@glyph over the last few weeks, I’ve learned to read hiragana, one of the Japanese syllabaries. I got very fired up after a trip to Japan and honestly part of what keeps me going is that every time I start to feel tired of reading doom, I open my flashcards app instead. I wrote a blog post about it, though I left off how the learning is an escape https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2025-02-21-learning-hiragana/