#productivity.log

[rizlearns]

PL: 26 April - 2 May 2021

Podcast: Poenget x3

Podcast: Norsklære Karense x2

Podcast: Oppdatert x1

Read Kapittel 13 Her På Berget

Read the grammar review from Her På Berget

Read Kapittel 6 Norsk Grammatikk

Completed (2) exercises from Kapittel 6 Norsk Grammatikk

Read Chapter 3 Short Stories in Norwegian

30 minute italki session

it had been so long since i made a proper progress log which is unfortunate for me because i had much more to show for the weeks i didn't post lol. anyways, finally finished Her På Berget thank god. after reading the series basically back to back [Pa Vei, Stein På Stein, Her På Berget] i am extremely tired of textbooks and their very boring, very repetitive structure. Norsk Grammatikk is a textbook but its different in structure and I think a really good tool for me to review grammar at this stage in my learning.

very proud of myself for not making a complete idiot of myself during my latest italki session which was my first in almost a month (because there are literally no tutors available in my timezone and my usual guy was all booked..). i think writing 'everyday' has really helped and also reading Short Stories in Norwegian. the book is on the easier side for me BUT i think its silly and fun and i think reading 'literature' is a good way to get varying sentence structures/words/phrases that you cannot get from the textbooks i have been reading.

this month i made the goals of (1) finishing Norsk Grammatikk (2) journaling everyday and (3) completing at least 5 exercises from the grammar book. i should probably add something concrete for my speaking skills as well....hoping for a nice productive and uneventful month this month!

[rizlearns]

PL: 17-24 May 2021

Podcast: KonspirasjonsPodden x8

Podcast: Oljekåt x2

Podcast: Poenget x2

Podcast: Norsklære Karense x1

Read Chapter 1, Story 6 of Short Stories

Reviewed Kapittel 5 (verbs) from Norsk Grammatikk

(30 min) italki session

Journaled x3

Watched ~2 hours of Cartoon Network (no subs)

Watched Seasons 1 & 2 of Kongen av Gulset

Watched Side om Side x1

Youtube: Silje Thorensten x1

This was a really good week of listening for me! Idk what it is but I have like a really really hard time sitting down and watching movies and shows in general (i think its mostly because i hate the feeling of secondhand embarrassment and will literally just stop watching before the embarrassing thing happens) but not this week haha! Also really happy to diversify the dialects/people I am listening too. Oljekåt is especially great because its about the environment, specifically the campaign(s) for Norway to divest from oil, and the host is from Stavanger. I dont think she always speaks stavangersk because one time she was reading something and she was literally like fuck it I have to read it in my dialect haha but that's good for me. It's a little harder but just requires a little more effort is all.

Anyways, even though I put a lot of hours into listening this week, I would also like to balance that out with everything else and not keep sacrificing one thing for another. So I will get back to journaling everyday and do a better job at reviewing vocab while simultaneously making a much greater effort to practice speaking outside of italki sessions because that is the area that needs the most help by far.

Watched Winx Club x11

reviewed vocabulary words 1-100 from Learn Serbian

Still pretty unorganized with Serbian but I have been averaging 1.5 episodes a day of Winx and I am okay with that tbh. I can only really make inferences of what's happening based on tone and body language etc BUT I can pretty clearly hear distinct words, quite a few I actually recognize, and also the conjugation of certain names so that's something. I haven't quite committed myself to picking up my textbook again but maybe I will this week.

[rizlearns]

PL: 1 Jan - 10 Jan 2021

Norwegian

Podcast: Krig og Fred x1

Podcast: Norsklærer Karense x6

Read Kapitler 3,4,5,6 Stein På Stein

Read Kapitler 1 & 2 Norsk Grammatikk

Stein På Stein Homework: (4) exercises Kapittel 3, (7) exercises Kapittel 4, (5) exercises Kapittel 5, (3) exercises Kapittel 6

Norsk Grammatikk Homework: (6) exercises Kapittel 1

Norsk Grammatikk (Online): Substantiv exercies

Watched ~5 hours of Cartoon Network Norge (Adventure Time, Regular Show, Steven Universe, We Bare Bears)

Watched Inside Job (English audio/Norwegian Subs)

Watched Toy Story (Norwegian Audio/Norwegian Subs)

Watched Soul (English Audio/Norwegian Subs)

So, this month I decided not to ‘produced any* output’. Similarly, I am doing a pretty detailed review of grammar by reading Norsk Grammatikk. I think I will make a post about it at the end of the month but for now I will just say I am experimenting. In general, I’m happy with the work I did this week but I am already aware of things I would like to do different next week. For example, I would like to be a little more organized in the types of exercises I am doing. The number is less important to me as long as I am working on different things (i.e. vocabulary, listening, grammar, etc.). 

