Add me please. I need about 3,600 more words to hit 10k, 5k wordlisted and 5k prior, and be done with active vocab study for German for now.
Minimum acceptable words learnt for April: 1,200.
Actual goal: 3,600. Go big or go home
April Vocabulary Challenge
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- Orange Belt
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Re: April Vocabulary Challenge
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Re: April Vocabulary Challenge
reineke wrote:I did say that it's impossibile to make the challenge fair but there's no reason to make it extra unfair. Conjugations have built-in mnemonics so I would count parlare as one word and ignore different conjugations. Even if you're only counting individual dictionary headwords, most English-speaking students of Romance languages will have an advantage. Anyway, it's your challenge. Have fun.
Again, I agree. You are absolutely right. But the only way to make the challenge fair would be splitting it into many (usually one person) challenges, sorted by the language.
I think the challenge serves its purpose as long as it makes us sit down and work with our SRS (or another method) for much longer than we would otherwise do.
And yes, conjugations are easier than completely new words, as they follow some rules. But, on the other hand, it is tricky not to mix the forms up since they are so similar sometimes.
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Re: April Vocabulary Challenge
I've edited Brun Ugle's post and added Atinkoriko.
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Re: April Vocabulary Challenge
add me please :^)
Language(s): French, B1-2
Estimate of pre-April voabulary: 4500
Goal: definitely pass 5000, maybe get to 5250
Words Learned in April: ~100
Language(s): French, B1-2
Estimate of pre-April voabulary: 4500
Goal: definitely pass 5000, maybe get to 5250
Words Learned in April: ~100
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Re: April Vocabulary Challenge
I am probably not going to do anymore tonight, so figure I may as well post my total so far since the start of the challenge.
My total so far is 801 words. I guess I am easily on track for my goal, so I may have to modify it and see how it goes. I was not actually overly happy with the time I was able to devote to the challenge, so all in all, I can not really complain with my total thus far.
I hope everyone else have been having a more productive time with it. Good luck for the following week
My total so far is 801 words. I guess I am easily on track for my goal, so I may have to modify it and see how it goes. I was not actually overly happy with the time I was able to devote to the challenge, so all in all, I can not really complain with my total thus far.
I hope everyone else have been having a more productive time with it. Good luck for the following week
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Re: April Vocabulary Challenge
yves wrote:add me please :^)
Language(s): French, B1-2
Estimate of pre-April voabulary: 4500
Goal: definitely pass 5000, maybe get to 5250
Words Learned in April: ~100
Added! (Sorry for the delay, I've been very sick the past few days.)
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Re: April Vocabulary Challenge
Aaaand it's Saturday April 7th
Everyone has until Sunday, April 8th at midnight EST time to post how many new words they've learned this week.
Everyone has until Sunday, April 8th at midnight EST time to post how many new words they've learned this week.
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: Hebrew: A Language Course 1
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: Hebrew: A Language Course 3
: Hebrew Comprehensible Input (500 Hours)
: Hebrew: A Language Course 1
: Hebrew: A Language Course 2
: Hebrew: A Language Course 3
: Hebrew Comprehensible Input (500 Hours)
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Just 100 words so far...auē ka hilahila (how embarrassing)! To be fair though, I have been both ill and crazy busy.
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- Brun Ugle
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I've done 180 new cards on Memrise so far. I'm learning vocabulary from other sources too, but that's harder to count, so I'm only counting Memrise cards for the challenge.
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Re: April Vocabulary Challenge
CurlySue wrote:Aaaand it's Saturday April 7th
Everyone has until Sunday, April 8th at midnight EST time to post how many new words they've learned this week.
Actually, Saturday is April 8, and Sunday is April 9th.
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