lingzz_langzz wrote:Thanks for the quote!
And as for those rare languages, did you then create your own resources? How did you manage to not take notes? I think I didn't quite get that part, sorry!
I relied on reviews to make sure lessons sunk in, and I didn't mention this but I used Anki to memorize the vocabulary as well as any inflected forms, and in addition I will often write out inflection tables in MS Notepad over and over until I can do it quickly without thinking (I don't save it for posterity so I'd say that's more of an exercise than note taking).
For example, Inuktitut nouns have eight different case endings, they also inflect for singular, dual, or plural number, and if they have a possessor they also inflect for the person and number of the possessor, so for instance the word for "his hands" in the sentence "he washed his hands" would take one ending if he were washing his own hands, or another ending if he were washing, say, his son's hands. So long story short, there are a lot of noun endings to memorize.
The reason I also put vocabulary into Anki is that I don't want to have to mentally go down a list to recognize an ending, I want to be able to retrieve it independently. But I think it is also good to write out tables to see how things relate to reach other.
By the way, Levantine Arabic has very good resources. Not sure if you might already be aware of and using some of these, but Pimsleur has a 90-lesson Eastern Arabic course, there's a very extensive DLI Syrian Arabic course (which is free), and I saw a thread about a very interesting Assimil-style course for Palestinian Arabic: viewtopic.php?t=16228.