u/Ukpersfidev

I turn off memory, and I delete all the memories (even though it shows there is no memories saved which there clearly is), and the chats within projects still clearly reference memory

- I have a system prompt for a project on exactly what to do when I paste text into the project

- On chat A I ask it for a slightly different variation of the prompt

- On brand new chat B, it ignores the prompt, and goes with what I asked for chat A

- When I ask it why it did that, it quotes my change in instruction from the other chat

Anyone else faced the same issue?

Hi,

I'm learning Vietnamese, I currently know 400 words and 400 phrases, I have recently switched to trying to take an immersion learning approach (specifically Refold) because what I was doing before wasn't helping me communicate IRL

The problem is that there is very little learning content for Vietnamese, and the most basic content I can find outside of nursery rhymes still contains a lot of vocab that I don't understand

For context, the video I'm currently watching which is specifically focused towards B1/B2 learners has 5+ unknown words per minute of content, and that's not including grammar words

I've done 1 hour this morning, and I have just about finished going through 3 minutes of content (because I'm doing look ups and stuff like that)

My current process is this:

- Break up a larger video into 3 minute sections and save them as individual bits of content

- Then for each section:

1. Rewatch it a few times with TL subtitles to see what I understand, and notice what words i'm missing to understand each given sentence

2. Look up those words I didn't understand along with a few more rewatches

3. Save those words into my Anki database

4. Schedule a re-watch of the content at later intervals

My concerns are the following:

- The initial breakdown is high effort, especially when the imagery of the content is not directly describing what the person is saying

- When people talk about comprehensible input, I often see them saying you should understand almost everything (95-98%), which isn't possible for me, nowhere near this amount actually, at best it's probably about 20%

- Beginner friendly content is difficult to come by and limited

So my question is this:

What is the process you would recommend following when it comes to making use of non-beginner friendly video content as a beginner? (if you recommend that at all)

I'm learning Vietnamese and have for a few months, I've recently been convinced to try taking the immersion learning approach because what I was doing previously wasn't working

Specifically, I have been trying to follow the Refold approach

The problem is that I can't find video content that is at my level, I currently know around 400 words + 400 phrases, which means when I watch a video, even a b1/b2 level comprehensible content (of which there is only 2 channels with few videos), I only know about half of the key words

As far as I can tell, Refold suggests this:

- 70% of time spent should be on active immersion (watching videos and looking up words)

- The focus should be on getting to 1000 words in your Anki deck

But they also say:

- You shouldn't mine a sentence if there are multiple words in that sentence you don't know

- You should save a word with context i.e. the word should be within a sentence

Theres a bit of a catch 22 there because I shouldn't mine unknown sentences, but I also shouldn't save words outside of the context it was actually used

My plan was as follows:

- Break the video into 2 minute sections

- Treat each section as it's own video, then for each section:

- 1st watch session: build meaning of what the speaker is saying by using lookups / subtitles

- 2nd watch session: build vocab - for each pass of the video, take a keyword that I don't know and look it up (this is where the catch 22 is because I'm not meant to save words into my deck without context)

- 3rd, 4th, etc. watch session (after a break from the content): follow the standard Refold approach now that you know the vocab, and then sentence mine?

TLDR:

I don't really understand what I'm meant to be doing with video content as a beginner according to Refold

Is there a specific structure to follow here?

I see everyone talking about the input hours, e.g. "I've reached 1400 hours", I would like to do something similar, but I'm finding it difficult to track because for new content at least half of the time I track is spent doing looks ups, asking chatgpt to explain the meaning of a word with examples, and creating Anki cards

I've looked at the Refold activities, and it's left me more confused/overwhelmed, because there are like, 10 variations for listening with varying degrees of focus

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I have a few questions:

- When you say you have X number of input, does that mean pure watching videos?

- If not, how much of that time was spent with the video paused as you did lookups and created cards?

- What time tracking categories do you have?

I currently have:

- Anki

- Study (going through a grammar book)

- Immersion: active

- Immersion: freeflow / passive (where I am not constantly pausing the video - usually where I am re-watching content)

Currently "immersion: active" includes understanding sentences with ChatGPT / Google Translate and sentence mining, which I would say usually takes up over half of the time tracked, so I'm wondering if I am meant to be tracking this as a separate metric

Does this sound right to you, and what categories do you have in your time tracker?

Hey,

I'm going to visit a dermatologist tomorrow and wondering if anyone has some suggestions about what I should ask them

Some backstory:

27M from the UK, I've always had a grey patch on the back of my head since I was a kid, and a few white patches on my hands, it never really bothered me though as they aren't/weren't very visible, a few months ago I noticed the patches getting much larger, and also appearing around my face, I've attached a picture of the part around my eye, but I have more around my chin where the hair is totally white (from what I understand, when the hair is white there is no chance of repigmentation)

I'm not personally not self-conscious about it because I don't think the disease is unsightly, it's just white skin, but I would like to stop the spread if possible for the sake of my family (I don't want to embarrass them or have people stare when we're out) and because I still probably have at least 20+ years of impending progression especially if it's progressed like this within a matter of months

I also have a bunch of other autoimmune conditions - this is the least annoying and least concerning one so theres that

Questions I'm planning to ask:

- Should I be wearing sun cream?

- What is phototherapy and should I do it?

- Are the home phototherapy machines worth buying?

- Is ruxolitinib good and can I get it?

- Is Pluchea indica effective at all? (someone I know has used this on their husbands vitiligo and said it got rid of it - I'm doubtful but worth the ask)

What do you think of my questions, am I missing any important treatment options?

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