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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5561 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 25 of 27 03 July 2014 at 11:52pm | IP Logged |
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Russian Boot Camp: Intermission
Having reached a halfway point in this project, I took a few days out to resolve a work issue that couldn't simply be put off till the end of the week. This meant having to drop the ball in my Russian studies, but I intend to do some serious catch-up now to get back into the flow. But before I embark on the second half of my journey, I'd like to present some initial observations regarding my studies so far in the first half. Here are emerging patterns regarding the time and effort I've put in to learn and review new Russian phrases... Pattern 1: It takes me about 30 minutes to intensively study 100 words of a transcript for Кухня. This subdivides into 20 minutes for selecting, translating, and writing down 10-20 new phrases for each 100 word section. It then takes a further 10 minutes to learn all these new phrases off in 4 consecutive cycles (1 cycle of learning, and 3 for testing and review). Pattern 2: After 24 hours, it takes me about half my original study time to test and review a 100 word section again. The time it takes to complete a review continues to decrease by a factor of approximately 50% for each graduated interval (e.g., it takes me around 15 minutes after an interval of 24 hours, 8 minutes after 3 days, and 4 minutes after 1 week). Pattern 3: In line with diminishing times needed for review, my errors after each graduated interval also seem to decrease by a factor of 50%. For example, I manage to get about 50% of the phrases wrong for each section during my first cycle following 24 hours, but this then falls to a 25% error rate at the start of my 3 day review, and ends up much closer to a 12% error rate by the end of the week. In general, it's reassuring to find predictable patterns emerging that also fall in line with studies I've read on spaced learning and forgetting more complex chunks of language. The next step will be to analyse the results from the encoding experiments I set up on Day 5, and see if there's any way to enhance my initial learning experience to facilitate long-term recall... Edited by Teango on 06 July 2014 at 8:05am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4849 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 26 of 27 07 September 2014 at 11:27pm | IP Logged |
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Hey Teango, what has happened to your Russian offensive? Have you been thrown back by adversary forces? Would be good to hear from you again soon!
I have been watching some episodes of Кухня lately, and the series is still getting better! It hasn't gotten easier to understand the chef without transcript though... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5339 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 27 of 27 08 September 2014 at 7:15am | IP Logged |
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Teango - my brother and friend and trusted team mate - miss you! I have just seen the first episode of
Kuchnia without any transcripts, but I loved it. I do not know whether I will have the chance to study the transcripts like you do, but I do intend to watch it :-) What have you been up to lately? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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