My ankidroid core2k/6k deck is absolutely useless at syncing. Anyone have that problem? I guess its just too big..

No, just you. Try asking for help on the AnkiDroid forums if you still have issues.

KanjiMood Wrote:My ankidroid core2k/6k deck is absolutely useless at syncing. Anyone have that problem? I guess its just too big..

I sometimes get out of sync on Ankidroid because it doesn't have the option to sync by default (or I've not found it). You have to always remember to open the deck, then sync it. Forget that once, and you'll be out of sync. Easily done.

It seems I have to press sync twice, the first time it displays a message and just disappears after a few seconds, the second time it freezes for quite a long time but this is when it actually syncs. Perhaps that will help someone using Ankidroid 1

KanjiMood Wrote:It seems I have to press sync twice, the first time it displays a message and just disappears after a few seconds, the second time it freezes for quite a long time but this is when it actually syncs. Perhaps that will help someone using Ankidroid 1

I had a problem with AnkiDroid that it keeps reporting my RTK deck as corrupted, trying to fix it wouldn't work and results in the deck moved to corrupted decks, syncing removes the corruption and I could studying for a while before it becoming corrupted. What surprised me is that after reinstalling Ankidroid (on another ROM) it worked just fine without giving any corruptions, try reinstalling it.

Yeah it definitely has a few quirks, seems OK for now though. I did take the deck out via USB and do a full check on it just in case.. just seems laggy when syncing up! Oh and if it asks to close or wait for the app to finish, make sure you wait

Hey Nuke, I'm doing every two steps of grammar and vocabulary together, so Step 1+2 Tae Kim's then Step1+2 core, and then an hour of subs2srs, what do you think? Please note that I'm of the working adult category with other responsibilities who can spare only 2 hours/day for Japanese.

Does anyone know how to import the sounds folder into Anki 2? I can't figure it out.

You should be able to just move the files into collection.media.

undead_saif Wrote:Hey Nuke, I'm doing every two steps of grammar and vocabulary together, so Step 1+2 Tae Kim's then Step1+2 core, and then an hour of subs2srs, what do you think? Please note that I'm of the working adult category with other responsibilities who can spare only 2 hours/day for Japanese.

I'm not nuke, but...

SRSing should ideally be only a small fraction of the time you spend with Japanese. Anki is a program to help you remember stuff, not your teacher, or your main source of Japanese immersion.

I got it to work, but now it's trying to sync almost 300mb worth of files and I have a really slow upload. How do I disable syncing? (Note: I cannot open the program without it automatically trying to sync)

You can leave syncing on but disable media syncing.

Tools -> Preferences -> Network ->
☐ Synchronize audio and images too
☑ Automatically sync on profile open/close

Stian Wrote:

undead_saif Wrote:Hey Nuke, I'm doing every two steps of grammar and vocabulary together, so Step 1+2 Tae Kim's then Step1+2 core, and then an hour of subs2srs, what do you think? Please note that I'm of the working adult category with other responsibilities who can spare only 2 hours/day for Japanese.

I'm not nuke, but...

SRSing should ideally be only a small fraction of the time you spend with Japanese. Anki is a program to help you remember stuff, not your teacher, or your main source of Japanese immersion.

Thanks for replying.

Hmm, regarding RTK and TK, SRS is a small fraction, but I study C2k/6k in Anki. I don't have much time, as I mentioned, so I use most of it on structured materials. Nevertheless I've surrounded myself with some Japanese materials here and there (for example: Japanese people on Facebook and Lang-8) so I get to see Japanese out of learning materials a little.

Any suggestions are welcomed.

I finished core 6k a few days ago. I figured I wasn't allowed to celebrate until I cleared my review backlog. I had to ramp up the new card rate during the last two weeks because I wanted to finish before I got my time off work. It was terrible and I'm glad it's over. I only managed to pull it off because I had nothing to do at work.

Anyway...

Hooray! It's finally over! I think I will take a month off adding new words and catch up on my reading (i.e., video games), which I am now discovering I can do a lot better than two months ago. So you could say this core 6k thing is working. Also, It's amazing how much of a difference the last 2k has made.

netsplitter Wrote:Also, It's amazing how much of a difference the last 2k has made.

Congrats!!
That's pretty interesting, I was thinking about almost full transition to easy native material after the 2k~3k mark. It made me rethink my plan. Can you explain a bit more?

