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Lamont, within those 6 hours, what would you recommend doing? I'm a complete beginner in Korean and haven't yet incorporated Anki into my learning yet (I'll do so later). I have a schedule/plan for the day which should roughly add up to me interacting with Korean 3 hours a day, but most days I end up not doing and end up doing way less.
@CRASSrules - yeah they revamped their system, I should have a new one within a day or so. Sorry about the slow reply - I'm actually much less likely to see replies to comments than I am to see new comments.
Mate I'm British but I've lived in Spain for years and have spoken Spanish now for over 10 years. I'm completely fluent and really looking forward to your first video where I can hear you speak Spanish for the first time :D
For anyone watching, if you want to convert your cards into sentence cards like he did, there's a much easier way to do it. You don't need to copy and paste each word individually. If you open the "card" formatting, you can add a variable to the front of the card {{Example Sentence}}, and it'll automatically show up on every card. - Ben
Yeah, and for the record (for those reading), I knew you could do this but I was scared of messing up the formatting and I also thought that I might only need like 400 with the changed formatting. It didn't occur to me until night time that I should have done this earlier.
this inspired me to set a challenge of learning 500 new japanese words today. I only ended up learning about 110 but thats way more than i would've had i not seen this video, and also way more than i've ever learnt in a day so big thanks for making this video! I love challenges like this that seem impossible, and sometimes might be but its fun to try anyway!
I did that too about two years ago, I learned 70 - 100 words per day in Japanese. It was because back then, I hated the thought of having a deck for more than three months. Now I've calmed down a lot and I'm learning 20 - 35 per day. I'm not sure how I used to do it, I can hardly do my reviews now lol
I think it is quite a good strategy to just go through 1000+ words as early as possible. I notice some just stick after just seeing it once and other don't, leaches. So I think it is good idea to learn all the words that will stick around as soon as possible.
@@karadx950 youre a monster for that, when I was actively studying Chinese I would do 30ish words a day and on saturday mornings do 100 words and after just a couple weeks of that it was over 2 hours on anki to clear the day each day which took a number of weeks with no new words to get down to a more reasonable time
All the learning research I've seen shows that spacing out your learning over time is far more effective than cramming your study into a short amount of time. In the long term, you spend less time studying and you retain the information longer. That said, I think we need to consider that we're not robots that can just program a long-term schedule and execute it flawlessly. Human passions wax and wane. In the beginning of a language learning journey, our passion is often at a peak. I like to take advantage of this swell of motivation and do as much practice as I possibly can whenever I start something new.
Yeah... Obviously, 20 words a day for 50 days would be much more sensible... but the other thing is, it would mean making two more videos to gain the same kind of traffic that this one might gain, which would in turn mean less time for Spanish.
My problem with Pomodoro is that it has you artificially stopping for no good reason other than the clock saying so. I tend to be on Stephen's (aka Coffezilla) side when he says that if he finds a state of flow he can go for 5 or 6 hours. OK not with language study, as it's a little more intense... but certainly 3 hours. I'm pretty sure someone basically just came up with these 25 minutes on 5 minutes off rules.
