B1 book has absolutely a ton of vocabulary. I’m only 4 exercises in but over 150 new Anki cards (over 75 new words).
I’m estimating about 1950 new vocab words for this textbook. I’ll only be able to do this if vocabulary gets easier than it has been… But I think that is going on.
A substantial number of words are compound words or otherwise related to words I already know.
Clearly I need to accelerate my words per day by significant levels. I’ll trust in the process and the book but it’s scary.
I’ll also need to spend less time per card. The cards are somewhat less important than the reading, listening and writing exercises after all. So my Anki cards are dropping their already relatively spartan style to even more basic.
IE: do more vocabulary but maybe less effort put in. Cover more words but less deeply, and hope it works out?
Language club and Community college class continue to be helpful at speaking practice. This really is my weakest skill so anything I do helps.
I’m stronger than basically everyone in the community college class. But I’m the weakest one at the language club table. Certainly a weird feeling to go back and forth between them…
My current plan is to focus mostly on getting ahead in my vocabulary. Get all these words into Anki, start drilling them so I’m familiar with the words before doing exercises. Then I do the exercises.
If I’m always studying words from ‘future’ sections (a few pages ahead of where I am in the textbook), then that gives me time to Anki drill as a startup.
Then I do the Kursbuch exercises a few days later. (Lecture problems / exercises)
Then I do the Ubungsbuch exercises about a week after that. (Practice problems).
That gets me multiple times of review and practice for every word and concept. I’ll be aiming at 6 months to clear this book… though frankly I’m already behind schedule.
B1 book has absolutely a ton of vocabulary. I’m only 4 exercises in but over 150 new Anki cards (over 75 new words).
I’m estimating about 1950 new vocab words for this textbook. I’ll only be able to do this if vocabulary gets easier than it has been… But I think that is going on.
A substantial number of words are compound words or otherwise related to words I already know.
Clearly I need to accelerate my words per day by significant levels. I’ll trust in the process and the book but it’s scary.
I’ll also need to spend less time per card. The cards are somewhat less important than the reading, listening and writing exercises after all. So my Anki cards are dropping their already relatively spartan style to even more basic.
IE: do more vocabulary but maybe less effort put in. Cover more words but less deeply, and hope it works out?
Language club and Community college class continue to be helpful at speaking practice. This really is my weakest skill so anything I do helps.
I’m stronger than basically everyone in the community college class. But I’m the weakest one at the language club table. Certainly a weird feeling to go back and forth between them…
My current plan is to focus mostly on getting ahead in my vocabulary. Get all these words into Anki, start drilling them so I’m familiar with the words before doing exercises. Then I do the exercises.
If I’m always studying words from ‘future’ sections (a few pages ahead of where I am in the textbook), then that gives me time to Anki drill as a startup.
Then I do the Kursbuch exercises a few days later. (Lecture problems / exercises)
Then I do the Ubungsbuch exercises about a week after that. (Practice problems).
That gets me multiple times of review and practice for every word and concept. I’ll be aiming at 6 months to clear this book… though frankly I’m already behind schedule.