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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6406 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 9 of 17 26 June 2013 at 9:08am | IP Logged |
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as for Anki, there's also the option of rescheduling all your cards. or even better, reset most and reschedule just a small amount at a time.
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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4698 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 10 of 17 26 June 2013 at 9:17am | IP Logged |
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Liberate yourself and delete all your Anki decks!
And I'm only half kidding. I think the concept of Anki is brilliant, but the few times I tried it I found that I was becoming a slave to my deck, and spending more time tweaking it, and inputting information, and correcting errors, than in actually studying with it. And though it was great while it lasted, it got fugly once I fell behind. Regardless of that, welcome back! I missed seeing your posts. And I think breaks are a useful and integral part of any learning process. Like others have said, re-start doing something fun. Something you want to do rather than something you think you ought to do. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4516 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 11 of 17 26 June 2013 at 9:27am | IP Logged |
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That is why I have bestowed upon Anki the function of "only use when a beginner in a
language". It's useful for building that initial vocabulary when you don't know how to get through the language. Once I can converse comfortably I drop Anki like a rock. In your case, Cristina, I think consistent output and practice will do the trick, you know how to learn languages :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6487 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 12 of 17 26 June 2013 at 9:29am | IP Logged |
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I'm also slowly coming back to language learning after taking a break of like 7 months. I
found that returning to Interpals and writing some e-mails to people returned some of my interest as it gave me a feeling of being able to *do* something with my language (Ukrainian). It also made me realize that not all was lost, that I *could* still use it. Another thing that helped was starting a new language (Bulgarian), which I am studying in an altogether different manner from how I've previously done things. Oh, and as someone else said, deleting Anki cards or entire decks. Also helped. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5143 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 13 of 17 26 June 2013 at 12:03pm | IP Logged |
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Wow. I am starting to feel like the prodigal daughter. That story suddenly made so much more sense to me.
You guys managed to bring tears into my eyes - of joy, not of sadness. Thank you all of you from the bottom of my heart for the warm welcome. I will have to focus on Russian as I need to get up to speed really fast, and I have forgotten so much. The idea of deleting some of the words actually makes a lot of sense. I guess when you can say that you do not need to review the word in a year, you know it so well that you do not need it there anymore at all. To my immense chagrin, my pattern with Russian seems to be to go five steps forward, and four, five or six back. When people ask me how long I have been learning Russian I cringe, since I feel like I have been doing it for years, and still am getting nowhere. I have started listening to some CDs, and am talking to myself in Russian while I am working in the garden. If anyone hears me they'll think I am crazy, but my neighbors think I'm crazy anyway, so that is no problem. After seeing me washing my largest rhododendron with a brush and seeing me flat on the ground after getting my own wheel barrow in the head, I think their mind is made up anyway. A little muttering in Russian would not make much difference :-) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4448 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 14 of 17 26 June 2013 at 3:42pm | IP Logged |
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Velkommen tilbake, Cristina. Du har vært savnet, men ser du har hatt gode grunner til å konsentrere deg om andre, viktigere ting.
Don't worry too much about how to get into the flow again. From time to time I have been there myself, although my reasons have been much more trivial for failing to keep up with my language studies as planned. And I have had that very same feeling as regards Russian: if I've been too busy/demotivated/lazy to study seriously for a few weeks, I return with a feeling that I have forgotten half of what I have learned. However, once I put in some hours on a regular basis, after a couple of weeks I feel I am back in the game and advancing again. My advice is along the lines of others here: try to do things you find enjoyable with the language, listen to a lot of audio, work on short texts about topics you are interested in, watch TV programmes etc. Try to get a lot of input whenever you have the time, and when you feel like it and have the opportunity, write and talk in Russian (talking to yourself is a good idea, never mind the neighbours). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6406 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 15 of 17 26 June 2013 at 5:41pm | IP Logged |
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Also, trying out something new can be a good idea! Maybe GLOSS?
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| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6468 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 16 of 17 26 June 2013 at 10:27pm | IP Logged |
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I'm the one who voted for tricoteuse's post.
I would strongly encourage you to communicate in your target language. I have been writing to a Spanish "language buddy" I had lost contact with (all my fault), and I now find myself thinking in Spanish and even dreaming in Spanish. He and I used to write long letters in Spanish (he speaks not a word of English) and now I find my Spanish becoming progressively less rusty. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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