Thank you so much, dear Ally, for answering my questions in such detail. Your further elaboration on note taking and organizing notes has helped me a lot to overthink my own approach better. I didn’t know about the commonplace book method so far. It seems like a very interesting approach to look into further. Because this pressure to fill up different notebooks you’ve mentioned, is exactly what I experiencing right now. And feeling that these notes are not gonna be useful to me - I can totally relate to that 😅. So, I guess I will try to switch to the one notebook for all method 😉 when starting my N4 studies and see how this works for me. For N5 right now I guess it is what it is but I don’t want to waste the notebooks I’ve already started and I just count that as my learning curve for note taking 🤪 I think it’s the same for everyone learning some new that at the beginning you have to figure out what works for you and that means that you’ll also have a lot of stuff that just isn’t for you. Like books for example. I have so many textbooks and practice books for N5, it isn’t even funny. But it took me quite some time to figure out which series works best for me. Now that I know, I won’t buy as many for N4 and so on. But what I gonna do with my N5 notes is trying to structure them better to be able to use them for reference at least. So your last section on what you put in your notebooks, like table of contents or marking specific pages with tape for easier access, gave me a lot of inspiration ☺️ One last question though, and it feels kind of silly to ask, but I have to 😅: Did you ever underestimate the space you’ll need for notes to finish a resource? If so, what did you do? Because I know, my inner Monk would hate that 🤣 Thanks again for this helpful video and until next time 👋🏻
Thank you SO MUCH for asking the question in the first place, it was so interesting that I made an entire video answering you!! 😍😍😍Reading your comment here I thought that you are highlighting something very important, which is that in language learning there is "learning" and that this means that we all must not only figure out how to best study a language, but also how to best STUDY in itself! And understanding what works for you takes trial and error, so you can take comfort in that fact that each day you are studying is another step towards figuring things out for yourself ❤❤ About your further question (I know that this topic is endless don't worry 😂) it did happen to me that I underestimated the space I would need, and in this case I simply finished taking my notes AFTER the section I had started in between! 🤗 I gave my inner Monk some tranquilizers 😂😂😂😂
I love the idea of a commonplace notebook! I have separate notebooks for grammar/vocab etc. but for a while now I've been feeling like it is more difficult to organize my studies because of that. After I fill in my current ones I think I'll give a common place notebook a go!
I completely get where you are coming from too! Something I forgot to mention in the video is also that the commonplace notebook is the best method for me because I always tend to study on the go (as you see in my vlogs 😅), and having to carry around multiple notebooks for a single language is just not practical for me 🥲🥲🥲
thank you for today's video!! personally i find it's too tricky evaluating the space i'd need, i like to study with many different ressources at the same time and still like to keep things separated. so the easiest answer for me was to just stop using notebooks, and use a binder instead. it's too bad, as notebooks are way prettier... :')
Thanks for the video😄 It is fun to see how different people take notes differently. I always go crazy trying to find a way to classify each category. I also use only one notebook, so I try to use different colours, so that it is easier to find. Right now, I put the grammar points in a green box and useful sentences in a blue one. We'll see if it stays that way...
@@arinoyumeyes! I see you set weekly goals, do you also plan what to do each day and at what time of the day or you just go with the flow during the week?
I’ve tried making study notebooks and they make me feel productive but I rarely reviewed them and it just seemed like I was keeping a record of everything I wanted to remember but failed to remember. Do you review your notes? How do you go about doing that if you?
I usually review them in 2 instances: once I finish a notebook, I tend to review its contents entirely before putting it back on my shelf, and otherwise, whenever I feel like I need to review part of its contents!
