|
 |
How do you manage your time and material? | ||
Tags: Study Plan | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Learning Techniques, Methods & Strategies |  | |
| Po-ru Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 173 posts - 235 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, Mandarin, French | Message 1 of 13 08 July 2011 at 7:48am | IP Logged |
|
Hi everyone. I am curious to see how much time you all study languages a day and how
you use that time. This is aimed at everyone. From a beginner studying one language to an already established polylgot who studys two or three languages a day. I am also interested in intermediate polyglots like myself who have studied a few languages but are looking to break into some more, but can't dedicate the time in fear of other languages suffering. I study Japanese and Korean, regularly. Occasionally I do some Mandarin, French, Spanish, and Russian. Though I would like to break into other languages like Italian and Portuguese, but I just cannot find the time. My hands are full with Japanese and Korean, but if I just drill myself with those two everyday I'll get curious of other languages and become bored. I use these other languages to keep myself motivated and refreshed in language learning. I am at a level where taking a few days off from Japanese or Korean does my brain some good. I am curious to see what you all do? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Animalia Newbie United States Joined 5020 days ago 39 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 13 08 July 2011 at 8:06am | IP Logged |
|
I'm definetly at a beginer level of learning Spanish. Normally though with school and practices I try to do a hour at least every other day of "main study" Something like memorizing new words, trying to read something, writing my thoughts down or writing conjugations and what not. With normally 20 or so minutes of BS study listening to some Spanish music, flipping subtitles on a movie. Something that im not activly practicing but it sometimes helps.
1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zuneybunny Diglot Newbie United States turkishtrip.wordpres Joined 4942 days ago 32 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English, Mandarin* Studies: Spanish, Turkish | Message 3 of 13 09 July 2011 at 3:28am | IP Logged |
|
About 3 hours studying Turkish (A1 Level), but if you factor in the time I spend
passively listening to Turkish news, that'd be 4-6 more hours. About 1/2 hour with Teach Yourself Turkish, 1 hour Pimsleur, 1/2 hour flash cards, an hour chatting with Turks online. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jarm Newbie Australia Joined 4917 days ago 33 posts - 55 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 13 14 July 2011 at 4:31pm | IP Logged |
|
I keep logs of all the different things I'm studying. In total I'm working on four different languages, but they have different priorities. One has high priority, another medium (I stopped studying it for about six months, and want to get back to 'maintenance' level) and two more are low priority ones.
I do about two to three hours total of vocabulary learning a day, which I record into a log book. Then I have a log book of exercises, which is mostly of the one language, but I also record stuff I've done for the other three in it, like going over grammar notes, etc. If I have time, I'll write one journal entry on the one language and then choose one of the others to write a paragraph on. I think the most important thing for me is keeping very precise logs of everything, and planning the day in advance. That way you can just jump straight in and do it. Apart from the journal stuff, and preparation of some vocabulary, pretty much everything I do is not with a computer, so I don't get distracted. In total, it probably breaks down to 1 1/2 hours for each of the low-priority languages, 2 hours for the medium and at least 3-4 hours of the high priority language per day. I'll probably be cutting it back a little though, because I'm afraid I'll burn out after a while... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6016 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 5 of 13 14 July 2011 at 6:30pm | IP Logged |
|
How do I manage my time and material?
Badly. 9 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Mrs. Dalloway Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 4974 days ago 70 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, Russian Studies: GermanA2, French, Danish | Message 6 of 13 15 July 2011 at 4:58pm | IP Logged |
|
I don't. I do what I'm willing to do at the moment and tend not to give priorities. That penalizes me sometimes, but, if you're not in a hurry, that's the less stressing method.
Although I noticed that most people here are organized and methodic, and will disagree with me (: 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6090 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 7 of 13 15 July 2011 at 5:49pm | IP Logged |
|
I'd lose out on all my languages if I tried tackling them all at once. It's too much for me to try and juggle so many, plus my responsibilities to work/family.
how much time I spend per day: about 30 minutes all together, on average. Sometimes less/more, but never more than 40 minutes. Sunday is the exception. I spend hours studying on Sunday, if I can. how I use that time I'm with Mrs. Dalloway. I don't adhere to any one particular formula, unless not finishing anything is a formula. (hey, maybe it is!) Because I'm really busy and I have to stay flexible in my schedule, my language learning has to be flexible too. I count on the fact that there will always be an interruption and I will never get through more than one page in a book. I have a lot of varied materials (I'm always at ebay or amazon) and I stop and start methods. I work in "spurts" of 10-20 minutes, which is easier than trying to find a one-hour slot somewhere in the day. The only problem is trying to find the discipline to go back to what I was doing before I got interrupted.. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5135 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 8 of 13 16 July 2011 at 5:35am | IP Logged |
|
I have a hard time with three.
My Norwegian is at a B2 level (hoping to get to C1 by the end of the year. We'll see). I have ample opportunity to speak it with a couple of locals. My main focus is Turkish. I devote the most time to that, listening, reading, writing, and conversation with a Skype partner. I hope to get to a high B1 level by the end of the year. My Polish suffers the most. I have the interest, but don't really have the time to search/practice with a language partner, so all I'm doing is listening and some reading, watching a movie or two - nothing active. Stuck at A2. And all things considered, I probably have more time on my hands this summer than most people. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