Depends on situation. Some people due to professional reasons have to get down to cramming in a very short amount fo time. But yes, agreed, this is exhausting. No doubt about. As for this experiment to get credible results it should be repeated in a longer span of time in accordance with retention check-ups as suggested by well- known and relatively well-tested forgetting curve. Personally I do not love this way of learning vocabulary, however it may seem time-effective just becuase it's to boring for the brain to score high in terms of rapid and permanent transfer of new input to long-term memory and this is what real retention and language learning should be about. SInce I'm not interested in how high are score in some gamification game. All I care about is how effectively I can get to near native level in my target language. If I have to give it more time, I give it more time if I may afford it. But I'm not really interested in methods that will get me stuck well below C1 level. To everything like this I will always say "thank you very much, not so interested". But for me aany new language is a practical tool, so well, my expecations differ from expactations of holiday makers. For them cramming like this maybe might be of value. For me, yeah, when I need it but as someone really passionate about languages not the most effective method I know and not the most engaging. At times I literally feel my brain falling asleeping in the middle of such training sessions. As for passion being at the peak at the very start, I think people who never reach fluency in their target foreign language have this problem from such thinking,putting to much trust in this passion. Would any of them would do so if let's say this would be their job or school? Would they wait for the moment of a passionate inspiration to get anything done and to make any progress? I bet the answer would be: NO! it's the same with foreign langauges. Just accept it's a process, sometimes it's the last thing you wanna do but you know you have to do it daily. Sometimes it's a pain in the ass and sometimes it's utterly frustrating, just accept it. Anything that makes people gain any tangible results- job, studies, school, gym, any training, language learning just needs time, repetitive effort, learning by constant trial and error, getting tired, getting annoyed, going through periods of being bored with it as well as through phases of enjoying it. It's just normal learning in order to get tangible effects thing. There is little diffrence between bulking up at gym and this. Having said so I think I will take break from German and Spanish now given that French, Italian and Swedish do deserve some love it. If my life and work would be any less hetic I would love to add Swahili and Hindi to the mix but as for it probably will have to wait till summer. ;-) As for cramming, professionals are given 2 years tops to achieve C1 in a new one, so yeah, obviously professionals as adults are cramming. But other experts in other fields are also cramming. All adults know what it is like to go to a 2 day training with curriculum normlally covered within a year and someone at work epxecting you to pass some exam and to get some certification within next 2 weeks or 2 months tops since completion of such training. ;-) Nothing new to adults really. we simply do not like to discuss it in public.
Probably my favorite language learning channel... I'm born bilingual English Hungarian... Started Spanish for real at age 50 and 2.5 years later i haven't missed a day... I watch Steve Kaufman and krashen and Lindsey and you and Luca and Olly and like 3 others for inspiration... Yours is the most real ...for me.. thanks... Of course french farsi and Portuguese are next
i've been a full time language teacher for 22 years, and just found you recently because of the video reply you did to Cristian Canguro. love the channel. wish i wasn't teaching 40 hours a week, i might be able to put some effort into my video like you do. keep up the great work, mate.
Hola Lamont, a partir de ahora voy a escribir los comentarios en español, espero que te sirva para practicar 😄 Todo el mundo habla de Anki, pero no lo he usado nunca todavía. Me da un poco de pereza porque no me gusta mucho aprender vocabulario con listas y cosas así... Pero gracias por hacer este experimento, me parece muy interesante 😊 Aunque pueda ser aburrido estudiar de modo tan intensivo, seguro que te ha servido y es impresionante que estés ya leyendo libros, enhorabuena 👏👏👏
Thank you so much Laura! Honestly, I COULD understand everything ("a partir de ahora" I figured out from context... from now on, right?) - and the last word I will have to look up in a second... I think I understand everything else, but I won't try to write in Spanish. 😬 I'm only able to read very slowly and I miss a LOT... but I can follow along in some way... like a 5 year old can watch a romantic comedy and sort of get the idea I guess. Anyway, I will keep enjoying your comments in Spanish!
"When there's something I don't like doing but that I should do more of, the key is not to 'try to do more of it.' For me, the key is to set aside a period of time in which I do nothing but that thing... Doing things that you think you might not like or might be really hard is primarily about the way you frame them and the environment you set up for them." This is my biggest takeaway from this video. I can think of tons of things in my life that would benefit from this kind of structure, this gives me lots of ideas and motivation to go tackle some things I've been putting off.
It's really powerful. The hardest part is finding the time, e.g. my yard/outer house is in terrible condition but it'll take like 2 days to fix and I can't make a video out of it haha.
