Sunflowersamurai Wrote:Thora Wrote:@ta12121: Just wanted to mention I'd been noticing how much your writing had improved. 
I got the impression you weren't writing them so quickly anymore and were reading over what you'd written. (As you said you would.) The sentence structure in particular is way smoother.
I don't get why sunflower felt compelled to post those bolded quotes. You admitted you were mistaken about the history and said you recall hearing that kanji was used phonetically. Nothing wrong with that. While you may have been incorrect about the history, I understood it was a lead in to your point about homonyms being a potential problem if there's insufficient context.
Because he didn't admit it, he backpedaled as if he merely misspoke instead of stating something as if he knew it for a fact. I only wish I'd have known more about it myself so I could have called him on it directly. He does this a lot, states something very clearly as fact when actually he has no idea what he's talking about. Then later he changes what he said when corrected as if he knew all along and just worded it poorly the first time. Am I really the only one that notices? If that is the case, then I apologize because perhaps it is only me.
It has bothered me for a while, and people seem to listen to TA as if he's one of the more knowledgeable people here like Jarvik7 or Nest0r(rip) to name a few, but he usually just takes other people's words and parrots them off as his own, when he's not just making things up. He's claimed so far: total of over 20,000 vocab cards (on his blog, and if you do the math he spends less than a sec on each card, who can read that fast? Not to mention the time he posted stats showing 100% retention then claiming even though he failed cards it must be because he adds so many - mathematically impossible, unless Anki has a bug perhaps I'd give him that one.) 100% understanding of everything and near native pronunciation but never backed it up despite actually saying he would (the video thread, the audio thread). Once again, I'm not trying to argue here. And I will stop now so that it doesn't turn into a big thing. Maybe I'm way off base, and if so then I'm sorry. I've mostly been a lurker here, perhaps it's better I go back there.
Yea sorry about that one, it was my mistake to not admit it. I didn't really have a strong knowledge of that particular story. I read it a few months back and really only remembered that small part of it. I'd say nestor,Jarvik are much more knowledgeably than me. Jarvik has been learning Japanese for sometime now, way more than I have so far(only 2 years for me so far).
As for the srs stats and all that, initially I was adding so much cards for both my sentence deck and vocabulary deck. It was really starting to take it's toll on me at the time. So early this year I decided to scrap all my decks(only keeping certain categories that I collected over the 1.5 years, because I didn't want to loose those cards that I've found in rare cases). The 100% retention thing wasn't true, at the time I was using the srs a passive source(not failing any cards, since I added huge amounts). Also for the vocabulary deck I had close to 30,000 at the time and around 20,000 sentence cards. But as I now, my decks aren't big a all, since I completely reformatted them and started from scratch.
I've been using these reformatted decks for 5 months now and I like the pace I'm going at. My decks aren't as big as they used to be but they will eventually. I've learned it's not about deck stats or retention, it's more about maintaining that learning environment for the long-term.
I don't mind admitting I've made a few mistakes in what I state but as for people following what I say, I only suggest you take what's useful and expand and add your own into the mix(makes learning more fun).
Edited: 2011-10-05, 9:56 pm
