What are your current language learning habits?
I expect a variety of responses from people in different stages of life and language learning. It's often fun and helpful to me to see how others manage their language learning schedule.
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I'm about to enter an intensive season of learning, so my routine (as much as I can keep it) is as follows. Just cut the tutoring time and audio review (3 hours) and that would be my normal capacity.
Today's work:
Anki (20 minutes):
Working through All NT words in Koine (10 new words until hard)
Exercise's from Bett's Greek Grammar into Anki (2 new sentences/paragraphs)
Working through Bangla Kitab word frequency scrape (3 new words)
Bangla Newspaper Archives word frequency scrape (1 new word)
Professor Shonku word frequency scrape (10 new words and a lot of suspended cards)
Mounce's Grammar Exam review (1 page, 10 minutes)
Bangla reading (20+ minutes)
Massage 1 hour of Bangla native-to-native discourse with Tutor (2 hours)
Review massage audio (90 minutes)
This will be my routine as much as possible. We have a move coming up, and I have baby duty after 12 noon and other work to do.
Essentially language and odds and ends work from 7-12pm. Then from 12-5pm baby duty (I can get in some audio listening while I'm with baby, and some tasks during baby's naps.)
What is your current daily routine?
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Re: What is your current daily routine?
I maintain 10 languages, one per day, and do daily intensive reading in Mandarin, in this order:
Anki reviews for today's language (1 to 5 min).
Scriptorium if today's language has a non-latin script (10 to 15 min).
Conversation class in today's language (30 min).
Read/listen in today's language (10 to 30 min).
Anki reviews for all remaining languages (20 to 30 min).
Watch video in today's language. (15 to 30 min).
Intensive Mandarin reading exercise per this post. (1 to 2 hours).
Possibly watch more videos in today's language. (0 to 60 min)
Anki reviews for today's language (1 to 5 min).
Scriptorium if today's language has a non-latin script (10 to 15 min).
Conversation class in today's language (30 min).
Read/listen in today's language (10 to 30 min).
Anki reviews for all remaining languages (20 to 30 min).
Watch video in today's language. (15 to 30 min).
Intensive Mandarin reading exercise per this post. (1 to 2 hours).
Possibly watch more videos in today's language. (0 to 60 min)
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Re: What is your current daily routine?
leosmith wrote:I maintain 10 languages, one per day, and do daily intensive reading in Mandarin, in this order:
Anki reviews for today's language (1 to 5 min).
Scriptorium if today's language has a non-latin script (10 to 15 min).
Conversation class in today's language (30 min).
Read/listen in today's language (10 to 30 min).
Anki reviews for all remaining languages (20 to 30 min).
Watch video in today's language. (15 to 30 min).
Intensive Mandarin reading exercise per this post. (1 to 2 hours).
Possibly watch more videos in today's language. (0 to 60 min)
Thanks! Most impressive. This is exactly the kind of response I was looking for.
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Re: What is your current daily routine?
leosmith wrote:Conversation class in today's language (30 min).
Read/listen in today's language (10 to 30 min).
What do you mean by conversation class? Do you have language partners which you rotate on a daily basis?
When it comes to reading, it is usually newspapers, I suppose?
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Conversation classes on either Italki or Language Crush. I used to do language partners but find them too unreliable now. Reading/listening on the LC reading tool - either Conversations or subtitles from miscellaneous series.einzelne wrote:What do you mean by conversation class? Do you have language partners which you rotate on a daily basis? When it comes to reading, it is usually newspapers, I suppose?
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Re: What is your current daily routine?
You might benefit from the answers in some of the existing threads:
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... hp?t=16624
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... php?t=4881
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... php?t=6578
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... hp?t=18388
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... php?t=1376
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... hp?t=16624
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... php?t=4881
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... php?t=6578
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... hp?t=18388
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... php?t=1376
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Re: What is your current daily routine?
I've reached a point where I can read and listen to things (slowly) and get the gist of what is being said. With that in mind, I don't follow a strict routine. All I do is keep 2-3 hours throughout the day for language practice—1.5 to 2 hours in the evening after uni, and 1 hour worth of listening/reading interspersed throughout the day. I make sure to stick with materials that I comprehend. I read intermediate texts that are more informative and less literary and artistic, because the latter is still hard for me to understand with all its metaphors and idioms. If I trip up on grammar, I leaf through a reference book to refresh my memory. In the case of French, Modern French Grammar and Grammaire Progressive are great resources.
This is just my preference. I am not a fan of memorizing vocabulary lists or grammar rules. If I do want to learn something new, I write it down in a notebook once, write out some example sentences, and then review what I wrote over the next few days and weeks. Never fails.
This is just my preference. I am not a fan of memorizing vocabulary lists or grammar rules. If I do want to learn something new, I write it down in a notebook once, write out some example sentences, and then review what I wrote over the next few days and weeks. Never fails.
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Re: What is your current daily routine?
Listen to a podcast while doing morning stretches, watch 10 or 15 minutes of German TV or videos during lunch hour and maybe the same again at dinner, do a few DuoLingo exercises. I might open a proper textbook once every week or two.
Yes, by following my routine, you too might reach conversational level in a decade or two!
I've been much more serious in the past though. At my peak I was doing an Assimil or textbook lesson every day before work, an hour or more of listening in the evening, listening to radio/music/podcasts in the background during the day, some reading (online and books) throughout the day, and a language meetup or exchange or lesson in the evening a few days per week. Never again.
Yes, by following my routine, you too might reach conversational level in a decade or two!
I've been much more serious in the past though. At my peak I was doing an Assimil or textbook lesson every day before work, an hour or more of listening in the evening, listening to radio/music/podcasts in the background during the day, some reading (online and books) throughout the day, and a language meetup or exchange or lesson in the evening a few days per week. Never again.
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Re: What is your current daily routine?
Stefan wrote:You might benefit from the answers in some of the existing threads:
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... hp?t=16624
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... php?t=4881
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... php?t=6578
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... hp?t=18388
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... php?t=1376
Thanks! Sorry about the redundancy. I did search first, but probably improperly, as I don't think I saw these.
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Re: What is your current daily routine?
I just try to commit myself to do at least one task a day. For example, currently I am learning a list of vocabulary theme related words, and writing sentences with them. Sometimes, I try to focuse just in listening. But at least, I try to do one thing related to language learning every day.
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