Well, here's some screen shots of tests scores dumped in a pile.
Maybe I should ask Danny to graph 'em for me someday.
Here's the takeaways:
7. pád, especially 7. pád plural is really difficult for me and needs to be studied more.
6. pád plural is easy to pick out of a multiple choice pile because it is the only one that ends in ch almost all the time. I think actually being able to create it myself on demand, especially when confronted with the extremely intimidating situation of talking with someone face-to-face, is going to be a lot longer coming than say, recognizing it in a book. But I guess that is normal.
4. and 5. pád plural are really hard for me still.
2. and 3. pád are the okayest.
I saw radical dramatic improvement in my ability to memorize vocabulary words - rather, to maintain the memorization - after listening to the voice recordings of these words. It was pretty unbelievable how big of a deal it was to me.
Yeah. Words in context. REALLY IMPORTANT.
The vocab test score where I got only 98% I mixed up whatever stupid English definition I had for zničehonic and zčistajasna - and these words literally mean almost exactly the same thing. Perhaps they are used in slightly different contexts and carry different connotations, but only the barest, most minimum definition (and only one of them!) is possible to string together in a flashcard app.
And that's okay.
This puts me at 100% for Harry Potter 1, chapter 1 (HP 1.1) and HP 1.2 words which I chose.
I have been collecting words every week aside from the Harry Potter words, from all kinds of contexts including texting, talking, reading, etc. If I manage to get up enough courage to share this document someday, it would be great to repeat this process (getting sense-ical sentences, having a native speaker record them, translate them into some crippled version of English, record myself (or someone else) - listen to them over and over again when I go running or whatever).
But I am not sure if I am truly capable of doing that. It is really, truly difficult to find a way to trust my new and old collaborators, for all kinds of crazy reasons like: fear that they will think I'm crazy for being so "into" this study of Czech. Fear that they will not like me. Fear that they will not understand and then just totally drop me as a friend or devalue our friendship or something like that. I guess those reasons are all basically made-up and it's mostly just trying to untangle a web of nasty wires in my brain that got all messed up from pregnancy. I have never felt this anxious about things - not depressed, just truly jittery almost all the time! - never in my life.
But I'm not going to let that prevent me from learning Czech.
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