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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6195 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 9 of 13 09 May 2012 at 10:27am | IP Logged | ||
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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. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5731 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 10 of 13 09 May 2012 at 2:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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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. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6520 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 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 | ||
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| Haksaeng Senior Member Korea, South Joined 6121 days ago 166 posts - 250 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 12 of 13 10 May 2012 at 2:15am | IP Logged | ||
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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. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Randwulf Newbie United States Joined 4815 days ago 32 posts - 93 votes Speaks: English* | Message 13 of 13 13 May 2012 at 3:50am | IP Logged | ||
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. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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