End of January Update

My whole '300 new acquired vocabulary' in each language per month' is epically failing. It's currently 30th January and so far I've learned a whooping 20 new words in Portuguese whilst completely ignoring the other languages. However, after finding a good online Chinese course - http://www.daydayupchinese.com/ - I've decided to pick up Chinese again and currently I have a anki-based vocabulary of 263 words and 49 sentences. Considering I haven't looked at a Spanish text in a good 4/5 months, I've decided to postpone my Spanish and focus on Chinese in it's place.

Progress chart

After spending the last two days doing nothing related to languages, I feel as though I might fall into my old habit of ignoring language learning for prolonged periods of time. To combat this, I've came up with goals to achieve. Each month, I have to learn 300 words - roughly 10 per day - of my lingQ flashcards in each language I'm studying.
Graphs signifying progress of my goals can be found at the top of the page.

School Subject vocabulary

I've just finished watching a channel in French called Inraci TV using http://www.101languages.net/watch/. Whilst I couldn't gauge exactly what the program was about, the word 'école' was used repetitively. So I've decided to compose a vocabulary list on school subjects.

Subjects - Matières

• Art - Le dessin

• Biology - La biologie

• Business Studies - Les études de commerce

• Chemistry - La chimie

• Computing Studies - L'informatique
  

• English - L'anglais

• Geography - L'histoire-geo*

• History - L'histoire-geo*

• Maths - Les maths

• Music - La musique

• Physical education - L'éducation physique et sportive **
  

• Physics - La physique

• Politics - Les sciences politiques
  

• Psychology - La psychologie
  

*In French schools, geography and history are combined into one subject - l'histoire-geo.
**L'éducation physique et sportive is commonly abbreviated into l'EPS.

Progress starter

This is simply a list of my current progress as of 1st January 2010.

LingQ words known
Portuguese - 1754
Spanish - 222
French - 1243
Japanese -332

Anki sentences
Portuguese - 0
Spanish - 0
French - 0
Japanese - 0

Anki vocabulary list
Portuguese - 0
Spanish - 0
French - 0
Japanese - 0

For those who don't know, Anki is a SRS [spaced repetition system] program, designed to help people remember content on flashcards.

Anytime I come across a new word I add it to my anki deck in the appropriate language -eg. I'd add 'agora' to the Portuguese deck. Then, after I've finished adding it, I review all the cards on the deck. How well you know a word determines how much time will pass until the card is shown again.




It's a good program and if you're looking for a flashcard program I would recommend it.
You can find out more at: http://ichi2.net/anki/