice being better versed in Hangeul but that was from my time in 2020 that really solidified things haha. Made up for the 50 words and phrases that I skipped from the last part, lol. Still hilarious that before starting this one, I had went outside to see the cats taking over the roofs of the buildings. XD. Wherever I go, it seems that the place destablizes and the cats take over, literally. How many more cats are going to be climbing the damn roofs around here, lol. I thought I had to watch out for pigeons pooping on me but, nope, seems like cats clawing me is what I need to fear from above. LMAO

I'm reading off the list that I got here, https://keytokorean.com/grammar-blog/beginner/full-beginner-class-vocabulary-list/ , as well as adding my commentary along the way. Been here in Korea a day and it's nice being better versed in Hangeul but that was from my time in 2020 that really solidified things haha. Cut things a bit short so that the probable other half can stop being stupid but, like, this is the only form of seeing me that she can get for the time being (do you see it? the "time being"?) given that she had to piss me off especially hard and I didn't want to make myself open for random ladies to swoop me up for a spontaneous date. Instead, I just blocked her and rooted everything of hers out of my life, yet again, since she didn't learn the previous times that I did it. Ugh. Why is this the one that I'm stuck with? I don't think anyone can be as crazy as this one.

Alright, I do like the first sheet but I want to just do straight up vocabulary. I found this list at Tammy Korean and you can find it here: https://learning-korean.com/pdf/ . Figured I would get in 400 more vocab tonight, from 881 to 1200. Anyways, Not sure if that's the end for tonight or if I'll try to manage the rest of the 1671. Looks like I should have stopped at 1280 instead but, well, whatever. It's practice, anyways.

Alright, I do like the first sheet but I want to just do straight up vocabulary. I found this list at Tammy Korean and you can find it here: https://learning-korean.com/pdf/ . Was able to finish this decently fast. Probably the last video to be recorded for tonight. Anyways, it's fun to finally practice Korean. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be good enough to use it this time in Korea but, hey, it should help me for my next time in Korea. Hopefully there is a next time but, hey, there's still over a week left on this trip so... We shall see! ... but also, as the commentary likely alludes, I would rather just not talk to anyone right now.

Alright, I do like the first sheet but I want to just do straight up vocabulary. I found this list at Tammy Korean and you can find it here: https://learning-korean.com/pdf/ . Well, went ahead and did 440 vocab, this time, from 401 to 881. There's some commentary but, thankfully, no one pays attention to these videos except for the lady from Japan who pissed me off the other day and pissed me off again. Good for her. Sayounara.

Alright, I do like the first sheet but I want to just do straight up vocabulary. I found this list at Tammy Korean and you can find it here: https://learning-korean.com/pdf/ . Just vocab went pretty well, got through the first 400 words and there was some minor commentary. lol. ... Total of 1671 words in this list so, perhaps, it will be a three-part series for this particular sheet.

Picked up the list from https://hsk.academy/en/hsk-6-vocabulary-list . So I looked at the print page for these HSK vocabulary lists and this one is 250, #5 is 130, #4 about 80, and #3 is like 60 pages. Brief commentary popped up regarding Taiwan, heh. Anyways, I started at fa and ended at hui. My voice is going out, it seems, trying to do tones. XD. Anyways, a brief break and then I'll probably come back and try to do more HSK 6; not sure, maybe I should go back to Korean or perhaps get set up for some Russian. Feeling cute, idk lol.

Been using the list at http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/ for over a decade, now. While I am not completely sure of the kanji used in some grammatical points, I tried to do my best on all of them hahaha. Regardless, it's kinda silly to just go off of this but, if you have an explainer like what I think Tanos has on the website, then you can refresh that way. However, while I have the conversation books regarding the grammar, I don't presently have access to them and, as such, will just simply read the lists off. Went through all, in descending "difficulty" regarding the JLPT levels.

Picked up the list from https://hsk.academy/en/hsk-6-vocabulary-list . I thought I would just push through until the end but like, holy crap my tones and everything seem off. Finished this "part 1" at the beginning of "fa" so... Yeah... Still, it was nice to have gotten through at least to this far, even if I definitely need a lot more study and learning before I actually would be at the level to say these words properly. Regardless, it's nice to at least attempt it such that the stupid brain of mine can prepare itself for actually learning in the future. :)

Been using the list at http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/ for over a decade, now. Just reading off the hiragana so you can focus on the kanji to the left, and the English to the right. So this is the sixth and final part of reading of JLPT N1 Vocabulary; yay! Of course, I wish there was more since that would be already compiled practice sheets to help me but, also, it already is quite a lot of information. At the end, I show more of the Tanos' JLPT Resources like Grammar sheets and Kanji sheets. Not sure how I'll do the Kanji but, perhaps, I'll use a PDF combining tool to combine the Grammar sheets into one (makes recording easier when I don't have to constantly switch between windows in OBS) for the purpose of a JLPT Grammar recording. Probably, if I do that, then I'll start with JLPT N1 and go down into N5 given that there will be more at the beginning and, if I finish the hardest stuff first, then the easiest stuff comes later. ... However, when you are dealing with grammatical points in the format given, it isn't so much "harder" but just more items. ... I dunno.

I'm reading off the list that I got here, https://keytokorean.com/grammar-blog/beginner/full-beginner-class-vocabulary-list/ , as well as adding my commentary along the way. Been here in Korea a day and it's nice being better versed in Hangeul but that was from my time in 2020 that really solidified things haha. My probable other half is definitely happy that there wasn't any random ladies to swoop me up for a walking date hahaha. Went, this time, for 100 vocab with 100 phrases from this sheet I am using. Went pretty good but, sheesh, I get tired at the end. A kind of way to know that I'm learning, I guess, given the input of new data lol. Kinda like when babies have a lot of new input, they have to sleep.

I'm reading off the list that I got here, https://keytokorean.com/grammar-blog/beginner/full-beginner-class-vocabulary-list/ , as well as adding my commentary along the way. Been here in Korea a day and it's nice being better versed in Hangeul but that was from my time in 2020 that really solidified things haha. Had to get sleep after the last one, then a surprise walking date with a super cute Korean gal, and then trying to understand wtf happened since that was random but at least she paid for the date (I would have but it was hilarious seeing her chuck her credit card into the money slot... And so I was just being amused and didn't know how to politely just say, "how about I pay for things [since you are apparently too in love with me to think straight]?"... I hope to see her again. But I am going to get away with not knowing how to say "how about I pay for things?" for as long as they try to pay first. Why would I stop them? It's cute to watch them do what they do).

Been using the list at http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/ for over a decade, now. Just reading off the hiragana so you can focus on the kanji to the left, and the English to the right. So unlike the last video, this is the actual part 5 lol. Whatever, got into the recording and read of vocabulary until page 160. The ending was a perfect Japanese phrase concerning the off-hand commentary about this morning regarding someone other than the beautiful lady that went on a walking date last night with me in Korea.

Been using the list at http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/ for over a decade, now. Just read off the hiragana so you can focus on the kanji to the left, and the English to the right. lol, I thought I left off on part 5 of the N1 vocabulary. XD anyways, a bit tired so while I got to page 131... Probably going to pass out while uploading this lol.