Milestone: 1500 Words in Speakly

 


I've 'learned' (a differing mixture of recognition and recall) another 100 words (or more accurately lemmas) in Speakly. As you can see I've only been using the app for five days after a break that lasted more than a month.

Something that I might have mentioned in other posts about Speakly is that I'm learning some of the words more easily than other because I have come across them before. That could be in other apps like Glossika, from importing the Speakly monologues into LingQ or perhaps when reading memes. 

I can't exactly say what proportion of the words are somewhat familiar to me and how many are completely new. It feels like the split is 20 / 80 (familiar/unfamiliar), but I'm just guessing.

Because I import the Speakly monologues into LingQ I'm in effect working ahead of the main vocabulary acquisition exercises. For a while I completely stopped doing the main vocabulary exercises and just read and listened to the first 15 or so monologues over and over. Someone on Reddit recommended I not do that as the monologues were not meant to be understood that in depth. But I found that immensely useful and I don't regret doing it that way. In fact I can see myself doing so again in the future.

For anyone that's new to my blog I find the combination of Speakly and LingQ incredibly powerful. The monologues and dialogues are the most valuable aspect of Speakly in my opinion. Even more so than than the vocabulary exercises which is meant to be the most important function of the app.




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