Thread to share studying tactics. I'll start!
I have been at a block where I understand grammar, i am slowly building vocabulary, but I am ultimately at a block. I took a few months of a break from learning and I am starting to get back to daily studying. One of my issues was that I had problem keeping attention to the shows I would watch, and the vocabulary gets hard to pick up on.
Then I had an idea, and I am curious to hear your study methods too.
Pokemon indigo league on Netflix has very conversational vocabulary, it doesnt throw too much uncommon words in there. I set the captions to LA(CC) and the audio to LA and I watch it once.
I watch each episode 3 times.
The first time I try to watch and enjoy it and not pay too much attention aside from just understanding what they're saying.
The second time I watch it, im slowing down, looking for idiomatic expressions, new verbs, key vocabulary, etc. I am listening for it spoken as i go (a common problem i used to have is I would read the subtitles but not listen to the speaker which makes it harder later on to listen)
The third time, I watch it again just like the first time. No pausing. Mainly listening but the subtitles stay on.
Optionally you can play a 4th time with no subtitles, by that point youre familiar with just about every line they say, but it really helps.
Im already heavy through the show, I just started doing this on s1e35 (ditto is so goated, he literally transforms into a cannon)
Id also love to hear with things that brought you past that block between reading and listening/speaking