Participation
in Vocabulary challenge, October 2020
31 minutes 0.52h
Last hurrah! Completed my Skritter reviews and learned five new words with TOFU Learn. Good fun. Thanks everyone!
75 minutes 1.25h
Catching up on my Anki reviews and learning a few new words along the way.
25 minutes 0.42h
Learned a few new words from my tutor today, plus completed my Skritter reviews
45 minutes 0.75h
Finished my Skritter reviews and most of my Anki reviews.
15 minutes 0.25h
Ack! I only got in a bit of review today. Ironically, I was busy talking to people in China (in English) for work rather than studying. 😂 But it was a great conversation, so I guess I can’t complain.
45 minutes 0.75h
Skritter and Anki reviews
96 minutes 1.6h
Catching up on my Anki reviews...
30 minutes 0.5h
Skritter reviews + TOFU Learn reviews & new HSK3 words
50 minutes 0.83h
Long week! Completed my Skritter and TOFU Learn reviews, plus most of my Anki cards, picking up a few new words along the way.
76 minutes 1.27h
Whew! Completed all my Skritter reviews and most of my Anki reviews.
18 minutes 0.3h
Completed Skritter reviews!
36 minutes 0.6h
Anki reviews
30 minutes 0.5h
TOFU Learn: HSK 1&2 review. Learning more HSK 3 vocab.
33 minutes 0.55h
Completed my Skritter and TOFU Learn reviews.
48 minutes 0.8h
Anki - Studied 167 cards
70 minutes 1.17h
Completed my Anki reviews, learning a few new words along the way with the Spoonfed Chinese deck. I really like that deck! Still, today’s studies have felt super-slow because I stopped to play tennis a couple times.
45 minutes 0.75h
Skritter reviews done. Also reviewed HSK2 & HSK3 words in TOFU Learn. No new Heisig words tonight. Too tired. Definitely tomorrow though!
30 minutes 0.5h
TOFU Learn review, Du Chinese story vocab, Skritter 5 new words with RTH!
75 minutes 1.25h
Anki: Studied 206 cards
23 minutes 0.38h
Skritter: 98 review today! More than I'd expected. But always fun.
30 minutes 0.5h
TOFU Learn - Mostly HSK 1-3 reviews.
60 minutes 1.0h
Just completed 107 Skritter reviews and learned 5 new characters from RTH: 昭, 則, 副, 丁, 叮. Fun, but sheesh... 我很累!Work was busy this week.
39 minutes 0.65h
Anki: Studied 119 cards. Learn: 35, Review: 63, Relearn: 21
30 minutes 0.5h
Wasn't sure I had enough energy, but completed my Skritter reviews. Huzzah! Those sound effects! So calming. Added 5 new words from RTH: 項, 刀, 刃, 切, 召
57 minutes 0.95h
Getting my Anki reviews under control (sort of). Nearly an hour is still a lot. Not sure how long I can stick with that. Still, today I studied 177 cards (Learn: 40, Review: 106, Relearn: 31) - Some new words, but mostly sort-of-understood words in use.
93 minutes 1.55h
Mostly Anki today. Studied 326 cards. Also completed Skritter reviews, but no new cards from the Heisig deck today. Too tired after an hour of Chinese class on italki.
Would you recommend using Italki? I have tons of positive responses about the platform, yet... I don't know it if it is that efficient as for a beginner level. (I know that I am utterly wrong, yet my mind tells me the contrary haha).
@NewDawnTaiwan - I would definitely recommend iTalki. It took me a few tries to find a teacher I like at a price that works for me. Now that I found one, I'm very happy. We have covered most of the HSK2 Standard Course textbook (https://blcup.com/enPInfo/index/75#001) together. Having a live teacher gives me the opportunity to ask questions about word usage and grammar as I learn. It also motivates me to study.
326 cards? OMG!
😓 That was a bad day! Glad to have it behind me! Things are getting more sane now.
34 minutes 0.57h
Couldn't resist the Heisig... Completed Skritter reviews and (re)learned 左, 右, 有, 賄, and貢, all words that may have better staying power with better stories now in mind.
Sounds captivating, once l finishes both the Radicals Decks, would you recommend me to embark on the story telling Heisig? Or any better suggestion on the next Deck to attempt?
I hate to give this answer, since it frustrates me all the time, but: It depends. Are you studying for HSK? Do you feel like you have an intuitive grasp of stroke order yet? Are you working through a textbook? (If so, which one?)
