I assume this means that you know 1,400 words at the moment. This usually means you know roughly the same number of characters at this level. This means that you already know what it’s like to learn characters and have maybe reached a lower intermediate level or so (depending on definitions, of course).
Yes, I know 1,400 words. These words I know the individual word through many listenings and the components of these words. The components I know because I make an individual Skritter card for the components.
I’m not sure what this means. If you mean sentences you selected or found, fine, but I would advise against creating your own sentences. It’s too time consuming and you’d need to verify that they are correct, which is very time consuming. I assume you mean using sentences you’ve chosen, not created.
I have settled on finding two cloze deletion sentences using clozemaster pro per word. I am not making my own sentences. You feed a word into clozemaster pro and it will *suggest 5 sentences, then I am able to narrow it down to 2 sentences that are more at my level.
I’ve refined my system just a little from this week. I’ll be memorizing around 100 words per week. These 100 words, I’ll also memorize their components at the same time. (these were formerly the *250 words I had planned). Since I have so much material with these 100 words, I don’t need the extra sentences from clozemaster pro.
Beyond these 100 words I’ll call “extra words”. I have two tiers of “extra words” and all of them derive from the listening material that includes the 100 words. These “extra words” have two tiers. “Tier 1” - words that use components I already know
“Tier 2” - words that at least have one component I do not know
Both Tier’s will be fed into clozemaster pro as their own ‘collection’. It should be around 300 total words a week. Roughly 100 base words, 200 ‘extra words’. Of the 200 extra words perhaps 50 are “tier 2” words where unfortunately I won’t have time to also learn the components of those specific words. So in TOTAL a low end estimate of words is around ~300 per week.
I need to complete a full week. Which I plan to load up tomorrow to really get a better estimate of the actual numbers. ( I have around 5 more big dialogues to “mine” more tier 1 and tier 2 words)
Regardless, there will be a good amount of words in “tier 2” which I’ll be relying on being able to read and perhaps “hear” but NOT necessarily know the components of.
I am a full time immersion student so I this plan will probably be carried out to best of my ability.
Just originally where I had more words “skewed” to Tier 2 words, Now most of my “new words” will be skewed toward Tier 1 words.
Attached below is a screenshot example of one new word I’m learning within clozemaster - I narrowed it down to these 2 easy to learn sentences when initially 5 sentences were provided from the system. So I plan to have a separate “pool” 1st Tier and 2nd Tier.
Also, thanks a lot for a thorough reply. I’m pretty much all in with Chinese. I like to 'stop at 10 or 10:30 pm for reading break but it’s pretty intense the whole day. I have every hour block filled until that time doing various activities to learn the language.
