4. Conclusion

 

1. Schedule

Okay, so this is pretty much all for now when it  comes to our program from the theoretical side.

   Now all you have to do is actually apply  that and learn the language that you have   chosen.

I know that it might be a little bit  confusing up to this moment.

I know that I have   talked about many things.

So in like few seconds I  will show you an exact plan of studying.

Something   that you will also have to create by yourself.

And we will go over that.

We will talk about different  days, what I actually did, what you can do, how  it's going to apply to different languages.

   And with that you will be able to  understand everything perfectly, okay?   So this is for you, the information  that you have completed this program.

Obviously we have not finished because we are  obviously going to also talk about the things   that we can do later on to get advanced.

But  when it comes to those 10 days if you're doing   the challenge or if you're for example doing  that in 30 days, when it comes to this part   of getting to that level of being able to speak  with other people, to be able to communicate, this   is it.

Okay? So you have completed that.

Now we are  going to expand on that.

First of all, we are going   to talk about the schedule.

I will actually  show you how to make that yourself, and then   we are going to talk about the things that we can  do from this point.

So we'll actually make a small   summary of everything here as well.

After we finish  this advice we'll go over each star, here, these are   obviously different tips that you have to actually  apply to your learning after the challenge to   actually get the C1 level.

And these are gonna be  like the most important tips that you have to do.

   That you should really apply.

But I'm also gonna  give you a second lecture with like those quick   pieces of advice, like those quick tips.

But they are not  going to be necessary, like you can actually choose   some of them if you like, if they're going to suit  you.

But these are gonna be the most important   things that you have to apply to get to those  advanced levels.

So pretty much that is how it's   all gonna look like.

Now let's take a look at our  schedule.

So this is basically our schedule.

  As I said before many times, you should do  something like that by yourself, okay? And listen,  it doesn't have to be perfect, it doesn't have to  be exact.

Actually, I did a schedule myself before   starting the challenge and it was somewhat similar  to that that you see here, but obviously with   time I did change things here and there.

I also  figured out what worked better, what worked worse.

   What you have to do is: first make this  starting plan, so that you have a very   clear direction of what you're going to do  and when, and for how long.

And that is going   to be very helpful for you, okay? You have to have  this clear path that you will just follow.

And obviously, you can apply changes  to that, it doesn't have to be perfect.

   And now I will explain how it all works, so that  you understand everything a little bit better.

   As you can see we have different  rectangles here, we have different squares.

   And their size is very important, okay? It was not  chosen randomly.

It's supposed to show you how   much of your studying time every day you should  actually put into doing different activities.

   So for example here we start the day one  with learning grammar and basic pronunciation.

   And if you are for example studying 10 hours a  day, then that should maybe take around two hours.

   Okay? You get the idea.

So the second  thing that is going to be important here  - colors.

As you can see I do choose different  colors, and they represent different activities   again.

And so here we have the conjugation in  the present tense, here we have the conjugation   and the past tense, here we have the 1000 word  rule, here we have pillar number two, pillar number   one.

So this is why I actually took these  colors.

However, you can also see those little   squares here, and we have two different sides of  these: we have bigger squares and smaller squares.

   These squares they represent learning new  vocabulary, okay? So as you can see in pillar   number one, we do learn a lot of new vocabulary.

  Whereas in pillar number two we only learn, when   it comes to new words, we only learn the key words  that we need.

And these squares, that you can see   here and here, they represent the revision, okay?  So we have already talked about that, we are doing   different revisions here.

And I will  explain why they have different colors in a second.

   Okay? The first day we are learning basic grammar  and pronunciation.

Be aware of the fact that it was   made for German and so with German I didn't  have to put much time to learn the pronunciation,   okay? With you it can differ.

If you choose a  language with a difficult problem pronunciation,   it's going to take more time.

With Spanish, I assume  it would take like a day.

In French it would take   definitely more, we have talked about that, so you  know how it works.

So you will have to adapt your   schedule to that.

If you for example choose Spanish - again, with Spanish, with Italian, it would be like   a whole day, maybe two days.