@@daysandwords Haha true. For me it's professional development stuff, like coding. I know improving my coding would be super useful for my job and career, but it's not something I ever have time at work to improve and I just haven't been motivated enough to do it for very long after work. Just dedicating a whole Saturday to it would make it fun, and build some momentum that would make me want to keep going. I think one key to making that day successful is having a plan, if you start your 24 hours with no clue where to begin then it's gonna be tough. For this you had a clear goal, get through a specific Anji deck. "Get better at coding" and "fix up the yard" both needs more structure to make them less icky. Then again, if you have the whole day, you'll kinda figure it out as you go and a couple hours in you'll probably have a good idea of where you want to end up.
I started watching your video when I was already very sleepy, and somewhere near the end of it I actually did start falling asleep. In my pseudo-dream, all the numbers you were saying changed to describing reps of some physical feat such as push-ups. I started thinking, “I could never do 340 push-ups in that amount of time!“ Then I woke up and watched that section again, and it made much more sense that you were talking about words. 😄
Hey man, just wanted to say this is an absolutely incredible video. It's a great idea for a video, but I must say it's really the editing and structure of the video that made it so incredible. I was absolutely hooked all the way through, by the end I couldn't believe nearly half an hour had passed (and I would consider myself someone with a relatively short attention span). The interesting facts and shots directly addressing the camera interspersed with shots of the "action" (you actually doing Anki), as well as B-roll, but with a high-quality voiceover. It just felt like a really seamless experience, something I'd expect from a RU-vidr much bigger than yourself. No doubt, with videos of this quality though, you will soon be part of that "bigger RU-vidrs" group. I've been dabbling with making RU-vid videos myself ever since I was 16 (2016), and only recently made the commitment to myself to really give it a proper shot with this current channel I have (the one I'm commenting with). My videos are nowhere near the quality of yours yet, but I will definitely be saving this video in a private playlist you have inspired me to make, of videos that represent the level of quality I would like to achieve someday. Also awesome to hear you're Australian (I am too), as I don't see much of us in the language learning space here on RU-vid. Hopefully my comment here doesn't appear too over-the-top, I just rarely find myself so absorbed by RU-vid content nowadays so I really felt the need to say something, especially since your channel is in the ball-park of what I would still consider a "smaller channel"--I thought since you might not be seeing the positive feedback in the numbers yet, I'd really like to give it to you in the form of comments. Hopefully you are seeing the feedback in the numbers, though, and if you aren't, I'm sure you will soon. Ok that's it from me haha.
Loved the silly 80's montage! I like the idea of resetting your normal -- jet lag forced me into a natural early-bird schedule that turned into daily life, but I've lost it a bit this past week. Hoping to regain an earlier schedule before the next semester starts up so I'm not always so tired at work. Maybe I'll tackle two goals at once and also reset my normal to include much more language exposure in a day. :)
This video inspired me to just say "fuck it" and learn 500 new Italian words that I was planning on studying longterm (seeing 4 new words a day, the way you explained it in your video about Anki). I'm glad I did it, and afterwards I simply carried on as usual, just with those 500 cards more in my repertoire. I'm planning on getting the french refold deck and doing something similar, maybe 300 words during my next train ride home. Thank you for this video Lamont, you're my biggest inspiration!
Really interesting. I’ve been using refold to learn Spanish for about 6 months or so and am considering doing this now as I’ve kind off fallen off with Anki but probably still have like 400 words I don’t know just due to lack of exposure after I stopped… great video!
Thanks for the effort you put into this 😃 I really didn't mind the length of the video either. It was good to have something long enough to do a chore while watching
That was epic, I can't believe you actually got through them all! Looks like ES1K doesn't have images yet, but it will soon! That should be a big aid to memory too. What I most want to comment on is the sentence on the front format. I totally agree with you that even for beginners, the front of the card should have a sentence. Which is why the Refold Korean deck version 2 which is coming out soon will have the sentences on the front *and* will be entirely 1T, *and* it considers grammar as a target as well, not just vocab. So there should only ever be one new thing per card. I'm part of the team building that deck and it is almost ready, hope you will consider checking it out when you are back from Mexico! It has been a labor of love!
