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My pace is typically 35 words a day when learning languages and most people think that's insane. It's still only around 1000 a month, which is why I chose that

My pace is typically 35 words a day when learning languages and most people think that's insane. It's still only around 1000 a month, which is why I chose that number. That's on the order of 12k a year if you don't miss a single day, which you usually do. The claim here is memorizing a full dictionary in 9 weeks. That has to be at least 40,000 words in 63 days. 634 words per day. And then or forgetting it. It's beyond rare. Its alien.

rightbyte 2y ago
Have you learnt many languages? I wish I had the energy to wanna do it. In school 35 words a day would be really pushing it for me. It had a really hard time learning English words. I had to study like an hour for 20 words to pass the test. But I learned grammar really fast.
- latentsea 2y ago
  Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Fluent in Japanese, can watch kdrama and mostly follow along and have basic conversations in Korean, forgot virtually all the Chinese I did but I managed to pass HSK2 after 2 months of study and then HSK3 the following month. I was only in China for 3 months on a work trip, so I thought I'd have some fun.
  - upmind 2y ago
    What do you use to learn different languages? Firstly, where you get your vocabulary from but also pronunciation and grammar?
    - latentsea 2y ago
      Anki, Netflix, Preply and social clubs. I start by front loading all the grammar study up to upper-intermediate level as fast as possible. Usually a premade Anki deck of a few thousand sentences will be available for this. Vocab I pick up from native media. I just read or watch whatever I'm interested in, lookup words as I go and put them into Anki. I do full immersion and it works well as access to entertainment in my target languages is a key goal. Pronunciation I pick up through a crap tonne of exposure to native media. Conversation is through a combination of private tutoring and finding people who speak my target languages to hang out with.
mb7733 2y ago
That's fairly different though, he doesn't need to learn the definitions, just memorize the strings. Which is still unbelievable.

rightbyte 2y ago

Have you learnt many languages? I wish I had the energy to wanna do it. In school 35 words a day would be really pushing it for me. It had a really hard time learning English words. I had to study like an hour for 20 words to pass the test. But I learned grammar really fast.

latentsea 2y ago
Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Fluent in Japanese, can watch kdrama and mostly follow along and have basic conversations in Korean, forgot virtually all the Chinese I did but I managed to pass HSK2 after 2 months of study and then HSK3 the following month. I was only in China for 3 months on a work trip, so I thought I'd have some fun.
- upmind 2y ago
  What do you use to learn different languages? Firstly, where you get your vocabulary from but also pronunciation and grammar?
  - latentsea 2y ago
    Anki, Netflix, Preply and social clubs. I start by front loading all the grammar study up to upper-intermediate level as fast as possible. Usually a premade Anki deck of a few thousand sentences will be available for this. Vocab I pick up from native media. I just read or watch whatever I'm interested in, lookup words as I go and put them into Anki. I do full immersion and it works well as access to entertainment in my target languages is a key goal. Pronunciation I pick up through a crap tonne of exposure to native media. Conversation is through a combination of private tutoring and finding people who speak my target languages to hang out with.

mb7733 2y ago

That's fairly different though, he doesn't need to learn the definitions, just memorize the strings. Which is still unbelievable.