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What do you use your paper cards for? - shaydwyrm - 2007-05-23
I'm a bit more than 600 characters into RTK1 right now (taking a breather before tackling that one lesson with 130 characters), and it occurred to me that I'm accumulating a heavy shoebox of paper flash cards which I don't really use very much now that I've found this site. I make them when I'm learning characters for the first time, but I've found that after that first day I really don't use them. My main justification for the wasted paper is that eventually I'll start adding other readings and compounds, but I was wondering if other people here are still using paper cards in addition to this site, and how you are using them.
What do you use your paper cards for? - chamcham - 2007-05-23
I would say that the key advantage of paper flashcards is for reviewing when you are NOT near a computer. So if you travel somewhere with little to no internet access, you can still resume your kanji studies.
In addition, laptops are very sensitive machines. Heat and liquid are things that computers are not very good at dealing with. So if you're in very hot(or rainy weather), it's probably safer to resort to paper flashcards.
Also, you can drop paper flashcards 10 feet and nothing will happen, but if the same thing happens to your laptop(for ex. your bratty little cousin knocks your machine over)........well......it would be unfortunate to say the least.
What do you use your paper cards for? - synewave - 2007-05-23
I got 700 or so before giving up on the cards. If my memory serves me correctly I came to this site when I was about 600 or so in. Initially I thought that I would still use paper flashcards. However the time spent making them seemed wasted as I simply stopped using them prefering instead to do my reviews online.
shaydwyrm Wrote:I was wondering if other people here are still using paper cards in addition to this site, and how you are using them.The only time I use them now is as bookmarks.
What do you use your paper cards for? - alantin - 2007-05-23
I found a pdf somewhere with rtk flashcards so just have to print them. I find that when accumulating new characters, it's good to print the cards, review them after the study session, again before you go to bed, and again the next morning. The initial lap of three days before those cards come around again on this site is a bit too long for me so using the paper cards, helps me to remember the characters better in the beginning.
Afterwards I can store them and I thought that I'll go through all of them when I hit the landmark of 1000 kanji.
A half a year ago I studyed the characters up to about frame 400 and now I had to start over but it was pretty easy all the way up to the frame 400. When I got past that point, I found the paper cards useful again.. =/
What do you use your paper cards for? - uberstuber - 2007-05-23
I find them to be a waste of time (to make them etc.)
I'm really disorganized too, so I'm always losing track of them. I stopped around ~120 when I found this site.
What do you use your paper cards for? - Megaqwerty - 2007-05-23
I never made any cards: I was well aware of the flash card .pdf before I started going through the book in earnest. But, then again, I never used that either.
I just write down each character, along with its keyword and number, on some columned paper. I never look at these papers, but it helps to cement the idea that I won't forget the characters before I review them the next day.
So, yeah, I'll go with synewave's suggestion: bookmarks ahoy!
What do you use your paper cards for? - Mighty_Matt - 2007-05-23
I too made some paper cards when I first started out on this Kanji road. I think I got up to about 150, then I broke my arm. That was six weeks before I came out to Japan so I just never picked the book up again for months. I kept thinking I should do some more, but had left all the paper cards in the UK and didn't really want to make them all again.
Eventually I found this site and have been happily paper card free since then.
I learn my characters in batches of 20. Study a kanji, imagine the story/picture and write it down. When I've done 10 I go back and try and write down the keyword for all 10. Then I do another 10: kanji then keyword. Next I cover up the 20 kanji and try and write them again from the keyword. Finally, maybe a few hours later, I try and write the keyword and then kanji once again.
What do you use your paper cards for? - Katsuo - 2007-05-24
I originally wrote all my stories and other notes for RTK1 & RTK3 on traditional flashcards (i.e. pieces of card).
Then I got into computers and realised that a computer database would be much more suitable for indexing, searching, etc.
I don't use the cards any more.