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Over the long weekend (I work for a college and got Thursday and Friday off for Spring Break) I decided to use this site for help with stories and the forum, but to review in Anki. I was thinking ahead to May when I'll be going to two conventions and won't be able to rely on Internet access. Figured switching when I'd just hit the 400s would be better than switching later.
The plugin for grabbing progress from the site's csv download didn't seem to be working so I decided to simply review all off them in short timeboxes over the weekend. On thing that impressed me is that I don't think the fail count ever strayed above 7 at the absolute worst and normally stayed between 0 and 3.
What I'm really considering a milestone? It finally occurred to me today to take the timeboxing principles that made reviewing that whole stack painless, and applied it to picking up new cards today. I would do one box (5 minutes or 20 cards max, left it on the default settings), then looked at the next few frames and toggled them to active status in Anki. All said and done I added 20 kanji today and consciously noticed adding them less than when I would add 10 by going through them all in one go. I ended the day at 445 and I'm halfway tempted to see if I can hit the 500 kanji milestone by the end of tomorrow.
So milestone: Starting to timebox on both reviews and studying.
Should have been at 500 already, but instead of reviewing new kanji while working through the existing ones, I spent time tweaking how Anki displayed the cards. Added the apparently reasonably standard "click here for hint" bit to display your story (if entered) on difficult cards, and set the answer side to display in the kanji in both a Gothic font, the stroke order font, and a handwriting font.
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I decided to add KO2001 to my "study plan" - slowly, but I think it'll help, along with playing the kanji games I have on my DS.
It's a milestone to me, anyways...now, to study for statistics...
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Not really an achievement but I'm way more relaxed about my Japanese than ever before. I add/delete any cards I don't like(none useful). I'm adding less now. 30 new cards for my vocab per day now.20 new production cards per day and 10 new sentences per day. I'm way more into immersing now and reading via jp subs(seriously makes it fun to read)
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actually I decided to do even less now. 10 production,10 new sentences and 30 new vocab. So only 50 new a day
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Got a mini update regarding my production deck(active recall of kanji via kana readings). I expect within another few months I'll have reached past 600 kanji in terms of active-recall. And 4500+ vocab by that time in my deck. But so far I'm really writing smoother/better now.
Plus the feeling of writing so much words/sentences out feels good as I can do it from memory.Eventually writing kanji in general won't be hard or boring but having that active writing skill is solid to have
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I have a similar slowing-down experience.
It's now 2 weeks since I started KO2001. Basically I got tired of the boring Core2000 sentences with their repetitive simplistic grammar, so now I add a new 10 new KO sentences a day, whilst adding any new vocab I encounter to my vocab deck. Once I've got my 10, I continue adding new sentences until the number of new vocab cards reaches 20 (I'm sure sentences will greatly go up once cards become more i+1)
20 new words a day, 10 sentences, 150+ reviews, all takes less than 1 hour. So easy, I love it, gives me way more time to study mandarin / write games / prepare for this move to Taiwan / watching japanese dramas.
Relaxed but steady is definitely the way for me!
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Am 20 kanji through KO2001. Adding the sentences plus the vocab (if not already covered in the sentences). I'm hoping to do 20 kanji a day for the rest of KO2001. Well. Cept on test days...
So far I am ridiculously thankful for going through the 800 words of Kore that I did. The sentences may not be i+1, but they're closer. I don't expect that to continue too long, though. So far I'm enjoying KO2001.
Still adding a (small) number of native vocab from Yomichan each day plus grammar sentences. Trying to figure out how to increase both grammar sentences plus KO2001.
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400 hours of watching movies and dramas in Korean. Yay I guess!
I'm pretty sure that I've watched every Disney animated feature at least twice.
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Passed 100,000 reviews on my vocab deck |:
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Finally! I got my restudy pile to 0, it feels so good!
I accumulated 600+ cards after a long break from RTK!
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Hit 15K vocab!!!
Awesome, awesome feeling as it was actually supposed to be this years intermediate goal... but it's turned into the short term goal. 17k will be the mid year goal... and I'm going for 20k at least by the end of the year... anything beyond that is a bonus.
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Just got my first kanji into box 8 ("Seven+ Reviews")! A small achievement, I know, but still a bit of a milestone.
The kanji in question is 寄 (frame 192, "draw near"). Funny thing though, I cannot recall ever encountering this character in an actual text, but I still occasionally fail things like 遠 and 真 even though I see them all the time.
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Finished my first manga volume last week! I read Vol.1 of Pandora Hearts in less time than I thought it would. Granted I spent probably most of that time looking at the dictionary rather than reading, and I probably mined eleventybillion words from the 1st volume alone, but it got easier as I went along. The most important part is that I was having FUN. At times I couldn't put the book down. That's the first time that's happened because usually I get tired out after a short while when my brain shuts down. I'm already into the 2nd chapter of the 2nd volume and the only thing I really have to complain about is the really really tiny furigana. But I'm thankful it's there because I'm not even halfway done with RTK and I don't want to wait to start enjoying reading.
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I'm starting to really believe I can reach a level of complete fluency in all skills for japanese. I estimate this will happen at the 4 year mark for me. It's strange, I was so obessed on being fluent in the beginning, but now I'm more worried about just studying smarter then working harder. The phase has changed from studying jp hardcore, to studying it in a smarter/less stressful way. Guess this is what happens when you just keep studying another langauge to the point your like "What, I'm still sudying this?"
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Last post in this thread I said I was pushing for 500. Well, now I'm pushing to reach or pass 800 by the end of the week (up to 766 currently, so that's only 17 a day I'd need to reach 800, which should be quite doable).
And a Milestone. I did my first review of a mature card in Anki today. "世", I *almost* answered it wrong, but the moment I started to write "昆" I knew it was wrong and realized I should be writing (at least the keywords generation/descendants are related, so it's not one of those boggling moments of confusion). So at least for the moment I have a 100% pass rate for mature cards.
Keeping this thread open in a tab as I am quite enjoying seeing other people's milestones.
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I guess this is only half a milestone? But I'm halfways through Japanese the Manga Way and have a plan what to do after that. I, er...hope to be finished...someday? With finals coming up and everything, and then summer classes, not quite sure when that'll be.
That is an achievement -- it's hard to find things for Korean, isn't it? I sympathize with you!
