Spaced Repetition and Good Intentions
We're just past a week into the new year, so how go the intentions? I've been working at the French and the Spanish, the Italian and the Mandarin not so much. However, when I came across SoYouWantToLearnALanguage, I skimmed to see what all they had and, oops, I stumbled on the Uzbek page. Long time readers will know that I've studied Uzbek off and on. One of the things I found was Field Support Online, which has a lot of language information for exotic languages for military use. Lo and behold, they had tons of Uzbek phrases.
I'm beyond the point for spaced repetition with Uzbek, but there's something to be said for the idea of letting language learning settle in. As I looked at peculiar phrases like:
Qurolingizni pastga qo'ying - Put your weapon down
I was surprised to discover how much of the grammar I remembered. I started flipping through and picked up thirty new phrases (that I'll never ever use!) in short order that give me some new vocabulary and a new hook for reinforcing some grammar structures.
Understand that I'm not advocating taking a year or so off as a way of letting language settle in. But if you've missed a few days or even weeks, don't beat yourself up. Get back to work! You'll be surprised at how much you actually know and remember once you take a little time to reactivate your learning.
I'm beyond the point for spaced repetition with Uzbek, but there's something to be said for the idea of letting language learning settle in. As I looked at peculiar phrases like:
Qurolingizni pastga qo'ying - Put your weapon down
I was surprised to discover how much of the grammar I remembered. I started flipping through and picked up thirty new phrases (that I'll never ever use!) in short order that give me some new vocabulary and a new hook for reinforcing some grammar structures.
Understand that I'm not advocating taking a year or so off as a way of letting language settle in. But if you've missed a few days or even weeks, don't beat yourself up. Get back to work! You'll be surprised at how much you actually know and remember once you take a little time to reactivate your learning.
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Just out of curiosity, what got you interested in the Uzbek language? I don't hear/see too many fellow polyglots and language enthusiasts taking interest in it :)
Uzbek music videos. Registan.net used to put up a lot of posts (like this page) with Central Asian music videos. I liked several Uzbek artists, downloaded most of the videos I could find and then started wondering what they were singing about.
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