And you would also try  to learn some vocabulary and meanwhile learning   the pronunciation and, obviously, articulation, okay? So not only pronunciation but also articulation.

   And articulation is very important because,  because yes, we can actually for example ignore   the alphabets, we can ignore writing  systems, but we need to pronounce   sounds properly, okay? If you create sounds that are  not proper, if you create incorrect  sounds, then it's going to be a complete mess.

  Okay, so pronunciation, articulation, you learn how   to read in the language, and you also learn that  basic grammar.

And it only took me like two hours   on the first day because in German it was very  simple.

I only had to learn personal pronouns there   to start.

The word order, I had to read a little  bit about the word order, and then I had to study   the pronunciation a little bit.

The articulation  wasn't difficult for me neither, because I already   knew how to create the sounds that German  has.

They are quite similar to Polish   with the exception of like one or two.

But  I also knew them from French and so on and so on.

   I really didn't have to put a lot of time  here.

And I was actually able to go to the   learning conjugation in the present tense part  very, very quickly.

We have talked about how   to approach this topic, how to memorize that.

So  if you don't remember that now, you can go back   to the lecture.

But basically you can see that it  took me the rest of the day to actually learn how to conjugate verbs in German.

And I didn't  do any revision at the end because   because there was not much to revise at this  point.

I was only revising the conjugation all   the time, we could say.

Then, on the second  day, what I did at start is I actually made   a revision of that conjugation, okay.

So after a  night I wanted to actually do this revision to   just stimulate my memory better, to see how much  I remember.

But also another thing that you could   do at the end of every each day is go over the  words that were the most difficult for you or   like the most important.

Because every revision  that you do before going to sleep is gonna boost   your memory, and those particular things that  you will actually revise before going to sleep   are really gonna stick to your memory better,  okay? So, for the difficult things, do the revision   especially before going to sleep.

But let's go back  to the second day.

So I did that... So at start   I did that revision of conjugation, and then I obviously went for the pillar number one.

  You know how it already works.

And what I did - basically  I was learning basic things: pronouns, prepositions,   and I was trying to use conjugation practically.

  And the second thing that I was doing here, which   is the most important in the pillar number  one, is I was learning new vocabulary, okay?   And then after that, I went for the pillar number  two.

So in the pillar number two I not only have   revised the things that I have learned here,  in the player number one, so the new vocabulary   and the vocabulary here, but also I revised  the verbs that I have learned in conjugation.

   So in this pillar I have pretty much revised  everything I have learned so far, I have actually   revised the grammar, I have revised the conjugation, I have revised the meaning of those verbs as well   and that is why you see those different squares  here representing revision.

We have the revision   of the conjugation, we have the revision of grammar,  and we also have the revision of vocabulary, okay? Of those squares that represent vocabulary.

And  also you can see that we have this tiny square   on the bottom which also tells us that I did plan,  and I did that indeed.

I did plan to look for some   key words here as well when doing revisions, when  doing sentences and revising vocabulary.

And then   if you're studying like 10 hours, 11 hours a day  then you could say that the revision would take an   hour, pillar number one would take like two hours,  and the rest would be for the pillar number two.

   Okay? And now let's talk about the next day.

The  number three.

On this day I realized that I was   so far doing very well.

I realized that the  conjugation is quite simple in German, and I realized that I managed to actually learn that  very quickly, and so I decided, since I have already   started to feel comfortable with the present  tense, I decided I would go for the past tense.

   And this is important.

You need to actually feel  comfortable with one concept, to go to the next one.

You don't want to mix, you don't actually want to  mix the present tense with the past tense.

Because   once you actually start mixing those forms, it will  just all become very messy.

We don't want that, okay? So what I did here is I first started to learn  regular verbs in the past tense.

I made a list   of that, and then I went for irregular verbs in  the past tense and obviously I had that all in   my book so it was very actually simple to find  that.

And then I practiced that.

You already know   how to practice the conjugation.

