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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4663 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 41 of 137 10 February 2013 at 12:33am | IP Logged | |||||
That's probably good advice. I'll change my goal (from March onwards) to get through one chapter a week. As for February, I'll try to do two, but if I fall behind I won't try to force myself to catch up. I've decided to start by going through the next chapter on Monday, adding vocab to Anki and giving myself a day to learn that. Then I'll try to cover a chapter on Tuesday and Thursday (Wednesday I meet my tutor so there's not much time left over). Friday I'll SRS the next chapter and then I'll go through the next one if I have time at the weekend. If not, then it can wait until the following week. I've no added a few extra columns to my spreadsheet so I can track how much time I spend on audio, vocabulary, reading grammar and "other". Now that I can see on a day- to-day basis that I'm not putting much into grammar, I'm finding it easier to avoid putting off the bookwork. I've also decided that I need to revise the grammar from MNN I somewhat more thoroughly: I keep coming across snippets where I'm not sure of the exact grammar. So I'm going to try to find a way of entering that into Anki. It took me an hour today to get 1,2 & 26 done. From now on I'll add chapters as I do them, and catch up on the others as I have time. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4663 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 42 of 137 10 February 2013 at 12:39am | IP Logged | |||||
I've come across it in various sources, but not yet in my textbook. Currently I'm looking at the potential and then there's the causative; the passive is a few weeks away yet.
For JPOD lessons it's quite often lack of vocabulary (theirs can be quite wide ranging at times). For the JLPT stuff it can be that I miss key words of vocabulary. I think I'm going to use the JPOD101 lessons and try some shadowing (as they conveniently provide a transcript). I'm also going to try working through a season intensively, learning the full vocabulary, making sure I understand every line. It'll take some time, but as I'm now nearing the end of the as-yet-unlistened to audio from there, I can put one or two dialog and review tracks into a playlist and listen to them on shuffle as I commute. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4663 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 43 of 137 15 February 2013 at 3:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Has anyone got experience of moving from Anki 1 to Anki 2?
Obviously I'll back everything up first :-) I particularly like the look of the sub-deck feature. It sounds like I could take all the words with a given tag (which is usually vocab from a given textbook chapter) and shuffle that off into a subdeck. I could then choose to review new chapters first but still do an all-vocab review too. Have I understood this feature properly? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4663 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 44 of 137 08 March 2013 at 8:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I seem to have forgotten to review my February goals and to set some for March, so here
goes. This is the review; the new goals will come next. 1. Keep up the Kanji reviews at Reviewing The Kanji . This I managed without any trouble at all. 2. Keep up with Anki reviews. This too didn't give me any problems. In fact I've added corePLUS to my list of decks to keep me busy. 3. Keep the memrise N4 and N5 courses watered. I kept the gardens fully watered by the end of each week except the very last one. I'd done a bit more grammar and simply forgot to come back to memrise and water everything. It didn't take long to catch up. Although I will track the amount of time I spend with Anki and memrise, I'm not going to set any time goals. I want to see a retention rate of 60% or more for the N4 course, and I'll put in extra time in March if that's not happening, but for now I'm just going to keep to non-time-based targets. I've not measured the retention rate. I'll try to do that in future. 4. Work on A Japanese Reader for 60m (this counts any vocabulary/kanji work required). I've managed this, admittedly only by a whisker. 5. Work through two lessons of Minna No Nihongo each week. That means covering the grammar points, going over the sentences and covering exercises A, B and C. I'll also be adding the lesson vocabulary to Anki, although I may suspend the "supplemental" vocabulary if that seems to be getting in the way. Despite my qualms over this I have achieved that: I'm now on Chapter 41. I'm also going through one chapter a week with my tutor - this is a refresh (i.e. it's chapters I've already covered) but, obviously with a native speaker to hand, I get much better feedback. Plus I don't get to say "No, I think I'll skip that exercise :-) 6. Keep the audio going. Once I've finished with the current JPOD101 Intermediate series, I'll try the Audio Blog seasons. If that's too advanced to provide anything meaningful, then I'll pick one of the other series I've yet to try (e.g. JLPT or Particles). The audio did keep going. I've run out of audio (except for the Advanced Audio Blog) so I'm thinking about working through lessons more intensively. This is the time breakdown by category: Audio: 51:36 Vocabulary: 33:33 Reading: 5:07 Grammar: 25:03 Other: 1:52 Which category an activity goes into can sometimes be arbitrary. Edited by dampingwire on 08 March 2013 at 8:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4663 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 45 of 137 08 March 2013 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Now the goals for March. These are similar to the February goals, but with a few
