#productivity.log

Podcast: Poenget x3

Podcast: Norsklære Karense x2

Podcast: Oppdatert x1

Read Kapittel 13 Her På Berget

Read the grammar review from Her På Berget

Read Kapittel 6 Norsk Grammatikk

Completed (2) exercises from Kapittel 6 Norsk Grammatikk

Read Chapter 3 Short Stories in Norwegian

30 minute italki session

it had been so long since i made a proper progress log which is unfortunate for me because i had much more to show for the weeks i didn't post lol. anyways, finally finished Her På Berget thank god. after reading the series basically back to back [Pa Vei, Stein På Stein, Her På Berget] i am extremely tired of textbooks and their very boring, very repetitive structure. Norsk Grammatikk is a textbook but its different in structure and I think a really good tool for me to review grammar at this stage in my learning.

very proud of myself for not making a complete idiot of myself during my latest italki session which was my first in almost a month (because there are literally no tutors available in my timezone and my usual guy was all booked..). i think writing 'everyday' has really helped and also reading Short Stories in Norwegian. the book is on the easier side for me BUT i think its silly and fun and i think reading 'literature' is a good way to get varying sentence structures/words/phrases that you cannot get from the textbooks i have been reading.

Podcast: KonspirasjonsPodden x8

Podcast: Oljekåt x2

Podcast: Poenget x2

Podcast: Norsklære Karense x1

Read Chapter 1, Story 6 of Short Stories

Reviewed Kapittel 5 (verbs) from Norsk Grammatikk

(30 min) italki session

Journaled x3

Watched ~2 hours of Cartoon Network (no subs)

Watched Seasons 1 & 2 of Kongen av Gulset

Watched Side om Side x1

Youtube: Silje Thorensten x1

This was a really good week of listening for me! Idk what it is but I have like a really really hard time sitting down and watching movies and shows in general (i think its mostly because i hate the feeling of secondhand embarrassment and will literally just stop watching before the embarrassing thing happens) but not this week haha! Also really happy to diversify the dialects/people I am listening too. Oljekåt is especially great because its about the environment, specifically the campaign(s) for Norway to divest from oil, and the host is from Stavanger. I dont think she always speaks stavangersk because one time she was reading something and she was literally like fuck it I have to read it in my dialect haha but that's good for me. It's a little harder but just requires a little more effort is all.

Anyways, even though I put a lot of hours into listening this week, I would also like to balance that out with everything else and not keep sacrificing one thing for another. So I will get back to journaling everyday and do a better job at reviewing vocab while simultaneously making a much greater effort to practice speaking outside of italki sessions because that is the area that needs the most help by far.

Watched Winx Club x11

reviewed vocabulary words 1-100 from Learn Serbian

Norwegian

Podcast: Krig og Fred x1

Podcast: Norsklærer Karense x6

Read Kapitler 3,4,5,6 Stein På Stein

Read Kapitler 1 & 2 Norsk Grammatikk

Stein På Stein Homework: (4) exercises Kapittel 3, (7) exercises Kapittel 4, (5) exercises Kapittel 5, (3) exercises Kapittel 6

Norsk Grammatikk Homework: (6) exercises Kapittel 1

Norsk Grammatikk (Online): Substantiv exercies

Watched ~5 hours of Cartoon Network Norge (Adventure Time, Regular Show, Steven Universe, We Bare Bears)

Watched Inside Job (English audio/Norwegian Subs)

Watched Toy Story (Norwegian Audio/Norwegian Subs)

Watched Soul (English Audio/Norwegian Subs)

So, this month I decided not to ‘produced any* output’. Similarly, I am doing a pretty detailed review of grammar by reading Norsk Grammatikk. I think I will make a post about it at the end of the month but for now I will just say I am experimenting. In general, I’m happy with the work I did this week but I am already aware of things I would like to do different next week. For example, I would like to be a little more organized in the types of exercises I am doing. The number is less important to me as long as I am working on different things (i.e. vocabulary, listening, grammar, etc.). 

Podcast: Poenget x1

Podcast: Norsklære Karense x4

Read Story 5 from Short Stories in Norwegian

Read Chapter 7 Norsk Grammatikk

Journal Entry x5

Youtube: Jonas Braathen x1

Youtube: Norsklære Karense x1

Youtube: Silje Thorstensen x1

Youtube: UiS x2

(30) minute italki session

this week was not as productive as it would have liked (and i had no idea how much i was neglecting vocab this week which....is like the easiest thing for me to do but i digress). idk if these past couple weeks is that 'learning plateau' because tbh it feels like everything is not only not improving, but also getting worse lol. it's actually a terrible feeling and i *know* i'm not regressing but geez louise some days it really really feels like it...anyways, i am glad to discover UiS has a pretty active youtube channel so I got to listen to more Stavangersk which is nice AND i did my first yoga practice in norwegian which was also nice (exercise wise but also in the fact that i could follow relatively well). i am definitely behind on my goal to finish Norsk Grammatikk so I hope to read more and do exercises for the accompanying chapters.

i think journaling everyday has been really nice but i always wait until nighttime (so i can like write about what happened in the day mostly) but sometimes i wait too late and im too tired to commit to more than a paragraph lol. so this week i will change my approach for writing and see where that goes!