The idea pf resetting your limits was quite interesting.I'm currnetly in the position when i have to tremendously increase my level of comperhension in the Kazakh language, the last language you'd ever call easy, and i noticed that after doing 300-400 anki card a day, the regular 80 seem like nothing.
Insanely admirable. I’m doing 3-4 hour of German a day, and like Spanish to you, German resembles nothing I know, so I understand the struggle. Sure, French helps with the similar order of sentences and similar conjugation, but it isn’t as similar to Spanish as say… Italian is, for example. Not easy at all. Well done!
I think it would be interesting to try this with the card in English and you have to translate into Spanish. Or if the deck had 2000 cards with both English to Spanish and Spanish to English. My German deck does that and I find that works much better for ability to recall.
Yo no entiendo como rayos llegué aquí pero ajá, genial que puedas aprender español tan rapido y ojalá que ahora lo puedas hablar. Es un idioma divertido pero confuso cuando te das cuenta que en casi todos los paises lo hablamos diferente (unos más rapidos, otros más coloquiales o con diferente palabras), pero es entretenido, buena suerte con eso!
40 words a week is good going though! Obviously what I did here (even if I really DID learn 1000 words, which I didn't) is not replicable long term. I think 20 words a day for a year would be super intense, but doable.
@@daysandwords I’m learning the 40ish with Duolingo, so I think a lot of it is also conjugations and stuff. Probably closer to around 30, now that I think of it…. I’ve decided I’m okay learning at this pace, but I also need to develop more of a routine with reading Spanish short stories in morning, and will incorporate a version of your ‘50X Spider-Man’ viewing’ for myself, for night times’.
@@daysandwords Despite your videos, I do feel you can become fluent with Duo, and I legit enjoy the platform. I feel the streak is great for keeping me accountable. I just can’t rely on it for comprehension of the vocabulary that it gives. That’s the mistake that so many make.
I am not saying (and have never said) that Duolingo does nothing. Obviously, if one knows nothing, or very little, then the app will teach you SOMETHING. But you're NOT becoming fluent with Duolingo... *big breath* alone. You're not becoming fluent with Duolingo alone. Not even close to fluent. You're going to have to use other things... and if you do that, and you become fluent, that's fine... but I'm sick of people walking to the airport, flying over the ocean, and then telling me that they walked over the ocean. It's ridiculous.
@@daysandwords Ha yeah. Vocabulary knowledge is what gives you the knowledge to start flying the plane. What you do with the knowledge is going to determine whether you ever reach conversational fluency.
This was brilliant. I’m really curious to see how your Spanish journey goes! In regards to retold, is it worth it if you have attained b1 level already?
I would say Refold is even more worthwhile between B1 and C1 than at the early stages where basically anything will sort of get the job done. I doubt my speaking is at B1 yet, I've not really tried.
This is amazing, I was planning 1 annual leave day per month or every 6 weeks for a “super focussed” learning day - this video has totally inspired me to push ahead with that… and I bought the Spanish deck and got back on anki!
@@daysandwords 🙈 very poor Spanish since we are a household of monolinguals but Netflix is always Spanish. I have every confidence though that it is possible and and by the time they are 5 we will be able to manage entire days in Spanish.
Same! From what you're saying it sounds as though my Swedish is more advanced than your Spanish, but I do try to raise my younger one in Swedish, but it's still hard because although I can speak Swedish all the time, it often seems impractical when you've got to tell him not to run on the road or not to throw my mug down the stairs or whatever lecture it is for that day/morning/minute. But he understands quite a lot of Swedish and just recently even seems to be choosing it appropriately, as in, using it to say some things to me, but not to other people. I also TRY to keep content in Swedish but sometimes mum (my wife) ends up putting anything she can find on. I am hoping to get a video out about this in maybe a month or so. Keep it up in any case!
