Mecha
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Registered: 2012-08-14
Posts: 11
A little over a month ago I finished RTK1 by doing 100 per day. Sadly, a day or two afterwards I went to the beach and forgot about studying. I started procrastinating on my Japanese during and after the trip.
Now my question is, how should I handle going back? I think after reading some threads here I feel motivated to continue, but I don't know what to do differently. Should I do something like practice some sentences while reviewing? I don't feel too confident on recognizing most of the kanji right now, so is that even an option?
EratiK
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From: Paris
Registered: 2010-07-15
Posts: 874
Yeah, like Splatted said, start the J-learning with vocab and books, but I'll just add take an hour or two every week to work on your kanji backlog (you used a SRS, right?): if you keep at it every week, the reviews will space, and eventually, you'll have reviewed all with almost no pain.
Last edited by EratiK (2012 August 14, 7:30 pm)
Mecha
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Registered: 2012-08-14
Posts: 11
EratiK wrote:
Yeah, like Splatted said, start the J-learning with vocab and books, but I'll just add take an hour or two every week to work on your kanji backlog (you used a SRS, right?): if you keep at it every week, the reviews will space, and eventually, you'll have reviewed all with almost no pain.
I have been using an SRS, currently I have 2017 reviews due. I think I'm going to focus on gradually depleting the reviews while doing sentences, vocab, etc.
Another question that came to mind is if I should create a separate deck later on that consists of the later kanji that I haven't covered much? Those will most likely be the hardest, and with 2017 reviews due I think it will take time to get to all of them.
EratiK
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From: Paris
Registered: 2010-07-15
Posts: 874
Mecha wrote:
Another question that came to mind is if I should create a separate deck later on that consists of the later kanji that I haven't covered much? Those will most likely be the hardest, and with 2017 reviews due I think it will take time to get to all of them.
No need. 2017 may seem like a lot, but if you've been serious, half of them will only take a few seconds to review (like sun, moon... and stuff you had an emotional connection to). Creating another deck would just mess your long term retention patterns. What you can do is add words containing them in your vocab deck, but it really depends how quickly you catch up with your backlog, you could just wait to encounter these words.
Last edited by EratiK (2012 August 15, 3:08 am)
frony0
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From: London United Kingdom
Registered: 2011-12-10
Posts: 257
Mecha wrote:
EratiK wrote:
Yeah, like Splatted said, start the J-learning with vocab and books, but I'll just add take an hour or two every week to work on your kanji backlog (you used a SRS, right?): if you keep at it every week, the reviews will space, and eventually, you'll have reviewed all with almost no pain.
I have been using an SRS, currently I have 2017 reviews due. I think I'm going to focus on gradually depleting the reviews while doing sentences, vocab, etc.
Another question that came to mind is if I should create a separate deck later on that consists of the later kanji that I haven't covered much? Those will most likely be the hardest, and with 2017 reviews due I think it will take time to get to all of them.
If you use Anki 2, I think your plan there is worthy of a "filtered deck". Worth investigating.
But yes, the best thing to do is just do them. If you can, sort the reviews by largest interval, that way the easiest ones come first and you can burn through the front 80% like absolutely nothing.
Last edited by frony0 (2012 August 15, 4:19 am)
