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Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - vosmiura - 2009-07-08
chochajin Wrote:Today after OVER 5 hours of studying only KO2001 in Anki I finally finished book 2 of KO2001 as well.Wow, both KO2001 volumes in 1 month is impressive. Otsukare sama deshita.
I started with book 1 end of May / beginning of June, so it took my about 1 month to finish both books.
I couldn't finish them earlier as I a have full-time job and thus not really much time to study (at least not as much as I'd like to have).
http://i42.tinypic.com/11r4qwz.jpg
Over 5 hours of studying ONLY KO2001 in Anki. That's a new record and I'm tired now *g*
As I have to work tomorrow again and the whole week, I figured it's better to try and finish it today
Also I know:
http://i43.tinypic.com/6zopjc.jpg
According to this site.
Finishing KO2001 really helped increasing my vocab and reading speed!
Next I wanna unsuspend the production cards and also finally start studying grammar.
Although I didn't do production until now, my output ability also increased thanks to KO2001 (^-^)v
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - vosmiura - 2009-07-09
Been kind of busy with work so going slower, but I've completed up to chapter 50 of 例文で学ぶ漢字と言葉. 57 to go!
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - blackmacros - 2009-07-12
I got 100% on my RtK reviews (30 of them this morning) for the first time ever. I'm very proud of myself
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - igordesu - 2009-07-13
I JUST BROKE 1000 SENTENCES!!! YESSSSSS. Score.
Apart from some Tae Kim, I've done all natural sentence mining via reading, and it's already getting easier to read manga! Man, I wonder what it'll be like at 2000 and 3000 sentences???...
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - blackmacros - 2009-07-13
In a related note, I just broke 1000 kanji in KO2001! Yay!
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - Yonosa - 2009-07-13
blackmacros Wrote:I got 100% on my RtK reviews (30 of them this morning) for the first time ever. I'm very proud of myselfYour first 100% on 30 kanji, that's not that great though, Id be more impressed with a 99% of 100!If you had missed a single kanji your percentage wouldn't even be great, because there were so few.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - kanjiwarrior - 2009-07-13
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Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - Yonosa - 2009-07-13
kanjiwarrior Wrote:頑張れ!igordesu Wrote:I JUST BROKE 1000 SENTENCES!!! YESSSSSS. Score.Wow 1000! I'm only 1/4 a way there, congratulations!
Apart from some Tae Kim, I've done all natural sentence mining via reading, and it's already getting easier to read manga! Man, I wonder what it'll be like at 2000 and 3000 sentences???...
It feels good to be past RTK1 come on ! step it up, I did it in 22 days, get it done in 10! and get on the road to fluency with us!
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - blackmacros - 2009-07-16
KO2001. Kanji 1110. Took me 11 days to go through the 555 kanji in the second book, and I finished tonight.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - nonpoint - 2009-07-17
One of blackmacros threads inspired me to do more new sentences per day.. after a few days of picking more sentences than usual, I'm up to 2000 natural sentences. I see every thousand sentences as a big milestone. Oh, and reading the GTO manga has become easier, though I still read the furigana often.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - mafried - 2009-07-18
One week at the new job and my expired pile is up to 400+.
Today's completed milestone: opening up Anki and doing at least one review
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - avparker - 2009-07-18
blackmacros Wrote:KO2001. Kanji 1110. Took me 11 days to go through the 555 kanji in the second book, and I finished tonight.You, sir, are amazing.
I think you mentioned you have (japanese) tv shows playing while doing your reviews and studying. Don't you get distracted?
I'm trying it today and my pace of reviews just slows to a crawl.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - blackmacros - 2009-07-18
avparker Wrote:Thanksblackmacros Wrote:KO2001. Kanji 1110. Took me 11 days to go through the 555 kanji in the second book, and I finished tonight.You, sir, are amazing.
I think you mentioned you have (japanese) tv shows playing while doing your reviews and studying. Don't you get distracted?
I'm trying it today and my pace of reviews just slows to a crawl.
Yeah I have my library of Japanese Tv shows playing on random in the background but at a low volume. I can still hear the words, but when I do my reviews the KO2001 audio drowns it out (which is what I intended). That way I can do audio reviews and have shows playing concurrently. I don't have too much trouble getting distracted by it personally, but I could understand if you did.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - avparker - 2009-07-18
blackmacros Wrote:Yeah I have my library of Japanese Tv shows playing on random in the background but at a low volume. I can still hear the words, but when I do my reviews the KO2001 audio drowns it out (which is what I intended). That way I can do audio reviews and have shows playing concurrently. I don't have too much trouble getting distracted by it personally, but I could understand if you did.Ah, my KO2001 deck doesn't have audio, and I had the tv show up at nearly normal level.
I guess the good thing is I can actually understand about 80-90% of the show even when I'm not paying attention :-)
About the audio - do you have the audio play when you show the answer?
i.e. like this?
