Writing down unkown words and searching them on a paper dictionary was how I studied vocabulary in the past, so I see what you mean. I think its gonna be very time consuming and distracting for me so I might not use that strategy.🫤 Thank for sharing your experience and your advice, if I start writing the words down I might let you know :)

Yeah, eventually thats what I decided to do, finding a balance :)

Thank you for your optimism and your suggestions😊

Yo Greek (native), English and some German (B1 level). (Might learn Spanish or Portuguese too :) )

Ooo thank you for this huge text-wall! I had a similar experience with you too, using social media and doing casual usage of my devices (which almost all use english) was easy, but once I tried english books things got hard😅

After reading all those replies here and doing some thought of my own, I have decided to give some more focus on the flow and search words a bit less frequently (also trying to rehearse those words before I start reading again next time). I also think that I might have fewer unkown words on this book :)

My main issue now seems to be that I get disctracted easily and I want to do many things during summer, so I get a bit of choice paralysis, but I think I might figure these out myself.

Thank you for your time writing all this, it’s nice to see people writing big texts (with proper structure too).😊

Aw rip

From a quick video I saw, they seem similar indeed, but I haven’t played Thrive enough. I have only made it to a single-cell prokaryotic organism, lol (which is basically very close to the beginning of the game).

Simutrans

Can I finally create a city with proper public transportation, full of trams???😳

Wait, there’s opentdd, another similar game👀

Could we have a raminnazer community somewhere? Would be an interesting one :)

Is this something like counterstrike/tf2? Seems interesting

Edit: I see there are Assault Cube, Assault Cube reloaded, Xonotic etc. Didnt know there were so manu

Mindustry, SuperTuxKart and Thrive probably

Yeah, I might buy an eink reader one day, they seem useful (at least if I find one I can freely modify its software?). Especially because I don’t have much physical space to store books.

I’m in the beginning of the second book, so not much to comment about it, but I liked the first one, lots of action and nice characters/world :)

Good luck with the french books😄

Is there any way you can save the words you’ve looked up?

Yes, aard2 has both history and bookmarks (though both limited to 100 most recent words), so I might just start revising them when I stop reading for the day.

Also thanks for your kind words :)😊

Ohh, that’s kinda reassuring to hear

I actually started by reading pirated digital literature books on my phone and my tablet ~2 years ago, but I eventually switched to paper books about a year ago. I think I disliked the fact that I had to stare at a screen to read, because I’m already a lot of time on my phone and after a point it causes discomfort.

Fun fact, reading was what helped me reduce my reddit time. I swapped the shortcut of infinity (reddit) app with Librera FD (document reader) on my screen and it really worked somehow. Some times I even opened the reader by mistake due to muscle memory, lol. Soon enough though, the api changes came and got kinda hooked again, on Lemmy this time. At least it’s for a kinda good cause.🤷

Haha indeed, on Greek books it goes very smoothly, but on any other language I start and stop all the time

Oh thank you, I guess I should find some balance then between ignoring and searching up words.

Also tnx about the Anki/flashcards suggestion, might look into it in the future.

https://lemmy.ml/post/11023519

With a quick search using “Dessalines” and sorting by top-year, I found this🙃

Ahhh, yeah. I too use the messenger app on mobile and the messenger website on pc.

I just happen to open facebook (I have an open source front end client) from time to time out of boredom, because it’s kinda amusing how bad my feed is :)

You mean without a fb account? I think you’re right, but I think this wasn’t possible when I made the account ~3years ago.

About desktop web, I’m only using the website on my pc (and I have isolated the app on work profile on my android, while turning off ads with an lsposed module).

Why would anyone do that😔

(Tnx for the site btw)