Great video, very inspiring, makes me want to up my game. Please do a Spanish novel recommendation at some point, with the level you think they are and a short review! I'd love to sink my teeth into a bit of reading while I keep on binging Dreaming Spanish.
Amazing! I really liked this video. I guess it would be a bit harder for languages like Japanese or Chinese where you not only have to recall the meaning but also the reading. I might give 1k a day a try too at some point, but perhaps only for on'yomi words where the reading is easy.
I did intense studies with my own SRS deck at the beginning of my French journey and new about 1000 words fairly quickly. But ... none of these words were available to me in a conversation. I kinda stopped with that and focused on tutoring lessons/ reading/ series but ... what do I do now with all those words I collect in my tutoring lessons but don't learn organically? :P Stuck at B2 because of this =/
Your reasoning at 14:42 really sheds some great insights and I gotta say that I agree with your viewpoint! Do you forsee yourself doing this regularly with new decks of words spanning various degrees of difficulty?
Amazing achievement! Stellar video. What is going on with your Swedish at the same time? I struggle with anki but I have to acknowlege that I should use SRS in a more structured way. An interesting take on establishing a baseline. Are you planning to review all those cards every day/week/month? Or when anki tells you? Top job and great filming.
"What's bigger than a ballpark" A big ballpark 🙂(id guess a stadium is the correct answer, there's one that fit 100.000 people, forgot where it's located but I remember it was rarely used due to how absurdly big it was).
What an interesting video! I’m not a fan of intentional SRS generally (I like the ‘natural’ SRS we get from just reading), but I can completely see how something like this would be incredibly valuable at around an A2 ish level, even if just to make more complicated (aka interesting) content more comprehensible. I’m going to look in to something like this for my Turkish (not 1000 in a day though… but maybe 50-100 over a few weeks could be beneficial). I’m getting about two to three hours a day of Turkish in (an hour and a half of that is passive listening of content on repeat), but I still see that this could be a worthwhile exercise. If not, it’s only two weeks and I don’t have a deadline like you. I’m still doing about two hours of Swedish (all passive audiobook listening) though and I have a question: I’m guessing I’m a high B2. Not C1 yet though as I don’t speak enough to be at that level. I’m finding that I hear a word that I don’t know once but then never hear it again. I don’t do any ‘active’ Swedish study now, but you mentioned that you took some time and wrote words like that down… did I understand that right?
From B2 Swedish to C1 I did Anki with sentence mining... I did the writing the words down at more like A2 but I thought I was B2 when I did that (I was wrong).
What’s up man. I got to a conversational level in Spanish in 1 year, still going obviously also at a very high level in American Sign Language, totally fluent. For Spanish I would really really really recommend Spanish with Paul’s structure course. Bc when you get to the more advanced grammar, the subjunctive and these type of things his approach to that is far superior than anything I’ve seen. No fluff, no acronyms just “you have phrases that will trigger the subjunctive” es bueno que, es importante que, es malo que etc etc. So if you take that approach you will handle to subjunctive 100 times better than having the typical acronym that you will see used that basically allows you to talk yourself into it and out of it with basically anything you could think of. He gives you a lot of verbs and gets you fully comfortable with the top ten verbs. As someone who got a 13 /100 on an English grammar test in school that uses proper grammar in Spanish there is no better structure course on the internet. Every course he has is fantastic, I did all of them. His basis is Michelle Thomas, that’s how you learn all the grammar…..I also spend 4 hours plus a day on Spanish, but that’s beside the point. The resource is sound, it will get you reading at an high intermediate level quickly bc the structure will make sense. I can recommend other stuff as well, but I would really suggest doing at least his structure course. Enjoy the journey!
Just like in couch polyglots comment she uses “es impresionante que” that will ALWAYS trigger the subjunctive. So in reference to my comment it’s really easy to build up a Catalog in your head of subjunctive uses…..there are some other ways spanish speakers use it creatively etc. Some things that only use it sometimes but Spanish with Paul covers those.
