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| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4135 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 17 of 144 16 March 2013 at 3:24pm | IP Logged |
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09.03.13-15.03.13:
Learning vocabulary: 3:01 Reviewing Kanji: 0:42 Total: 3:43 I've been learning Japanese for ~90 days, and have learnt only ~1050 Kanji and ~700 words... I think what's been holding me back is changing methods/Anki deck too often. So now I'll just try to stick with my current N4 vocabulary deck, learning 30 words per day. I wonder which time I've said that... Also, funny thing, doing the N4 deck takes twice as long as the N5 one did... I don't know if that's because it tries to make the words active by having JP-EN and EN-JP cards, or am I just procrastinating... (I've gotten back to learning in front of the computer because of the weather outside) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4135 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 18 of 144 19 March 2013 at 3:47pm | IP Logged |
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Not really Japanese related, but I took the test at the site Professor Arguelles has mentioned in
one of his videos. It's the English vocabulary size test. Before taking it, I was in a bit of a quandary, if I may use a relatively recently learnt word from RTK :) On one hand, I wanted to get a high result, which would mean I've put much effort into learning English, and that I'm good at it. On the other hand, I wanted it to be low...er because that would mean less work needed to get to a satisfactory level in next languages. Anyway, the result was "You know at least 8,900 English word families!" [sic]. So... unless the languages I'm interested in are drastically different vocabulary-wise , I don't even need 10,000 words :) As for Japanese, managed to not stop learning. Nothing special. Well, maybe I just might add that the words in the N4 deck started to be really useful. I mean, while learning the N5 level, there were ones such as Policeman, Police box, socks, and so on... Which obviously are all words worth learning, just not right at the beginning; I prefer to learn such words later, maybe in a themed list or something. But now the words are such as: "to choose", "complex"... So I'm happy. Edited by Ezy Ryder on 19 March 2013 at 3:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4135 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 19 of 144 23 March 2013 at 8:59am | IP Logged |
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16.03.2013-22.03.2013
Learning Vocabulary: 4:29 I don't have much more to say... At least there are no more problems so far. Should be finished with the N4 deck after about two more weeks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4135 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 20 of 144 05 April 2013 at 9:55am | IP Logged |
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Haven't posted in over a week... Maybe I should write a brief update.
So basically, a few days after my last post, I thought I should change my life. I've started eating (mainly) rice (with chopsticks too :) ), drinking green tea, lifting weights (just 4kg, I'm a beginner) and jogging about half an hour every day (inspired by Professor Arguelles). I hope this healthier diet and exercising will help becoming more fit, losing some weight... As for languages, firstly, I've taken a break from Japanese. Secondly, on April 1 I've started a 3 months challenge to conversational Chinese. I can't deny that it was inspired by Benny, but I know I definitely can't reach fluency in such a short time, and I'm going to try to learn to read too. So basically, every day I'm waken up by my cellphone's alarm at 8:00 (one of the changes, before, I was getting up even as late as 11:xx), take my medications, check if there are any new interesting videos from people to whom I'm subscribed on YouTube, or posts on a few forums, and then, usually before 10:00 I start learning Chinese vocabulary on Anki. I found a deck with 5003 words sorted by the HSK level they are a part of, so that's what I'm using for studying. I take 5 minute breaks every 10 minutes of study. And I do so 'till I learn 55 new words. This way, I should learn 5005 new words during this challenge. That might not be perfect, but hopefully will be sufficient for further growing the vocabulary by reading books, watching TV and talking. I feel I should also say that I'm planning to learn the grammar from Chinese Grammar Wiki, they have grammar subjects with explanations and example sentences, sorted by CEFR levels, from A1 to B2. So, what do You think about this idea? Personally, I just hope I will not give up... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4135 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 21 of 144 07 April 2013 at 2:22pm | IP Logged |
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Week 1:
Anki: 9:42 Grammar: 0:36 Total: 10:18 Yesterday I've stumbled upon a link to an article regarding an interesting mnemonic system for remembering syllables. Each beginning of a syllable is associated with a person, like for example: k - Kleopatra (that's how it's spelled in Polish), ti - Tom Lehrer or bu - Batman. Each ending of a syllable is associated with a location, so for example: a - my grandmother's house, an - my local park or i/nothing - my own house. And each tone is associated with a part of that place: 1st - in front of the place, 2nd - entrance, 3rd - inside, 4th - bathroom. So far it was rather interesting, I think it makes remembering things easier... Albeit two difficulties, which are: 1) it works only for parts of words, You have to treat words like Kanji and syllables and their corresponding characters as radicals... though they seem to be more rational/related to the meaning than average radicals to an average Kanji. 2) It's not very quick. The bonds to the words are getting stronger faster than by using solely SRS, but it takes me even up to a minute to recall a word's pronunciation by the meaning. Though that might be just auto-suggestion... well... I don't know. As for the speed, today I needed 1:26 for just 30 words... So I'm considering simply printing the vocabulary lists, and learning them outside Anki, just using this method, and going through older lists every few days. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4135 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 22 of 144 12 April 2013 at 10:25am | IP Logged |
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(Yet) another discipline technique I'm about to try: learn 10 words every hour.
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| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4135 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 23 of 144 17 May 2013 at 7:46pm | IP Logged |
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OK... Feeling a bit better lately, got back to learning. I've been learning everyday for at
least an hour for over a week now, so maybe it'll last this time... I've just finished the N4 deck for Japanese. Because of the breaks I've had, I've probably forgotten a part of the vocabulary, so I'll try to do some more reviewing this weekend (maybe even outside, if the weather will allow it, it's usually quite warm, though sometimes it rains). My current study method: wristwatch alarm set on 15:00, when it rings, set the timer to an hour and learn five words. On 16:00 when the timer rings, set it back to an hour and learn five more words. Do so 'till having learnt thirty words. ~13-minutes-long study sessions and ~47-minutes-long breaks sound lazy, because that is laziness, but it's better than not learning et al, so it's fine by me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4633 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 24 of 144 18 May 2013 at 12:48am | IP Logged |
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Hey, whatever works, right? Just keep up your studies.
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