rdearman wrote:Looking back at previous posts by people who are better at this than me:"... importing 5,000 to 15,000 new words into your brain in 500 to 1,500 hours turns out to be THE major battlefield in language learning, representing 80 percent and more of your total effort."
I can see that I'm falling far short of the targets I should be setting for myself for listening. I've managed about 300 hours (non-continous) in French, but I need to ramp that up considerably. At the moment I'm averaging around 2 hours of French each day call it an hour of podcasts so straightforward listening and an hour of TV (with some cheating using French sub-titles). In order to get to 1500 hours I am 1200 short. I'd like to get that done in 6 months, so that is 200 hours a month, or 6 hours per day. I don't think I could manage that, but I could probably get in 4 hours per day, just doubling what I'm already doing. I have an 3 hour commute most weekdays, and an hour at home to watch TV. But this really eats into reading time, or study of anki reviews.
I wonder if I've misunderstood you or if you've misunderstood your quote. The 1500 hrs in your quote refers to vocabulary hours, while the 300 and 1200 hrs you wrote refer to listening hours. You seem to be trying to increase your 300 listening hours to their 1500 vocabulary hours.
But I didn't come to say that. I was wanting to ask you:
rdearman wrote:Now the card numbers are spread out a lot more and I'm only getting 200-400 cards per day, so I think I'll increase the amount of new cards to 30-40 for a month or so.
What sort of new words are you learning lately? What words did you learn yesterday, for example?