01-31-2014, 09:37 PM
Day 4,
So far, just on iTunes, I've gotten 14 hours. On my iPod, it's probably 1.5-2 hours a night.
But, I'm terribly impressed. This comes from a phonecall that I made to a train company. The person who answers catches me off guard (it was a machine beforehand), tells me his name, and we take 10 minutes to do some different stuff; I buy a ticket, I ask some questions.
At the very end, I say "It's xxxx(name), right? Thank you so much". The fact that I remember this guy's name ten minutes later says something.
It also gave me the motivation to tackle my Italian set of flashcards on Anki, which has been building up into this monster. Long story short, I didn't complete it. But let me explain how that works:
- Each day, the deck of cards adds new cards (if you haven't gone through all of them), and sets up a certain number of cards to review. I've got 25 new cards and 100 review cards
- There is also a "chamber", like a gun would, where a few dozen words that you're working on are.
- If you fail to go through all the new cards and review cards, and leave them in the "Chamber", the next day, the new and review cards will be replaced to fill 25 and 100.
- The main reason you don't complete it is that you come across a few too many difficult words
- Do this day after day, the amount of cards in that chamber grows, and since it's usually difficult words that you leave unanswered, there eventually accumulates a large amount of difficult cards
tl;dr, I've got a lot of learning to do.
For music, I'm noticing that my guitar playing is better and more rewarding. I literally spent 4 hours on my instruments, voice included.
So far, just on iTunes, I've gotten 14 hours. On my iPod, it's probably 1.5-2 hours a night.
But, I'm terribly impressed. This comes from a phonecall that I made to a train company. The person who answers catches me off guard (it was a machine beforehand), tells me his name, and we take 10 minutes to do some different stuff; I buy a ticket, I ask some questions.
At the very end, I say "It's xxxx(name), right? Thank you so much". The fact that I remember this guy's name ten minutes later says something.
It also gave me the motivation to tackle my Italian set of flashcards on Anki, which has been building up into this monster. Long story short, I didn't complete it. But let me explain how that works:
- Each day, the deck of cards adds new cards (if you haven't gone through all of them), and sets up a certain number of cards to review. I've got 25 new cards and 100 review cards
- There is also a "chamber", like a gun would, where a few dozen words that you're working on are.
- If you fail to go through all the new cards and review cards, and leave them in the "Chamber", the next day, the new and review cards will be replaced to fill 25 and 100.
- The main reason you don't complete it is that you come across a few too many difficult words
- Do this day after day, the amount of cards in that chamber grows, and since it's usually difficult words that you leave unanswered, there eventually accumulates a large amount of difficult cards
tl;dr, I've got a lot of learning to do.
For music, I'm noticing that my guitar playing is better and more rewarding. I literally spent 4 hours on my instruments, voice included.
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