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kraemder
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 Message 761 of 1702
09 February 2013 at 5:07am | IP Logged 
Argh. I am actually returning the iPhone. It's a little sad but I'd been
using it all day and last night and then picked up this note 2 when I
saw its led blinking and well I don't think I am ready to give up the
screen real estate afterall. I'll just learn more about Android and how
to exploit it. It takes more learning than ios that's for sure. Right now
I'm typing this entry in an android word processor to see what that's
like. Even I'd this site wasn't buggy with SwiftKey, with its notorious
bad connection you can lose what you type anyway. And I'm still
hoping that SwiftKey makes a japanese version. I know they would if
in were to ditch android.   I met up with another student from class
today. Due to playing with the phone all day in hadn't done the
homework for next week and she actually got through it although
midday she hadn't. So I felt bad that we weren't able to review the
whole thing. I'll get it done though and I'm sure we will. Still no
progress on the speech.
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kraemder
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 Message 762 of 1702
09 February 2013 at 9:56pm | IP Logged 
Omg I finally caught up on my SRS deck. I'm sure a ton of reviews
will
pop up tomorrow but ill do my best to stay on top.

Edited by kraemder on 09 February 2013 at 9:59pm

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stifa
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 Message 763 of 1702
09 February 2013 at 10:16pm | IP Logged 
Are you using Anki 2? If so, the reviews scheduling actually takes the delayed reviews
into account. Also, do you know if it is possible to have different card templates for
different devices? (My font size for German, for instance, is way too large on my smart
phone...)

And I bet Apple will make a larger phone; I mean, they are pretty good at copying and
then copyrighting. :p
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kraemder
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 Message 764 of 1702
09 February 2013 at 10:32pm | IP Logged 
I'm pretty sure they will too. They're denying it right now but it would be stupid to yield the market for 5
inch phones to Samsung and android out of sheer stubbornness. I like their os better so I'll be looking for
it.

I'm using flashcards deluxe. It's in Google play and the app store and is cheap but not free. I do have Anki
but I didn't like it very much. I mostly found it hard to configure. Never tried thus new 2.0 version though.
The one I use does take into account late reviews.. That is if you get a card right after a long period of time
due to being lazy then it says you know this card pretty well and increases the interval accordingly. I'm
sure that's going to help some but also I didn't get everything right on the first try hehe. The fonts look
pretty good for my app between my huge phone and my ipad. But on the iPhone with its little screen
sometimes stuff would be pushed off the bottom. My app doesn't adjust for that. I don't know ow if Anki
does or not.

stifa wrote:
Are you using Anki 2? If so, the reviews scheduling actually takes the delayed reviews
into account. Also, do you know if it is possible to have different card templates for
different devices? (My font size for German, for instance, is way too large on my smart
phone...)

And I bet Apple will make a larger phone; I mean, they are pretty good at copying and
then copyrighting. :p

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kraemder
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 Message 765 of 1702
10 February 2013 at 3:47am | IP Logged 
Well so much for being caught up. There's 80 cards due atm. And i
just added 163 new ones from the hand outs for chapter 5 that's
coming up. I'm thinking that I need to redo my grammar cards so
that they can be mixed in with the vocabulary. I really don't have the
discipline to stay on top of more than one srs deck unfortunately.
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g-bod
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 Message 766 of 1702
10 February 2013 at 11:56am | IP Logged 
This is the bind with SRS. You just can't keep adding too much stuff or it becomes unsustainable (unless you actually are the kind of person who loves spending two hours a day on your flashcard software).

Anyway, I think SRS is effective but it is not necessarily efficient. Some words you end up memorizing surprisingly quickly, some show up so often you can't help but learn them, and others take more effort to make stick. It's only these last ones that I think need to go in an SRS. If you're getting so much new vocab from class it's not SRSable in a week, why not try and memorize it in a more traditional way, put it to one side for a week, and then only SRS the stuff you still can't recall?
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kraemder
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 Message 767 of 1702
11 February 2013 at 9:00am | IP Logged 
I'm not getting that much new vocab I a week really. I mean I kind of am but I like to get a headstart on
stuff, especially vocab, before we start seeing it in class. Actually it will often show igself early anyway and
obviously if it's in my long term memory already then the assignments are a little easier. It's just weird for
me this time as opposed to last semester that we seem to be getting a lot more. The pace is different. That
said I think your idea is a good one and makes sense but I'm hesitant to try it yet. I guess I don't trust
myself to study stuff enough if I don't have a reminder to do so like an srs thing. If I were self studying it
wouldn't matter much if I were doing this the way I did German for example... Just hit native material and
whatever gets repeated is what will stick. But for a class I need to know what he wants me to know and
srs seems the safest.
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dampingwire
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 Message 768 of 1702
11 February 2013 at 3:40pm | IP Logged 
kraemder wrote:
But for a class I need to know what he wants me to know and
srs seems the safest.


As I come to each chapter of my textbook, the first thing I now do is add all the new
vocabulary to Anki. I don't bother adding anything I'm 100% confident about, but
anything else goes in.

That leaves with maybe 50 new terms to learn at the start of the week. If I find that
there are too many reviews at any point, I can always suspend the ones that seem (at
the time) to be less important. They might come back out of suspension if they crop up
during the lesson. Otherwise, they'll come back when I have reviews under control.

I have sat there and covered 60m of Anki + memrise over the weekend a few times (as I
was geting the new N5 memrise course under control) but generally 60m spread throughout
the day covers vocab + kanji, and I expect that to come down over time. (Well, until I
start the N3 vocabulary :-))



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