Serge Wrote:igordesu Wrote:Hahaha, I had to laugh at that.
But, on a more serious note, Serge, how would you evaluate your progress since you stopped SRSing?
See, just as I told you - laughs! :-) Anyway, progress is hard to evaluate for me at present. I have practically given up all "study" activities and declared myself "fluent". In particular, I've thrown out all second-hand light novels that I had in a pile to be read for vocabulary acquisition. I am now only reading books that I'm really interested in (mostly, non-fiction but also some Ryu Murakami and Mishima).
Vocabulary acquisition is now a by-product of all that reading: I notice that I just remember about 30% of new words without any need for reinforcement, about 60% - through repeated exposure (that's why books are better than short newspaper articles) and I make a note of about 10% of words that stand out for some reason and then review them for the coming few days (similarly to what Mafried mentioned before). I get rid of those notes once I feel I remember the words and I don't care if I forget them at any later stage - they will be further reinforced one day when I see them in a different context.
I also wrote somewhere that I now only look up words that come up more than once or that are somehow significant to the story or those that arouse my curiousity. Everything else gets ignored. At my level and with complex texts that I'm reading, that still gives me 95-98% comprehension that I'm perfectly happy with.
But once again, I think the most important point is that now I'm reading just for information and enjoyment and no longer see books as fields for vocabulary mining.
Nice. Thank you so much for your advice. I appreciate it very much
