Re: The Chronicles of An Overly Ambitious Soon To Be 20 year old.
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 1:57 am
French
Looking through the Readlang French library for C1-C2 texts with a mixture of amusement and disbelief. Disbelief at the fact that they actually seem quite easy, leading to the conclusion that either they aren't actually C1-C2 texts or perhaps I've grossly underestimated my French reading level. Amusement at the thought that my poor listening comprehension and subsequent lack of output could be the only things keeping me at B1, while my reading comprehension and passive vocab is miles ahead.
Either way, I'll finish my French film half SC first and see what to do next. I may need to extend it and make all French related activities purely passive, with the exception of the active wave for NFWE and Glossika. I may also do an Output Challenge much later in the year, after I've fixed my listening comprehension problem. In any case, things look very positive indeed.
German:
Some SC reading, some wordlisting. Not much, but I'm fine with that for now since my attention has been focused on French.
Spanish
Approaching the start of the active wave. Every new lesson is still rather breezy and I find that the progressive Scriptorium of previous lessons allows me to go over the lessons with a fine comb, retaining and remembering stuff that I'd already forgotten.
Italian
Stopped the CPR since Spanish is interfering too much. Will have to wait much later, it seems.
Dabbling
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek is starting to look a lot less like gibberish everyday and more like something I have a chance of actually understanding. Steadfastly avoiding the massive declension tables for now and focusing solely on learning the grammar points specifically needed to get through each Assimil lesson. Not entirely sure what to do about vocab, since my use of Ancient Greek would be entirely passive. I sincerely dislike prolonged Anki use, and would prefer Chinese water torture to the reviewing of cards everyday.
At least the torture ends after a few minutes when I give up the information to the whereabouts of the delicious baked goods that my captors surely crave.
Latin
Neglected largely due to time constraints but I'm interested in finishing Evan der Milner's London Latin course. Already, half forgotten knowledge is returning. Returning slowly, but returning none the less.
Verdict: Highly positive
Looking through the Readlang French library for C1-C2 texts with a mixture of amusement and disbelief. Disbelief at the fact that they actually seem quite easy, leading to the conclusion that either they aren't actually C1-C2 texts or perhaps I've grossly underestimated my French reading level. Amusement at the thought that my poor listening comprehension and subsequent lack of output could be the only things keeping me at B1, while my reading comprehension and passive vocab is miles ahead.
Either way, I'll finish my French film half SC first and see what to do next. I may need to extend it and make all French related activities purely passive, with the exception of the active wave for NFWE and Glossika. I may also do an Output Challenge much later in the year, after I've fixed my listening comprehension problem. In any case, things look very positive indeed.
German:
Some SC reading, some wordlisting. Not much, but I'm fine with that for now since my attention has been focused on French.
Spanish
Approaching the start of the active wave. Every new lesson is still rather breezy and I find that the progressive Scriptorium of previous lessons allows me to go over the lessons with a fine comb, retaining and remembering stuff that I'd already forgotten.
Italian
Stopped the CPR since Spanish is interfering too much. Will have to wait much later, it seems.
Dabbling
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek is starting to look a lot less like gibberish everyday and more like something I have a chance of actually understanding. Steadfastly avoiding the massive declension tables for now and focusing solely on learning the grammar points specifically needed to get through each Assimil lesson. Not entirely sure what to do about vocab, since my use of Ancient Greek would be entirely passive. I sincerely dislike prolonged Anki use, and would prefer Chinese water torture to the reviewing of cards everyday.
At least the torture ends after a few minutes when I give up the information to the whereabouts of the delicious baked goods that my captors surely crave.
Latin
Neglected largely due to time constraints but I'm interested in finishing Evan der Milner's London Latin course. Already, half forgotten knowledge is returning. Returning slowly, but returning none the less.
Verdict: Highly positive