Ight so it’s so unbelievably not funny how many hours of productivity I’ve lost to mental health issues that I’m here to give y’all a study method for those in the same boat as me.
For a little background, I struggle with anxiety, perfectionist tendencies, and procrastination, among other things. This sucks a hell of a lot, as it constantly clashes with my passion of language learning. Self study in particular is a nightmare—I have plenty of time to work but am always getting in the way of myself. To give an example, here’s a picture of my language notebooks:
Wow, so impressive, right? If you’d open them up, all ten would only extend 10-15 pages in and then the rest is blank. Yeah. Organization, focus, neatness, consistency, actual work, who are they?
I’m nowhere near perfect, but here’s my method for trying to get stuff done.
1)) Get a notebook (one per lang)
this is for notetaking and writing practice~just throw it all in there
-divide notes by lines, double spaces etc.
-use a main color for writing
-use a colored pen or two to circle, star, etc.
2)) Get large/lined notecards
these are for writing your clean notes onto
** just grammar points here, not for vocab lists! (you can if you want tho-make it yours!)
-condense notebook info into vital stuff
-keep it simple yet complete!
-make bullets/leave spaces
-this is the place for prettiness and color
If your notecard is ugly, just toss it and get a new one! It’s easier to fix a small card than to redo a whole sheet.
If you have a lot of info to squeeze in, you can try to condense it more, use the back, or try to find 2 sub topics so you can make 2 cards instead of one.
Take your messy notes in the notebook, then take a break. Come back to put transfer/condense the info onto your notecards later. This is your revision. Of course you can always flip through them later as well.
-only make 1-2 cards at a time! Don’t work to much.
I also like to keep my cards in a little holder as well:
I hope this helps someone out or even just shows that it’s okay to have a heckin quirky study method. Do you!
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