Hey Lou, I'm really sorry to hear that you're not feeling well! I hope you'll be back on your feet in time for all the Christmas and New Year festivities. By the way, I've been thinking about switching to Toggl as my study tracker for 2024. I absolutely love the data you and Victoria provide from it! So, one of my goals is to figure it all out before the year ends. Also, I'm thrilled to see you use the reflection questions. I'm in the process of writing a reflection myself, with messy messy data. ♥
That's interesting. I use Toggl to track my listening time, but I only use my subjective guess to estimate my progress. For the longest time I felt like I wasn't making any, the intermediate plateau is no joke...
If I wanted to track this more specifically, I'd try to estimate a difficulty for each resource I'm listening to, maybe a topic, and at the end I would give and average % of understanding. For example: Lower intermediate content about work • 70% understanding. When there are no existing tools, I use spreadsheets, databases or simple notes.
Was that what you meant by measuring listening progress? 😊
Yeah, that’s what I meant. I don’t think there’s good way unless you could have a new test available every year or devise some new ad-hoc way to test it.
Thank you! Are you curious about the time distribution?
This is an overall view: my Korean listening accounts for a bit over 60% of everything. It's worth noting 27% of my time was spent on active recall, and 8% was for lessons.
One thing I found that helps with making sure comprehensible input is fresh and meaningful is viewing and listening stuff that I know I don't have enough vocabulary to talk about. For example, I was struggling to explain to my Spanish tutor this aubergine dish I'm making for Christmas, so I went on YouTube to watch snippets from Spanish cooking shows. I also watched a bunch of videos with Turkish badminton coaches to learn the terms for different strokes. Congrats on getting to the level of enjoying Korean podcasts btw!
Hey Lou, I'm really sorry to hear that you're not feeling well! I hope you'll be back on your feet in time for all the Christmas and New Year festivities. By the way, I've been thinking about switching to Toggl as my study tracker for 2024. I absolutely love the data you and Victoria provide from it! So, one of my goals is to figure it all out before the year ends. Also, I'm thrilled to see you use the reflection questions. I'm in the process of writing a reflection myself, with messy messy data. ♥
We like the data because we're nerds, but honestly, data or no, I can't wait to read your reflection 😊❤️
I would like to have some way to measure yearly progress in listening, but I don’t really have a good way to do that for my language.
That's interesting. I use Toggl to track my listening time, but I only use my subjective guess to estimate my progress. For the longest time I felt like I wasn't making any, the intermediate plateau is no joke...
If I wanted to track this more specifically, I'd try to estimate a difficulty for each resource I'm listening to, maybe a topic, and at the end I would give and average % of understanding. For example: Lower intermediate content about work • 70% understanding. When there are no existing tools, I use spreadsheets, databases or simple notes.
Was that what you meant by measuring listening progress? 😊
Yeah, that’s what I meant. I don’t think there’s good way unless you could have a new test available every year or devise some new ad-hoc way to test it.
The test I take for Korean has a listening part, that could also be something to look into if you don't mind more academic resources!
I'm going to remember all the new experiences I gained especially with French!
You probably had the most drastic change with your French progress!! You can be proud 😊
Good job. Was the chart specifically for listening practice or overall practice?
Thank you! Are you curious about the time distribution?
This is an overall view: my Korean listening accounts for a bit over 60% of everything. It's worth noting 27% of my time was spent on active recall, and 8% was for lessons.
One thing I found that helps with making sure comprehensible input is fresh and meaningful is viewing and listening stuff that I know I don't have enough vocabulary to talk about. For example, I was struggling to explain to my Spanish tutor this aubergine dish I'm making for Christmas, so I went on YouTube to watch snippets from Spanish cooking shows. I also watched a bunch of videos with Turkish badminton coaches to learn the terms for different strokes. Congrats on getting to the level of enjoying Korean podcasts btw!