Linval Wrote:That's a lot, how long have you been keeping this up ? How long does it take you per day ?
I'm pretty hardcore about it. When I first started with Anki it was an hour a day. It's slowly increased and I've been putting in over six hours a day everyday for the past four months. Actually it's been eight hours a day for the past two months.
I run three decks. I have my Core2k/6k deck which is about 450 reviews plus whatever new cards I add (usually 100 a day but sometimes more). I have custom stepping at 1/10/30, so I see every new card 3 times. I'm only on Step 2 of Core6k doing standard order.
I finished RTK1 a month ago and still have 150 reviews a day, but that is steadily decreasing. However, once I get under 100 I will start on kanji->keyword reviews. That's another 2200 new cards.
Finally I have a Japanese->English sentence deck which I am in the process of finishing. I started to study Japanese with this deck by putting in crap from Rosetta Stone. Now I use it to reinforce difficult vocab from Core and for any extraneous words/phrases I want to lean. I recently started adding closed delete cards as well. This is usually 100-150 reviews a day. I sporadically add new cards to this whenever I fail a mature card or feel I need extra input. It currently has just over 4000 sentences, 90% of which are mature.
My typical weekday:
08:30 - Alarm goes off, make coffee, read BBC, check Facebook, email, etc
09:00 - Start studying Core2k/6k reviews
10:00 - Start new Core2k/6k cards
12:00 - Ten minute break for lunch, feed the cats, etc
12:10 - Continue adding new Core cards
13:30 - Shower, get ready for work
14:30 - Arrive work, use one hour "prep time" to do RTK1 reviews, by hand.
I have 10-15 minutes between every class which I use to do my sentence deck reviews. Because nearly everything in the deck is just reinforcement for other decks it goes pretty quickly.
20:30 - Arrive home, finish any extra cards, girlfriend finishes dinner
21:30 - Free time (!!)
24:00 - Bed-time
Core takes me a while when adding cards because I write out new words by hand. I've found it really helps cement new vocab and I can recall how to write it the majority of the time.
Weekends I don't add as many new cards and try to be totally finished by 2pm so the girlfriend doesn't bitch (too much).
I've gone from being able to order a beer and nothing else to conversational in 8 months. I've never taken JLPT but the practice stuff for JLPT3 is too easy and JLPT2 is still pretty hard.
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Does it not respect daylight savings time?
