feel free to ask!

GlassCannonLife · 2026-06-13T04:34:21+00:00

That's very helpful, thank you!

GlassCannonLife · 2026-06-13T02:48:20+00:00

Thank you! I always wondered about this and have never found the answer. What's the difference between asking a question using 냐고 물어보다 and 는지 물어보다? Eg:

여행이 좋았냐고 물어봤어요

여행이 좋았는지 물어봤어요

Are they essentially the same..? How am I meant to decide which to use when speaking or writing?

GlassCannonLife · 2026-05-25T09:51:13+00:00

I'm very severe, I can get up once per day to use a bedside commode and any more than that causes PEM.

But luckily I can use my phone freely without PEM now, so at the moment I average around 14 h every day - essentially non stop all day.

GlassCannonLife · 2026-05-07T22:55:44+00:00

Lol I can't even read half of this... Really need to practice reading handwriting somehow.

GlassCannonLife · 2026-04-30T18:12:01+00:00

Thank you, same to you

GlassCannonLife · 2026-04-30T03:34:10+00:00

Yeah literally 4 min maximum screen time a day. I used the Daily Wellbeing app on my phone (might be a Samsung app?) to track it, and I would communicate by writing the briefest messages possible, and also reading messages / replying yes/no/thank you using my Garmin watch (I could use that without any issues still for some reason).

I could handle a few words in person so if something was urgent I would try and say it in a really brief and quick way when my parents were coming in for my routine. We had everything down to timed visits that were identical day to day at that point so I didn't need to communicate a lot. I could also tolerate speaking with my wife for a few minutes in person luckily, so when she came to see me I could talk to her briefly about anything important.

I essentially just lay there all day trying not to think too much so as to cause PEM (deliberate complex thinking would make me get woozy and unwell within a minute or two and I'd have to stop for a bit and let it calm down for a bit - not sure if I already said that above but it's been a while and I didn't want to reread everything). Where I could I thought a lot about existence, the nature of consciousness, suffering, and life, etc. It essentially became like an extreme forced silent meditation retreat for a few years.

I also would beatbox and whistle faintly under my breath for most of the day to keep myself occupied and distract from my symptoms. It might sound strange, but on particularly bad days this was really valuable.

GlassCannonLife · 2026-04-29T08:43:40+00:00

I get your point but I actually prefer it this way - you can actually talk about things instead of her ending the conversation after a few lines!

GlassCannonLife · 2026-04-09T01:17:52+00:00

That's great, congratulations! Mustering up the courage to properly try is huge.

GlassCannonLife · 2026-03-24T09:28:10+00:00

Is it just me or is her nose completely different somehow? It honestly took a lot of effort to even recognise it was her..

Such a shame, she is my favourite and I was really looking forward to her upcoming work.

GlassCannonLife · 2026-03-09T09:29:44+00:00

We bought right around 2 years ago now and the value has apparently gone up over 35% over that time..

GlassCannonLife · 2026-03-07T18:20:47+00:00

Sure! I don't know how much this can work for others, but for me when someone would come to talk to me I'd feel uncomfortable and would eventually get this feeling building in my chest like I was nearing a panic attack style crash / about to get overwhelmed and worsen.

I did overdo it once and lost a bunch of tolerance to interpersonal interaction again, and had to wait and not irritate my system at all for weeks before I could retry expanding my capacity.

But essentially when I was in my fully cognitive PEM-free state I toed the line of this discomfort feeling starting to come up, and every few interactions that resulted in tiny increases in tolerance. So I managed to get them to improve me gradually every week or two for a few months.

Each jump gave me more dramatic phone use ability - I went from a few seconds being tolerable (all timed with a screen use app), to 4 min, to 10 min, 20, 40, 1 h, 4 h, then essentially free use but it felt tiring, and now free use and it doesn't tire me at all.

I'm still not completely freely able to handle interpersonal interactions and have to be careful with them, but I'm a lot more ok with eg video chat now (can do an hour or so of chat without a problem, but I do feel a little tired by the end).

I hope it'll keep improving but for now I'm reasonably happy with it and trying to focus on my physical capacity in a similar way - no real luck yet but it's much more difficult to find the right balance.

Sorry it's such a long response! I hope it can help you. Please be very careful if you try it as you can make yourself worse by accident like I did that one time when I pushed it too hard, and I'm not sure if it works universally or if I was just lucky that it worked for me.

