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What is the Purpose of Study?

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

First off, my apologies for falling behind in posting.  I was doing some experimentation with learning Japanese.  But it all relates to the question at hand.  What is “study” for?
This question isn’t unique to language learning, we could ask it for anything that takes years to learn.  But it’s a question that, I think, is [...]

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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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Stop Studying Japanese!

Thursday, January 3, 2008

How do you study? Simple. You are given the answers to a set of questions and you review those questions until you know the answers. The key is that you are given the answers.
And that’s the problem. True learning doesn’t come from being given the answers, it comes from discovering solutions, [...]

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