Re: Coldrainwater's German Log
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 8:15 am
A quick update, a bit dry but practical.
In the last 30+ days, I have completed 130 sessions on learnwitholiver\german, amounting to about 80 study hours with a focus on L2->L1 vocab. My strategy is to get as many distinct words as possible to click in my mind before moving on. In my view, a repetition algorithm should take into account the learner's entire program and should not be defined on a list-by-list basis, so I took liberties and bent the normal rules accordingly.
I chose learnwitholiver\german with practical considerations in mind as well. I can find time to use it more or less around the clock and it does not require designated time blocks like reading literature might. I have learned to build its use into nearly every portion of my day and by those metrics, I think the habit is pretty well developed despite being only a month old. At this juncture, I am going to use their grab feature to pull in lists by topic and do a second round, since the queue has pretty much run dry on my first list as of about an hour ago.
Another reason for a quick update is that today is also kind of a native audio start point and I want to notate that directly. I have been listening in my usual capacity, passive/attentive for an hour or several every day, and I've cleared pretty much everything I had downloaded last month, including a very passive listen to FSI. Advanced, native language audiobooks seem to be somewhat above my level A-level skillset (shocking right), so I reached into the old bag of tricks and decided to go the science podcast route instead. I am starting with http://minkorrekt.de/. I bet I could probably get the gist of it if I were to listen mindfully. I might need another month or two of vocab, but I think I have just enough to tether a gist as is. As it stands, I parse the audio pretty well and am hearing tons of familiar vocab with overall interesting content. That is more than enough for me to go for a 100-hour chunk of it and see what develops.
In the last 30+ days, I have completed 130 sessions on learnwitholiver\german, amounting to about 80 study hours with a focus on L2->L1 vocab. My strategy is to get as many distinct words as possible to click in my mind before moving on. In my view, a repetition algorithm should take into account the learner's entire program and should not be defined on a list-by-list basis, so I took liberties and bent the normal rules accordingly.
I chose learnwitholiver\german with practical considerations in mind as well. I can find time to use it more or less around the clock and it does not require designated time blocks like reading literature might. I have learned to build its use into nearly every portion of my day and by those metrics, I think the habit is pretty well developed despite being only a month old. At this juncture, I am going to use their grab feature to pull in lists by topic and do a second round, since the queue has pretty much run dry on my first list as of about an hour ago.
Another reason for a quick update is that today is also kind of a native audio start point and I want to notate that directly. I have been listening in my usual capacity, passive/attentive for an hour or several every day, and I've cleared pretty much everything I had downloaded last month, including a very passive listen to FSI. Advanced, native language audiobooks seem to be somewhat above my level A-level skillset (shocking right), so I reached into the old bag of tricks and decided to go the science podcast route instead. I am starting with http://minkorrekt.de/. I bet I could probably get the gist of it if I were to listen mindfully. I might need another month or two of vocab, but I think I have just enough to tether a gist as is. As it stands, I parse the audio pretty well and am hearing tons of familiar vocab with overall interesting content. That is more than enough for me to go for a 100-hour chunk of it and see what develops.