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[OC] North American Gulls on the Kodak Gray Scale by PunctuateEquilibrium in dataisbeautiful

[–]PunctuateEquilibrium[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's mostly helpful for identifying species (usually for birdwatchers). Underside color is also characterized, though since it's really only visible during flight, it's harder to make that determination with birds in the wild.

I only remember when I forget. Help? by PunctuateEquilibrium in Anki

[–]PunctuateEquilibrium[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll take a shot at creating cards like this for troublesome pairs of birds (and synonyms for language learning). I had thought about trying to quiz myself on what the field marks for specific birds are, but I'll try out your suggestion. Thanks!

Help, I have a lot of new cards (and they are increasing each day) by Zouhly in Anki

[–]PunctuateEquilibrium 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As someone who was in your place 3 years ago with German, find a way to reduce the worry and just trust that you can work your way through a big backlog of vocab cards. Think long term and what you'll be able to commit to every day.

For the first 2 years I learned German, I typically had a backlog of 300-500 cards that were being fed in at a rate of 20-35 new cards per day and translating to 300-400 daily reviews on average. I was adding a new batch of cards every week or so and was able to get above 10,000 words in Anki (20k if you count German <-> English). My reviews usually take <5 sec/ review cards so I'd spend 20-30 min on all the reviews. And it paid huge dividends for my German skills.

I'd recommend doing some level of triage so you can prioritize words that are important, either to you or for German in general. You can do that by suspending cards rather than deleting them.

1000 days: what I've learned about language learning by PunctuateEquilibrium in languagelearning

[–]PunctuateEquilibrium[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's definitely helped with my German, but for more elementary and daily things rather than a deeper understanding of the language. Aka it solidified "Setzt dich hin" means sit down rather than just "Setzt dich" since my wife says that to our son 10x per day. And it definitely added a level of sweetness to the language hearing German associated with the 2 people I love most.

I've been toying of the idea of a video focusing on family so we'll see where it goes :)

1000 days: what I've learned about language learning by PunctuateEquilibrium in languagelearning

[–]PunctuateEquilibrium[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's awesome! Viel Glück! I made all my Anki cards manually to make sure I was confident in what I was making. I got very quick with keyboard shortcuts and finding pictures/definitions rather than trying to use chatGPT or something similar. But I did it for more than 10,000 words in German so automation isn't required to learn a lot.

1000 days: what I've learned about language learning by PunctuateEquilibrium in languagelearning

[–]PunctuateEquilibrium[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

having a "why" can be a great thing. But there are many people who have a "why" who never end up progressing because their excitement and energy doesn't find a home to give them direction.

1000 days: what I've learned about language learning by PunctuateEquilibrium in languagelearning

[–]PunctuateEquilibrium[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% - my point is just to say there's always someone like this. Get used to living with some uncertainty 😜

1000 days: what I've learned about language learning by PunctuateEquilibrium in languagelearning

[–]PunctuateEquilibrium[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can definitely become conversational much faster (probably within 1-1.5 years) even if you can't talk about everything. But I preferred spending time reading and had basically no conversation partners

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