Question: Kanji sentence
Answer: Kana sentence + Audio + English sentence
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - blackmacros - 2009-07-18
avparker Wrote:Yep thats exactly how I set it up, except if there were new words (other than the target compound) I would also put those word(s) and a short definition in the answer.blackmacros Wrote:Yeah I have my library of Japanese Tv shows playing on random in the background but at a low volume. I can still hear the words, but when I do my reviews the KO2001 audio drowns it out (which is what I intended). That way I can do audio reviews and have shows playing concurrently. I don't have too much trouble getting distracted by it personally, but I could understand if you did.Ah, my KO2001 deck doesn't have audio, and I had the tv show up at nearly normal level.
I guess the good thing is I can actually understand about 80-90% of the show even when I'm not paying attention :-)
About the audio - do you have the audio play when you show the answer?
i.e. like this?
Question: Kanji sentence
Answer: Kana sentence + Audio + English sentence
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - Burritolingus - 2009-07-18
You a MACHINE, blackmacros. That inspires me to stop slacking and get the heck back to 2001KO and do my 50 new sentences for the day. I think I will.
As for my latest milestone, I recently completed Final Fantasy 5 en Japones, which is really the first RPG I've played through in its entirety in Japanese and actually made an effort to understand thoroughly (I had previously played through a few others such as Mother 3 and FF4 DS, but mostly going by katakana, translation guides and my previous knowledge of the original FF4). Actually had a pretty respectable level of comprehension, too! All in all, I found it to be a pretty easy game to understand, but still came away with at least a few dozen new words. Plus, this was the first time I actually played through the game in its entirety, so it was a pretty fresh experience (and an amazing game that I'd rank up there with FF4 and 6 as my favorites)
Now to figure out what to play through next...
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - Evil_Dragon - 2009-07-18
Burritolingus Wrote:Now to figure out what to play through next...Obviously Dragon Quest IX.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - Burritolingus - 2009-07-18
Evil_Dragon Wrote:Seriously considering it, and the furigana really makes it tempting. DECISIONS, DECISIONS...Burritolingus Wrote:Now to figure out what to play through next...Obviously Dragon Quest IX.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - Elphalpo - 2009-07-18
My recent milestone achievement is having finally reached the point where I can understand enough Japanese to enjoy reading/listening to native Japanese media. I had intended to make my way a list of 8000 or so JLPT vocab before moving on to native media, but after almost two months straight of learning around 100 words a day, yesterday I finally snapped and started delving into real Japanese and was pleased to find that I actually enjoyed it. I started playing ルドラの秘宝, an old Squaresoft SNES RPG, and I can fully understand about 80 percent of it, can pick up about 15 percent from context, and the remaining five percent is too small to really bother me. I've also started watching TBS news, and although it's usually too fast for me to understand at first, I know most of the words, so I can usually understand it after a few repeat listens.
I'm glad I spent all that time going through Kanji Odyssey and mining sentences from Yahoo!, as I feel like it enabled me to learn a lot in a short period of time, but at the same time I'm pretty happy to finally be beyond that stuff. Learning Japanese from non-learning materials sure is a lot more fun.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - Hashiriya - 2009-07-18
how did you do 100 words a day? anki? also, did you use a japanese-japanese dictionary or j-e? i imagine if i was moving at 100 words a day, i sure would forget a lot...
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - blackmacros - 2009-07-18
Hashiriya Wrote:how did you do 100 words a day? anki? also, did you use a japanese-japanese dictionary or j-e? i imagine if i was moving at 100 words a day, i sure would forget a lot...I can't speak for how he did it, but I think you would be surprised with exactly how much you can accomplish if you have a goal, a method (nothing complicated just "I will reach my goal by doing x"), time and motivation.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - Hashiriya - 2009-07-18
I'm not doubting your goals or study time, i'm just simply saying learning that many new words in a day would be hard to memorize..... of course i study with smart.fm but i am just interested in yalls (yes i'm from Georgia) learning style so i could compare it to my own... maybe you wrote about it somewhere already... you could just point me to the thread...
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - blackmacros - 2009-07-18
Hashiriya Wrote:I'm not doubting your goals or study time, i'm just simply saying learning that many new words in a day would be hard to memorize..... of course i study with smart.fm but i am just interested in yalls (yes i'm from Georgia) learning style so i could compare it to my own... maybe you wrote about it somewhere already... you could just point me to the thread...I didn't mean to imply you were
. I was just saying that people can accomplish a heck of a lot more than they generally think they can. As for my learning style I might make a post in a few days or so once I've had a chance to relax, and enjoy the fruits of my labour (Chrono Trigger and Haruhi Suzumiya- in Japanese of course
). Or you could check out the "Re-examining your SRS workflow" thread. I wrote a bit in there about how I study, and I believe Elphalpo mentioned a bit about how he was working through his JLPT list.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - Hashiriya - 2009-07-18
that's cool, You guys probably have more time than me to study though... i only study between 2-3hrs a day... i listen to justin.tv in the background while i do so too...
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - Elphalpo - 2009-07-18
I didn't really use any special methods, I just inputted everything into Anki and then spent many hours a day of my abundant free time reviewing old cards and adding new ones. I didn't seem to actually forget that much. My failure rate didn't seem much higher than when I was only learning around 20 words a day.
I started out using the Yahoo! Japan J-E dictionary simply because it was a lot faster than J-J, but as I got better I started using J-J in cases where I found the English definitions lacking.