#progress or not

[redix19]

Progress or not?

I decided to pump up my anatomy in drawing

[rigelmejo]

1 so all of the 2ha novels are on Ebay in korean and i’m desperately jealous i cannot read korean. if you can read korean, and want the very lovely korean cover versions of Dumb Husky and His White Cat Shizun. They’re out there and easy to get. i am still trying to find the traditional chinese print version of 2ha and... i know they sold it within the last 2 years. and i still can’t find it...

2 regarding the last post i can think of multiple arguments ive ran into on forums (particularly chinese learning forums and on the topic of ‘reading study methods’ since that’s what i delve into the most specifically, but trust me that argument type can be found in a lot of language forums broadly).

like. i like to research study methods before i do them. because i like to have an idea of things to try, progress expected, what things the particular study method helps you improve in, what progress other people saw by doing what specifically etc. so of course when i was preparing to start reading in chinese (after a couple graded readers), and looking up what other people did in preparation to start reading webnovels specifically. and their method of reading.

wow are there arguments. wow. there were some people in forums insisting you needed to learn 3000-5000 hanzi before you started reading (for reference i learned about 1000 then could approach reading with a click-dictionary so yes more hanzi helps but its not a strictly necessary requirement), some people insisting even after HSK 6 was completely studied and mastered you would likely need a dictionary for a while before being able to read extensively without one (I have mixed opinions but ultimately this statement wasn’t true for me in retrospect - I did need a dictionary for a couple years when reading before extensive reading was possible, and my tolerance for ambiguity when extensive reading may be lower than some other peoples, but i certainly did not master all the HSK 6 words beforehand - i learned 2000 common words, HSK 4 stuff ‘vaguely’, then went right to reading, so again mastering HSK 6 beforehand is not a strictly necessary requirement). i saw some people suggest a route of reading several progressively harder graded readers before venturing into webnovels (which to be honest is solid advice if you would like a Lower Difficulty Curve and gradual consistent success motivates, but also i think a person who’s more tolerant of difficulty can break into webnovels faster... i started webnovels before i could tolerate reading my 2000 hanzi graded reader just cause i found the reader more dull/less easy to focus my energy on and keep reliably studying versus webnovels that felt way harder to comprehend but maintained my attention). 

in contrast i saw other people recommend jumping RIGHT into only reading material you find personally compelling (which does work... but u need a high tolerance for difficulty with the high amount of unknown words and work you need to do, which is why i did ultimately go with some graded readers and some easier webnovels before my Target Goal Novels which i knew were way too hard for me to not give up on). some people argued about whether you needed 5000 words, 5000 hanzi and 10,000 words, 30,000 words etc learned fully BEFORE being able to read. others argued much smaller amounts (i saw one person argue specifically they studied 2000 common words then went immediately to regular webnovel reading with a dictionary - a brutal difficulty i’d imagine but hey it Worked for them). i read of one specific person who literally learned FROM scratch by reading with a click-dictionary. so they had a chinese webnovel, and literally just clicked every unknown word for a definition, and KEPT reading for years, and eventually picked up more words (one of THE most brutally difficult ways i can think to learn to read chinese but hey it WORKED for them). 

so like... from the people’s study plans I’ve seen, a person could actually succeed at learning to read whether they prepare a lot ahead of time, do a gradual graded materials approach, or if they literally just dive right into trying to read and looking up word by word. what ultimately determines if the method will work for you? if you can tolerate doing it, and get yourself to KEEP studying, and make progress on a timeline you find bearable. The person who memorized 5000 hanzi before they started reading? Maybe they would have Given up trying to read in frustration if they’d started reading when i did and kept running into so many unknown hanzi. Whereas if I had been required to memorize 5000 hanzi prior to starting reading, i would have become so frustrated (because im bad at remembering things out of context) that i would have probably given up trying to learn to read before i ever got to the actual reading part. The person who learned by just brute force reading with a dictionary? WAY more difficult than I can imagine being able to do personally (I need some level of basic comprehension before factoring in dictionary use or I give up), but it was the MOST engaging study method for them so they KEPT doing it and it worked (maybe they learn best by just Doing). So yeah, way back before i started trying to read webnovels, i looked up how learners started reading webnovels. And there were so many arguments to be found about Needing to do it this way and not the other way, and so many ways that actually would work for the right person and just not another.

[adam-the-horse]

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[zimayas-arts]

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[angeliciously--me]

Seriously, why am I even doing all this ?

My body takes forever to change. In 2 months I lost like 1 kg or something.... but I go to the gym at least 3 times a week and eat healthy 80% of the time. 

But I don't fucking see any change.

I'm wondering why I'm even doing all this.

Why do I get frustrated for not being able to eat whatever I want to eat, just becaue I want to look like my "dream body" knowing That I'll probably NEVER reach this fucking goal ? 

I'm still fat. 

I still have those huge legs

I still have this big and fat belly

I sincerely thought that I would have been to reach my goal in august... i don't even know if I will lose any more pounds 

All this weight loss shit is getting on my nerves, making me cry and I'm not sure if that's worth it 

I'm not like all these fitblrs who lose 5kg each month 

Mine is slow as fuck and I'm just ... like

I want to quit. 

But If I do... I'll probably gain all this fat back.

All I have to do is to keep on doing something knowing that this is just useless ?

Thats the feeling I hate the MOST in life