Learning the Spanish Language — Project Day 9

Review

Yet another bad start. I should have got going properly in session 2, but didn't realy, until well into session 3

Session 4 went exceptionally well. Knew exactly which resources to use and where to find them. Forced myself to work throughout the 90 minutes — pushing through a quite severe afternoon dip. And documented stop positions towards the end.

I considered adding 10 minutes to breaks (5 mins before and 5 mins after current times) — to allow them to be used for transitions and small items of maintence, while preventing both from bleeding into work sessions.

On reflection, I decided to go half-way, by starting each beak 5 miutes earlier. Because I concluded that an extra 10 minutes would make it too easy to delve into a distraction — allowing me to get too wrapped-up in a 'problem', to drop it easily and come back to it later.

Routine Checklist

Legend

  • Ticks — right activity on time
  • Crosses — not done to schedule
  • Hyphens — not applicable to currrent routine configuration
Task M T W T F S S
0730 — Get going ✕✕
0845 — Session 1 ✕✕
1015 — Break ✕✕
1030 — Session 2 ✓✕
1200 — Dinner ✓✕
1245 — Session 3 ✓✓
1415 — Break ✓✓
1430 — Session 4 ✓✓
1600 — Transition ✓✓
1630 - Session 5 ✕✕
1800 — Tea ✕✓
1830 — Maintenance✕✓
2000 — Relax ✓✓
2230 — Review, uwind✕✓
2330 — Bed ✕✓

Learning Tasks Checklist

Task M T W T F S S
Reading comprehension ✓ ✓
Read aloud ✕ ✓
Just read ✓ ✓
Word & phrase exercises ✓ ✓
Sentence exercises ✕ ✓
Socratic dialogue ✕ ✓
A song ✕ ✕
Aural comprehension ✕ ✓
Verb exercises ✓ ✓
Preposition exercises ✕ ✓
Pronoun exercises ✕ ✓
Conjunctions - -
Eng.→Spa. translation ✕ ✓
Spa.→Eng. translation ✕ ✓
Physical exercise ✓ ✕
Subbed video ✓ ✓
Non-subbed video ✕ ✕
Research lang. acquisition ✕ ✕
List 'issues' ✕ ✓
Prepare materials ✕ ✓
Review this checklist ✓ ✓

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