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[laste1le]

~~ lang goals for the week ~~

~~ italian~~

Complete half of the 'Complete Italian: Step By Step' First Chapter

Read 1 short story from Olly Richard's Short stories in Italian for Beginners

Write 1 diary entry, doesn't matter how short

Listen to one podcast, I like the the easy italian podcast

Watch one of Lucrezia's vlogs

Work on catching up with all my anki reviews... (by the end of the week I want to hit zero, other than the regular daily reviews)

add two pages of the collins vocab book words to my anki deck

~~ polish ~~

Complete chapter 1 of Krok po Kroku

Read one page of the polish version of harry potter, record the words I don't know

Write a diary entry

Listen to an episode of Easy Polish and note down the vocab

Tutor session on Tuesday!

~~ greek ~~

Start Ellenika A chapter 1, I want to get about halfway through

Read 1 page of the greek version of harry potter and note any vocab I don't know

Write a diary entry

Watch a linguatree video in greek, shadow her speaking to practice pronunciation

~~ esperanto ~~

Complete kiel vi nomiĝas chapter in Complete Esperanto

Read one page of La Hobito

Write a diary entry

Watch a catie kejti video on youtube

Lesson on Monday!!

~~ french ~~

Complete half of the 'complete french: step by step' first chapter

Read one of Olly Richard's short stories in French for beginners

Write a diary entry

Watch and shadow one episode of Easy French

Start a new anki deck with the Collins vocab book words (I'm aiming to add at least two pages of vocab to the deck)

~~ german~~

Complete one chapter of Grammatik Aktiv

Read one short story of Olly Richard's German stories for beginners

Write a diary entry

Watch an episode of land before time cartoon

Complete an episode of Nico's Weg

Add two pages of Collins vocab to a new anki deck

~~ general ~~

completing my daily anki reviews, learning 10 new words per language per day (this might be too much for some people, too little for others, I have found this number of new words works the best for me when it comes to number of new words and retention ability)

passive listening - I usually have days assigned to each language where, for those days, I have music/videos playing in the background while I work and cook. This is kind of flexible though and if I'm really not feeling it I won't force myself.

[laste1le]

~~ tuesday 21 july~~

I studied for 59 minutes 03 seconds (lowkey annoyed it wasn't an hour)

5 minutes 16 seconds on duolingo

I've also started using lingvano to casually learn BSL, i honestly think everyone should know a bit of sign language. I spent 4 minutes 6 seconds on this!

I studied the flashcards i made yesterday for the Arabic alphabet, I want to keep doing this until I repeatedly get them correct, then I want to try and read some actual words, this took me 3 minutes

Vocab today was 5 minutes for Greek, 6 minutes 16 seconds for Spanish and 9 minutes 40 for Italian

Then I watched 25 minutes 30 seconds of Easy Arabic!

[laste1le]

~~ friday 17 july~~

I studied for 1 hour 7 minutes and 29 seconds

I almost forgot my duolingo today so the time is only 2 minutes, I only did Greek

I watched one episode of high potential in Italian, considering how little I've been studying anything the past 6 months I'm so surprised how much I can still understand

I also spend 12 minutes learning new italian vocab and 8 minutes 32 seconds learning some Greek vocab

I'm trying out the goldlist method if any one has given it a go before? I know anki is more efficient blah blah blah I just learn better when I write things down, I never keep up with anki for long

[laste1le]

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hi hi! ~~

I'm laste1le, I'm a 25 year old ancient being obsessed with language, culture and the universe. I currently reside in the south of England while I work, study and learn languages.

I'm currently focusing on Greek and Italian but I often like to dabble in other languages which you'll see!

I hope you have a nice time here where I post nerdy language stats and hoard beautiful posts ཐི ྐ❤︎ ཋྀ

[laste1le]

~~ lang goals for the week ~~

10th november - 16th november

~~ italian~~

Complete the collins grammar sections on Essere and Stare, practice the gerund

Read the second short story from Olly Richard's Short Stories in Italian for Beginners

Write 1 diary entry, doesn't matter how short

I have a tutor session on Saturday <3

Watch an easy Italian video and take any unknown vocab for my anki

add a page of collins vocab to my anki deck

focus on one verb and practice conjugation

Watch Luca in Italian

~~ greek ~~

Start Ellenika A chapter 1, I want to get about halfway through

Read 1 page of the greek version of harry potter and note any vocab I don't know

Write a diary entry

Watch a linguatree vlog

watch an episode of easy greek for the vocab

focus on 1 verb and learn the conjugations

I have a tutor session on Monday

~~ esperanto ~~

Complete pluvegas chapter in Complete Esperanto

Read one page of La Hobito

Write a diary entry

Watch a catie kejti video on youtube

Lesson on Monday!!

