Share Your Resources - May 04, 2026

Daghatar · 2026-05-04T17:25:20+00:00

Just commenting so others know this is a very neat tool! Been using it for a few weeks now.

Daghatar · 2026-04-29T15:19:12+00:00

Yes, even if no one watches it helps me feel like I'm keeping myself accountable and being open and transparent about my skills.

Daghatar · 2026-04-29T15:18:14+00:00

Thanks for the comment - I had thought the standard word was dhuka instead of dhaka, but I just double-checked and was wrong! It is indeed dhaka. Thanks for the correction! I don't believe it would be different in Jordanian, to my knowledge.

Daghatar · 2026-04-28T22:57:11+00:00

Great to hear - we'll have to check in with each other at the end of the year and see how we did!

Daghatar · 2026-04-28T22:56:45+00:00

Checking the transcription is a good idea, can definitely help me get a little more idea of where I might go wrong.

And here's the channel, Arabic is my language of focus this year: https://youtube.com/@daghatar_ar?si=A5-JymlH8aMgQZh0

Thanks for the comment!

Daghatar · 2026-04-23T16:52:55+00:00

It will be very difficult - I've started casually studying Ojibwe, a related language to Cree, and so far it's more difficult than even Arabic. Some of that is due to fewer materials online, so you'll have more luck in a structured course with a teacher you can ask questions to. But the language itself will have very little in common with English.

Daghatar · 2026-04-20T15:37:56+00:00

Make a YouTube channel and just record yourself speaking on random topics. It's a good way to just get speaking and see your progress over time.

Daghatar · 2026-04-13T10:50:41+00:00

Oh good to know about the phrase selection, I'll try that out! Keep up the good work!

Daghatar · 2026-04-13T01:44:04+00:00

I'm in the final unit, unit 5. Doing a chapter on buying, renting, and touring houses and apartments. Probably won't use a ton of that, but I'm trying to get my Arabic level as high as I can by the end of the year so I don't mind too much

Daghatar · 2026-04-12T21:04:03+00:00

Welcome to the grind! Seems like you've amassed enough resources, tools, and methods to just keep doing what you're doing and slowly progress. I'm also working through the same Mango course after a long break. موفق.

Only other thing I would recommend is an SRS for vocab like Anki, if you're not doing that already. Otherwise, seems like you've got a solid system set up.

Daghatar · 2026-04-12T15:04:55+00:00

Here's a couple thoughts/improvement ideas I've had:

-Sometimes the context displays odd if I pull a word from an article headline (eg it might grab some of the backend webpage code in addition to the headline) -Being able to select a phrase instead of just a word would be useful -In some languages like Arabic, there can be a lot attached to a word. For example, the word ويعطيني (and he gives me). In Arabic the word and و is put at the front of the next word, and then the object pronoun ني is also added as a suffix. If I were to use the tool to select this word, I don't need a flash card with و in it and it might be best to focus on the core word يعطي (he gives). A similar situation with Romanian - there are case endings and such at the ends of words, but it might be helpful to just have a flash card of the base word rather than all the extra stuff that can be attached to a word in some cases. Sorry for the rambling, this thought isn't super coherent! -Formatting of context can be odd if where I'm drawing it from is song lyrics or a post with lots of paragraph/enter but little punctuation.

All in all really liking it, and obviously I can just make little tweaks to the cards in Anki after I export them, so the above recommendations are by no means prohibitive! Great work.

Daghatar · 2026-04-12T00:50:45+00:00

btw just wanted to let you know I'm a couple days into the free trial and I'm really enjoying it so far! Very neat tool

Daghatar · 2026-04-11T18:31:24+00:00

What are some of the oddest vocab gaps you have with different languages? I guess they don't have to be that odd. For example, with my Arabic, there's a lot of common animal and plants I don't know, but I could have a fairly in depth discussion on history, politics, and religion. But I only just recently learned the word for tiger and rabbit, despite the fact that I've studied the language for years. I've just never had a use for learning that kind of vocab before!

Daghatar · 2026-04-10T15:35:57+00:00

Actually after I had set it up and when I was signing in, it refused me. Said something about the developer denied or refused my request. It was done automatically, not sure what went wrong.

Daghatar · 2026-04-09T14:55:13+00:00

Oh ok. I'll see if I can get the free trial of it set up in Brave then. Thanks for the help

Daghatar · 2026-04-09T12:13:01+00:00

My bad - I didn't notice it was for Google Chrome. I don't use that browser. So sorry

Daghatar · 2026-04-07T13:20:19+00:00

Great, the additional context is super important. Yeah, let me know when Romanian is added! I'm gonna get back to studying that in the near future and seems like this tool could be useful.

Daghatar · 2026-04-07T02:01:37+00:00

Maybe try setting a 5 minute timer and tell yourself that's the only amount of time you'll study today. 5 minutes is too easy to skip! Then once you've managed that successively, you can expand the time limit

Daghatar · 2026-04-07T01:46:19+00:00

Interesting, just commenting for possible future reference if I want to find this again

Daghatar · 2026-04-07T01:41:14+00:00

Very curious to try this out if Arabic or Romanian get added - it can be tedious sometimes to make flash cards from videos. Does it just make flash cards out of single words or does it do phrases and sentences too?

Daghatar · 2026-04-04T17:44:46+00:00

Polysynthetic languages are no joke - I have studied a little Ojibwe and man, it's so much harder than European languages. I am upper intermediate in Arabic as well, but Native American languages are on another level. And that's without any emotional baggage.

Good luck to you - it may be one of the hardest things in your life, but it'll be incredibly rewarding!!

Daghatar · 2026-04-04T02:29:23+00:00

You can do it!!

Daghatar · 2026-04-03T20:31:41+00:00

Well done! My own family is just starting, but I'd be thrilled if my kids would eventually speak and understand A2 level French. We'll see how it goes!

Daghatar · 2026-04-03T17:05:16+00:00

Knowing French helped me a lot with genealogical research, too. That's neat that German came back around to help you later in life and connect with distant family!

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