The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 833 of 844 26 January 2015 at 1:11pm | IP Logged |
Hm, started up Anki again as I wasn't putting in much time studying. I did translate a
few articles and watched plenty of Korean dramas the past two weeks, but didn't do
much studying.
My plan for now is just five words a day per language (Korean, Japanese and Mandarin).
I'm doing simple vocabulary cards. I'll ramp up the daily card count probably sometime
in the summer of 2016, when I'm all done with studying for the CPA exam and done with
my first busy tax season. I think the busy season for me will only go to March 15
since I'll be working on corporate tax returns, but I'll still expect to be busy
through the traditional April 15 deadline.
However, my main project with Anki this year will be to put every sentence from my
grammar books into Anki and review them with cloze deletions. Something different I'm
doing this time is reading out the sentences, combining two grammar exercises into
one. I believe I can at least finish my one Korean textbook and at least one each of
the Japanese and Mandarin textbooks before this semester is over, but we'll see. I
need a lot more grammar so that I can start writing more in Japanese and Mandarin
instead of just using the beginner's grammar.
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 834 of 844 03 February 2015 at 12:56am | IP Logged |
I have only been putting in five cards a day for Korean, Japanese and Mandarin, but
since I cloze each syllable, it creates multiple cards for each sentence, so the
reviews are adding up fairly quickly. I am thinking of turning this into a multi-year
project and using this as a daily review for grammar. I really like Anki for grammar,
but I need to remember to use Anki as a tool for remembering instead of initial
learning. That is why I'm just going to input about 3-5 sentences per day per language
and just around 5 words a day for vocabulary review. My goal with this is to keep the
daily number of reviews fairly low. I want to treat Anki is the motivator to keep me
studying everyday, but I don't want it to take up too much of my time.
For example, 5 words a day for 5 years is over 9,000 words. And that will just be a
secondary way for me to learn vocabulary. I doubt I'll have that many grammar
sentences in Anki, but who knows. My other daily goal is going to be reading one
article (or part of it if it is very long) intensively per language per day, using the
pop-up dictionary I have for Japanese, Korean, Mandarin and Cantonese.
As my original goals for 2015 were centered around output, I'm going to increase my
grammar focus. Again, I'll be utilizing an altered form of Glossika's speaking method
by reading the sentences out loud a lot, but I'm going to continue with the Anki
sentences to test my knowledge and have the benefits of spaced repetition. This time
I'll also be using the beginner/intermediate textbooks, along with FSI, to help me
with writing exercises. My plan is to be able to write/say anything in these books, so
I'll be making a lot of writing exercises for myself to use the grammar structures and
vocabulary learned from the lessons.
So for Cantonese, I'll be using Teach Yourself Cantonese and FSI Cantonese. For
Mandarin, I'll be using Teach Yourself Chinese and FSI Chinese. For Japanese, I'll be
using Japanese For Everyone. For Korean, Continuing Korean. I believe by the time I go
through these books, I should be around a solid B1 or so in output. From there, I'll
be utilizing my grammar books and other sources to continue this exercise. For Korean,
I'll probably breeze through it, just using it to activate some grammar structures I
passively know but rarely use.
Lastly, I'll start posting some recent songs in all four languages I'm learning just
to spice this log up a bit. Since this forum's coding is ass, remember to remove the
space in the URL.
Korean: Gaeko & Yankie - Cheers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUqE9Nv4WZk
Mandarin: Jolin Tsai - Lip Reading - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfqxE2qmffg
Japanese: moumoon - Hello, Shooting Star - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTm666EKYRs
Cantonese: Vivian Chow - Tears of Heaven - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmUhTkIovP0
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 835 of 844 15 February 2015 at 12:52pm | IP Logged |
I have way too much to study for accounting during the spring and summer. I'll be back
near the end of the year.
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 836 of 844 10 March 2015 at 8:27pm | IP Logged |
I am closing this log. I am tired of the problems this forum has.
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kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4845 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese
| Message 837 of 844 11 March 2015 at 7:06am | IP Logged |
The Real CZ wrote:
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Hehe... wondering if I should do the same.
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Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5533 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 838 of 844 12 March 2015 at 1:39am | IP Logged |
You aren't the only one getting increasingly frustrated at the forum issues. The discussions about finally relocating elsewhere (to
somewhere with an active administrator) are stronger than ever after that last major glitch.
See this thread in particular about the move planning:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T
ID=40132&PN=0&TPN=9
For what it's worth, I signed up at the Polydog forum recently (which was mentioned in several of the "forum move" threads) and have been
visiting there periodically as well so worst case if this site does stop working, I may just start hanging out there regularly instead.
Polydog also has some members I haven't seen in years like Cainntear that were banned here.
Edited by Warp3 on 12 March 2015 at 1:41am
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 839 of 844 13 March 2015 at 1:12am | IP Logged |
Warp, check your twitter.
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Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4795 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian
| Message 840 of 844 06 May 2015 at 5:12am | IP Logged |
Pretty late, but hope all's well with you, and certainly hope you're not gone for good!
Good luck on your exams and studies, and be sure to pop in whenever you can.
Yeah, the problems here on the forum are frustrating. I'm hoping a more stable solution
is in the works. You should probably check out the Polydog forum that Warp3 suggested,
lots of the same members.
Edited by Woodsei on 06 May 2015 at 4:52pm
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