Watching this again, I’ve decided I’m going to spend a week learning new vocabulary with Anki, rather than Duolingo. I actually would like to take a similar test to what you did at the end, before and after my Anki practice. This seems like it would be literally 5x or more faster than Duolingo.
@@daysandwords I’m at 750 words on Duolingo after over 3 months of probably around 45 minutes a day on average. I guess that’s not awful, but the pace of new vocab keeps slowing down with each unit. The app isn’t garbage, but I know it’s only attractive to me because of ‘the ease’.
@@daysandwordsMan, it really depends. I test out a lot with Duo, but then that sort of defeats the entire purpose of their app. I actually really enjoy the structure of it though. I just wish that maybe the units were half as long. I made it almost to unit 4, when I stopped using it. Got bored and began experimenting with other things. I haven’t found another method that I really felt was more productive…. Besides Anki. I finally paid for it and this deck for the first time today. I made it through 500 words already 😂
It’s worth noting that I have a girlfriend who is from Mexico, so Duolingo is good, due to me being able to hear the words almost immediately after I learn them. You learn so slowly with duo, that every word that is introduced is basically embedded in your head during every conversation you have for a month.
Thanks for gutting this out. I settled on the fact I'll never include flashcard reviews in my daily life. Especially when I found this research study which said "Participants viewed pictures of 2,500 objects over the course of 5.5 h. Afterward, they were shown pairs of images and indicated which of the two they had seen. The previously viewed item could be paired with either an object from a novel category, an object of the same basic-level category, or the same object in a different state or pose. Performance in each of these conditions was remarkably high (92%, 88%, and 87%, respectively), suggesting that participants successfully maintained detailed representations of thousands of images." I came to the conclusion that I have the patience to do massive single run through decks and then just trash them after because the chance I'll recognize a word (within reading at least) will be significantly higher if I just give it one chance to see it/remember it. My one and done decks never got past 150 so 1000 is quite a feat. I think I'll give a 1000 one a go soon but over 3 days instead of 1 day haha.
What an interesting and inspiring challenge. When you say that afterwards you remember quite a lot of the words you learned, do you mean that you remember very well that you can speak them or only passively that if you read a book then you are able to understand?
All English words ending in -tion can be changed into Spanish by making it -ción. There’s about 1,000 of them and all feminine gender thus taking the article ‘la’. And that was less than a minute.
Yeah, unfortunately I already knew that so none of those would count. Also it's not true, there are English words that end in "-ion" (whether it's tion, sion, cion) that are not the same word in Spanish; that is either they don't exist or they mean something totally different.
Hi, can someone explain step by step what is required to use this deck? What app is he using, is it refold or anki, as he uses these names interchangeably. Can you use it on mobile? Sorry im new to all of this. I checked the anki site in the past and i have no idea which deck is useful and if they might contain errors, thanks for your help.
Hi, Thanks for this question. First things first, I'm not using the words "Anki" and "Refold" interchangeably. Anki is a computer application (or program) similar to Microsoft Word or Adobe Photoshop, except that it's completely free to download. Refold is a company who teach people to learn languages by immerson. Refold made this "deck". A deck is a collection of cards which have a "front" and a "back", so you look at the front and see if you can remember the back. In this case the front is a Spanish word and the back is a translation plus an example. Refold made this deck, but you also need to download Anki to use it.
@@supernova1234ukYep that's it. You can also get Anki on your phone and even sync between phone and PC if you want but I haven't personally done that. Refold recommends you complete the decks at 10 cards a day for 100 days.
If it wasn't for you making this video with very clear rules and documentation of the process I would have ended the video thinking "yet another language youtuber bulshiting himself and his audience" but this video was really well made. Keep it up!
Thanks for saying so. I honestly have to force myself to be this clickbaity. I'd rather do videos like "The cognitive processes that change as a result of learning a language".