~~ french ~~

Complete the nouns section in the collins french book

Read one of Olly Richard's short stories in French for beginners

Write a diary entry

Watch a piece of French vlog

I have a tutor session on Thursday

Watch an episode of Easy French and use this to get some vocab

add one page of collins vocab to my anki deck

focus on one verb for conjugation

~~ german~~

Complete second chapter of Grammatik Aktiv

Read one short story of Olly Richard's German stories for beginners

Write a diary entry

Watch an episode of land before time cartoon

Complete an episode of Nico's Weg

Add a page of Collins vocab to a new anki deck

watch an episode of easy german for the vocab

focus on one verb for conjugation

[laste1le]

Laste1le's 2026 Language Challenge

Let's get bilingual bitches

As mentioned, I'm making some changes to my language learning routine going into the new year and I'm finally back from my holiday and ready to make this post!

In 2026 I'll be taking on a little challenge based on the refold language method

What is the refold language method?

This method focuses largely on comprehensible input and learning a language through that input, rather than the standard grammar focused approach

What Will Be Changing?

I'll be focusing on two languages, Italian, Russian and French

Why Italian? This has been my main language for a while now and I would like to see how this method differs compared to what I have been doing so far

Why French? I'm a complete beginner to French so I want to see how this method works for a language you haven't studied before. I'm making it slightly easier on myself as there are lots of French resources and media, and it is also a romance language like Italian

Why Russian? This is kind of a curveball challenge, purely to see how I do!

This doesn't mean I cannot study other languages, but they won't be my main concern for 2026 at least

What is the Challenge?!

The general layout of the refold method includes the following:

Passive Immersion

----- This is content you play in the background and aren't fully paying attention to. This is to get more a 'feel' for the language and to increase your exposure. Kind of like a faux immersion.

Active Immersion

----- This is the most important part of the method and involves consuming media you can partly understand such as a tv show, graded reader, article etc. Here, the difference is that you are concentrating all of your attention on the content.

----- Active immersion can be split into 2 types:

----- Intensive Active Immersion: You are trying to understand every single word and understand everything completely

----- Extensive Active Immersion: You're focusing on the content but you aren't looking everything up

Active Study

----- This again can be split between two main kinds of active study:

----- Vocab study: I'll be using anki and from what I can see this is the most recommended flashcard website due to its great use of SRS

----- Grammar Study: This is less important within refold as the idea is you will naturally pick up grammar patterns through immersion. This, however, can be slow so I will be doing regular grammar study as a supplement to my main routine!!

Now for the routine and main challenge ...

Feel free to join in!

Study each TL for 1 hour a day (so for me, I'll be studying two hours a day, one for Italian and one for French)

Spend an additional half hour a day per TL on passive listening (remember this can be playing while you do other activities)

For your one hour of study:

20 minutes a day should be active study

Complete your anki reviews each day

Learn minimum 5 new words a day (by the end of 2026, you'll learn 1825 words per language)

Following your anki reviews, whatever remains of those 20 minutes should be spent on grammar study

The remaining 40 minutes will be spent on Active Immersion

This is where I will get most of my vocab to add to my anki decks!

Additional Points

The refold method doesn't stress output very much until later in your studies. The idea is to mimic the way a child learns a language, they first spend a long period of time listening before they begin to talk.

For this reason, I won't be focusing very much on output for my French. I'm not sure if i agree with this aspect but I want to give this method a true go, so by the end of 2026 we'll see how it goes!

When it comes to Italian, however, I will be having regular iTalki sessions as I'm much further along in my studies

Basically, if you want to try this out, do what you want!

I'll be tracking my learning hours and seeing how I get on during the year to hopefully learn my TLs!

I think this will be a fun experiment to see how the method works!!

[laste1le]

[laste1le]

~~ tuesday 11th november ~~

Study time: 1 hour 53 minutes 09 seconds

10 minutes on duolingo again, this seems to be the average now

Anki reviews! >> 52 minutes

I spent 10 minutes reading another chapter of the Short stories in Italian

I read the first page in La Hobito in Esperanto, I'm so surprised how much of this I was able to read after such a short amount of time studying. This took 16 minutes

Finally, I watched another episode of Land Before Time in German! This was 24 minutes