How I track my study time as a language learner

Welcome or welcome back! In this video I'm talking about how I automated tracking my study time and tracked 700+ hours of language learning as a result.

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🐸 Contents:
0:00 intro
01:45 automated time-tracking
02:05 toggl track (app)
3:17 setting up a basic automation
08:24 automation for polyglots :)
13:28 time-related automations
15:05 should you be tracking your study time?

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💜 ABOUT ME:
Hi and welcome! I'm Tanya and the only thing I like more than learning languages is probably talking about learning languages (well, that and hoarding language books).
My native language is Russian and I'm currently in different stages of learning English, Spanish, Polish, Italian, Korean, and Japanese.

[danielamarinero]

Heyyyy, thank you so much for uploading this video!! I literally just watched your first video and ended up wondering how do you record your study time! 🥺💞💞

[ohyescharlie]

Great video. I just time myself with a stopwatch/ timer and then put my time in on polylogger. Theres less details like active/passive listening. But it is very quick and easy. Also nice to see people with the same or other languages and what they do to learn.

[Josseprada]

Could you make a video explaining how to use Toggl Track? Because I downloaded it, but it seems really confusing to me 😅

[redapplevegan]

Great video, thank you! ❤ and I am very impressed that you are studying polish (my native language😊) I think it is one of the most difficult language ever 😂 Super film, powodzenia w nauce języka polskiego!

[michellelanguages]

Hello! Thank you so much for this video, for someone who basically lives with her head up in the clouds, this video is a gold mine!!

[JoseBasilio]

Excellent video. I had been wondering how polyglots keep track of their study time and this automation option makes it super easy. Thank you.

[skamiikaze]

I gave up on trying to track with technology (well, besides a clock and timer). I found that using just a notebook and tallying up everything at the end of the week is what works for me. Granted, I am only studying one lang at the moment so that makes it easier.

[alexanderboswell]

This is such an awesome system, I started using Shortcuts a little while back to automatically play my working out playlist when I start the workouts app. But this setup is gonna have me nerding out hard (in a good way!) thank you!

[cuyz]

Ugh such a good system! I'm going for five languages this year and I can already see this will be the tool I'll be leaning onto
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[sagaronyoutube]

This is the first iOS shortcuts application I've found. Looking forward to the toggl tutorial especially how to organize the schema for multiple languages

[ducklingscap]

This is amazing! I did. manage to use toggle for a while but I always opened and closed the app manually. This makes life so much easier!

[kudratkaurr]

Hi! Thanks for the video :) I was playing around with the idea already to start using toggl track but had been putting off setting it up since I wasn't too sure how I wanted to go about it. Loved the tips, and am already starting to set it up for my language learning goals this year!

[gabiib__]

omg I love your video so much that I watched it yesterday and today I came back to do the shortcuts! much love from a brazilian learning italian and korean :)

[valeria_ragonese]

Wow, this is genius! Thank you so much! I always lose track of my tracking 😅🤣 I'll definitely look into a suitable version for my Android phone.

[ismailhacihasanov]

I get the point: you've created several projects for the same language, split it to different skills (Active Listening, Active Study, Reading, Writing, Speaking) and set all the same color. Could please tell me the meaning of Active Study, what does Active Study include? How do you separate skills, like reading and listening the same time?

[russian__angel]

hi, tanya! i used to watch you in russian but after watching this video i just have to say that your pronunciation is so good! i love it!! it’s especially amazing for me because i’ve been struggling with my own recently (i’m trying to follow BrE received pronunciation currently). i almost lost hope to sound decent as a russian native speaker but you gave me hope that my hard work is still likely to pay off because if you can do it why can’t i, right?:) thank you for inspiration❤

[GrowthUncut]

Hi Tanya, this system is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing, this will help me so much! :)

[tuliosantos]

Thank you so much. This video is very helpful.

[archienoyce]

thank you so so so much! this is such a helpful video I am so grateful! you're such a lifesaver with this

[imsteven]

Hi! Thank you so much for uploaded this video, I didn’t know “shortcuts”.