Language Learning: My New Reading Process Works So Well, It’s Scary

My elusive quest for custom dual-language subtitled books

Image generated by Microsoft Designer AI with prompts by the author.

I’m so excited about this process, that I’m probably not going to sleep tonight.

Well, I ended up sleeping for 4 hours.

At my architecture job the next day, I drew up a town firehouse for a surprise client meeting. The meeting was at 4:30 PM, and I got the plans done at 3:58 PM. Life is weird. I always feel the best coming home after these more intense days.

Now I get to relax and write about language learning. And then engage in this hyper-efficient process before bed.

My new reading process isn’t your typical once in a few months discovery.

No, this is a once in an entire language journey discovery.

I can see the writing on the wall already. B1 Finnish is incoming. A2 Finnish has been the biggest slog and tease on my language journey.

The surprising hard truth of CEFR levels

My 1-year update in April 2024 showing my Finnish effort nearly uninterrupted. I’ll post my next language graph when I have more data and hours logged.