Tomorrow's the final day of the 6 Week Challenge--I'm in #4 for target language at the moment, which is where I usually am during the challenges. I won't finish my total goal by tomorrow night--I have about 8 pages of textbook left with 6 lengthy exercises to do--but I've accomplished
a lot and am happy with the challenge. I'll probably be done by Wednesday then I'm probably going to take a 2 week break for the holidays. This challenge was for Preterit.
Starting January, I'm doing Imperfect. Then I get to start wavering back and forth over whether I'm changing back to German again.
But Imperfect is the LAST CHAPTER in this textbook--I've never actually finished a textbook before.
Of course, the author has a book two that I already have and I'll probably just flow into that one. Or German. Or Spanish.
I was looking in a book and the author was talking about learning verbs like you learn Latin:
(for hablar) hablo-hablas-hablar-hablé (1st & 2nd present, infinitive, 1st preterit). I'm not sure if that would be helpful or not, but maybe it would help me mixing up the preterits for poner and poder.
I did a (slightly) crazy thing earlier this week. I'm always struggling with the textbook on my right, holding open and finding a word in the dictionary with my left, and then trying to write something down. This week I found a copy of my same dictionary, used. I tore off the binding, punched holes in all the pages and put it in a binder. IT IS AMAZING!! I can sit with the open dictionary on my lap while I'm doing something, flipping through pages, and it is sooooo much easier.
I've kept up (slightly) with the marking that I read about earlier. Every word that I look up that goes onto a flashcard, I underline in orange. (This was from Language Logic by Robyn Matthew). She uses an extensive system of circling and underlining in different colors for different reasons--maybe I'll look at it again, but the orange is telling me that I'm actively learning the word (or should be) and that's good for now.