Hello, I just released my small game ZedDrop on the App Store.

It’s a fast-paced timing game:

•	Swing → cut → drop → land  
•	Perfect timing builds combos  
•	One mistake = game over

Simple to learn, but gets stressful really fast.
Price: Free
IAP: Revive (continue after game over)

Would really appreciate any feedback — especially on gameplay feel and difficulty 🙏

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6764475676

Mình mới chơi bên này có vẻ đa phần ở nước ngoài à mọi người ơi

tl;dr: I'm way behind than anybody doing this for the time that I have been should be, but that's purely on me for goofing off for so long long. XD

Hello!

It's been a bit since the last update, which happened around 27 to 28 days ago depending on your timezone. I know that June isn't over yet but I decided to post in early mostly to check in with what I've been doing thus far.

So, I have several things to clear up. One of them is the post date of my previous post. I open that post up by saying that it was meant to be posted in June, despite being posted in May AND written that same month. Why is that? Well, frankly I'm not even sure myself to be quite honest with y'all. My original goal was accountability, but it seems like I've failed on that lmao. More on that later.

My original goal was to get comfortable with Vietnamese through an immersion method.

On my first month, I would do lessons of a textbook, do Anki reviews and sentence mine. I unfortunately didn't get around to doing this much, as I've been having chronic migraines and a pretty heavy flu (I'm in the Southern hemisphere, so it's winter right now) which I suspect might actually be Covid. Life also got slightly hustlier since I had to care for some IRL bureaucracy, nothing too bad. In spite of this, I've tried for a bit staying active in the Vietnamese scene, even if that meant discussing more about the activity itself of language learning rather than doing language learning proper (I'm obviously not proud of this)

Despite this, I don't think I can fully place the blame on IRL issues (health, busy times...) since a lot of the time I had downtime and just didn't use it nearly as much as I should've.

So, what did I actually accomplish in the past month? Well, I watched two episodes of Alice in Borderland which took forever to finish, and watched some Minecraft videos. That's it. I chose Alice in Borderland because that's a show I've already watched in English, and Minecraft because that's a videogame I've already played for a long time (it's part of my childhood after all).

What motivated me to make this post this early into my journey was a similar post from someone who might just be just as early into their learning journey as I am and is at a similar level.

In the picture are my stats. Since it's been 30 days since I last immersed, and I managed to do around ~30 hours, that slightly averages for around slightly less than 30 minutes a day, which might not sound too bad, 'till you realize I didn't really study every single day lol.

I also learned pretty hard the importance of not getting burnout. My crappy AuDHD brain loves to hyperfixate on new things for several hours on a single day, often making me skip meals or sleep dealing with that shiny new hobby. The next day, however, I'll be completely burned out from touching that subject, and Vietnamese is no such exception. Because of this, I decided to follow Ben from Refold's advice and do what he did with Czech, which is purposefully capping your study limit to a certain point, and diversifying immersion contnet. This way I don't get saturated on a single activity/subject.

Either way, I don't really have a whole lot to add in here. I think I could stress on the importance of spaced repetition. Doing 5 hours in one sitting is so much worse IMO than doing those same 5 hours stretched over weeks in 5 minute chunks everyday. Even if you're Anki droning, you're still progressing.

Another topic I could briefly touch is passive listening. I don't think I could benefit from passive listening that much (I really am A2 after all, not even b1) but I still think it could be useful since it'd give me a nice opportunity to get used to the language's sounds.

My plans going forward: actually staying accountable; studying every single day for 1 hour AT MOST, doing passive listening

On the youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bySiboHg4xI&list=RDbySiboHg4xI&start_radio=1&pp=oAcBhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGtA_AfL-4Q&list=RDQGtA_AfL-4Q&start_radio=1

[00:45] Verse 2

• Ngựa hí xông pha quật cường
• Tựa cuồng phong bão bùng
• Cùng trí trai nơi dặm trường
• Vung roi tre bốn phương (Stop)

(Vietnamese ultra-blend singing for English Speaker)

[00:45] Verse 2

• MOO - OO-HEE FSAH PHAH GWUA - gooh
• F PHOM PHANG BAO BOOHNG
• GOONG CHEE CHAI NUH ZAM CHI (DRUM)
• VOONG ZOY SHAE BOONG PHU-UHNG -  ZAWNG

 

[00:56] Verse 3

• Dòng giống tiên rồng khắp năm châu
• Từ đất thiêng rực sáng tinh cầu
• Đưa cao danh Việt Nam
• Lên cao hơn trăng treo đỉnh đầu (Stop)

(Vietnamese ultra-blend singing for English Speaker)

[00:56] Verse 3

ZUNG THIH ZUHNG KHAH NAM CHOAH

• THUH UH NIHNZ ZUNG SANG THAING GAO
• THUNG- CUH SANG VEE-YED NAM
• LANG-GAO-HOON CHINH CHOW DING DOUGH

[01:00] Verse 4

• Ngước lên tạ phước nhờ đời ông và đời cha
• Hướng về trước mắt đạp chông gai đang đợi ta
• Chẳng cần ngợi ca vì nước vì nhà
• Như Phù Đổng Thiên Vương chở che ngàn đời xa (Stop)

[00:56] Verse 4

• Hoolenda foonye nuh awmanung Cha
• Hoomihn zher monduh choo Men In nihga
• Zhund[uh]n-niga      Venuhm-minya
• (Can you help me with this english vietnamese ultra blend for native english speakers)

[01:07] Verse 5

• Quan san lấp loáng trập trùng
• Người kiên trung oai hùng giữa nguy nan
• Xua tan đi bao giông bão mịt mù
• Người theo ngàn mây xa mãi (Stop)

(Can you help me with the vietnamese ultra-blend singing for English Speaker)

[01:07] Verse 5

• Quan san lấp loáng trập trùng
• Người kiên trung oai hùng giữa nguy nan
• Xua tan đi bao giông bão mịt mù
• Người theo ngàn mây xa mãi (Stop)

(Can you help me with the vietnamese ultra-blend singing for English Speaker)

[01:33] Verse 6

• Ngựa hí xông pha quật cường
• Tựa cuồng phong bão bùng
• Cùng trí trai nơi dặm trường
• Vung roi tre bốn phương (Stop)

(Can you help me with the vietnamese ultra-blend singing for English Speaker)

[01:44] Verse 7

• Sử sách lưu danh ngàn đời
• Một người trai cứu thôn làng
• Chàng Gióng theo mây về trời
• Danh vang xa khắp nơi (Stop)

(Can you help me with the vietnamese ultra-blend singing for English Speaker)

[01:55] Verse 8

• Ngựa hí xông pha quật cường
• Cùng trí trai nơi dặm trường
• This is how we rise
• Marching with never-ending pride
• Tonight we got some history to write
• Đây đêm nay chúng ta viết nên lịch sử (Stop)

(Can you help me with the vietnamese ultra-blend singing for English Speaker)