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| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5658 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 1585 of 1702 20 January 2015 at 1:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Kraemder, have you considered doing something like subs2srs? Check out Sprachprofi's post or emk's experiment. I find these kinds of cards are much more interesting, you get a lot of vocab and grammar in one card, context, listening practice, etc. At later stages you'll be suspending more cards than you will be studying, but i still come across tons of good cards in my Mandarin decks. An added bonus is that it feels really cool watching the movie/TV episode later and understanding 90% or more of what's going on :)
For learning kanji, i wonder if something like Skritter wouldn't be more interesting for you? It's still the same idea, but (at least for Chinese characters) it's got audio in addition to writing practice. You get a definition card, pronunciation card, and a writing card for each new character you study. Writing kanji might not be high on your priority list, though. Also, emk has mentioned setting Anki's leech limit lower (perhaps to 4 or even fewer misses). This way cards that keep giving you trouble will get set aside and you will be learning cards vocabulary that is easier for you to remember. Later on you can go back and unsuspend those cards and hopefully they'll be easier to remember this time around. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4977 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1586 of 1702 20 January 2015 at 8:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi crush, thanks for the feedback. I have tried subs to srs and they were some of the most enjoyable decks I
have made. It's been s while but I think about making more all the time. One thing though is that I believe the software is for windows only and I haven't dual boot to setup properly on my Mac mini yet. Memrise is still new to me so I don't have a feel yet on how good the mems will be but it's already looking good. I also tried Skritter out briefly and its ok but I don't think it's worth the price that they ask. Especially if I wouldn't be using it for vocabulary. Drawing kanji fluctuates on my priority list. Currently it's moved up since I'm taking a class at Pima community college again and I think she has us write kanji on he board every class... Pretty different than my other teacher. I'm just retaking it so the class is all review unfortunately but since it's an audit I can focus my self studies however I please. If I am using anki to review Rtk again and I think reducing the leech threshold is a really good idea. Although with the Rtk mems I don't think I'll get any wrong that many times in a row regardless. I'm really feeling positive about memrise right now but if I get through their community decks I may try out subs to srs again. I never really stopped thinking about it. Those decks I made were very fun if time consuming. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4977 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1587 of 1702 29 January 2015 at 3:37am | IP Logged | ||
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The JLPT test results are online - but I can't view them. I am not positive what my password was but I have a
few that I use for everything I do. I was looking at the site and if you have any letters in your password then you can't view your test results online. Seriously? https://www.jlpt-overseas.jp/onlineresults/ Again, I am 98% sure I did not pass but of course I'd like to see the results. Oh well. And I'm pretty sure I put letters in my password. I tried my phone number and social just in case I used one or the other or something but no good. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4977 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1588 of 1702 29 January 2015 at 3:42am | IP Logged | ||
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I looked at the site and it's not the password you setup when you enrolled in the class there was a box to fill
out on the test. I think I might have just had 12345678. The JLPT site says I'm locked out for an hour however due to too many password guesses. Grr. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4977 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1589 of 1702 29 January 2015 at 5:13am | IP Logged | ||
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After looking at the sheet I thought I put 12345678 but it's not working. And other guesses alike all 1's aren't
working. I'm stumped. I will be waiting another month I guess for them to mail it. Whose idea was it to create an 8 digit password while taking the test so that you can't write it down? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4458 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 1590 of 1702 30 January 2015 at 1:04am | IP Logged | ||
I can't recall exactly what my password was when I took the test at SOAS, but it was made up from my birth date and it was printed on one of the emails they sent: it may even have been on the test voucher. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4977 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1591 of 1702 30 January 2015 at 2:22am | IP Logged | ||
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I saved my test voucher and it's not on that but I know my registration number at least. A guy from New
Zealand said that he put it on his registration when he enrolled in the class and got a receipt with it. I did mine online so maybe I entered it then? I know on the JLPT website where you go for your scores they show a photo of it and it really looks like the test form so I was thinking that was when I did it. If it was when I enrolled I probably saved it on my old computer. It's in my closet somewhere and I will probably set it up again so I can check. What a pain. I'll probably guess some more combinations first. I might have used my birthdate too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4977 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1592 of 1702 30 January 2015 at 3:27am | IP Logged | ||
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There's a password recovery process... anyway I didn't pass. But I'm not too disappointed with the
results. Actually, I'm glad I didn't fail by one point like the N4. Or maybe it was 2 points. Anyway, 5 points is close enough for me to feel like I'm not an idiot but not so close that I feel robbed or unlucky. And I personally think it confirms that if I had spent the time I had on Korean on Japanese instead then I would have passed. vocab/grammar 25 / 60 85 / 180 reading 26 / 60 listening 34 / 60 Vocabulary: A Grammar: C When I finished the listening I felt like I had let myself down compared to my practice test. I just wasn't focused or maybe got unlucky with the material as it just wasn't clicking while on my practice test I felt like I got everything right and was very confident of my responses. My practice tests for the rest of the test were pretty consistent with how I did above. If you look at the A in the vocabulary that means my vocabulary wasn't what held me back - it was the N2 level grammar that held me back. That is consistent with my studying. I do a lot of vocabulary even if I do switch from anki to flashcards deluxe to memrise to wahtever, often starting over. I put in a lot of time studying vocabulary. Grammar is definitely weak in comparison. Not the N3/4/5 grammar - the N2 grammar (thankfully). So I can talk and understand a lot of Japanese. But getting to the next level - or passing this test anyway - it makes sense to focus on grammar. I suppose if I make my vocabulary even better then I could get a low pass even if my grammar still stinks hehe. I'm pretty sure I'll retake the test again in a year. Unless there's a possibility to do it in the summer somehow but I doubt it. I really do not think I'll go for N1 in a year and skip N2 but there is a small chance I guess. If I hit the books and learn N2 grammar solid by the summer then who knows. But that would be breaking the pattern of how my studying has gone so I doubt it. There's a lot of N2 grammar for me to learn. A 'C' means very very weak ;/. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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