A4.3.35 meta

Gah! So close to the end of A4.3! But it's Friday night and no Czechs are (or should be) awake right now, due to the stupid time difference. I can't quite finish up all of my tasks tonight - will have to wait until Monday. I can write the meta post, though.

Here are my thoughts at the end of this week:

Documentation makes me feel like I'm accomplishing something, but the real work is probably more likely to be in step 2 of my crazy plan: the exposure. It is also one of the more enjoyable parts of the plan.

But it takes concerted effort, since I don't actually live anywhere near anybody who can speak Czech with me "live."

The internet is amazing. It is the reason this dream is even possible for me to hope to achieve, why it's worthwhile to pursue. I am so lucky to have been born on earth when I was. I think about that fact nearly every day. More than any of my ancestors, I have the possibility of achieving both dreams of being a great wife and mother as well as my niche-y intellectual pursuits. I am very lucky. My maternal instinct and faith would have made it impossible to choose the latter in another situation. But that's pretty much tautological reasoning. "In another situation, I would be different." Yes, because the situation changes us.

I slightly tweaked some of the tasks since my last meta post. I suspect that will be the constant in this optimization problem: change.

1	not on a device	Decide
2	not on a device	Exposure : pády rote writing
3	anywhere, phone	Exposure: reading
4	phone	Exposure: film
5	desktop, phone	Exposure: conversation
6	desktop, phone	Exposure: translation
7	desktop	Find unknown words. Play around with them in the table.
8	desktop	Gather unknown words in original contexts
9	desktop	Discover their most common chunks
10	desktop	Gather several new contexts
11	desktop	Translate 10 examples
12	desktop	Correct translation
13	desktop, phone
14	desktop	Load to Quizlet
15	desktop	Quizlet - Learn
16	n/a	Native speaker records themself
17	phone	Listen - Quizlet (flashcards)
18	phone	Listen - Quizlet (flashcards)
19	desktop	Listen - Quizlet (flashcards)
20	desktop	Record yourself
21	desktop	Quizlet české věty - test (psání)
22	desktop	Quizlet all the words (learn)
23	phone	Quizlet all the words test (multiple choice)
24	phone	Quizlet all the words test (true/false)
25	phone	take 7 separate pády tests in the app
26	desktop	řeč do textu
27	desktop	use in a sentence
28	n/a	correct sentences
29	desktop, phone	use in a conversation
30	n/a	test creation
31	desktop, phone	fill in the blank test from a native speaking friend
32	phone	pády test
33	desktop	gather created test mistakes from * examples
34	desktop	test corrections
35	desktop, phone	meta

I color-coded the tasks this way: 

not on a device

phone

desktop

laptop

Oh, also:

ask for help

I have been trying to minimize the tasks which require asking for help. I can't find someone who is going to be the Czech teacher I'd ideally want - so I have to work with what I've got.

Next week I want to make a graph of all of my collaborators and more about my learning anxiety - but that will have to wait for a while.

Note that as of this writing, I have not figured out how to optimize any of the tasks on a laptop. I just deleted a long paragraph about that subject but it's not important and is slightly embarrassing so it got censored.

Looks like I'm about split between tasks on my phone and tasks on a computer.

You know what sucks?

The most fun tasks for me personally are all off of a device, because they involve actually physically interacting with people in the real world. Skype (or whatever videochatting software - skype is actually giving me lots of problems recently, Petr complains about it all the time, and Tom says it's sucking a lot, too. Hmm) - skype is the next best thing, if I can't have true immersion. Texting is a solid third. Reading is great, too - but it's missing the feedback/interactive component.