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| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4348 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 9 of 144 08 January 2013 at 8:08pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks, that'll come in handy after finishing.
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| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4348 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 10 of 144 12 January 2013 at 3:27pm | IP Logged |
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Yesterday, all the trouble seemed so far away... On a more serious note, Memrise has changed
something, and currently, I can't learn Kanji the same way I did. Using Memrise's terminology, now it makes me go through five words at a time, until I get all of them correct sufficient amount of times to make them ready for "harvesting", I usually "planted" five words, "grew" them fifteen minutes later, and then "harvested" the next day, and if I got one wrong, I waited for about half an hour, and tried again; now during a "harvesting" session, it won't stop until all of the words are "harvested". I really don't like that. Because of that, yesterday I went through only ten words. I don't know what to do, I'm not sure whether I don't like the change, because it's actually not gonna work (as good as it once did) for me, or maybe just because it's a change to which I have to get used to... I'll wait a few more hours and if they still won't change it back, I'm gonna give it a try, if it's not gonna work... I'll have to try Anki. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6619 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 11 of 144 12 January 2013 at 4:39pm | IP Logged |
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I use this site for learning and reviewing kanji. If you fail one, it just goes into the failed box and you can review it whenever you choose. However, if you've already got a lot of kanji done, you might not want to use this site since adding a lot of kanji at once would mean there would be a lot of reviews in the beginning.
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| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4348 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 12 of 144 20 January 2013 at 12:11pm | IP Logged |
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The third week of study is nearing it's end, and I've got a nice accomplishment. That is, yesterday,
I've finished going through the first 1000 Kanji. That's a nice even number, so I thought I could check the percentage of understood Kanji in a text. I took two paragraphs from a Wikipedia article about a random topic (the definition of an emperor this time), cut out everything that wasn't a Kanji, and calculated the percentage. 69.81%, so... now I understand more Kanji than I don't :) That also means that Anki seem to be working for me. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4348 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 13 of 144 27 January 2013 at 11:07am | IP Logged |
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OK... Currently at 1250 Kanji; percentage of understood Kanji in a text at about 73%, though it will
probably vary depending on the topic... I've also checked a few texts in Chinese, and it was over 60%, so I thought that maybe I could take a little break from Kanji, to learn some Mandarin. First of all, because I'm getting a bit tired, so hopefully such a break would be refreshing. Second of all, because I think I can find a person in my neighborhood with whom I could practice Mandarin, if he speaks this dialect. I've found vocabulary lists for HSK levels one through six, but I'll probably have to make the deck by myself. Edited by Ezy Ryder on 27 January 2013 at 11:18am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4348 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 14 of 144 09 February 2013 at 12:05pm | IP Logged |
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OK... so the break from Kanji for Mandarin wasn't very successful... all I did is that I've tried
Iversen's wordlist method, the tempo of learning new vocabulary was similar to my tempo with Anki, and using Anki is a bit more pleasant of an activity for me, so I've decided to stay with Anki. Figuring that out is the only good side of the break. Other than that, I haven't learned much, and the reviews for Kanji piled up a bit. Currently the number of reviews I go through each day is higher than the number of reviews coming the next day, so it should calm down soon. I'm probably still going to finish getting through 2200 Kanji before March... or in the worst case scenario, early in March. I've also got one more accomplishment: currently I'm at 1370 Kanji, which is exactly 1000 more than I knew on December the 31st 2012. That gives an average of only 25 Kanji per day though... Sometimes I just fell too (mentally) tired (and bored) to do another session, and I take (probably too long) breaks every ten new words... PS.: I've just calculated percentage of known Kanji in another text. 82%. Edit: I've decided that (at least for a while, though probably for longer) I'm going to drop the number of new information per day by a half. Doing 25 words a day won't be that exhausting - which should give a higher number of days in which I've studied enough - and is still going to give a total of over 9000 words per year. I've also calculated that if I'll finish learning Kanji and learn all of the vocabulary required for the N2 level in Japanese, I'm still going to have over 2000 words I could learn in Chinese. Edited by Ezy Ryder on 11 February 2013 at 4:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4348 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 15 of 144 03 March 2013 at 12:31pm | IP Logged |
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27.02.13, after a bit of a break (yes... yet another one), I started learning Japanese again.
Currently focusing on vocabulary. I've found a group of decks with vocabulary for levels N5-N1. The only thing I dislike about it is that there are two decks per level, one Japanese-English meaning, and one Japanese-Japanese reading. But that's not a deal-breaker. For the first two days I've been learning 30 words/day on my computer, in the third day didn't feel good enough to study, and yesterday, I've discovered something nice. I was carrying my cat to the veterinary, for her semi-annual visit. Spending some time in the waiting room was to be expected, so I've decided to try using Anki on my phone, to not get bored and shorten the time I'll need to spend on Anki later, at home. My tempo was noticeably faster than my tempo while using my computer, so I've decided to go to the local park (a few minutes of walking from home) and do the session there. I wanted to do the thirty for yesterday, and another thirty which I haven't done the day before. And the total time spent was only 38 minutes, which is only a minute or two more than I needed for half of the material on my computer. I've also noticed that I can put off cards on my phone which I already know, or of which the meaning is very obvious, without lowering the number of due new cards for this day, so I can do (virtually) everything on my phone. The only problem could be (only occasionally) the weather... From 27.02.13 to December, there are 277 days, with the tempo of 30 words per day, I could learn the whole deck (8311 words) exactly before the exam month... well, except for one word, and I'd definitely not go higher than N2, and that's only in the case in which I won't make too many breaks from study, so I won't even need all of the words. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4348 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 16 of 144 09 March 2013 at 1:27pm | IP Logged |
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02.03.13-08.03.13:
Learning vocabulary: 3:45 / 240 words Soon the number of due reviews will probably increase (currently ~60/day), so the time spent will probably get bigger too. Also, today I'm going to finish the N5 deck (though obviously I'm still going to review it), so tomorrow I'll see the N4 vocabulary for the first time. Last thing, this week I also want to start measuring time I spend on learning grammar (currently reading Tae Kim's guide). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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