@@daysandwords Clickbaty titles are fine and even essential in todays RU-vid, my issue was rather that many videos from other language learning youtubers that get suggested to me almost always underdeliver, so nothing wrong with the title as long as the video itself is well made! (It was actually rather a critique of these other people and not you^^)
Well the entire room was incredibly bright (the video hides it but there is actually a massive amount of light), so no it's not too bad. Normally what hurts your eyes with TV is the contrast between it and what's around it, and I didn't have that problem.
@@daysandwords I dont know exactly what it is called, but like how many cards are shown or how often it should do "reviews". Are there some sort of optimal set of settings you have to put in place in order to do this in anki?
You've got to get to know your own memory a little bit. Personally, I rarely forget anything that I've seen in the last 3 minutes, so I change the first interval to 3, and the second interval to 14. That's above Anki's default of 1 minute and 10. You'd never get through this many cards if you saw cards that you failed in 1 minute. So that's just in the first row of options, you just write 3 and then 14 (with a space, no comma or anything).
I learned a new word from the scattered Swedish flashcards! Kryphål is 'loophole', but kryp is insect or crawl, so it seems to me more like creep-hole, like a backdoor. It seems to me to imply that those who use loopholes are a bit slimy
Yeah haha, but to me it's always sounded like crawl hole, as in a hole you can get through if you do the right thing... but yeah it's probably a bit more pejorative than loophole.
@Sharon oddlyenough - I also happened to just today learn about ett kryphål som finns i Sverige... I dunno if you've ever heard of EPA-drivers or "eparaggare"? I had seen a few of Emil Hansius' videos in which he goes cruising with people who drive these weird looking cars... but I only today learned that it's actually a class of vehicle that gets by through a loophole: if they only have two seats (or no backseats at least) and can only go 30km/h, they can be registered as tractors and are therefore almost free to register. So there's this whole class of youngsters who make their car comply with that and then they go and hang out together and it's created this whole kind of subculture... I knew about the subculture but not about how it came about.
@@daysandwords I know of eparaggare but not about them, because I briefly went down a rabbit hole of classic car restoration. It sounds exactly like something my brother and his friends would have been doing if we had the same rule here in Canada 😃
Hmm, that's pretty tough. You've got two languages way too close together to be studying at the same time, and then at a similar level too. What I would do is get really good at ONE OR TWO aspects of EACH. e.g. learn all the tenses and become like a tense "grand master" in French, as well as learning a bunch of idioms/sayings or something. Then in Spanish, you want to learn a crapload of vocab, and get really good at pronunciation or something. You want to separate the two languages in your head as much as possible, and being really good at one thing in one and another thing in the other will help with that. Having said that, for school, you're trying to do well on an exam, which only involves a small amount of speaking and doesn't necessarily demand that you "acquire" the languages. So you can definitely skill build in each. For that I've got an old video that could help (it's in French but it has subtitles, and it was checked by a native speaker so it should all be correct.) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iZHeXnwcpGQ.html
Adding new words and going over them once is not the hardest part with using anki, doing recaps consistently is. Is several times more boring to go over sentences that you're somewhat familiar with but you don't remember perfectly some word of it. Worse part about recaps is that skipping a few days multiplies the difficulty of the task significantly. Had a hard week and you lacked time to study, gj now you need to spend a decent amount of your weekend recapping like 220 sentences.
@@Tinyy-Bubbles If you're learning Japanese (like I do) you sometimes only gain 1/2 of what you hoped to gain by that sentence. You either forgot the reading of those kanji or the meaning, so you're like I've made some progress will I remember everything 2 weeks from now, even less or just the same.
@@sikamaru666 I know the feeling 😅 I’m learning Korean and because the writing system as well as the sounds are soo different to my native tongue, new words just don’t stick. But rather: the Length of a word or the context 😅
@@daysandwords Ah i see! i used your link (to help the channel out) and they used your photo. Either way I am excited as I have never used anki before and am eager to give it a go
Yep, I can see that you did use it! (I get a notification when someone uses it, although no details of course, but since you're the only one in the last week, I can trust it is you haha).
