An interesting post over on the All Japanese All The Time blog, revisiting Spaced Repetition Systems, or SRS.
Khatzumoto is making an observation about how certain knowledge makes its way into our long term memory that I would like to extend:
Why do you remember your own name? Because your mother sat you down one day and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]