I was also  making like small sentences as well to practice   different forms a little, bit but I was mostly  doing the things that we have talked in the   conjugation part.

And obviously you have to choose  a proper tense here, remember about that.

In German   it wasn't a problem for me because I chose  what was correct and what was the only choice, but   in other languages you will have to make a choice,  and we have talked about that in the lecture   called "past tense", right? So you can go back to  that.

So that was pretty much what I was doing the   whole day.

I didn't have time to do other things.

I  didn't have time to do the pillar number one here   nor pillar number two because learning past  tense is gonna be a very, very wide topic.

It will   require a lot of time from you, especially with  languages like Spanish - one day might not be enough,  like it was in German.

In German it wasn't  that difficult.

And at the end, I did this very   little pillar number two, just to revise  as much as I could before going to sleep.

   Because obviously you should try to do as much  as you can every day, okay? You should actually put   maximal effort.

And that is the example of that  maximal effort.

I could have stopped after that   but I figured that if I don't do this revision  here, then I will start forgetting words, that   I have learned before because they weren't yet  transferred to the mid-term memory properly, okay? Day number four.

At start I decided to revise  irregular verbs, then I went for the pillar number one.

   I learned possessive adjectives, I learned  object pronouns, but mostly I was learning the   vocabulary here.

And then, in pillar number two,  I was practicing all of that, all the things   that we have learned before.

So I was practicing  the conjugation in the present tense by creating   sentences, I was practicing the conjugation in the  past tense by creating sentences, I was practicing   those elements of grammar: pronouns, prepositions,  possessive adjectives, object pronouns.

And I was   also practicing the vocabulary that I have learned  so far, which is represented by these green squares.

   Then again, on the fifth day, I started with the  revision of irregular verbs and you can see that   also on the sixth day.

You maybe remember, I said  that past tense is gonna be very important for us,  and it's not that difficult.

You can really, maybe  not be perfect in the past tense, but you can   really work on those forms and really improve them.

So that you don't do a lot of mistakes here.

That's what I actually did.

I wanted to put a lot of time into   these revisions of those irregular verbs to really  memorize them, and to really have them in my head   and actually use them properly.

That's why  I actually invested so much time.

I would   do these revisions every day of those irregular  verbs.

After that I went for the pillar number one,   as always, here it was a little bit messy, I  remember.

I started to learn the clenching   I also tried to read a little bit about  adjectives, how to change different endings, but I   didn't perfect that neither, and I was mostly  learning new vocabulary here as well.

I think that   I was watching videos, maybe I was actually  starting to watch the Extra series here.

I think it was here,   or maybe here or here.

Somewhere here I started to watch videos, I started to listen songs, what we  have to actually talked about in the filling the  gaps lecture.

And then obviously pillar number two.

   Doing the full notebook revision.

Going  over all the things that we have learned.

   Conjugation in the past tense, conjugation in the  present tense, elements of grammar, new vocabulary.

We consolidate all those things by speaking,  by creating sentences.

On the sixth day, again   we started with the revision, but I also  decided to actually add a new revision of verbs   in the present tense.

And why did I do that? Well,  I actually realized doing the revision here that   I started to forget some of the forms of verbs  in the present tense, and so I had to actually   put more time to get those back to my  memory, I would say, because obviously the present   tense wasn't difficult for me in German, but I didn't use all the words when creating sentences.

I didn't use all the verbs when creating sentences,  and so I started to forget some of them, and so  that is why I went for those irregular verbs here,  in the present tense.

Then after that, pillar number one.

  So basically, I expanded on grammar here.

We didn't talk about that in our program,  but it's gonna actually work very similar to the  past tense.

So what I did here is I actually   learned the future tense.

As you did in the past  tense, where you had to choose the easiest tense, that is also the case here.

In German I didn't  have to choose anything because you only have   a single tense which sounds like "Ich will gehen".  "Ich will", so the verb "will" represents the future   tense.

So it was very very simple in German,  but for example in languages like French, like   Spanish, you will have two tenses to choose, and  you have to actually choose the one that will be   simple, okay? So for example in Spanish we have both: futuro imperfecto and futuro de indicativo.

