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I'm only 35 but I've continued to pick up skills throughout my life and I've only increased it as I got older: - Started learning masonry and general handy

by sontek 6y ago

I'm only 35 but I've continued to pick up skills throughout my life and I've only increased it as I got older: - Started learning masonry and general handyman work in 2018 (33 years old) - Started learning Spanish in 2019 (34 years old) - Started learning piano in 2020 (35 years old) My goal for 2021 is to learn a lot about electricity, batteries, etc. and would like to build a little off-grid backup

pen2l 6y ago
How are you finding your progress on Spanish and piano? How are you learning it — private one on on instruction or self study?
- sontek 6y ago
  Spanish is going quite well in year two. Year one was basically worthless. I didn’t really know how to learn the language and made a ton of mistakes. First, I spent the first few months studying grammar rules and learning words but didn’t do much speaking because I felt I didn’t have a good “baseline” Second, once I realized speaking was important, I went all in... did 1 hour a day voice calls for 2 months. This ended up being worthless because I didn’t really recall mistakes I made. So what I realized that the best approach was hybrid... I should be doing some academic studying AND some speaking. But the biggest change I made was actually writing down the mistakes I made during my video calls with the native speaker and studying those mistakes in my flashcards.
  - mario54 6y ago
    > But the biggest change I made was actually writing down the mistakes I've been learning mandarin for a couple of months and I do something similar. My girlfriend can speak it so what I do is speak mandarin during our suppertime every day and I have google translate beside me. If there are words I can't say and want to remember later, I star the translation and add it to an Anki deck later on. I haven't really figured out a lightway way to capture problems with forming whole sentences, though. It kind of breaks the flow the conversation too much if I'm writing down whole sentences. Do you capture only problems with remembering specific words or also problems with forming whole sentences?

by sontek 6y ago

pen2l 6y ago

How are you finding your progress on Spanish and piano? How are you learning it — private one on on instruction or self study?

sontek 6y ago
Spanish is going quite well in year two. Year one was basically worthless. I didn’t really know how to learn the language and made a ton of mistakes. First, I spent the first few months studying grammar rules and learning words but didn’t do much speaking because I felt I didn’t have a good “baseline” Second, once I realized speaking was important, I went all in... did 1 hour a day voice calls for 2 months. This ended up being worthless because I didn’t really recall mistakes I made. So what I realized that the best approach was hybrid... I should be doing some academic studying AND some speaking. But the biggest change I made was actually writing down the mistakes I made during my video calls with the native speaker and studying those mistakes in my flashcards.
- mario54 6y ago
  > But the biggest change I made was actually writing down the mistakes I've been learning mandarin for a couple of months and I do something similar. My girlfriend can speak it so what I do is speak mandarin during our suppertime every day and I have google translate beside me. If there are words I can't say and want to remember later, I star the translation and add it to an Anki deck later on. I haven't really figured out a lightway way to capture problems with forming whole sentences, though. It kind of breaks the flow the conversation too much if I'm writing down whole sentences. Do you capture only problems with remembering specific words or also problems with forming whole sentences?