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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5751 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes  Studies: French | Message 9 of 75 04 January 2014 at 8:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Day 1
Spanish The continuing education course in Spanish taken last fall used Barron’s E-Z Spanish book, not awful as a learning resource for class use, but not the best for self-learners as there is no accompanying audio. We worked up to the end of Work Unit 11 in class. The teacher was a fairly accomplished educator from Venezuela, who by the end of the tenth class seemed utterly defeated by our lack of progress. Today I started reviewing what we had learned, and entering vocab and sentences into Anki for what I hope will become a daily habit of Anki review. Worked through all the Lecciones preparatorias (just thematic vocabulary dumps at the beginning of the text), comprised of the following: - La casa - Una oficina - Los alimentos - Acciones - Descripciones (contrasting adjectives) - El cuerpo humano as well as working through and Anki-izing Work Unit 1 (¿Qué es más importante?). Each work unit is based around a dialogue, following by a list of new words (palabras nuevas), exercises (ejercicios) and then a grammar point (estructuras de la lengua – in this unit, the noun and definite article) and then more ejercicios. Spoiler alert in terms of the dialogue in this unit: it turns out that in comparison to studying, la telenovela “El Amor y la passion” es más importante. Also, reviewed Michel Thomas Spanish for Beginners, Disc 1 (I had previously worked through all ten discs quite a number of times, so this just for a refresher and to get some easy momentum going). Edited by Spanky on 04 January 2014 at 9:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5751 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 10 of 75 04 January 2014 at 8:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Day 1
American Sign Language Reviewed some youtube videos, and settled on the following to start learning fingerspelling. youtube - alphabet, numbers Worked on the alphabet, numbers up to ten and some three letter fingerspelling recognition practice. Kanji A generous sample of Heisig’s 6th edition of Remembering the Kanji is provided by the author or publisher at: Heisig, Remembering the kanji Errata are saved elsewhere, I will post later. I had previously worked through a number of these, though they need refreshing. Today worked on items #1 through 25 including reminding myself of proper stroke order, and made up paper flash cards. All were very well recognized, given that this is about my 6th sailing made on the early Heisig waters…. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5751 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 11 of 75 04 January 2014 at 8:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Day 2
Spanish More work with previously-studied units from E-Z Spanish: Work unit 2 - ¿Adónde queremos vivir? and plural forms of nouns and definite articles Work unit 3 - ¿Qué necesitas tú para ser feliz? and present indicative tense of the regular ‘-ar’ verbs. Michel Thomas, Disc Dos for review. ASL Awesome fingerspelling recognition practice site: asl.ms One can adjust the speed quite a bit – I am able to read with relative comfort at the slowest speed. I figure I will be hanging around here a while. Worked today on three letter words, slowest speed, still had to repeat many of them before getting the word. Kanji #26 through 37 Edited by Spanky on 04 January 2014 at 9:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5751 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 12 of 75 04 January 2014 at 9:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Day 3
Spanish Work unit 4 - ¿Quién es más fuerte? and present indicative for regular ‘-er’ and ‘-ir’ verbs. I am not entirely sure whether this particular dialogue will be of use to me in the future, expect to the extent I may need to describe how a princess or any other worthy soul rompe el brazo de un gigante y muerde a otro. Also Michel Thomas, Disc 3 and part of Disc 4 ASL more practice at same site as yesterday: asl.ms Kanji #38 through 47 Edited by Spanky on 04 January 2014 at 9:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4460 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 13 of 75 04 January 2014 at 10:16pm | IP Logged | ||
I started on RTK back in 2011. I was doing maybe 10 per day for a while and then slowly sped up over a month or two to 20/day. Then I read lots of forum posts about people managing the whole thing in a few months and so I went a little wild. I shot up to 50/day and then even over 100/day towards the end. My retention rate the next day was maybe 50% but within a few weeks that was up to a healthy 90% or so. In the end, through using Reviewing The Kanji I managed to get through the 2042 kanji in RTK1 in about 5 months or so. I'm now in maintenance mode, so i do maybe 10 minutes each day reviewing the 40 or so kanji it throws at me. (I find it helps to write out each kanji, admittedly somewhat scruffily). Right now I have only 26 cards in the "one review" bucket and 1859 in the "4+ reviews" bucket. So the method works for me (although some people just hate it). My advice would be to blast through it at whatever rate you feel happy with and let the SRS algorithm keep throwing the ones you get wrong back at you. As long as you don't worry about the initial failure rate, you'll find that they do stick quite quickly. I'd also suggest setting yourself a time limit for reviews and not worrying too much about getting everything done every single day. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5751 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 14 of 75 04 January 2014 at 11:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks dampingwire, much appreciated! I recall Brun Ugle and others previously
recommending the Reviewing the Kanji website to me, and my impression in the past was that it was mostly a source of alternate "stories" for each kanji, which had not particularly been a problem for me in the past. But I have taken a look again just now on your recommendation and see it is quite a bit more, so I have signed up. I agree entirely by the way about writing out each kanji - I do this invariably, and invariably in a super scruffy manner. I am not super stressed about the speed with which I get through the kanji. I intend it, for this year, just to be a casual stroll and not allow it to become too much of a distraction (always a problem for me!) from what I intend my main language of interest for the first half of the year, Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5751 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 15 of 75 11 January 2014 at 7:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Day 4
Spanish Duolinguo ANKI ASL more fingerspelling practice at: asl.ms fingerspelling practice site trying the medium rate of speed looking at “Deaf” rate of speed and getting freaked out…. Kanji #48 -50 exploring the Remembering the Kanji website, first pass through lessons 1, 2, and 3. Slightly out of sync with Heisig’s 6th edition. I believe I worked previously through the 5th edition, and I am noticing just a few new kanji being worked in early in the sequence in the 6th compared to the 5th editions. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5751 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 16 of 75 11 January 2014 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Day 5
Spanish EZ Spanish – reviewing vocab and grammar lessons MT Disc 4 lots of ANKI ASL fingerspelling practice, including 4 letter combos, same site as before. Kanji #51-55 Edited by Spanky on 11 January 2014 at 7:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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