  Futuro de indicativo will be very simple.

You'll just have  to use an auxiliary verb to create that.

Whereas   futuro imperfecto will require some conjugation.

  It's also going to be simple, but the futuro de   indicativo will be just enough for us.

And so we  should choose only that single tense.

We don't   need to actually use both at start.

Especially in terms of future there's   usually not a lot of difference like it is in in  the past tense.

You can basically use both, and it's   not going to change that much, okay? The difference  is going to be very subtle in between tenses.

   And so that is what I did here.

I also learned  the future tense, and I really started to feel   here that I am really able to actually express  myself in German.

After learning the past tense, the   future tense, I really started to create really  complex sentences.

And then pillar number two.

   As always, doing the revision of everything I  have learned so far.

You know how it works.

Then   after that, on the seventh day, I actually started  with the 100 words list.

And you can either try to   learn 100 words one day, which is going to be very  difficult, so I will actually recommend separating   that to both days.

That is what I did.

I went  for like 50 words, which was already a lot and I   surely didn't memorize them all, but most of them,  and then after that, after doing the 100 words rule,   I went for the revision, right? So again, doing the  revision of all the things that we have learned so far, expanded by that 100 words rule, okay? And then, on the eighth day, I learned the rest.

I learned   those 50 more words.

Then after that, I did the  pillar number one.

I mostly focused on grammar here.

   I wanted to actually learn and grasp all the  things that I haven't grasped before.

I practiced   what I have learned so far, I practiced different  pronouns, I fixed the mistakes that i was doing   before.

Also I tried to learn maybe a couple  of words here, but I was mostly practicing the   the grammar here.

And then pillar number two -  doing the reversion of everything with those words   from the 100 words rule included.

On the  ninth day again, doing the pillar number one,   looking for new words and also practicing  the word order.

I tried to actually   fix my mistakes in the word order.

It was  just very, very overwhelming, but I tried to   to fix that.

It didn't go very well, and I did  continue to do mistakes with that but... but not   in every sentence at least.

And so maybe that was a mistake here, you also do mistakes like that.

You don't have to be perfect with everything to get those results that I did.

However,   now after, after this time I know that I  maybe shouldn't have put time into that and   make it all just more confusing for me.

I should  have just went for the revision and The Cicero Mod here.

   But I did some of the Cicero Mod already on  the ninth day, which I didn't actually put here.

   But on the tenth day, I started with the revision again, all those irregular   verbs in the past tense, I did the revision of the  irregular verbs in the present tense, especially   in the first person because I knew that i'm gonna  use that a lot, and then I went for the Cicero Mod.

  So I was just speaking all day basically.

And I  was consolidating everything that I have learned,   and I was memorizing only the key words that I lacked to actually continue my monologues.

Okay? So that is how it all works.

You should do  a schedule like this for yourself.

You don't   have to do these squares.

They were basically to  actually explain how it all works, to show you how   it all works in practice.

You don't have to do them,  but you should make a schedule.

You should actually   list down everything that you will learn each day.

  And if you for example want to do it in 20 days   then do the same thing just  expand it.

So for example for   so, for example, if you are learning the conjugation  in the present tense and you have 20 days for that   then give yourself two days instead of one,  okay? That's basically how it works.

Just   just give yourself more time if  you can't study as much as I did every day, okay? Okay, so I hope that it's clear now.

I hope that  you will have fun doing schedules like that.

So thank you for listening and see ya in the next  lecture where we are going to talk about, actually,   things that we have to do to be advanced from  this point.

And then we will go over quick tips   that we can also apply if you want.

And after  that I will maybe do some interviews with people   that were actually learning languages, and it's  gonna be mostly based on language families.

So I   will try to do a interview with someone who has  learned Slavic languages, someone who has learned   Roman languages, Germanic languages  and so on and so forth.

So we'll try to   do something like that, okay? So thank you  for listening and see ya in the next lecture!