Podcast: Agelast (50 minutes)

Watched Winx na Srpskom x2

Read a Short Story from LingQ

Read aloud/alphabet pronunciation review

Reviewed vocabulary words 1-100 from Learn Serbian

Norwegian

Podcast: Norsklære Karense x2

Podcast: Konspirasjonspodden x1

Podcast: Lær Norsk Nå x1

Read Kapitler 5 & 6 Her På Berget

Her På Berget Homework: (3) exercises Kapittel 3, (9) exercises Kapittel 4, (5) exercises Kapittel 5, (3) exercises Kapittel 6

Read Chapters 5 & 6 Hombabo Og Jeg

Watched Ragnarok x1

This week was kinda messy again and I ended up doing most of my work on the weekends when I would prefer to have it spread out during the week. I was getting a little (a lot) frustrated with the exercises towards the end because sometimes it feels like I should already know certain things or it takes me "too long" to complete a certain task. Going forward, I do plan on keeping to my current textbook reading schedule but once I finish HPG, I think I will take a break from textbook(s) until I get more organized and familiar with all the material from the past three textbooks.

Norwegian

Podcast: Konspirasjonspodden x3

Podcast: Norsklærer Karense x3

Read Chapter 1: Hombabo Og Jeg

Read Kapitler 7 & 8 Stein På Stein

Read Kapittel 3 Norsk Grammatikk

Stein På Stein Homework: (3) exercises Kapittel 7, (5) exercises Kapittel 8

Norsk Grammatikk Homework: (5) exercises Kapittel 2, (2) exercises Kapittel 3

Watched ~5.4 hours of Cartoon Network Norge (Adventure Time, Steven Universe, We Bare Bears, Regular Show)

Watched I'm Thinking of Ending Things (English Audio/Norwegian Subs)

This was a decent week! I still need to make a schedule for the weekends because I kinda just do whatever and so far thats okay but more structure wouldn’t hurt. I had a really nice a-ha moment finishing Kapittel 8 of Stein På Stein; in that moment i felt like i was really getting somewhere. it just felt so natural to read about ‘norway in the old days’. I haven’t decided a number of exercises to do per chapter but i will keep prioritizing listening exercises because that will always be the area where I need the most work i think. In general, my textbook reading is going pretty well and faster than I thought but instead of rushing through it, I would like to read more news articles and books and keep to my original plan of three chapters a week.

I always read aloud when I read anything in norwegian and i count that towards my speaking (never in full) because i think its really important to get a feel for the words. I also use this website (literally the most realistic computer generated voices i found thus far) to check my pronunciation on words I absolutely have no idea how to pronounce but this is not usually my main goal the first time around...I think I will make a post about reading and pronunciation and this website soon..but what i am trying to say is pronunciation is not my concern when my focus is reading comprehension. Hoping for a good week next week!

Norwegian

Podcast: Krig og Fred x1

Podcast: KonspirasjonsPodden x1

Podcast: Norsklærer Karense x3

Read Kapitler 12, 13, 14 Stein På Stein

Read (1) NRK article

Watched Aladdin (Norwegian Audio/Subs)

Watched (3) NRK P3X interviews

My main accomplishment this week was finishing Stein På Stein albeit a day or two off from my schedule. I unfortunately did not do any homework assignments for the last three chapters..Considering my schedule to finish Her På Berget at 1.5 chapters a week, I will dedicate more time to the workbook practices. In February I will (re)organize a bit as I start taking italki lessons again. I have a session scheduled for this Friday and will use the coming days to ‘study’ and ‘prepare’ for ‘something’. 

better late than never i suppose!

Norwegian: i cannot remember for the life of me what i did this week but for the most part the 'content' is the same but the frequency varies. content being: duolingo, podcasts, interviews, etc. i am trying to write everyday but as we see from this chart, that did not happen haha. i can say, unfortunately, that i have not scheduled another italki session since the first one... i am in a very weird transitionary period right now so its a little difficult to plan and budget but! it seems like i will be able to afford weekly sessions very soon.