My New Daily Language-Learning Routine
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My New Daily Language-Learning Routine

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Hey everybody! I've changed my strategy for learning English, and hence, my daily activities.

The content below is a sort of list of all the things that I have done daily for the last 22 days learning English:

Grammar Notebook (30min):

In this activity, I read all the new grammatical forms that I'd collected the first Sunday of every month.

Every month, I collect new grammatical forms, and I use these 30 minutes per day to practice, assimilate and digest them all. I usually read trying to grab all its details, but in the beginning of the second week, I try to study with more active activities such as writing some sentences or talking to myself using the news grammatical forms, while reading my notes to guide my activity.

Notion Tips (30min):

I use Notion to organize my language learning and I think that is one of the best ways to improve your productivity.

In Notion, I have a page where I put all those little, but very important things that could improve my communication skills. I'll give you for a example: If I see a video where someone uses the words "watch, see and look" in different ways, I take all the crucial things and I put them in notion.

The strategy for study my Notion tips is as for when I study the grammar notebook.

Video Notion (1 hour):

This is the last activity of the morning. Here, I extract the most useful words and phrases that I think that I can use.

The first week, I just watch a video with subtitles, the second week I'm focus more on the new grammatical forms and I just read my list of phrases for the entire hour (I often create some different examples in my mind with the same structures that I'm learning). When I'm feeling confortable using the new structures and the new words, I watch the video while I read the key phrases.

Video Explanation (1hour):

This is the first activity of the afternoon. If I have some doubt about any word or phrase, I search different videos to clear up any doubt.

Anki (30min)

I often use Anki to expand my vocabulary and memorize more words. I create flashcards with lots of examples (maybe six or seven) in order to capture all the meanings of the new words.

Verbs (30min)

And last but not least, I spend 30 minutes per day reading some example sentences with new verbs (6 new verbs with 8 examples per verb every month).

When I'm feeling comfortable with the different nuances of the verbes, I begin to create sentences while I talk to myself.

Using this strategy, I've created a really awesome experience that helps me create a more immersive English-learning experience.

I'm going to spend these 4 hour per day learning English until July, when I hope start learning Czech in a more intensive way.

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