How's your language learning going this week?

I have to admit I've been incredibly lazy with language learning recently... I think I need another structured course to not let my progress fade.

I envy you guys who have the self discipline to long term self study.

I came across these a while back for a super intensive immersion program.
Middlesbury school
Latter-Day Saint Missionaries - religious organization
They give an idea how fast the brain can learn a language given the right environment.
- Thanks for the links! I'll have to check these out during my break today.
  Edit: I've been curious about the mormon missionaries in this context as well actually. The ones I've bumped into are always from US and I'm surprised everytime that they can speak the language of the country they are in.

You are doing amazing if English is your target language!

I studied 5/7 days, but I’ve got some friends visiting so that always makes it difficult to carve out time. Also, it’s almost impossible to find someone to practice speaking with so I don’t have a good feel for my conversational ability. I’ll continue reading for the time being, but the good news is that I’m able to understand more each day and I’m getting faster.

I have the same issue: lack of time lately. And having a real conversation is generally really hard and takes time, but I'm happy to hear that you are still sticking to it and seeing some progress!
It's all about persistance. Hope you can find someone to practice with at some point :)

Fell off due to a lack of mental energy this week, but going to do some today.

Mental breaks are good. Even better that you took one and still continue and get back into it after! Hope you are feeling more energetic this week :)

I took a week off because I was sick. Feeling rusty

Hope you feel better now!
- Thanks :D
  I'm better now yeah.

Just some things I started doing for about a week or so.
Went back to reading l'étranger. Bought the audio version of book. I split the audio into chapters. Loaded the book and audio and synced it in LingQ. Now, I'm reading it from that app/site.

I am reading and listening each chapter several times. 1st time extensively without any look up and the 2nd time with intensive study of every sentence that I don't understand, repeat as needed.

I am not sure if it is a good approach but I am just doing it this way so I can squeeze out as much learning out of each book because it is tiresome to prepare books for reading on LingQ. ( I have to edit audio, remove any music, split book by chapter, Adjust timing to sync text with audio perfectly, even trying to find a book where the audio and text matches 100% can be a challenge ).

Other than that, I am no longer transcribing texts using AI. I noticed that in AI transcription, there is too much hallucination and mistakes. Not good for beginners.

So, I am generally staying away from AI and use it with caution now. I'm going to stick with human audio and authentic text as much as possible, at least as a beginner.

Holy shit that's some real effort! Interested to see if this helps you learn better! I mean it could have some real benefit since course books have a lot of listening-to-audio-and-keeping-up-with-written-transcript exercises.
And yeah I was super interested in how AI might help since language models are specifically trained with languages, but gave up on that awhile ago.
Tried it in my native tongue and was surprised it would suggest an old racist word as a synonym when asking for synonyms..
- Yea, that is why I have to stick to one book for a while it took me half a day just to prepare that book. Although I think I can do it faster now, knowing all the tools process needed.
  Even after reading so many graded readers, when I went back to L'étranger, there were still a ton of unknown words. Was a little disappointed, although I do get the gist of what is written. Maybe those graded readers were a little too easy.
  AI was pretty good, but even a few mistakes were just too many mistakes for comfort, repeated sentences for no reason, and sometimes even transcribed whole sentences that the narrator didn't say at all.
  I think as a beginner, we should learn from material that we can trust to be close to 100% correct. Don't want to learn wrong spelling, grammar, vocabulary, etc. French have a lot of words that sound the same but spelt differently with silent letters. Example mange, manges, mangent all are pronounced the same.

really having a hard time with binary in-general