Definitely! This is the exact reason you learn words within context.

I think this is an example of a problem that occurs specifically because you don't have much info in your SRS yet.  I wouldn't worry about, since it's bound to happen, and it'll work itself out as your deck grows.  I'd just count it as a pass.

I really don't get the point of asking this question. It's your own decision. Is it necessary to have random people from the internet tell you what to do?

Codexus wrote:

I really don't get the point of asking this question. It's your own decision. Is it necessary to have random people from the internet tell you what to do?

All of using this particular flashcard program at all, and more specifically filling them with sentences, was due to asking questions about how best to learn Japanese - most frequently directed toward random people from the internet. In some cases directly, but googling for methods and opinions is asking for the advise of others as well.

I wouldn't give myself a 4 or even a 3, but I wouldn't fail the card.
I actually think I've never 0'd a sentence card. Kanji, although, once in a while.

playadom wrote:

wccrawford wrote:

Creating my own methods from scratch seems wasteful at best and disastrous at the worst.

If Heisig had this philosophy, none of us would be here today.

If Heisig had used this philosophy with no idea what he was doing, we still wouldn't be here today.

i agreed (^_^) aww the people here are so nice great community we've got here.

Codexus wrote:

canji wrote:

I don't get the point of your post. What is it to you?

I get annoyed when people ask for advice on tiny insignificant points of detail of their study method, especially when they phrase it in a way that implies that there is one correct way of doing it.

Now sharing study methods and asking general advice is fine. But can't people make little judgment calls like this by themselves?

Usually, I'm all for posting questions, but I agree with Codexus on this one - for some reason, there are recently more posts about arbitrary little details of learning technique...  ...but we can always ignore these (we should).

Codexus wrote:

canji wrote:

I don't get the point of your post. What is it to you?

I get annoyed when people ask for advice on tiny insignificant points of detail of their study method, especially when they phrase it in a way that implies that there is one correct way of doing it.

Now sharing study methods and asking general advice is fine. But can't people make little judgment calls like this by themselves?

It is all about perception. Something that's an arbitrary and insignificant little detail to you often might be a life changing revelation to someone less educated in the matter.

So who defines arbitrary and insignificant?
For a millionaire 400? would be an insignificant amount of money but for many students here that's a months income! Is it then okay for someone to say to both that from now on they have to get by with 400? less a month?
Who decides what's insignificant?

Therefore IMO there are no stupid questions and isn't peer support the major reason for the existence of this community?

PS. I have modified this post six times now and every time I got an error message of "unable to fetch search index words" and it lost my changes.. (-.-)
In the end I deleted it and posted it again..
Anyone else get this lately?

wccrawford wrote:

playadom wrote:

wccrawford wrote:

Creating my own methods from scratch seems wasteful at best and disastrous at the worst.

If Heisig had this philosophy, none of us would be here today.

If Heisig had used this philosophy with no idea what he was doing, we still wouldn't be here today.

Actually Heisig wasn't the first to use the technique he did. My high school Jap teacher in the early 1970s occasionally used it with odd kanji.

Heisig's contribution was to apply the technique to thousands kanji in a systematic way.