total: 1,830 characters ([learned] union [skipped])
LIES!
Just realized I wasn’t looking at the counts correctly, so my learned, skipped category is -10 from what I’ve been reporting. NOW it’s accurate.
Vacation Mode
Sad, I’m definitely gonna have to pause learning for a bit because I have a conference that’s basically taking up all of next week so I can’t start learning something now, just to not be able to review for essentially 11 days. So, maybe this will be a nice time to start slimming down the review amounts? I’ll still be having tons of reviews on a day-by-day basis, but maybe I can do some in my free time. If not, then oh well. So, I’ll probably just go on vacation mode.
Speaking of which, I usually just turn on vacation mode Friday afternoon, and resume Monday morning. I condense my learning to Monday-Thursday (at 40-60 items per day) so I at least get a good chunk of learning in every week.
total: 1,830 characters ([learned] union [skipped])
Reading and speaking (with my partner)
So, I made another post talking about some resources for books and stuff, which I’m quoting at the bottom here.
However, I’ve finally started reading 活着 and it’s going relatively well! I guess the software I used to analyze words I needed to learn didn’t catch everything. So, while I’m reading, I’m still highlighting and add a bunch of words to My Dictionary.
A compromise I’ve essentially made with my partner is that I read 活着 out loud to him. This is good because
I get speaking practice (sort of)
I’m forcing myself to actually pronounce words that I’ve been learning
He catches the words I’m saying wrong because they’re duoyinzi or because they’re rare enough that I can’t find them in the Dictionary on here
I get to practice building the natural(ish) tone of reading stories
I mentioned the free books because the show The First Frost is said to be a good show and an even better novel. I just can’t get through even the third episode!! It’s definitely a slow build type of show, but I guess I just don’t enjoy the cold and indifferent versus the one wondering ‘what if’ trope. I’m gonna try to push through.
Anyway!! I found the book for free online. I was not about to spend $25 USD to order it when I KNOW real well that people overseas are getting it for less than $5.