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| atama warui Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 4636 days ago 594 posts - 985 votes  Speaks: German*, English, Japanese | Message 9 of 11 12 January 2012 at 8:45am | IP Logged |
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I find working small decks with 10-20 cards easier, and I use BYKI. It also uses SRS, and it drills the vocab initially, which helps a lot.
I also only use ANKI for listening comprehension.. there are decks with only the sentences from the Core series, along with audio. The question field would contain only "listen". On the flipside you'll then see the sentence (and, if you downloaded that too, pictures). Then again, I'm only at a Lower Intermediate stage of Japanese after 14 months of learning. My methods might be ineffective. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jarvis1000 Diglot Groupie United States want2speakthai.com Joined 4823 days ago 74 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English*, Thai Studies: Spanish | Message 10 of 11 12 January 2012 at 11:09pm | IP Logged |
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I stoped using anki. Many people swore by it, but I didn't like it. I was sure that I probably wasn't using it the right way, but I was ok with my progress with out it that I didn't bother going back.. Maybe I will try again later since I paid for the 20 dolalr I pod App.
The thing I have learned about language learning is that you can't get married to a technique or course or whatever. Something may work well at one level of ability and then it might be a hinderance at a later level. For example, When I first learned to read Thai. I would spend hours looking up every word, and other forms of that word and get a very good general Idea of how it is used. But As my ability to read improved, This slow style became annoying and a hinderance to my ability to comprehend what I was reading. So don't be afraid to drop something or change how you use something. I wrote a post in my log that it can be easy to confuse the means with the end. The important thing is to learn something not complete your Anki deck every day or to finish your X course by a certain week.(though they might be good short term goals) The important thing is to learn to speak or read or whatever your goal is. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ericspinelli Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5718 days ago 249 posts - 493 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Italian | Message 11 of 11 13 January 2012 at 2:03am | IP Logged |
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I prefer "bookstore" over Anki. "Bookstore" provides a number of ways to organize
and format the language, but I prefer to use a classic feature called "novel." "Novel" doesn't support isolated kanji but it comes with plenty of example sentences and lots of repetition, plus it's mobile. The spacing algorithm can be sporadic but I still find I remember the words I need. "Bookstore" is not a free program, but I've heard certain environments support a comparable open source project called "library," though I've heard "library" is apt to crash when using the in-program "note" tool. I think it is better to read more and more varied Japanese with more and fuller context than to repeat the same material piecemeal. Language is repetitive by nature - we don't need an SRS - and the benefits of a natural reading experience outweigh the downsides of irregular exposure. I supplemented my reading with rote memorization but found that I forgot the majority of the vocabulary that never showed up in what I read. Considering the tens of thousands of pages I have read and the amount of vocabulary I did retain, however, that is an acceptable loss to me. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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