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Thank you so much, dear Ally, for answering my questions in such detail. Your further elaboration on note taking and organizing notes has helped me a lot to overthink my own approach better. I didn’t know about the commonplace book method so far. It seems like a very interesting approach to look into further. Because this pressure to fill up different notebooks you’ve mentioned, is exactly what I experiencing right now. And feeling that these notes are not gonna be useful to me - I can totally relate to that 😅. So, I guess I will try to switch to the one notebook for all method 😉 when starting my N4 studies and see how this works for me. For N5 right now I guess it is what it is but I don’t want to waste the notebooks I’ve already started and I just count that as my learning curve for note taking 🤪 I think it’s the same for everyone learning some new that at the beginning you have to figure out what works for you and that means that you’ll also have a lot of stuff that just isn’t for you. Like books for example. I have so many textbooks and practice books for N5, it isn’t even funny. But it took me quite some time to figure out which series works best for me. Now that I know, I won’t buy as many for N4 and so on. But what I gonna do with my N5 notes is trying to structure them better to be able to use them for reference at least. So your last section on what you put in your notebooks, like table of contents or marking specific pages with tape for easier access, gave me a lot of inspiration ☺️ One last question though, and it feels kind of silly to ask, but I have to 😅: Did you ever underestimate the space you’ll need for notes to finish a resource? If so, what did you do? Because I know, my inner Monk would hate that 🤣
Thanks again for this helpful video and until next time 👋🏻
Thank you SO MUCH for asking the question in the first place, it was so interesting that I made an entire video answering you!! 😍😍😍Reading your comment here I thought that you are highlighting something very important, which is that in language learning there is "learning" and that this means that we all must not only figure out how to best study a language, but also how to best STUDY in itself! And understanding what works for you takes trial and error, so you can take comfort in that fact that each day you are studying is another step towards figuring things out for yourself ❤❤
About your further question (I know that this topic is endless don't worry 😂) it did happen to me that I underestimated the space I would need, and in this case I simply finished taking my notes AFTER the section I had started in between! 🤗 I gave my inner Monk some tranquilizers 😂😂😂😂
I love the idea of a commonplace notebook! I have separate notebooks for grammar/vocab etc. but for a while now I've been feeling like it is more difficult to organize my studies because of that. After I fill in my current ones I think I'll give a common place notebook a go!
I completely get where you are coming from too! Something I forgot to mention in the video is also that the commonplace notebook is the best method for me because I always tend to study on the go (as you see in my vlogs 😅), and having to carry around multiple notebooks for a single language is just not practical for me 🥲🥲🥲
Absolutely amazing and helpful. Loooove it🌞
thank you for today's video!! personally i find it's too tricky evaluating the space i'd need, i like to study with many different ressources at the same time and still like to keep things separated. so the easiest answer for me was to just stop using notebooks, and use a binder instead. it's too bad, as notebooks are way prettier... :')
The binder is also a super good option in my opinion, much more flexible! 😍
Thanks for the video😄 It is fun to see how different people take notes differently. I always go crazy trying to find a way to classify each category. I also use only one notebook, so I try to use different colours, so that it is easier to find. Right now, I put the grammar points in a green box and useful sentences in a blue one. We'll see if it stays that way...
I also had a colour code for about 2 years when I was studying japanese intensively!! Makes it pleasing to the eye doesn't it 😄 thank you for sharing!
Can you make a video on how to make a language study plan / routine please
Nice topic!! Thank you so much I will start structuring a new video about that!! 😍😍
@@arinoyumeyes! I see you set weekly goals, do you also plan what to do each day and at what time of the day or you just go with the flow during the week?
Thank you for the video!❤ Can you please explain more about your mind maps. What do they consist of, for Japanese, for example?❤
Alright!! I’m taking good note and will be making a video about that 🥰👍🏻
I’ve tried making study notebooks and they make me feel productive but I rarely reviewed them and it just seemed like I was keeping a record of everything I wanted to remember but failed to remember.
Do you review your notes? How do you go about doing that if you?
I usually review them in 2 instances: once I finish a notebook, I tend to review its contents entirely before putting it back on my shelf, and otherwise, whenever I feel like I need to review part of its contents!