Okay, so, I haven't been as diligent this week as I have in some recent weeks. I've missed a couple of flash card sessions due to late nights or just forgetting to do the cards right after my صلاة (salat, "prayer") time في الصباح (fi as subuh, "in the morning"). Even so, I've only missed one or two times this week. During the last couple of weeks, I'd been doing the same fifty cards over and over again to learn those new words I put down. Now, I'm doing the next forty-five-ish cards to learn those words. Once I've done that, and fixed the cards that have issues (five or six at the moment), I think I'm going to finally take Chops' advice and start using the Leitner System of spaced repetition.
I've also started something that I'm hoping to turn into a secondary "repetitions" and/or accountability project for posting on this blog: physical training/exercise/working out. Since last Wednesday, I've been in the pool four times. I'm hoping to get to work at a reasonable hour today and go for a yomp this afternoon. The physical training plan I hope to (eventually) implement can be seen on the bottom of the sidebar at my blog, and includes swimming, yomping, pushups, and situps, with a possibility of eventually doing pullups. I may try to start the formal program next week, given that I've got momentum at the moment and want to keep going on it. The yomping seems to be the tough thing to motivate myself to do, but if I can get in the habit of doing one per week, I'll be golden.
Since Tuesdays and Thursdays are my designated Arabic days, and Tuesday evening was beyond chaotic, my plan is to do a Quran reading and maybe another chapter from my textbook this evening when I get back from work. If I do, I'll note it. In the mean time, have a fantastic day, kids.
No comments:
Post a Comment