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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Which Comes First: Study or Play?

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

A quote from a discussion over at Tae Kim’s Guide to Japanese Grammar Forum:
What can I do to review Japanese at this advanced level? Reviewing grammar is painfully boring now — heck even have most of the guide and the grammar books that I read memorized –, and the only other option for any real [...]

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The Problem With SRS

Monday, March 24, 2008

For those who don’t know, an SRS is a Spaced Repetition System. It creates longer and longer intervals between reviews when you get the answer correct. The idea is to review just before you forget, to encourage long-term memory retention.
And in this technical statement from supermemo’s Theoretical aspects of spaced repetition in learning, [...]

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Burnout and Language Learning

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Burnout is the greatest enemy of learning any language. It takes a goal like fluency that motivates you, that drives you, and turns it into something you hate.
I think most of us have had that moment when we’ve worn ourselves down trying to memorize as much as we can in as little time as [...]

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