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William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6195 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French
| Message 9 of 13 09 May 2012 at 10:27am | IP Logged |
I think the occasional study orgy is good. It might be better if it could be made more than occasional, but I think few are in a position to manage several 12-hour study days in a row.
Overall, it is probably better to do an hour or two a day on a regular basis rather than a 12-hour orgy of study followed by several weeks of recovery before the next glut.
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| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5731 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German
| Message 10 of 13 09 May 2012 at 2:27pm | IP Logged |
I've found this approach to work for a variety of activities seemingly because of the
"forgetting curve". So, if a normal study session is 2 steps forward and 1 step back then
a super one is like 10 steps forward and 1 step back. Of course if you let more time go
by without studying your going to take more steps back.
The trick is not to get burnt-out. It seems to happen to me with all my hobbies.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6520 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 11 of 13 10 May 2012 at 1:49am | IP Logged |
William Camden wrote:
I think the occasional study orgy is good. |
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I like how you put it. I kinda feel like a binge learner :) Like a person with certain problems might need to make up for eating by exhausting themselves in the gym, I learnlearnlearn (a specific example - shadowing till my throat is sore...love the feeling).
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| Haksaeng Senior Member Korea, South Joined 6121 days ago 166 posts - 250 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Arabic (Levantine)
| Message 12 of 13 10 May 2012 at 2:15am | IP Logged |
I have at least one free day a week (sometimes two), when I'm all by myself in the house, and I devote the entire day to Korean. I find it very helpful in the long run.
In the short run, it always leaves me feeling a little confused and tongue-tied the very next day. I sense everything is a bit jumbled in my head. But after a few days things sort themselves out and I usually notice some improvement. Since I started doing this, my particular focus has been on my listening ability, and this has improved markedly since I began spending concentrated blocks of time on it.
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| Randwulf Newbie United States Joined 4815 days ago 32 posts - 93 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: English*
| Message 13 of 13 13 May 2012 at 3:50am | IP Logged |
aokoye wrote:
How did you breakup your study session? How many hours on vocab, listening, grammar,
speaking, etc?
It's an interesting idea and, while I have the time to do so (taking time off from school
due to medical issues) I don't know that I'd have the mental stamina to do so. |
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Basically, I did strenuous activities such as reading literature until I wanted to stab my eyes out, then I did less strenuous things (at least for me) like listening and studying flash cards. Rinse and repeat.
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