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What goes into an SRS?

Monday, April 7, 2008

From Nihongo Notes:
If you read or hear anything in Japanese add it to Anki. Everything! Names, places, sentences, signs.
Keep it up. Try not to miss a day or you will begin to forget the cards. You don’t want to end up with hundreds of cards to review as it will only demotivate you. Try to [...]

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Flashcards: The Bane of Human Existence

Saturday, December 8, 2007

How do you take something that’s fun to learn and make it soul crushingly boring? Make flashcards.
I’ve made flashcards by hand with my hideous handwriting (the technical term is “chicken scratch”). I’ve bought thousands of Kanji flashcards. Good cardstock, cheap cardstock. Curved corners and decks of paper cuts waiting to happen. [...]

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