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| apparition Octoglot Senior Member United States Joined 6654 days ago 600 posts - 667 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), French, Arabic (Iraqi), Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Pashto | Message 17 of 20 13 January 2010 at 4:23am | IP Logged |
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I've got 1830 cards and I've 'memorized' 800 or so. I've got MSA, Egyptian, Iraqi,
Pashto and Russian, from all kinds of sources. I'm happy to report that I'm beginning to emerge from the realm of simple basic Pashto words into understanding sentences and grammar, just from listening and considering. For my part, I'm really glad I'm using this method, because I'm only spending about a half-hour to 45 minutes each day doing through the SRS, but I feel I'm retaining so much. I think it's because I've abandoned my usual pattern of learning 'about' the language and just exposed myself to it with interest and no stress. I'm not burning all my grammars yet, however, but considering my experiences with my other languages, I've gotten to this level faster (with respect to actual hours engaging the language) than ever before. Granted, I'm dealing with many cognates and related languages, but even with Russian, on which I've spent MAYBE 15 minutes a day for the past 15 days, and is not really related to my other languages, I feel at a higher level than when I'd spend 3.75 hours at a time in a grammar or a course. I guess we'll see. Edited by apparition on 13 January 2010 at 3:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| apparition Octoglot Senior Member United States Joined 6654 days ago 600 posts - 667 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), French, Arabic (Iraqi), Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Pashto | Message 18 of 20 15 January 2010 at 3:28am | IP Logged |
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1830 cards, 800 of them memorized (same as yesterday), but I've been deleting quite a few of the cards that are already in my long-term memory (being the duplicates of words I already know--mainly an issue with Arabic and the dialects).
I've also adjusted how I'm grading my answers. For my MSA audio clips, I'm grading the more important-to-know constructions lower than the less-important ones in order to see them more. Since I import the clips wholesale (saving me incredible amounts of time), this is a quick way to sort out the less important and/or redundant material. This is as opposed to selecting and adding each sentence or paragraph individually. I have a feeling that after a few thousand cards I'll be more selective, but for now, in order to build my base and review, I'm doing it this way. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| apparition Octoglot Senior Member United States Joined 6654 days ago 600 posts - 667 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), French, Arabic (Iraqi), Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Pashto | Message 19 of 20 16 January 2010 at 10:46pm | IP Logged |
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I'm on an MSA kick at the moment, so I'm setting aside the SRS (mostly... still doing the
scheduled reviews) and just listening to MSA podcasts, watching documentaries in it, etc. I'm not sure why I'm so energized on it, but, hey, I'll take it! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| apparition Octoglot Senior Member United States Joined 6654 days ago 600 posts - 667 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), French, Arabic (Iraqi), Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Pashto | Message 20 of 20 24 January 2010 at 10:24pm | IP Logged |
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Arabic all the time now because my job requires it! Probably will stay this was for the
next month or so, so I might not update quite as often as I was (because it's not going to change much). My study will consist of listening to authentic materials and translating. Simple and necessary. My kind of task! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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