Your study week for logging/reporting purposes

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What constitutes your study week for logging/reporting purposes?

Monday-Sunday or equivalent (starts with the work week and ends with the weekend)
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49%
Sunday-Saturday or equivalent (starts on the last day of the weekend, ends on the first day of the weekend)
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22%
Something else - please explain
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30%
 
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Re: Your study week for logging/reporting purposes

Postby jackb » Mon May 02, 2022 3:53 pm

My log on the forum has changed since I first started it. Initially, it was a way to keep me accountable, but it morphed into a sounding board for my experiences and ideas in language learning. There is no schedule or rhythm to the posts.

I guess you can count me as a non-logger. I don't log any non-work that way.
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Re: Your study week for logging/reporting purposes

Postby Aloyse » Mon May 02, 2022 5:36 pm

jackb wrote:My log on the forum has changed since I first started it. Initially, it was a way to keep me accountable, but it morphed into a sounding board for my experiences and ideas in language learning. There is no schedule or rhythm to the posts.

I guess you can count me as a non-logger. I don't log any non-work that way.


Thanks for the explanation. Sounds quite relaxing :)
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Re: Your study week for logging/reporting purposes

Postby Aloyse » Mon May 02, 2022 6:38 pm

galaxyrocker wrote:I do find it helps me to talk about my thoughts and what I've done, though, in terms of staying consistent. So that's nice.

Agree and I also like to leave some trace of things that worked and things that didn't. It can be helpful a few years later on a different project.
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Re: Your study week for logging/reporting purposes

Postby Aloyse » Mon May 02, 2022 6:43 pm

eido wrote:somewhere along the way, I lost the stamina--or perhaps the need--to log everything in an exact manner and continued on my merry way with a more lackadaisical approach.

It is true that logging everything is an effort, takes time and energy etc. For instance I logged everything (and even more in my private logbook than what I posted publicly) the first few months of this year but I have since relented and now I log only the important things.
I think I read somewhere that having easy habits that you tick everyday encourages you to tackle the harder habits. But no, logging that I brushed my teeth didn't help me study :mrgreen: so I gave up on logging that one and a few other unskippable habits.
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Re: Your study week for logging/reporting purposes

Postby Lisa » Mon May 02, 2022 6:46 pm

I only log when I feel like I have something to say and some spare time to say it. Sometimes I regret not knowing exactly when I started and finished a book, how many pages, etc. But I don't think I'd work harder if I was accountable to a log, that's just my tendency to obsessively need to know everything and the desire to produce numeric results that I could put in a spreadsheet and create pretty charts to admire.

While I have goals (read some book, learn adjective endings, get prepositions under control), I don't think I would learn better if I tried to push myself by setting a time limit on them. The weekly italki tutor did push me to work harder, by letting me see what I was missing... but that actually lead to too many goals and too much time spent... I hate to have to admit it, but I do have to cap my language learning hours in order to keep my day job, manage my other activities, and also sleep. Especially during busy times of the year. Like now (except that it won't stop raining this spring)
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Re: Your study week for logging/reporting purposes

Postby Aloyse » Mon May 02, 2022 6:54 pm

iguanamon wrote:as everyone knows, it's hard to discuss what we do with languages with friends and family who don't share our language-related interests.

Hmm I don't think I was consciously aware of this before you mentioned it, but yes.
I remember a conversation a few years ago:
Boss: so we'll be sending each member of the team to China to support our client, rotating a new person every two weeks.
Me: oh nice, time to dust off my Chinese assimil book and maybe buy the recordings. What about you guys?
Colleague A: I'm too old to learn Chinese.
Colleague B: bof. (i.e. "not interested")
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Re: Your study week for logging/reporting purposes

Postby Aloyse » Mon May 02, 2022 7:00 pm

BeaP wrote:When I tried to plan in advance, I regularly failed to meet my goals and this only made me frustrated. I honestly don't know how much free time I'll have.

I can relate :roll: I think that's why I'm unable to start studying that technical Chinese textbook. It has 60 lessons. I can't help trying to evaluate/plan how long it will take, but if I do that I'll inevitably be disappointed when I can't sustain a fast pace, and I'll get discouraged if I plan a very slow pace which will extend the study of this book for years.
But logging a number of sessions in the week, or logging habits, is still helpful to me somehow.
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Re: Your study week for logging/reporting purposes

Postby luke » Mon May 02, 2022 8:42 pm

Aloyse wrote:But logging a number of sessions in the week, or logging habits, is still helpful to me somehow.

There's something to be said for simple logging like, "did X minutes of the audiobook" or "read Y pages". With a monster like Assimil Chinese, "I'm on lesson Z of my Nth listen-read through".
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Re: Your study week for logging/reporting purposes

Postby badger » Tue May 03, 2022 11:49 am

Le Baron wrote:I might also even have a day off mid-week. Atrocious I know. :D


I sometimes have a day off from my days off & do some studying. :D
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Re: Your study week for logging/reporting purposes

Postby Le Baron » Tue May 03, 2022 1:40 pm

badger wrote:I sometimes have a day off from my days off & do some studying. :D

Yes. This might in fact be one of the best ways to get oneself to study. Like when you have a day off work, claiming you'll just chill out, and through sheer boredom end up getting loads of tasks done.
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