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| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5477 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 241 of 451 31 December 2014 at 1:43pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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With a tad over 30 min until 2015, here's my final post in my log for 2014:
December summary Course study: 29hrs,20min Audio only study: 24hrs,30min Watching: 18hrs,28min Flashcards: 8hrs,54min Reading: 7hrs,46min DEC. TOTAL: 90hrs,08min DEC. AVG: 2hrs,54min Super Challenge Dec stats: Films (min): 642 Pages read: 35 December proved to be my 2nd best month as planned. 90hrs and 8 min comes in 2nd behind my staggering 133hrs in January (I bolted out of the gates like I was struck by lightning). May was 3rd with 88hrs,7min. December equalled Feb for average per day at 2hrs,54min. So December proved very studious. Well done to me I say. In terms of SC stats it proved to be a productive month but nothing outstanding, which doesn't bother me in the slightest as I was all about using the courses. ------------------------------------ 2014 statistics and summary Course study hours: 301hrs,36min Audio only study hours: 246hrs,47min Watching (TV,series etc): 154hrs,41min Flashcard focused study: 121hrs,11min Reading: 109hrs,23min Conversations: 2hrs,15min Meetups: 1hr,40min Writing: 30min Edit: *Note that 'writing' simply entailed using the website Lang8. I have done a LOT more writing than this, but it's all included in my course study hours as that's when I would usually write. Thus it's a difficult category to capture and prob not one worth continuing with. 2014 TOTAL FRENCH STUDY TIME: 926hrs,43min 2014 AVERAGE DAILY FRENCH STUDY: 2hours,32min Super Challenge 2014 stats: Films (min): 5334 Pages: 808 In terms of the the total hours of French study it's most likely over 1000. I'm not saying this to simply reach the 1000, but there were often times I realised some of the numbers didn't add up (don't be surprised if they still don't I haven't thoroughly checked them). And if I found an error in the numbers I would be cautious and downgrade the hours not upgrade (let's say the total of a month was 80 but adding the separate components came to 75, i'd change it to 75, not alter individual numbers to make the total 80). There were often things I watched early in the year I didn't count, and often things right up until past mid year that I'd read online and not count it in my hours. So it's really in my mind been a thousand hour study year. I'd be most pleased if I could maintain these numbers in the coming year and improve my health at the same time as i'm still not exercising nearly enough, and as far as nutrition goes there's always room for improvement. Bring on 2015. Thanks 2014 for a decent effort. Edited by PeterMollenburg on 31 December 2014 at 1:47pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7206 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 242 of 451 31 December 2014 at 6:07pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Super dooper awesome Monsieur Le Prime Ministre !
Thank you for the recap. You definitely anhilated it this year. I'm very happy to see your breakdowns in terms of hours spent and what appears to be a very balanced approach to your studies this year. As an aside, I thought of something that may be helpful for keeping track of TAC 2015 Team progress. That is, have the member post to the Team Thread when they update their log. I guess if everyone is assiduous in watching for their teammates in the Active list, this wouldn't be so necessary, but I thought I'd share it since it came to mind. P.S.P.M. You would also be a great captain of the French team in 2015. Your enthusiasm is infectious. P.P.S. OMG. Another kind soul has just given me "useful" 1001, which is apparently the tipping point to turn on fourth loving cup. Thanks everyone for putting up with my squabbling, rambling, and meandering this year! Edited by luke on 31 December 2014 at 6:11pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4910 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 243 of 451 31 December 2014 at 6:32pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Brilliant year, PM! I agree that following your log has really given me a lot of good ideas and inspiration. Good luck with your plans for the coming year!
I actually didn't like it when people posted this sort of thing on the team thread. Since I got updates for every team member's thread, I'd read their posts there first, then get a bit excited that there's something new on the team thread, only to find out that it was just a link to what I've just read. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7206 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 244 of 451 31 December 2014 at 6:46pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
That makes sense. Your keen observational skills and diplomatic manner might should be paired up with PM to become the Dynamic Duo of TAC 2015 French Team. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5477 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 245 of 451 01 January 2015 at 12:37am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Thanks Luke. Your positive feedback is very much appreciated :) Things have seemed quiet around the end of 2014. I hope there's more activity in 2015. In retrospect, it just seems like a LOT of ppl fell by the wayside as the year progressed, let's hope 2015 brings a more collaborative effort for our new French team. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5477 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 246 of 451 01 January 2015 at 12:43am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Thanks Jeffers. As with Luke I really appreciate the positive feedback.
I tend to agree with Jeffers here. Although I know your suggestion was logical from your perspective luke, I think it does makes sense to just follow along with individual logs and then use the team thread for more collaborative/sharing type dialogue related to the team atmosphere. Doubling up seems conter-productive and slightly annoying, but thanks for considering the possibility. It's always worthwhile putting it out there :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Mohave Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Mohave1 Joined 4008 days ago 291 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 247 of 451 01 January 2015 at 12:49am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Very impressive 2014! Your log has given me great inspiration and motivation during the last year! Here is
hoping that you have an awesome 2015! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5477 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 248 of 451 01 January 2015 at 12:56am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I forgot to tally up my Flashcard total for 2014... I won't go back and edit that post
as I like the fact it was posted literally minutes before the end of the year. However I don't want to not note down my flashcards for 2014. So the grand total of new flashcards created so far for French is 9375 cards. I'm pretty sure I hardly had any cards at all in my flashcard deck or even zero late 2013, so the vast majority (if not all) were created in 2014. I don't want to get into the stats any deeper with the FC's as I've already monitored the time spent on them in my study totals above and I don't really analyse the cards any deeper like many other people do with their Anki stats. Perhaps I will later anylse them further later on, but not yet. I just create them and 'use' them. Stats don't matter yet for a few reasons including the fact that I spent most of the year lagging behind my newly created cards with many cards not even active yet (I have to get each new card correct 5 times for it to become active- I set it this way). Bla bla bla. It's a pretty good flashcard system (flashcards deluxe), but I am tempted to at least try Anki at some point in 2015 to see if it can improve my studying of flashcards in any way. My pre-conceived notion is that is unlikely but it's worth a try. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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