zenmonkey wrote:Persian
One of the challenges I’m addressing is vocabulary learning. But I may be over-focusing here and not really balancing my learning. The issue I see is that while I now can somewhat read words, I certainly have no mastery. So using tools like wordlists, the Persian word just doesn’t visually scan and represent a group of phonemes as easily as romanized alphabet words do. I recognize that this is slowing me down in vocabulary acquisition - there is no way in hell that I can do 50 words a day, never mind doing a focused 100.
My typing in Persian still sucks and is very slow. So for now, I'm only adding 10-20 words a day. This means I'm about 2 weeks behind on the worlds I'm seeing in my lessons.
I definitely found the same early on with Persian vocab. It's really hard to use lists to memorise, and with SRS you need audio (Memrise or Anki) at the beginning to make vocab work at all. No idea how much it costs, but the Microsoft Azure Persian TTS engine now seems quite good, and works with AwesomeTTS on Anki. There are frequency lists out there that you can use to avoid typing if its slowing you down; I did that, and then ended up downloading sounds one by one from forvo. It was ridiculously time consuming, and if I did things over I'd seriously consider spending money on Forvo/Azure or something...
Of course, some of the Memrise courses do have audio already.