Quote Originally Posted by kidkboom View Post
Speaking only from personal experience, I would suggest some pitfalls to avoid, though they're probably obvious to most.. 1, Don't let a handful of days pass without some practice - everytime I let a week slip by without adequate practice (I teach myself) I regretted it and I could really feel the lost time. 2, You may or may not try to approach the whole body of a group of rules at one time, but if you do, at least for me it seems the ratio is somewhere around 1:200 - 1 iteration of learning about the rule, immediately followed by 200 iterations of USING it. If I learned a rule and didn't immediately and repetitively use it, I forgot it. And all while doing 3, Don't ask why. ) Almost everytime in learning Russian I ever asked, "Why's this the rule?" Well, the answer is there to be found, but where I thought it would make memorization easier, the "why" usually just makes it harder. I leave that kind of scholarly thinking to Throbert, for the time being. )
ask "why" on the forum.