Update for week 50I’ve had the week off, and after a week of hardly talking to anyone and wearing earplugs whenever I wasn’t trying to listen to something, I’m starting to feel pretty good again. I have some energy at last! I suppose I just need to remember that I’m autistic and even when I feel OK, I need to block out as much noise as possible and not be too social. Otherwise, I’ll end up in the same condition again.
The 6WC is over and it feels a little weird now studying without a stopwatch. I ended up in a respectable fourth place both overall and on target language, so I’m content with that. I don’t think I could have studied much more given the circumstances. I ended up with exactly 80 hours and 6 minutes in both Spanish and German (not sure how I managed that), and I did just over 27 hours of Esperanto and a tiny bit of dabbling. I’m already looking forward to next time.
I took the day off from studying yesterday to do some other things that needed doing, like cleaning the house. I’m not a total slob; I do vacuum and wipe down the kitchen and bathroom now and then, but it’s been a while since I’ve cleaned inside of cabinets and behind the refrigerator and stuff, and I also tend to have books all over, especially after a study-binge. I didn’t get as far as I’d like to have yesterday, but the apartment is at least neater and the kitchen is unusually spotless (for the moment). I also did my household accounts. That’s a holdover from the days when I really did have to keep track of every øre, but now I can’t really stop. It took me several hours because I hadn’t done it in months. I also did some other paperwork that should have been done a while ago. All in all, a fairly productive day, but not as much fun as studying.
I’ve decided to take my progress bars out of my signature for now because there’s not room for everything I want to put. Maybe I’ll come up with something else for my signature later, but for now, I’ll just put my progress bars in my log. They’re too cool to abandon entirely.
SpanishFSI Basic: 17-19
Gramática de uso del Español (A1-A2): 83-87
I haven’t been watching anything or reading so much. I need to get back to that. And to vocabulary work. I’m considering something other than Memrise. Memrise is fun and addictive, and when you don’t feel like doing anything else, Memrise is still pretty easy. But it’s not fast. I feel like I could find a faster method. Rdearman made a spreadsheet based on Smallwhite’s method and I thought I might try it. I thought I’d also try searching for where she explained her method. So far, I haven’t seen that. It could be useful.
GermanAssimil passive wave: 50-54
Assimil active wave: 1-5
FSI Programmed Introduction: 21-25
As you can see, I’ve skipped a couple of days on Assimil. Yesterday was a planned break, and on one of the other days, I was just too exhausted to do a new lesson. I’ve also started the active wave, but it’s still too early for me to form an opinion on it. I managed to do the entire FSI Programmed Introduction during the 6WC. It’s much shorter and more elementary than the FSI Programmatic Spanish, but I found it reasonably useful. I’m thinking of trying the Basic course now as well. I like FSI. I know people find it boring, but I guess boring suits me. Really, I probably like studying languages as much or more than actually knowing them. (Probably a good thing, considering I never really get anywhere.)
Spanish : FSI Programmatic
: FSI Basic
: Gramática de uso del Español A
German : Assimil passive
: Assimil active
: FSI Programmed Introduction