05/22/2020
-Read 5 chapters of a book in the Reading Tool
-Imported and learned 75 new words while reviewing the previous days 75 new words in Anki, total of 150 words currently in play
-Listened to hundreds of reps on Glosika.
-Unable to watch the teleseries because TFC.tv was running way too slow, this must be due to the lock down as my connection is fine. I will try again tomorrow.
Mood: Excited, I feel I have finally built a solid framework to move forward with my acquisition of this language.
05/23/2020
-Read 1 chapter of a book and a 2 page new article the reading tool, added 90+ unknown words to my cards.
-Discussed news article with Discord linguists
-Did my Anki rounds, +75 new words. Currently studying 225 new works. (+75 Daily)
Mood: Positive. The +75 new words is very ambitious and requires a lot of energy to process including the reviews from prior days. I believe its worth it! Every day I'm more amazed at what I can read and understand in the reader tool.
I also decided that starting either today or tomorrow. I will do at least 1 lesson of my LearningTagalog.com subscription since I already own it. I might as well complete the course, also it can be used as a metric of progress.
Edit:
Also, my Grab drivers were chatting me in Tagalog and it felt great to actually understand what they were saying, without either being unsure, or saying "sorry, can you please say that in English".
05/24/2020
-No real progress
got intoxicated for the first time since lock down. Passed out.
Mood: never drinking again.
05/25/2020
-Almost finished my Anki review when it changed days on me and gave me even more. But at least I did this.
-Still kinda messed up from the drinking, but taking this as a new lease on life really pumped up to this this hard, but I had real work to do on a project today.
Mood: down that I didn't get more done, but excited about starting a new path.
05/26/2020
-Pre update..so yeah wow, I'm reading Lazada reviews now and so amazing to know what they are saying.
-More reading just 1 chapter of a book (these are very short chapters), loving how I'm really understanding the story now that I learn a couple hundred new words in prior chapters. Need to step this up but accomplished a lot chores today.
-Anki flash card reviews done, and a new plan for flashcards moving forward. I still intend of averaging 75 new words a day but I find 75 new words + reviews to be a little over kill. I love my days when it is just review. So what I'm going to try is to build up the new word pool from reading during the week and dumping the ~500 words in to Anki on Saturdays and suffer through the new word exposure all at once and then just beat down the reviews during the other 6 days of the week.Yeah either was this is aggressive and it's painful but it works. Burn out is impossible for me on this front. I'm doing this for my self, not for a job, not for anything, I don't think its impossible to burn out on this. If it gets too hot I will just slow down a bit but it wont reverse the big gains I will get by attempting.
What I want to try is using the TLDC flash card system to initially learn and master words over a period of time and then transfer to them Anki for long term spaced repetition. I'm just waiting on @jkos to implement some key features to the study cards to make that easier to do (essentially integrate the study cards with the regular flashcards, and allow for merging of decks).
-Completed 3 Lessons in LearningTagalog.com, I already owned this so I wanted to finally complete it, and it's amazed to go through it now because it makes clear how much I have grown over the months and things just make so much more sense now. I love how when you reach a certain skill level in something you then have the tools to move forward even farther, if that makes sense.
-Listened to maybe 30 sentences x 5 reps while cleaning up.
Mood: super positive, happy with the results, wishing I had more time to study but now I must get back to what pays the bills.
08/13/202:
Didn't want to let this die completely. The studying has been on going but not as hard as in the past and was just too lazy to post here but I have taken some time off social media to focus harder on making gains.
The current focus is READING. Since my goals really are to just be able to watch, listen and read more than anything else this is the most important thing I can do. I recently purchased about 50 BI LINGUAL (Filipino/English) childrens books (more like stories) and will be working my way through them. The goal is to read one story per day, note unknown words, process the meanings based on the bi lingual translation and then build a custom flash card set here on TDC.
My first batch of 20 I plan to complete in 20 days, but you know how that goes. Will try to update with each book.
Mood: Thank god I have this hobby else I would probably getting pretty