There. That's the sad truth. Not that I didn't do study, it's just that it looked a bit less... efficient than it was meant to? I mean, I'd love to say I went through all the videos online and invented some new ones in the process, and then learnt all the words forwards and backwards, but that would mean getting a bit too creative with the truth...
Anyway. I might not have done all that, but I did something (apart form finally noticing what I was doing particularly wrong before and at least trying to be careful about that when I speak now), so here goes.
Those David Appleyard sentences turned out to be really amusing, by which I mean they were funny enough that repeating them for a while didn't make my brain spontaneously turn to stone. Also, they do kind of force you to really hear and think about the sound (mostly because they're so over the top you can't ignore it, but hey, they get the job done, so I'm not complaining).
Somewhat more boring was the process of getting through the Porter words. That included a bunch of dictionaries, headphones, several foreign computers, tea, and all those bad things with too many calories. My pronunciation practice mostly consisted of listening of repeating, which I admit is not the most exciting way, but desperate times call for desperate measures, right?
A side product of my study process (and that of a few other amazing people) is this little thingie. See, I'm being nice here and sharing it (yes, I'm thinking of you, future generations). It's far from finished, of course, but it should be better than nothing as we got at least some words done. If nothing else, somebody might be spared from copying that entirely too long list of words into a document.
And because I promised myself I'd post pictures...
There. Now let me go study some more...
