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Collecting Sentences or Learning Japanese?

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

It’s become popular of late to “collect sentences”.  As though this is a goal unto itself.
There have even been a few discussions on the interwebs. Some have even blossomed into organized efforts with semi-elaborate controls on copyrighted works.
 I did my own experiment with these a while back because I thought this was a good idea [...]

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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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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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