It’s been a good week! Between juggling trying to get some time in for this and NaNoWriMo, it’s been a busy one, but I don’t mind that all that much.
So far, I’ve spent 255 mins (4h15m) on Scottish Gaelic, during which I’ve:
- Finished Teach Yourself Complete Gaelic Aonad 4 (‘S toil leam biadh Innseanach)
- Revised two of the beginner’s lessons on LearnGaelic
- Set up my ‘ultimate’ Scottish Gaelic deck (mostly involved making up the card templates and the spreadsheet, as well as copying over all the words I’ve supposedly learnt via Duolingo)
I’ve not done a great job of keeping up with Scottish Gaelic this year. I started learning it back in January and I had a pretty good overall learning month in February, but it fell off the radar a lot after that, although I did brush up on Duolingo now and again.
I have found, though, that I don’t think I’ve forgotten all that much. I definitely need to work on my pronunciation (like, I need to go and look at specific sounds because I’m still having trouble just reading) and there’s some vocabulary I’m having trouble with, but I don’t see the point of going back to the beginning of the book every time I pick the language up again. I keep doing that with so many languages and it’s just getting a bit frustrating repeating the same stuff over and over.
So, I’m going to soldier on! I’ve started Aonad 5 and am hoping to finish that this week, as well as starting (and maintaining) a streak on Anki. I had a three-day streak but although I’m used to my Duolingo/Memrise habit, I’m not quite there with that yet – even though I can access the cards on my phone via the browser, too!
Also, since I’ve managed four hours this week, I’d like to maintain that – so I’m setting myself an overall target of 25 hours spent on Scottish Gaelic during the 6WC. This weekend is trickier; I’m aiming for a 50k weekend for NaNoWriMo (so far I’m kind of on track; I just really like the challenge!) so I know I’m not going to have all that much time for language learning. But I’m not too worried about that as everything will be back to normal on Tuesday, so more than enough time to keep this momentum going.
I’d also like to get to about Aonad 8 of Teach Yourself, as well as making sure that the end of every study session involves me adding more new cards to Anki. I’m still working my way through the Duolingo list (the Scottish Gaelic words are all in a list, but not their English translations, so I’m having to look up the ones I can’t remember!), but I’ll prioritise the Teach Yourself vocabulary, since the book obviously builds on what it’s already taught you.
So, my goals for the rest of this 6WC:
- Study Scottish Gaelic for 25 hours (which would about double my time on the language for the first ten months of the year, lol).
- Start Aonad 8 of Teach Yourself Complete Gaelic.
- Revise/learn up to Beginners’ Lesson 10 on the LearnGaelic website.
That should about do it!
Goal Progress as of 08/11/2020
: Hours studied
: Units complete (TY)
: LearnGaelic lessons revised or learnt