Clear the List: My Monthly Language Learning Update
Prior to the last month, Memrise was my go-to resource for vocabulary. They recently announced they are doing away with user-generated content, the primary reason I used them as a tool.
Since, I’ve migrated all of my learning content over to LingQ. It’s still a work in progress, so far as getting my setup just to where I want it, but I’m definitely very happy with the switch. I’m importing all of my lesson content, whether it’s from Gaelic with Jason as I learn Scottish Gaelic, or the PDFs and audio from Olly’s Uncovered courses. Of course, I upload everything as private content!
Wondering what is going on with the changes at Memrise? Read this.
If you’re new around these parts…
Welcome to Clear the List, where I share what I’m doing to learn languages as well as my latest analysis of my language goals on a monthly basis.
If you’d like to join and share your own language learning goals and updates, I’d love for you to join me. You can do so by sharing your updates, or a link to your own post, in the comments below.
So let’s get started, sharing our goals and motivating one another to #clearthelist!
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Last Month’s Goals
Keep digging into Scottish Gaelic. // I’ve been primarily using Gaelic with Jason (I’m in Part 2 out of 18) and Speak Gaelic. I’ve also been on and off with Glossika. I import all of my notes across these tools into LingQ and review them daily. I recently wrote an in-depth review of everything I’m doing to learn Scottish Gaelic online that you can read if you’re curious to learn more.
Maintain my vocabulary learning streak. // I did manage this. My LingQ streaks are still growing since I’ve newly shifted to using it more regularly. Here are my streaks:
- Duolingo: 985 days
- Drops: 1407 days
- LingQ Croatian: 36 days
- LingQ Hungarian: 40 days
- LingQ Russian: 40 days
- LingQ Japanese: 39 days
- LingQ Chinese: 40 days
- LingQ French: 39 days
- LingQ Scottish Gaelic: 18 days
- LingQ Norwegian: 1 day
Keep working through my YouTube Queue. // I initially just threw all of the videos I wanted to study into my Watch Later playlist, but it quickly became overwhelming with thousands of videos to work through in both my active and inactive languages. I decided to start cleaning it up and created language-specific playlists for all my languages. That way, I can focus on one language at a time rather than dig through EVERYTHING all mixed together. I finally finished sorting, so my goal is to consistently work through videos in my active languages.
I’ve been importing a lot of the videos into LingQ and slowly whittling the numbers in the playlists for my active languages down. A lot of the numbers went up this month, however, because I finally finished sorting all of the language videos out of my general “watch later” playlist.
Here’s where it all is at today:
- Korean: 406 videos (not active) from 399 videos
- French: 177 videos (active) from 172 videos
- Russian: 108 videos (active) from 104 videos
- Chinese: 218 videos (active) from 216 videos
- Hungarian: 173 videos (active) from 173 videos
- Portuguese: 119 videos (not active) from 119 videos
- Croatian: 115 videos (active) from 114 videos
- Japanese: 85 videos (active) from 85 videos
- Italian: 21 videos (not active) from 21 videos
- Hindi: 5 videos (not active) from 5 videos
- Hebrew: 8 videos (not active) from 8 videos
- Persian: 16 videos (not active) from 16 videos
- Scottish Gaelic: 36 videos (active) from 39 videos
- German: 1 video (not active) from 1 video
I’m not actively studying many of these languages, so the numbers won’t change for every one of those lists month over month. For now, my goal is to watch at least 5 videos per week or import them into LingQ across all of my languages.
This Month’s Goals
Keep digging into Scottish Gaelic. // I’d like to make good progress in my new materials. I’ll aim for four lessons or chapters from each of my two new resources – Gaelic Foundations with Jason and Colloquial.
Maintain my vocabulary learning streak. // I currently have streaks on Drops, LingQ, and Duolingo. I plan to maintain all of my active streaks through June and on.
Keep working through my YouTube Queue. // Now that all of my videos are sorted, I want to make sure to import at least 5 videos per week into LingQ, especially for French and Scottish Gaelic.
Resources I Used This Month
A quick recap of the materials I am using.
What I Am Using to Learn Scottish Gaelic:
- Duolingo
- Scottish with Jason (YouTube) + his foundations course
- Lauren Rhiannan (YouTube and Instagram)
- Colloquial Scots Gaelic
- Glossika
What I Am Using to Maintain Chinese:
- LingQ – my favorite tool
What I’m Using to Brush Up/Improve French:
- LingQ
- Listening to French radio/podcasts/music
- Duolingo
- Drops
- Following all of my hockey news in French
What I am Using to Maintain Russian:
What I’m Using to Learn Japanese:
What I’m Using to Learn Croatian:
What I’m Using to Learn Hungarian:
Not Currently doing any study for: German, Hindi, Norwegian, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, ASL
Resources That Aren’t Language-Specific
- Fluent in 3 Months Bootcamp Challenge
- Todoist (to keep all my language lessons and to-do’s organized)
- Notion – my new favorite app for taking notes (I just set up a template for the way I use Notion to take notes if you’re interested in duplicating it for yourself)
And that’s it!
I’d love to know what you’re doing to work on your languages this month. Let me know in the comments below!
