[T-974] Active immersion baby steps

Dear Rine,

As you may have noticed today on Discord, I am slowly falling under the spell of Org-mode. So here’s my active immersion time totals for this week Monday-Friday:

Headline Time
Total time 3:17

I am still figuring out how to generate cool reports.

Maybe I can make this learning process more interesting by collecting data? Maybe that way it will be more useful for any onlooker coming through this way?

I am imagining someone stumbling onto this blog five years from now, and witnessing the meager immersion hours early in my 1000 day journey.

Let’s see if I can hit a total of 3:45 hours next workweek (or let’s say 4:45 if weekends are included).

The next milestone to aspire to is to reach the Refold recommended minimum:

For very foreign languages (e.g. English → Arabic), we recommend at least two hours per day of focused immersion: 30 minutes intensive, 90 minutes free-flow.

What I have been doing in these 30 minute spurts can be counted as intensive immersion:

Intensive immersion is a powerful tool for learning vocabulary and grammar directly from real-world content. As you immerse, you attempt to puzzle out the meaning of each sentence by using lookups. . . In the beginning, you won’t always be able to figure out a sentence and that’s OK! If the sentence is too difficult to understand or there are too many unknown words, just skip it and move on. It’s better to focus on the low hanging fruit.

So for next week, let me keep this intense effort at a 30 minute level and then try to pile up some free-flow immersion on top:

Free-flow immersion where you let the language wash over you. You still pay full attention, but you shouldn’t be looking things up constantly. The occasional lookup is OK, but avoid constantly interrupting your immersion.

I am building up slowly. This week I struggled to clock in half an hour. In the first half of the week I could only do it late at night. But on Thursday and Friday (today) I managed to do it at a more reasonable hour.

Meanwhile, Anki2SM still causing trouble. Not only are pictures not showing, but the answer field is often truncated, ommiting the dictionary definitions. This defeats the purpose of the whole Migaku thing. So maybe I should just move on to another setup.

What I did/planned:

Obstacles