2024.08.11

2024.08.11 🇸🇪

yesterday and today's dump and some study strategy thoughts. (Wish I could stop worrying about the method though, I wish I was just more outgoing)

Do need the textbooks to clarify the grammar and language nuances.

But other than that, reading and listening and making something of my own from that should be enough. I think. (consuming something i want to make my own)

(lol kinda like what I'm trying to do in English, but i continue to happily consume and have random ideas bobbing around in my head than to say much.)

Maybe try to "scrapbook" words and sentences.

Better I think to start with the relevant stuff, common phrases or books, shows etc. Then have a dictionary. And then look up grammar when the sentence doesn't make sense. And stick to shorter sentences to start.

2024.08.21 — The Red Room🎉 100% complete 🎉

Satire that largely still applies to this day. Although, there were some parts that were hard to follow either because of lack of relevance or writing structure. Easy to skim through those though. The afterward by Peter Graves really helps with understanding the book too.

Gonna say ⭐⭐⭐

I do like to understand my books and obtain some guidance from them. Hence the 3/5. Still def worth the read especially if the reader has any interest in Sweden and/or Stockholm.

Memorizing Short Texts To Learn Your Foreign Language Faster

Magnetic Memory Method - How to Memorize With A Memory Palace

Memorizing Short Texts To Learn Your Foreign Language Faster

This tip will help you pick up foreign language vocabulary fast ... assuming you're using Memory Palaces, that is ...

I suspected this after reading Poet Sarrior and see my svenska-smell active learning post, and i have just felt with my last two sessions the "feeling" of the lang and being able to pull from the memorizes passages and manipulate them how i want. maybe even recall needed material in conversation (to be tested, but i had a feeling this method would help even that).

This article talks more about the method. Some parts i kinda just skimmed, but yeah.

2024.09.02 — Took a break from reading yesterday (for whatever reason) and started this book today. 20 pages in ans I love it so much. I was craving some Korean/Korean-American POV book, and while this is still mostly set in North Korea, she is South Korean, and first generation immigrant to the US, so we get to see that POV.

2024.08.31 — Finished Around the World in 80 plants. 🥳

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Finished it a few days after arriving home. It is an excellent combination of plant information, origins, historical human use, and some etymology! It's so inspiring. I hope to write a book as accessible and with as much quality one day.

2024.09.15 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Wonderfully written from an incredibly interesting POV. Here is one of my favorite passages:

I did not read super consistently, so i also didnt read as quickly as i wouldve liked lol. Been going through a lot. First book i finished since coming home from Sweden too. [13 days.]

2024.09.02 — Took a break from reading yesterday (for whatever reason) and started this book today. 20 pages in ans I love it so much. I was craving some Korean/Korean-American POV book, and while this is still mostly set in North Korea, she is South Korean, and first generation immigrant to the US, so we get to see that POV.