Hi All,
I am an avid fan of the Core6K series. I decided to go all-kanji prompt, and then an answer with furigana, english translation, and the fancy professional audio (core6k imported to an anki deck). At first I was doing 10 sentences per day, then I did 15 sentences per day, then I upped it to 20 sentences per day. At around sentence ~650 I upped it to 30 sentences per day.
I just finished the first 1000 sentences a few days ago and tonight I did 40 sentences because I had so few failed cards after my usual 30 new. As mentioned above, I decided to up my sentences per day when my failed cards were around 5 to 10 per new-card session.
IT IS GETTING REALLY EASY. I'm guessing readings of words I don't know with pretty good accuracy, and this is definitely getting better on the order of days. The trend I am noticing is that for words I don't guess the reading of I typically have a close idea, or expectation that isn't always very far off, and I rarely fail those new sentences twice in a row (though there are still a few hard ones each session).
So, now my questions:
1) I am (naively?) surprised that things are going so well. Has anyone else done this approach and found that around sentence 1000 that things take a turn for the easier, that the readings become less of an issue and it's really more just about new words, their readings not being the hard part?
2) Some of the Core sentences are a bit dull, but I still really like the nice quality audio and the practice reading, but most importantly to me it is learning with zero overhead time investment in preparing the material. I leeched all the core series, anki automatically feeds me new material each day, and that's that. When I was mining grammar dictionaries and native material I was overwhelmed by the large amounts of time "wasted" organizing it all. What are some of your favorite super-efficient study methods in this regard?
3) Is there any other organized/accessible resource that has audio as well done and thorough as the Core series?
4) I remember the Rosetta Stone series being really slow and dull at the beginning, but that it also had some really advanced sentences and stuff for the later lessons (but that was when I looked at it a long time ago). Has anyone ever gone back and tried skipping to those later lessons? I only ask because I know it has some sort of professional audio...
Thanks for any comments!
k
I am an avid fan of the Core6K series. I decided to go all-kanji prompt, and then an answer with furigana, english translation, and the fancy professional audio (core6k imported to an anki deck). At first I was doing 10 sentences per day, then I did 15 sentences per day, then I upped it to 20 sentences per day. At around sentence ~650 I upped it to 30 sentences per day.
I just finished the first 1000 sentences a few days ago and tonight I did 40 sentences because I had so few failed cards after my usual 30 new. As mentioned above, I decided to up my sentences per day when my failed cards were around 5 to 10 per new-card session.
IT IS GETTING REALLY EASY. I'm guessing readings of words I don't know with pretty good accuracy, and this is definitely getting better on the order of days. The trend I am noticing is that for words I don't guess the reading of I typically have a close idea, or expectation that isn't always very far off, and I rarely fail those new sentences twice in a row (though there are still a few hard ones each session).
So, now my questions:
1) I am (naively?) surprised that things are going so well. Has anyone else done this approach and found that around sentence 1000 that things take a turn for the easier, that the readings become less of an issue and it's really more just about new words, their readings not being the hard part?
2) Some of the Core sentences are a bit dull, but I still really like the nice quality audio and the practice reading, but most importantly to me it is learning with zero overhead time investment in preparing the material. I leeched all the core series, anki automatically feeds me new material each day, and that's that. When I was mining grammar dictionaries and native material I was overwhelmed by the large amounts of time "wasted" organizing it all. What are some of your favorite super-efficient study methods in this regard?
3) Is there any other organized/accessible resource that has audio as well done and thorough as the Core series?
4) I remember the Rosetta Stone series being really slow and dull at the beginning, but that it also had some really advanced sentences and stuff for the later lessons (but that was when I looked at it a long time ago). Has anyone ever gone back and tried skipping to those later lessons? I only ask because I know it has some sort of professional audio...
Thanks for any comments!
k
