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| Message 1 of 7 30 May 2008 at 11:06am | IP Logged |
May 29, 2008 (Thursday)
Pimsleur Lesson 12
30 min. Sparknotes Flashcards
15 min. grammar/vocab with other sources
Study Time Today: 1:15
Cumulative Time: 1:15
Notes: First day "back" trying to be consistent. I decided to start up Pimsleur somewhere in the middle of where I was to brush up. It went just fine, I'll stay there and do a lesson a day. Flash cards were fun, did a bunch I hadn't done before. My method will be to do a quick review of my "complete" flashcard pile, and then spend 1/2 an hour doing new ones to add to the "complete" pile every day. We'll see how that goes.
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| Message 2 of 7 31 May 2008 at 12:11am | IP Logged |
May 30, 2008 (Friday)
Pimsleur Lesson 13
30 min. Sparknotes Flashcards
30 min. grammar/vocab study
Study Time Today: 1:30
Cumulative Time: 2:45
Notes: Really shuffled up my flashcards good so that I'll be learning random, instead of patches of the alphabet at the same time. They are coming quicker. I'm diving into the Spanish for Dummies a little more, and I'll be making some separate flashcards from that book so I'm accumulating the grammar found there. In addition, I found about 3 workbooks that I'm going to buy at Barnes & Noble tomorrow for me to work on for fun. Once I buy them, I'll list them. And I also have holds on at the library for Rosetta Stone and Learning Spanish Like Crazy module 1.
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| Message 3 of 7 01 June 2008 at 10:57am | IP Logged |
May 31, 2008 (Saturday)
Pimsleur Lesson 14
30 min. Sparknotes Flashcards
Study Time Today: 1:00
Cumulative Time: 3:45
Notes: Didn't have any time to really do anything beyond Pimsleur and flashcards, but I did get to the bookstore and buy 4 grammar and verb conjugation workbooks. I will start doing those daily now too until I've completed them. At least I've done an hour a day so far! That's pretty good.
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| Message 4 of 7 02 June 2008 at 3:45pm | IP Logged |
June 1, 2008 (Sunday)
Pimsleur Lesson 15
60 min. Sparknotes Flashcards
Study Time Today: 1:30
Cumlative Time: 5:15
Notes: Just spent some extra time on flashcards. Trying to make sure I'm getting down the ones I have in my "done" pile. I also had a conversation with Yvonne, who felt that vocabulary pursuit is probably the most important thing right now. She thinks I should spend most of my time on flashcards until I have a few thousand words down. Maybe she's right. Regardless, I'll focus a bunch on flashcards for now, and still dive into my cool workbooks every day from this point forward. Goal for Monday is 2 hours.
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| Message 5 of 7 03 June 2008 at 12:18pm | IP Logged |
June 2, 2008 (Monday)
Pimsleur Lesson 16
75 min. Sparknotes Flashcards
Study Time Today: 1:45
Cumulative Time 7:00
Notes: Was just having too much fun doing flashcards. I think I've got close to 200 mastered now, and that's not counting the other words in the stack that I already know but haven't seen yet. Tuesday I will make it a point to do as much as possible, as that night I am attending a Spanish Language Meetup meeting at the local library.
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| Message 6 of 7 03 June 2008 at 10:43pm | IP Logged |
June 3, 2008 (Tuesday)
Pimsleur Lesson 17
30 min. Sparknotes Flashcards
30 min. Verb Conjugation Exercises
90 min. Conversational Spanish practice (Meetup meeting)
Study Time Today: 3:00
Cumulative Time: 10:00
Notes: Meetup meeting was fun! Definitely worthwhile. Looks like we'll be having one of those every month, and might increase it to every other week. Good group of people of various levels. Flashcards was good. Also felt good to do some verb conjugation exercises from one of the workbooks I bought. I will do more of that tomorrow for sure. All in all, a good day of Spanish study!
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| Message 7 of 7 10 June 2008 at 7:37pm | IP Logged |
June 10, 2008 (Tuesday)
No Studying
Cumulative Time 10:00
Notes: I've been SICK. I mean, really sick. Haven't had the mental capacity to even focus on language studies or anything beyond trying to eat and sleep. I will resume studies tomorrow, with Lesson 18 on Pimsleur and review of my flash cards, and try to pick up where I left off.
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