See title. I’ve been to quite a few local language meetups and saw lots of people IRL who are learning languages: wondering how are y’all doing too
For myself… learning French due to necessity. I am making progress, just veeery slow. I underestimated how difficult it would be (a lot of vocabs between English/French are similar… but the languages themselves are not!)
What’s the vibe like at these meetups you’re going to? What kinds of things do you talk about, what are the people who go like? Sounds fun, though I think I’d be too self-conscious to attend.
For my part, I’ve been learning Japanese. It’s been good, but very slow. Focused on mostly Kanji, Anki, and listening/reading this year (rather than staying with my textbook). Feel like my foundation is way more solid now, and characters I don’t recognize are the exception (by a slight margin), rather than everywhere always.
It just feels like any regular Meetup tbh. The Japanese one I’ve been going to obviously has a much higher proportion of ppl who are into, say, anime and manga (since it’s a group of ppl who willingly chose to learn Japanese without external motives), but other than that they feel like standard Meetup events
Japanese is not an easy language: good luck!