Hello, I am brand new to Welsh, but excited about the journey ahead. I am currently on the Orange-white stripe belt. I have been doing about an hour per day and was wondering how much is too much? Is there a point where too much progress in a day becomes counter-productive to your memory? Or should I continue if I’m still enjoying it and doing decently?
I’m sorry if this has been asked a thousand times already. I couldn’t find it anywhere.
Thanks
Firstly, welcome to SSiW.
Keep plowing on. Even when you think you’re floundering and not absorbing anything new, your brain really is processing the information.
SSiW has done some intensive programs where for 2 days, students were bombarded with new material. The results were remarkable.
There is no too much. Crazy people with the time to spare have done 10 hour per day “intensives”. Your brain may feel like mush by the end of that, but it still works.
Throat lozenges / hot honey and lemon drinks may be required. Always stay hydrated!
Thank you both very much for the very helpful replies. I’m amazed by how I can easily go an hour without feeling any fatigue.
Yes, you’ve had good advice here, Michael - an hour a day is extremely rapid progress, and no need at all to push beyond that - it’s also true that we’ve tested 8 to 10 hour days for a 10 day run in Ireland last September and a 10 day run on Japanese last January - and it definitely holds up (although it’s also very interesting to witness the process of consolidation when you have a break after an intensive run). Good luck!
“Too much” exists. I managed to get pretty interesting cognitive overload effect with hour a day routine somewhere in the beginnig. Intense and persistent dizziness. My best guess is, speech processing borrowed some computational power from either spatial perception or motor coordination and kinda forgot to give it back. 
Adaptation took around two weeks. Personally i like stress tests, but as a general rule headaches, dizziness and other neurological phenomena suggest immediate break.
Autistic brain architecture is notoriously prone to overload, so I suppose under normal conditions it would take much more excessive effort. Still, it’s a possibility. On the bright side, during the same few weeks I got massive upgrade to speech recognition that apparently works across languages.
Yes, the rules don’t apply to us on the spectrum. My advice above was aimed at neural-typicals. I’ve always had to pace myself and use the pause button.