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sabotai
Senior Member
United States
Joined 5664 days ago

391 posts - 489 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French

 
 Message 113 of 151
23 June 2014 at 10:32pm | IP Logged 
Went to go do my Learning With Texts (on my website) reps today and saw my domain had not been renewed. Went into the control panel and was looking over the renewal options and the billing and decided to just let it die. At this point, my site, which was originally meant for something else, was just hosting some pictures, a blog I never updated and LwT. Didn't think it justified the cost to renew, so it's dead.

I never could get LwT to work on my desktop. I followed the directions to do so a few times, but just couldn't figure out what the hold up was. I know there's the option to use a free website, but I think I'll just let it go for now.
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sabotai
Senior Member
United States
Joined 5664 days ago

391 posts - 489 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French

 
 Message 114 of 151
30 June 2014 at 11:27pm | IP Logged 
Week 26 Review (Jun 23 - 29)

German: 8 hours, 45 minutes
Korean: 5 hours, 30 minutes
French: 3 hours, 15 minutes
Kanji: 1 hour, 45 minutes
Russian Script: 1 hour, 45 minutes

Week 26 Total: 21 hours

Year To Date: 380 hours (15 more minutes added. I just put all my times into a spreadsheet. I was doing it by hand before and I must have lost 15 minutes somewhere. My spreadsheet shows 380 hours total)

At the halfway point. Here's where I am per language

German: 146 hours, 25 minutes
Korean: 146 hours, 35 minutes
French: 31 hours, 40 minutes
Japanese: 42 hours
Spanish: 9 hours, 20 minutes
Russian Script: 4 hours
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sabotai
Senior Member
United States
Joined 5664 days ago

391 posts - 489 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French

 
 Message 115 of 151
07 July 2014 at 4:17am | IP Logged 
Week 27 Review (Jun 30 - Jul 6)

German: 6 hours, 30 minutes
Korean: 5 hours
French: 3 hours, 30 minutes
Kanji: 1 hour, 45 minutes
Russian Script: 1 hour, 45 minutes

Week 27 Total: 18 hours, 30 minutes

Year To Date: 398 hours, 30 minutes

Russian script = done. Next up, Bengali script.
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sabotai
Senior Member
United States
Joined 5664 days ago

391 posts - 489 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French

 
 Message 116 of 151
15 July 2014 at 4:49am | IP Logged 
Week 28 Review (Jul 7 - Jul 13)

German: 6 hours
Korean: 4 hours, 45 minutes
French: 3 hours, 30 minutes
Kanji: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Bengali script: 1 hour, 15 minutes

Week 28 Total: 17 hours

Year To Date: 415 hours
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kujichagulia
Senior Member
Japan
Joined 4629 days ago

1031 posts - 1571 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: Japanese, Portuguese

 
 Message 117 of 151
15 July 2014 at 6:59am | IP Logged 
Amazing.... keep it up!
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sabotai
Senior Member
United States
Joined 5664 days ago

391 posts - 489 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French

 
 Message 118 of 151
22 July 2014 at 4:22am | IP Logged 
kujichagulia wrote:
Amazing.... keep it up!


Thanks!

Week 29 Review (Jul 14 - Jul 20)

German: 6 hours, 15 minutes
Korean: 3 hours, 45 minutes
French: 1 hour
Kanji: 1 hour, 45 minutes
Bengali script: 1 hour, 45 minutes

Week 29 Total: 14 hours, 30 minutes

Year To Date: 429 hours, 30 minutes

My little quasi-wunderlusting for French has run its course and I'm back to just German and Korean.

This week was a bit crappy. I live with a few friends and generally it's nice and quiet (big house), but this past week, one friend's mother, sister and sister's kid are visiting and it's been very disruptive at times. Just a few more days...
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sabotai
Senior Member
United States
Joined 5664 days ago

391 posts - 489 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French

 
 Message 119 of 151
23 July 2014 at 1:13am | IP Logged 
Speaking of things running their course, I've stopped doing SRS again this past week. I feel like I've drifted back towards a routine of endless review. Over the past several weeks, I've rarely failed a card in German and my success rate in Korean is 98%. I understand that that means the sentences I have been adding are too easy.

Here's the thing. Those sentences (except for a handful in German) all come from the courses I've been using to learn German and Korean. Assimil, Teach Yourself, Yonsei Textbook, Sogang Textbooks, etc. In other words, if the sentences I'm adding from Chapter 5 of the Yonsei textbook are too easy, and I'm currently working on Chapter 6, that tells me the textbook is doing its job, and that it's not that I need more difficult sentences to add to SRS, but that I should trust that the textbook is working as intended and that I simply don't need SRS. Of course, I am getting extra review when I type up the sentences (in a text file) and then reread them as I paste them into Anki (into Google Translate first to quickly see if I have a typo), so a round of scriptorium on them plus a few rereads might still be helpful.

The handful of German sentences that I mentioned are from mining sentences using vocab I learn from intensive reading. I'll IR something, write down the words I don't know, look them up on de.thefreedictionary.com, taoeba.com, my vocab books, etc and add sample sentences to my deck. Those helped a lot. I don't know if I'll keep doing SRS with those sentences or if I'll do something else (scriptorium plus rereading them a few times might be enough. While adding them in SRS helped, I only failed those ~30 cards three or four times total. - One card failed twice, two cards fail once each, 27 passed a half dozen times)

And so ends my latest foray into SRSland. Check back in 4 months when I undoubtedly try again, thinking that for some reason, it'll be different this time.
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sabotai
Senior Member
United States
Joined 5664 days ago

391 posts - 489 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French

 
 Message 120 of 151
30 July 2014 at 3:56am | IP Logged 
Week 30 Review (Jul 21 - 27)

German: 4 hours, 30 minutes
Korean: 3 hours, 15 minutes
Kanji: 1 hour, 45 minutes
Bengali script: 1 hour, 45 minutes

Week 30 Total: 11 hours, 15 minutes

Year TO Date: 440 hours, 45 minutes


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