(2015-12-15, 1:42 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: Thanks a lot for the suggestions guys! I think I'll finish RTK first before giving it a try. This way, I won't go crazy with too many reviews and have no issues with unknown kanji. I do have a couple of questions though.
(1) There's a ton of vocabulary in there that's a little too easy at this point. It'll take a while to add truly new words. Maybe 500-1000 words? I mean, that is A LOT... I don't know how many I should add at a time. Should I immediately suspend the stuff that I feel I already know well enough? I don't know if adding them all at once is a good idea, but I'm tempted to do that if I decide not to suspend anything at all.
(2) Is it a good idea to only do recognition? I'm not sure if listening alone is that useful and it would certainly make the time I spend on Anki far longer. The same thing applies to kanjify cards - I get that recalling kanji is different from just being able to read, but wouldn't production be overkill at this point?
(3) How do you manage the amount of reviews you get? I've never really changed anything related to intervals, so I don't know if I should do that for Core. While Core reviews probably won't be nearly as boring as RTK reviews, I'm afraid things will get out of hand if I just start adding words like a lunatic.
Why do I say that ? Here's what I really want...
Because even though, 6k words is a lot (let alone 10k), I'll probably want to get them out of the way as soon as possible if I go down this path.
I've been studying Japanese for 3 months now. I don't know how good my Japanese will be by the time I finish Tobira, which I want to de done with by the end of February (3-4 days per unit)... but my main goal is to watch anime somewhat comfortably and read visual novels as soon as possible. More precisely, in 6 months - 1 year of study, i.e. 3 to 9 months from on.
I don't think that's a feat most people would consider reasonable, but that's what I really want. I have no patience for staying at beginner level, although I believe graded reading to be an invaluable means to internalize the language.
Any advice to help me achieve this goal is more than welcome.
How about doing core 2k and then just extracting unknown vocab from Japanese subtitle files of anime you do like? That way you get the general common words and the anime specific words. Sub2srs is perfect for auto generating anki cards with anime/drama
http://forum.koohii.com/thread-2512.html
As for your deck setup: I have the word and sentence up front. Others just have single vocab type cards. It's a preference really. Here is a post I made on another thread which shows how I set up my vocab cards. You can see other ppl's card setup also here
http://forum.koohii.com/thread-13063-pos...#pid226124
td; lr: I have the vocab word I want to learn first isolated on top (and bigger font size) in bold. Then the example sentence with the same vocab bold. Like Matthias said, with this format (or anything similar to the format I use) you have to option to look at both vocab and the sentence or just ignore the sentence altogether seeing how it is big and isolated at the top
Edited: 2015-12-15, 10:01 pm