I dont think I will ever document my time on duolingo or using anki or how much i listen to music..but there was a lot of that as well. IDK what it was with me and children’s shows and movies this week (especially considering the ‘adult’ shows I have started and not finished) but its nice! CN is great because there are no subtitles so I can actually count that as listening as opposed to reading. Also, I will definitely incorporate more readings outside of my textbook.

[rizlearns]

PL: 10 - 16 May 2021

Podcast: Poenget x1

Podcast: Norsklære Karense x4

Read Story 5 from Short Stories in Norwegian

Read Chapter 7 Norsk Grammatikk

Journal Entry x5

Youtube: Jonas Braathen x1

Youtube: Norsklære Karense x1

Youtube: Silje Thorstensen x1

Youtube: UiS x2

(30) minute italki session

this week was not as productive as it would have liked (and i had no idea how much i was neglecting vocab this week which....is like the easiest thing for me to do but i digress). idk if these past couple weeks is that 'learning plateau' because tbh it feels like everything is not only not improving, but also getting worse lol. it's actually a terrible feeling and i *know* i'm not regressing but geez louise some days it really really feels like it...anyways, i am glad to discover UiS has a pretty active youtube channel so I got to listen to more Stavangersk which is nice AND i did my first yoga practice in norwegian which was also nice (exercise wise but also in the fact that i could follow relatively well). i am definitely behind on my goal to finish Norsk Grammatikk so I hope to read more and do exercises for the accompanying chapters.

i think journaling everyday has been really nice but i always wait until nighttime (so i can like write about what happened in the day mostly) but sometimes i wait too late and im too tired to commit to more than a paragraph lol. so this week i will change my approach for writing and see where that goes!

Podcast: Agelast (50 minutes)

Watched Winx na Srpskom x2

Read a Short Story from LingQ

Read aloud/alphabet pronunciation review

Reviewed vocabulary words 1-100 from Learn Serbian

This is the first time in a lonnnnnnng time i am 'seriously' engaging with serbian again! mostly because my partner has this timeline that ideally (corona notwithstanding), we would be in Serbia in this fall/winter. I dont expect to be fluent by that time lol and traveling this year also seems like a reach BUT i would really like to be able to have some tools in order to communicate with his parents who do not speak english. i'm mostly going to focus on input but also i bought thus '2000 key vocabularies' book which i never even thought about for norwegian and tbh dont know how i feel about them but we will see how it goes! hoping to have a better idea of my approach this week for studying again because this week was very random but gotta start again somewhere!

[rizlearns]

PL: 22 - 28 FEB 2021

Norwegian

Podcast: Norsklære Karense x2

Podcast: Konspirasjonspodden x1

Podcast: Lær Norsk Nå x1

Read Kapitler 5 & 6 Her På Berget

Her På Berget Homework: (3) exercises Kapittel 3, (9) exercises Kapittel 4, (5) exercises Kapittel 5, (3) exercises Kapittel 6

Read Chapters 5 & 6 Hombabo Og Jeg

Watched Ragnarok x1

This week was kinda messy again and I ended up doing most of my work on the weekends when I would prefer to have it spread out during the week. I was getting a little (a lot) frustrated with the exercises towards the end because sometimes it feels like I should already know certain things or it takes me "too long" to complete a certain task. Going forward, I do plan on keeping to my current textbook reading schedule but once I finish HPG, I think I will take a break from textbook(s) until I get more organized and familiar with all the material from the past three textbooks.