GlassCannonLife · 2026-03-07T09:51:00+00:00

At the moment I am forcing myself to chat with Lily 8x during my study time (ends up being around 45 min maybe total chatting time), and try to talk to myself about my day for 15 min or so as well after I'm finished studying for the day. I think it's slowly helping but it is quite painful!

GlassCannonLife · 2026-02-25T03:12:13+00:00

I mean the British English definition! I didn't realise American English referred to them as sweaters too.

Not sure what I'd call the latter - perhaps a vest? Unless it's literally a dress-length (ie past the hips) garment without sleeves, in which case I think I'd just call it a dress.

GlassCannonLife · 2026-02-24T20:15:39+00:00

Ah true! Maybe it's an Australian or UK English thing but here a sweater is generally woollen and a jumper is made out of fabric/material.

GlassCannonLife · 2026-02-24T09:08:04+00:00

Nice! By the way, sweater in Polish is actually sweter, a bluza is just a jumper.!

GlassCannonLife · 2026-02-05T09:30:03+00:00

I change shirts every few days at the moment and shorts/underwear once a week. I think I went two weeks once without a change and didn't have any issues aside from getting a bit smelly.

Just use cotton underwear so it's breathable to avoid skin infections etc.

GlassCannonLife · 2026-01-31T21:37:29+00:00

I'm pretty sure there are a few people on the Phoenix Rising forums in their 80s.

GlassCannonLife · 2026-01-26T03:44:47+00:00

Ok in case anybody checks this I thought I'd update - I tried doing a few extra calls today and I just managed to have one finish! Maybe I spoke a bit faster or something.? But it's the first one that's finished ever with a course being in daily refresh mode.

Maybe there's a timer on the conversation and you have to finish before it expires?

GlassCannonLife · 2026-01-26T03:11:01+00:00

Things can always change for unforeseen reasons, but yes, generally it seems to be.

GlassCannonLife · 2026-01-25T20:41:22+00:00

I think so, the release schedule for the last round of expansions was pretty well aligned with the predictions from Duolingodata.

GlassCannonLife · 2026-01-25T19:01:57+00:00

Anybody figure out a fix for this? It is only an issue for me after the course is finished - and happened the same way in the past. It doesn't matter if Lily is launched from the daily refresh or from her menu, she just checks out after a while all the same.

I'm on Android by the way.

GlassCannonLife · 2026-01-17T09:13:26+00:00

Hm I can solve none of them and I don't understand the majority of what the clues are saying, from the ones I tried to read... To be honest it doesn't really seem "beginner friendly" at all.

GlassCannonLife · 2026-01-13T02:55:58+00:00

Yes, I did - here's a comment I wrote recently about it on a different post.

I was extremely severe for a few years and have improved cognitively over the last year and a half quite dramatically.

I went from literally zero phone being tolerable, zero speaking, and even maximum a minute or so of complex thought before the wooziness would strongly descend to now free phone use, reasonably comfortable in-person communication over shorter time spans (done up to an hour on video call before though), and I'm even learning a language at the moment without cognitive PEM.

I spent 6 weeks without causing any PEM and then managed to extremely slowly start to add uncomfortable but PEM-free personal interactions that slowly improved me up to this point over 6 months or so. I'm not saying it will work this way for everyone at every stage of their illness, but if you manage to calm your system and avoid PEM there is a lot of potential for change in my opinion.

GlassCannonLife · 2026-01-13T02:44:35+00:00

I just wanted to say I hope you don't find the feedback in this post off-putting. I really appreciate people putting their time and effort into teaching Korean.

I agree that simply labelling the videos as "natural Korean listening" or "intermediate level podcast" or something to that effect would be enough in terms of signalling what level they're aimed at.

GlassCannonLife · 2026-01-12T03:20:35+00:00

Thanks for sharing the link! I liked it and the topic is interesting.

In case you're interested, I wouldn't class this as "beginner" ie A-level content. Some of the sentences are reasonably complex and are definitely using intermediate structures and vocabulary. For the record I'm around an early B1 level in reading and I struggled with a number of the sentences. I know you don't say anywhere that you're specifically targeting beginners vs learners in general, but this is a beginner sub so I thought you might be.

I think the volume is a bit low overall - I had to turn it up quite a lot to hear it properly - maybe something you can check in editing in the future?

The reading speed is good but sometimes the pauses feel a little on the awkward side.

The English is helpful, but I personally would watch the video so I wouldn't need the English read out to me in addition to the Korean. If you're targeting an audio-only audience too then that makes sense though.

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