Any relation in time of day and priority of study?
Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2017 7:10 pm
This question applies only for people that study multiple languages simultaneously. Let me explain a bit further. My question is: let's say one studies one language as a major priority, and one or two languages as secondary, is there a time of day where it is better to focus on the main language and another on the secondary ones?
I ask because I will resume my Korean studies shortly, which have been on hold for about three weeks now between my traveling, the last two plus weeks of focus on intensive reactivation of German, and to a slight lesser degree French (I have not talked about my French yet because I wasn't planning to reactivate it right away, but sometimes events lead to plan adjustments!). PLUS I did Chinese for two or three days a week for maintenance. So I am wondering if I want to study Korean 60-90 minutes a day every day, as my secondary language to whatever the primary of that day is (usually Chinese, but also will be German at times), when should I study it? Should I do it very early in the day, when I get up and use the morning hours when the mind is fresh to make the 60-90 minutes as intensive as possible? Should I study in-between as a "break" from the primary language? Or should I leave it to the end of the day, and go to sleep "with the language" inside the mind?
I am not sure if anyone else here has pondered this question of when to study what language based on priority placed.
As I have mentioned before, Chinese and German (with Chinese a shave higher in the hierarchy), are my main languages until September, with Korean my main secondary "learn seriously but for fun" language. French seems destined to sneak in there at times during this period (thankfully it seems the language is holding up quite well), so I'm wondering how should I schedule Korean around the primary language.
Thanks for any tips
I ask because I will resume my Korean studies shortly, which have been on hold for about three weeks now between my traveling, the last two plus weeks of focus on intensive reactivation of German, and to a slight lesser degree French (I have not talked about my French yet because I wasn't planning to reactivate it right away, but sometimes events lead to plan adjustments!). PLUS I did Chinese for two or three days a week for maintenance. So I am wondering if I want to study Korean 60-90 minutes a day every day, as my secondary language to whatever the primary of that day is (usually Chinese, but also will be German at times), when should I study it? Should I do it very early in the day, when I get up and use the morning hours when the mind is fresh to make the 60-90 minutes as intensive as possible? Should I study in-between as a "break" from the primary language? Or should I leave it to the end of the day, and go to sleep "with the language" inside the mind?
I am not sure if anyone else here has pondered this question of when to study what language based on priority placed.
As I have mentioned before, Chinese and German (with Chinese a shave higher in the hierarchy), are my main languages until September, with Korean my main secondary "learn seriously but for fun" language. French seems destined to sneak in there at times during this period (thankfully it seems the language is holding up quite well), so I'm wondering how should I schedule Korean around the primary language.
Thanks for any tips