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 It makes sense to optimize one's learning strategies. A 10% improvement to your learning method benefits you daily by that amount. It's like interest on your savings in the bank.

Furthermore, if you can introduce additional improvements, these do not simply add up. They yield exponential improvement.

Anyway, my tweak of the day was to reverse how I enter my Goldilocks sentences. If I copy them in English then in Maori, I believe that that is better than the reverse. It stands to reason that you comprehend and retain more if you have the English meaning in mind as you copy out the Maori. (Rather than learning what the Maori sentence means after already having written it.

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 A month ago, I wrote my very first page of Maori phrases. They were random in the sense that they came from anywhere and everywhere. They were not random in the sense that they were at the level (i+1) where they were useful to me at my current level of Maori.

I have not looked at that sheet since. I haven't read, studied, or tried to memorize it in any way. But some of it will have stayed in my long-term memory. 

My routine for the next month will be to copy out each sheet again. I'll pay attention to what I do. I shall omit the lines that I recognize well - perhaps a third or a quarter - and then fill up the rest of the page with new snippets. (I will also omit lines that I fail to recognize, as being too ambitious for now.) 

The aim each day is to end up with a page of useful (Goldilocks) sentences. 'Old' ones should still retain some juice. New ones will reflect my current level of te reo.