Yeah but I only failed any of them like 3 times because if I found myself failing it more than once, I just added the sentence to the front... I think my leech threshold is set at 6. I suspended a bunch the next day (like 200 or so).
I need to work this hard I’m failing my Arabic university class I’m bottom of the class and I find it soo hard to remember 60 pieces of vocabulary every 2 weeks. And I have 600 words to learn from last year, on top of the impossible grammar 😢 plus my 5 other modules and other language
Someone else wrote that too, but I never considered that because in Swedish it's literally just "siffra", said in exactly the same way as in Spanish (accent is different of course), but the pronunciation is identical. And unlike "cipher", it actually still means number/figure/amount.
43" haha. I actually had to look really hard for this monitor (technically it's a TV) because in those smaller sizes, there aren't that many 4K ones, or the ones that do exist are generally more expensive than 50 or 55" ones. I'm almost certain that 4K TVs of 36-49" are not as common simply because too many people would figure out that PC monitors at three times the price are a scam. But as to your question... normally I actually have Anki take up only about 20% of the screen, right in the middle, just so that it's not so bright... but because of filming, the room was actually insanely bright that day (you can't see it but there's about 300W of LED lighting the whole room until the night time when I turned them off just so that it would actually show a change in the time of day)... and because it was so bright, it didn't matter that the monitor was so bright.
Welcome to harcore learning! Some of us have been doing this kind of studying for years, and it works despite haters. I wouldn't go for 1000 words in a single day though because it would be extremely stressful. I would rather give myself ten days to learn them all in a more relaxed manner. Yet, I would do such a study only if I am planning use the language intensively after this study.
@@daysandwords Believe it or not, I had been waiting for your video for a while since you announced that you started learning Spanish. That's not something I do. Honestly I am impressed that you have started reading novels in just two months or so. As for me, I am experiencing metal fatigue that I can barely study any languages. What I am trying to say is that you are motivating a language veteran like me so I thought maybe you would like to hear that. I guess, you have something for everyone. Cheers!
When I say "reading novels"... it takes me like 2 hours to read a chapter. If someone put a gun to my head and said "Tell me what the first 4 chapters are about in 2 hours", I could do it (provided the stress didn't freeze my brain of course), but I can't really say that I'm "reading novels". I have the theoretical capacity to do it, if you get me.
@@daysandwords I hear you! Probably your French and cognates in English and Spanish help you a lot but still it is quite an accomplishment. I am looking forward to your next video but do not raise the threshold so high please :-)
Because we're transliterating it from Japanese, it actually rhymes with monkey, not donkey. (Un-kee, not ON-kee and not ANG-kee.) Wonky rhymes with donky. Anki rhymes with monkey. And spanky rhymes with hanky. Three different vowel sounds haha.
@@daysandwords lol so now I have bigger problems-rhyming! 🤣😜 I may have to follow your lead and conduct a (much smaller) experiment… maybe just learn 100-200 words a day. 🤔 Thanks for all you do. Cheers.
I think the thing that helped a lot is that deck that was very well-optimized and structured. You'd need to do much more work with other resources I guess.
I am absolutely not claiming that this is the perfect strategy for learning words fast. If I had more time to do it, I would do 50 words a day and their reps for about 90 days), but what's the video title there? Remember that RU-vid is my job... I have to think about whether anyone will want to watch "I learned 1000 words in 3 months". People can be critical of "title optimisation" or whatever but ultimately, the audience decides what's worth watching, so it's like complaining about the government that oneself voted in.
I'm broadly skeptical of the utility of SRS and wordlists, but I am actually quite capable of feats like this, and it's worth a try. I'm going to try it with Mandarin... and the nice thing about that is that I don't need to do any pruning of calques/cognates and mascots, because there are hardly any in English anyhow (though quite a few with Japanese, another language I am much better at than Mandarin).
A tip about RU-vid for those over the age of 45: The title is like the title of a film. You actually have to WATCH the video before you form an opinion.
