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Geoff has a great post about the point of language learning. I love his idea if living a language rather than always learning it with grammars and dictionaries. It’s all too easy to forget that the ultimate point is communication.
I’m curious as to how much listening others do, specifically, listening to material that you have no transcript for. For a while, I was listening to all sorts of stuff; I used Global Maverick’s guide to organizing foreign language listening material with iTunes, synced it with my iPod Touch, and had ear buds stuffed in [...]
In getting back to my language learning, I’ve been changing a few things. Perhaps the most drastic step I’ve taken is to stop using my old German deck in Anki, which has around 5000 cards in it.
I stopped using it because it simply wasn’t much fun to review. I’m coming around to Khatzmuto’s idea of [...]
No, I’ve not died, nor have I fallen off the planet. I’m just in the midst of being defeated by far too many papers at the university. Regular Language Geeking shall resume at some point in the near future.
I’ve been reflecting on how I use Anki, my SRS program, and I think I’ve perhaps gone a bit overboard with it. For a long while now, any unknown word that I’ve come across has gone into it – even words that I really don’t need (or even particularly want) to know. For example, a [...]
Geoff has a great post on making use of the Lyrics information, which iTunes lets you attach to any audio file in your library. Once you sync your iPod with your iTunes library, whatever you put in the Lyrics information tab will be available on your iPod.
As he says, while it’s meant for lyrics, it’s [...]
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