I don't think there is much to explain. When you know 4k words, another 2k is 50% of your existing vocabulary. That's a huge increase! I've simply found myself reading entire blog posts or short stories without reaching for a dictionary, which has motivated me to read much more, and finding out it's not as hard as it used to be.

It's just that I've also noticed that a lot of the words I'm coming across are ones I've only just recently learned. You should still start reading at the 2k~3k mark though, but expect to use rikaichan a lot still. I don't know if you meant also ditching core 6k, but I can't recommend doing that if you are making steady progress with it.

Thanks!

ya I did a lot of sentences and subs2srs in the beginning (which was undoubtedly a great foundation) but after about 3-4k cards there, moving to core6k really was that huge difference. You get such immediate gratification when reading articles/manga etc., that it made me do core10k after. I've got about 1,500 words left in that and feel pretty confident reading whatever I come across outside novels...that's still my final frontier.

eeh, that sounds pretty good! Makes me want to go through it faster.
Other than vocabulary, I focus on understanding the sentences, which will soon stop being of benefit because of the limited used grammar, and I try to get the sentences with the sound before reading it, which I hope will help me develop a better listening ability, especially hearing those almost hidden sounds.
Thank you too!

@undead_saif

Aaeru's method personally advocates for learning from reading raw material immediately after finishing RTK (with fluency in the same time frame), so it's not that you can't do a full transition to native material after Core 2K. You can, and should if that's what you want.

I believe the others in this thread are just referring to a level finesse that more Core gave them. You know the feeling of basically being able to comprehend everything you read.

I don't think I'll hold up until I finish Core6K but I'm gathering motivation to push through as many as possible in the shortest amount of time!

I was hoping you could provide a beginner with some sort of advice I completed an old RTK Lite deck from a previous thread but I'm wondering now if that was a bad idea.

Should I just start un-suspending cards and keep learning the Kanji I don't know or, as I encounter them in the wild, un-suspend those cards?

Thanks for the help...

^ Try:
http://forum.koohii.com/search.php

There are more answers to specific and general questions floating around here than you can poke a sharp, pointy, wooden length at.

supermancampus Wrote:Should I just start un-suspending cards and keep learning the Kanji I don't know or, as I encounter them in the wild, un-suspend those cards?

Unsuspend them when you encounter them. The truth is, you will likely not encounter most of them while you're still a beginner, and for now you have more important things to learn. You might even find that by the time you start needing those words, you won't even need to use the RTK method to learn them.

netsplitter Wrote:I have 1247 left. It feels like it's taking forever. I can't wait to be down to 999.

Hey netsplitter, where are you now? I have not logged into the forums for 2 months. As of a few days ago, I reached 5000 and have less than 1000 left. I couldn't do 100 new cards a day anymore, the reviews take enough time already. I have also given up my 2200 Heisig Kanji deck for good. I wanted to make all 2200 Kanji mature but my hands are full with Core 6000.

Anki gives me an average of 200-350 reviews a day and if the reviews don't burn me out, I also do about 20-50 new cards. I hate missing a day. Missing a day means my reviews shoot up to 600+ the next day. On one day, I did about 1500+ reviews in 3 hours to make up for lost reviews.

I now subscribe to the idea that it is better to stagger your vocab memorization (learn and memorize a bunch of vocab decently, allowing it to settle in your mind, before moving onto the next bunch) than to do 1000 new cards a day, which is too much new information all at once. Basically, what Anki is intended to be used for is the right way.

Here are my stats, wanna show me yours? I am doing Japanese vocabulary to English and both meanings and reading must be correct, otherwise fail. Is 40,000 reviews too much?

Deck age: 117 days Number of cards: 5999 Number of facts: 5999

Card age Mature cards: 3034 (50.6 %) Young cards: 1970 (32.8 %) Unseen cards: 995 (16.6 %) Average interval: 50.2 days

Correct Answers Mature cards: 83.4 % % (2076 of 2488) Young cards: 65.0 % (26063 of 40122) Seen the first time: 29.5 % (1474 of 5004)

Forecast Tomorrow due: 500 cards Tomorrow new: 100 cards Estimated time tomorrow: 141 min. New cards finished in: 10 days

Average seen last week Reviews: 464.4 cards/day New cards: 45.3 cards/day

Average seen last month Reviews: 493.1 cards/day New cards: 43.1 cards/day

Average seen last year Reviews: 364.2 cards/day New cards: 42.8 cards/day

Average seen ever Reviews: 407.0 cards/day New cards: 42.8 cards/day