Comments on: What goes into an SRS? http://blog.feedmejapanese.com/2008/04/07/what-goes-into-an-srs/ Learning to Read Japanese by...Reading Japanese Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:38:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Khalid http://blog.feedmejapanese.com/2008/04/07/what-goes-into-an-srs/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Khalid Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:23:57 +0000 http://blog.feedmejapanese.com/?p=14#comment-19 I've found less than 10 a day, and quite frequently zero, to be pretty nice too. And pulling sentences from programs you enjoy is clutch. I always smile when I see an sentence from もののけ姫 or a funny line from a TV show. The real challenge, I'm finding, is getting new vocabulary from sources like newspapers into my head. Finding ways to play with the words and build vivid unforgettable images. And to do as much of that as possible in Japanese, rather than creating elaborate english based imagery. Ideally, I just find a couple of really interesting sentences where the new word is prominent. But that isn't always possible - some words are boring in just about every context ;-) P.S. I copied your screenshot to the server for posterity :) I’ve found less than 10 a day, and quite frequently zero, to be pretty nice too. And pulling sentences from programs you enjoy is clutch. I always smile when I see an sentence from もののけ姫 or a funny line from a TV show.

The real challenge, I’m finding, is getting new vocabulary from sources like newspapers into my head. Finding ways to play with the words and build vivid unforgettable images.

And to do as much of that as possible in Japanese, rather than creating elaborate english based imagery. Ideally, I just find a couple of really interesting sentences where the new word is prominent.

But that isn’t always possible - some words are boring in just about every context ;-)

P.S. I copied your screenshot to the server for posterity :)

]]> By: アカン http://blog.feedmejapanese.com/2008/04/07/what-goes-into-an-srs/comment-page-1/#comment-18 アカン Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:41:12 +0000 http://blog.feedmejapanese.com/?p=14#comment-18 Oops, sorry for the tags: http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/7317/51576605ws7.png Oops, sorry for the tags:
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]]> By: アカン http://blog.feedmejapanese.com/2008/04/07/what-goes-into-an-srs/comment-page-1/#comment-17 アカン Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:38:16 +0000 http://blog.feedmejapanese.com/?p=14#comment-17 A typical entry in my SRS:- <a href='http://blog.feedmejapanese.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/51576605ws7.png' rel="nofollow"><img src="http://blog.feedmejapanese.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/51576605ws7-300x225.png" alt="" title="SRS Screen Shot" width="300" height="225" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17" /></a> Which is why I don't make more than 7 per day. However, the reviews hardly seem boring anymore! I think the very act of getting a screenshot from an anime episode and then typing out the expression is a very strong aid to memory. Which makes review less tedious and less frequent. Which means more fun! Woohoo! A typical entry in my SRS:-

Which is why I don’t make more than 7 per day. However, the reviews hardly seem boring anymore! I think the very act of getting a screenshot from an anime episode and then typing out the expression is a very strong aid to memory. Which makes review less tedious and less frequent. Which means more fun! Woohoo!

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