challenge 12 is now finished mostly without pausing but it is time for corrie and then bed. Today has been hard work, but fun. I hope I can remember it all later in the week 
No, not really 
As for remembering - what youāll find is that when you come back to the next new session after a pause, itāll feel difficult - but the second new session after a pause will feel as though youāre back in the flow - itās hugely important to push through to the second new session after a pause, rather than getting disheartened because the first one feels tough
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Well, that is a week later and the next challenge was actually OK! It seems you can do 12 challenges in a day AND remember them the next week.
Thanks Aran
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Thatās a superb result, Jenny, and I hope it will be a transformative experience in your language learning 
For this to work should I be doing course 1 or level 1? Iām currently at lesson 6.2 course 1.
And thank youā¦this seems to be a game changer
Elements of it should work with either course, but the new Levels are definitely better designed to be survivable with a high intensity approach
really interested in this high intensity learning idea. Have people been able to achieve results as much as from regular practice? Iāve done a fair bit of learning since moving to Wales many years ago, and found the old SSiW lessons very helpful but kept falling off and returning to a lower level to revise; and never getting much further than lesson 6. So the new format and advice to keep ploughing on sounds good. So is it more or less beneficial to cram over a weekend rather than do a bit every day?
Thatās a good (and complicated!) question. To a certain extent, Iād say it doesnāt matter which way you go, as long as you keep at it - so for many people, an approach which they find palatable is more likely to lead to long-term success than an approach which they donāt like (even if itās measurably faster).
But one thing Iām very certain of now is that the perceptions of ācrammingā as an ineffective way to long-term memory are off target with these sort of sessions - perhaps because the cramming itself involves so much spaced repetition - so if you do an intensive weekend once per month, the time in between will involve a fair amount of natural consolidation (the brain doesnāt just start forgetting everything straight away). Iād guess that an intensive weekend once per month would be somewhere similar in effect to sticking to half-an-hour every day - so the key issue is probably which you think youāre most likely to keep up.
Having said that, because you squeeze so much more in with an intensive session, if you miss a month or two, you can get back up to speed a lot faster than if you miss a month or two of daily sessionsā¦
Iām currently testing a 10 day approach with Manx - Iāve done day 1, and not revised anything (except for a couple of hours on the journey to the Isle of Man a while ago) - so day 2 is going to be very interesting, but Iām currently extremely confident that I will be at pretty much the same level as I was at the end of day 1 within the first half-hour or soā¦
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Well with mini bootcamp this weekend i was going to revise lots this week. Then wondered if i would confuse myself so i have restricted mtself to the last challenge of level 2 and a few from the end of course 3. Certainly hitting 80-90%.
So iām not doing any now till Friday. Hope thats a sensible approach.
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It definitely is. 80-90% on the end of Level 2 shows with absolute clarity that you have no need, and will never have a need, to revisit any of the earlier challengesā¦ 
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