My goal for this week will be to finish the first section of Hombabo Og Jeg and note all the vocabulary I marked from it (7 chapters). I already have my question(s) planned for my italki session on Friday but hopefully I will get at least one of the chapters for this weeks textbook reading done before then. I general I think I did good work this week but as usual, hoping for a better week next week.

[rizlearns]

PL: 11 Jan - 17 Jan 2021

Norwegian

Podcast: Konspirasjonspodden x3

Podcast: Norsklærer Karense x3

Read Chapter 1: Hombabo Og Jeg

Read Kapitler 7 & 8 Stein På Stein

Read Kapittel 3 Norsk Grammatikk

Stein På Stein Homework: (3) exercises Kapittel 7, (5) exercises Kapittel 8

Norsk Grammatikk Homework: (5) exercises Kapittel 2, (2) exercises Kapittel 3

Watched ~5.4 hours of Cartoon Network Norge (Adventure Time, Steven Universe, We Bare Bears, Regular Show)

Watched I'm Thinking of Ending Things (English Audio/Norwegian Subs)

This was a decent week! I still need to make a schedule for the weekends because I kinda just do whatever and so far thats okay but more structure wouldn’t hurt. I had a really nice a-ha moment finishing Kapittel 8 of Stein På Stein; in that moment i felt like i was really getting somewhere. it just felt so natural to read about ‘norway in the old days’. I haven’t decided a number of exercises to do per chapter but i will keep prioritizing listening exercises because that will always be the area where I need the most work i think. In general, my textbook reading is going pretty well and faster than I thought but instead of rushing through it, I would like to read more news articles and books and keep to my original plan of three chapters a week.

I always read aloud when I read anything in norwegian and i count that towards my speaking (never in full) because i think its really important to get a feel for the words. I also use this website (literally the most realistic computer generated voices i found thus far) to check my pronunciation on words I absolutely have no idea how to pronounce but this is not usually my main goal the first time around...I think I will make a post about reading and pronunciation and this website soon..but what i am trying to say is pronunciation is not my concern when my focus is reading comprehension. Hoping for a good week next week!

P.S If anyone watched ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ and would like to discuss please lmk because i....was not a fan........but would love to hear other opinions. also if you didnt see it and are looking for a recommendation to do so, you will not find it here lmfao.

[rizlearns]

PL: 25 - 31 Jan 2021

Norwegian

Podcast: Krig og Fred x1

Podcast: KonspirasjonsPodden x1

Podcast: Norsklærer Karense x3

Read Kapitler 12, 13, 14 Stein På Stein

Read (1) NRK article

Watched Aladdin (Norwegian Audio/Subs)

Watched (3) NRK P3X interviews

My main accomplishment this week was finishing Stein På Stein albeit a day or two off from my schedule. I unfortunately did not do any homework assignments for the last three chapters..Considering my schedule to finish Her På Berget at 1.5 chapters a week, I will dedicate more time to the workbook practices. In February I will (re)organize a bit as I start taking italki lessons again. I have a session scheduled for this Friday and will use the coming days to ‘study’ and ‘prepare’ for ‘something’. 

This month I would like to (a) finish Norsk Grammatikk, (b) finish Hombabo Og Jeg and (c) have at least four italki sessions, about one a week. Also I will officially reintegrate Serbian back into my schedule so I am more inclined to stick to my plans. In general, more input should be happening going forward. Hoping for a good month! Something about the 1st of the month falling on a Monday is extremely satisfying to me..

[rizlearns]

PL: 16 nov - 22 nov 2020

better late than never i suppose!

Norwegian: i cannot remember for the life of me what i did this week but for the most part the 'content' is the same but the frequency varies. content being: duolingo, podcasts, interviews, etc. i am trying to write everyday but as we see from this chart, that did not happen haha. i can say, unfortunately, that i have not scheduled another italki session since the first one... i am in a very weird transitionary period right now so its a little difficult to plan and budget but! it seems like i will be able to afford weekly sessions very soon.

** in the very near future, i plan to be more detailed with these logs and more structured in my posts in general. i guess right now i am kinda taking notes, and planning my 'perfect study schedule' for the next several months as i seriously get back to working towards my goal(s). but for now this is fine, i still have time :)**