After a very busy week thanks to work and a lack of materials due to low motivation (I was so tired, I just needed a break) there were no lists memorised.
However, a few things have made themselves known.
The nature of my learning at the moment is low level. That is, I am an elementary – pre-intermediate learner. I am still learning things like general terms; how to express past and future; and simple grammatical collocations. For the moment I have decided to focus on expressions to help me construct past sentences (very common) and then perhaps future (less important as with English if you wish to communicate future, you can get by with saying “I'm going to + verb”)
It seems that its too early to be able to spontaneously produce truly native collocations. That sounds obvious but what I mean is that I am capable of producing a short native sentence in one tense. Change the tense however and you might find that its not a native expression any more. At this level all I can do is keep my brain switched on and ears open.
Something else which has come to light is the nature of study:
Active work/study:
memorisation of language; constructing sentences (playing with the language); talking and using collocations (testing your ability); etc.
Passive work/study:
listening to and watching people/ TV/ movies/ music and linking known collocations and words with context; noticing new language; etc.
The next week will be very interesting indeed
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