Re: Bex's Spanish log 2016/17
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2017 8:11 am
Well looks like my challenges may be scuppered! I have been (and still am) ill all this week, I've managed to do my Anki cards but that's it!
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Bex wrote:Well looks like my challenges may be scuppered! I have been (and still am) ill all this week, I've managed to do my Anki cards but that's it!
AndyMeg wrote:Ya cuando estés bien te pondrás al día con tus desafíos. O, si no quieres esperar, podrías posponer el resto de desafíos hasta el próximo año y elegir un desafío más pequeño que sí creas poder alcanzar en lo que queda de este año.
I think the Kindle software includes a flashcard function, generated by the words you look up, so it might let you ditch Anki too.Bex wrote:I was thinking I may join the Super Challenge (I think it starts anew in January), although it scares me as I have read very little native material in Spanish so far, I did dabble with LWT and I enjoyed the reading (and LWT) but it was too much hassle to get out the laptop just so I could read a few pages here and there.
However I think Santa may be bringing me a kindle this year....so maybe I can try reading Spanish books on my kindle and I think I can include podcasts in the film minutes, although I'm not entirely sure of the rules on that.
I think it may be time to leap off the cliff this year and try using native materials properly.
Anki has been extremely useful for learning my past tense conjugations and I am feeling much more comfortable with them now, but I have noticed that as usual I am wasting more and more time messing around with Anki again. I can also see myself creating huge decks, I will get overwhelmed by hours of revision every day and then I drop it, so it will all be a huge waste of my time in many, many different ways.
I have a weird hatred of Anki, it wastes loads of my time but I have this irrational fear that if I don't add something to Anki it will be lost for ever and all my writing and speaking will have been for nothing.
AndyMeg wrote:From my personal experience, I believe it is better to start with small goals and then gradually increase the difficulty level. .
Bex wrote:It's impossible for me to know if it will be too much unless I try and I suspect I will have my answer within a couple of months