Monday, November 24, 2014

Planning is the best!

So, as I mentioned in my previous post, last week I made a plan for the whole week on Sunday, to try to help me stay on task better. This technique worked marvelously, and I think I got a lot more done during the week as a result. I certainly didn't manage to finish everything on my list because it was quite ambitious. But by the end of the week my list looked like this

Monday
  • Review vocab from class
  • Pretend I'm in a restaurant and order food
Tuesday
  • Practice asking questions
  • Learn unknown question words
  • Learn a few new verbs to ask questions with
  • Complete Unit 4 in Sanibona
Wednesday
  • Practice using "to be" with occupations
  • Complete Unit 5 in Sanibona 
Thursday/Friday
  • Roleplay going to the market
  • Review rest of week's material
Not too bad for one week! I also decided to make a plan for my language partner and I should talk about. This also really helped to guide our sessions, so I was able to learn a lot more than I had in previous weeks. All in all, it was an excellent Zulu week, and I hope to keep this momentum going forward!

3 comments:

  1. Hey, this schedule looks awesome! To get through what was on your list each day, did you do a little bit of work at random times throughout the day or set aside a specific chunk of time?

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  2. Great work! I like the idea of putting your weekly schedule up on the blog. It seems like it is a good way to build in accountability, and to chart your progress. Sounds like it might be a nice upgrade from my post-it system! I wonder with such an ambitious list of things to do if you ever feel overwhelmed or worried that you can only give superficial treatment to each topic/assignment? I still can't decide if less is more in my own language study, but I also have the worst memory in the world so I find that I need to spend a lot more time on topics if I want to commit them to memory.

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  3. Agree with Lindsay about accountability! It would be useful to also monitor how things go -- how did you tackle vocab, how long did it take, was it easy or difficult, did any challenges arise, etc.

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