107 minutes 1.78h
"Congratulations! You have finished this deck FOR NOW..." Mwa-ha-ha-ha! - Caught up with all my Anki reviews today, meaning I can start adding a few new cards (words and sentences) again, spicing things up a bit. Studied 353 cards, driving down my again count to 32%. Not sure if I have the energy to do my Skritter reviews, but am going to try.
That's great! Repetition is the key to everything! At the very end, we need to enjoy the journey to proficiency haha. Amazing progress Michael!
谢谢你!
23 minutes 0.38h
After clearing my Skritter review queue, I tackled five more Heisig words today: 直,置,具,真,工 - Feeling like I wanted some more Skritter time, I started adding words from this list Jake shared the other day: https://skritter.com/vocablists/view/247151555 - The first few words were all ones I knew, so the total learn/review time clocked in at... wait for it... two more minutes! 😂
I totally timebox my learning/review activity (or run a stopwatch) to make sure I track the total time spent rather than just Skritter's reported review time spent clearing the due cards.
@skritterjake That’s a great idea to time record one’s effort. Not forgetting the iOS will also warn you, desist! Too much screen time! Take a walk. Which we cannot due, to the Covid Lockdown 😷 ditto.
@skritterjake That's interesting! I skimmed through the Skritter forum the other day as I was thinking about whether to report total time spent or Skritter "time" (as reported by the app) during this challenge. I've been using the latter, but would be interested in hearing which measure other people are using too.
@Michael F. I would hope everyone is using actual time for the challenge :) So much goes into learning vocabulary beyond what takes place in a review session. Fun fact, the reason we never record real-time on Skritter is that users were complaining many moons ago about leaving the browser window open while doing other stuff was artificially inflating the total time spent in the app by crazy sums.
Thanks, Jake! I think that make a lot of sense and will move ahead counting actual time. Funny to hear the browser story! I always love hearing the stories behind the evolution of software and apps.
So it’s confirmed that only Skritter App time to be input in? No other Apps, Anki, Goldlisting, etc etc. Anyway one can audit on the individual Skritter Progress or we can snapshot ours in weekly or on 31st Oct finishing line.
@Michael F. You can use any way you want to review and learn vocabulary. Skritter is just a sponsor of the challenge, and we’re gonna give out some prizes to some top people. Not trying to be exclusive by any means with Olle’s HC challenge, just proud supporters of the work he does and we thought Skritter would be a good fit for this challenge. If you’re studying vocabulary in any way you should totally track it! :)
@SkritterJake: Thanks for clarifying that for @Kaynis (who is on fire last time I checked!). Kaynis: I just use Skritter all the time because I love it. But I also use a bunch of other tools, depending on what I'm trying to get done: Anki, TOFU Learn, Immersive Chinese, ChineseSkill, LINE Dict, Du Chinese, Pleco, etc.) Jake: Thanks for sponsoring the challenge! I think the prize potential and the promotion you and Olle have done have drawn the most people I've seen enrolled in one HC Challenge. Hearing from so many others on this same learning journey has been really motivating for me!
Ole! for the Skrittation! (pun intended) So it's the Red pill for all the Apps to expand our mind! 感谢 in Malaysian Hokkien.
72 minutes 1.2h
Mostly Anki reviews. Studies 169 cards with a 45.6% again count. Blah. Also reviewed HSK 1 words and "hard" HSK 2 words in TOFU Learn.
60 minutes 1.0h
Working on my Anki reviews backlog. Studied 156 cards. Again count: 44%! Ugh. Relearning a lot.
30 minutes 0.5h
Anki vocab review. Started looking up "leeches" in the Outlier Mini dictionary, which is helping me understand the components, and thus remember the characters/words better. Don't know why I didn't do that earlier!
26 minutes 0.43h
Completed reviews and studied 6 "new" Heisig list words in Skritter: 匀, 句, 旬, 勺, 的, 首
In your opinion, is the Heisig List practical for daily use? Are you learning the deck because of the mnemonics? I read somewhere; the List is not the most frequently used characters.
That's a good question. It's certainly not a frequency-ordered list. Nor does it really offer any great insight into the deeper meaning of components, like the Outlier Chinese dictionary does. I'm just doing it for the same reason driving all my Mandarin studies: I enjoy it. I like the pictures he paints and the way each builds on the others over the course of a lesson. They help me remember, make me laugh, and spark my imagination.
65 minutes 1.08h
Boom! Cleared my Skritter cue on a good first day. 311 total review. 2 new characters learned.
Challenge time progress: | |
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Goal progress: |
Score | 27.03 |
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Rank | 12th |
Hours reported | 27.03 |
Goal | 10h |
Way to finish strong and crush your starting goal, Michael!