tweaks. 1. Keep up the Kanji reviews at Reviewing The Kanji. 2. Keep up with Anki reviews. I've added the corePLUS deck and I'm adding vocabulary from Nihongo Challenge to my Kanji deck. I'll also be adding all the applicable N5 + N4 kanji vocabulary at some stage too. So although this goal appears to be unaltered, there's more work involved here. 3. Keep the memrise N4 and N5 courses watered. Also keep the "Body Parts" and "N4 supplemental" courses watered too. Try to rack the retention rate on the N4 course: no target for this month, just a session-by-session log so I can set appropriate goals next time around. 4. A Japanese Reader will take a back seat for this month. I'm more interested in learning the kanji needed for this summer's JLPT N4. Once I've done that (and maybe added the N5+N4 vocab that uses N3/N2 kanji) I'll put this reader back into my goals. I may still work on it in odd moments this month, I just don't want to have to stick to a goal. 5. Work through one lesson of Minna No Nihongo each week.I'll certainly be doing one a week with my tutor, so this means one a week on my own. If I find the time I'll try to do more, but, again, I don't want to build an impossible schedule for myself. 6. Keep the audio going. I'll still listen to something (probably JPOD101) whenever I'm commuting etc. However, I'm going to pick one lesson each week and work through it intensively. I'll learn all of the vocabulary and all of the grammar and I'll listen to the audio repeatedly until I'm confident that I understand every word. I'll also try to understand all the the presenter's Japanese ad-libs, but that's a bonus, not a requirement. I'll start with Beginner Season 2 (as I've been listening to that in the car recently and there are plenty of new bits of vocabulary in there for me. I may change season and/or level, but the goal is to completely mine at least one lesson each week. 7. Try to update my weekly progress log on the following Monday and update my TAC log monthly goals within a week or so of the end of the month :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4663 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 46 of 137 20 March 2013 at 2:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I imagine most of you have seen this before, but it's new to me, so here goes.
Random browsing on the net led me here: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/mlc/olc/online/japanese. aspx which then took me here: https://www.erin.ne.jp/jp/ Once you start each "lesson" you can choose from: 動画の再生 - video playback スクリｐト - the script マンガ - the episode in manga format 確認試験問題 - a set of comprehension questions At each point you can have the text in natural Japanese (kana + kanji), just kana, roumaji or English. I've only just found it and I've yet to spend much time on it, but I can see this being a truly excellent learning resource (for listening comprehension at least). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4663 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 47 of 137 03 April 2013 at 12:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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Well March certainly flew by, so here's a review.
1. Keep up the Kanji reviews at Reviewing The Kanji. No problems with this at all. 2. Keep up with Anki reviews.No issues here either. There is still some vocabulary unreviewed, but that should all be covered by the end of April. 3. Keep the memrise N4 and N5 courses watered. Also keep the "Body Parts" and "N4 supplemental" courses watered too. Try to rack the retention rate on the N4 course. I've managed to get into a groove and the memrise watering doesn't take very long at all. For a while I was actually leaving it for a few days at a time so that there was more to do rather than just 2 minutes per day. However I found that I retain things more successfully if I do a little each day. For the last few days I've started to activate the various knaji parts of the courses so my review times will start to increase. 4. A Japanese Reader will take a back seat for this month. I'm more interested in learning the kanji needed for this summer's JLPT N4. Once I've done that (and maybe added the N5+N4 vocab that uses N3/N2 kanji) I'll put this reader back into my goals. I may still work on it in odd moments this month, I just don't want to have to stick to a goal. I worked through the Anki Kanji deck quite religiously. I've had the occasional bad day, but mostly it's gone well. I didn't look at A Japanese Reader at all, but I still think the time is better spent working through kanji at the moment. 5. Work through one lesson of Minna No Nihongo each week.I've been working through the book quite actively now. I've not forced myself to do it when I've not felt like it but I've still managed to reach nearly the end of the book now. I'll be going through each of the 50 chapters again, some more intensively than others, to solidify the knowledge but I think it's been very useful to have worked through each chapter so that I know the "lay of the land" so to speak. 6. Keep the audio going. The audio has been kept going, at every possible idle moment and not just the commute. However, I'm going to pick one lesson each week and work through it intensively. It sounded good, and it still sounds good. However, real life intervened and there was always something else (Japanese-related) that seemed (and may well have been) more important at the time. Suddenly March was over :-). I'd printed out the first 10 lessons of Beginner Season 2 in readiness and they sat there untouched until tonight. That's when I realised I'd have to write this post ... So I worked though those 10 lessons in about one hour - that's how long it took to read the dialogs and add new vocabulary to Anki. So hopefully that will kick-start me into doing this properly for April. 7. Try to update my weekly progress log on the following Monday and update my TAC log monthly goals within a week or so of the end of the month :-) Oh dear! So overall, not too bad. Plenty of work done and I certainly feel as though I'm beginning to make progress. I'll try to organise some goals for April in the next day or two. Probably :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4845 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 48 of 137 03 April 2013 at 3:25am | IP Logged | |||||
Ah... Toyoda Eri (Erin) is a cutie... although she looks much older now. What do you put into your Anki deck? Words? Sentences? Both? Edited by kujichagulia on 03 April 2013 at 3:26am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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