Out of interest, how many from each stack?

Don't forget, if you did something like 200 kanji in stack 1 (say a mass review), you're going to have bundles of reviews later: In 2-3 days (100, 100); then in 5 to 7 days (33, 67, 67, 33); then in 12 to 16 days (7, 20, 33, 40, 40, 33, 20, 7).

So the cards are being spread out thanks to a nice algorithm Fabrice set up (so you're not getting 200 cards in 3 days, then in 7 days, then in 14 days. etc), but you're still going to get bunching. In addition, you are adding new cards and reviews from older cards are coming up.

Hope this helps.

Last edited by Nukemarine (2008 November 21, 12:20 pm)

hey, thanks for the info, I think my palms started sweating when I saw this huge orange pillar of expired cards I mean, I add about 55 cards a day, usually I do most of them in the morning, and maybe some leftovers (about 10 kanji) later in the day, and then in the evening I review the cards I added that day, along with the expired cards from earlier (and usually its about say 40 expired cards) but, last two days I missed out adding new cards completely, but, never the less, I did review expired cards, just because of the fear from those those huge orange columns...and still I got them...

For Nukemarine: 97 expired in the first (1 review) stack, 53 in the second, and, oh great, just one in the third...and there is 50 in the failed stack.

By the way, my average "score" at reviewing is between 70 and 80%. On good days/easy chapters, Ill get 95-100%, on bad days/tough sections, Ill drop as low as 50-55%, but its between 70% and 80% most of the time



and, on a side note, completely off topic, I accustomed myself to sleeping 5 hours a night, from about 1AM to 6AM every day, and maybe a short nap here and there during the day, but sometimes not, and it was great, I felt good during the day and got plenty of time for doing kanji, and other stuff...but now, the weather got colder, the heating started, and the air in my room got sooo incredibly dry, and it totally messes up my sleep and my head and everything, I got headaches and stuff, and I had to sleep much longer to get my rest, that is why I slacked with adding new kanji last two days. I placed a wet towel on my radiator...hoping to get back on track as of tomorrow.

btw, is there a topic for random rambling like this last paragraph? There isnt much people in the real world who can understand the toil of going through heisig, not even among my fellow nihongo students who still consider the write-each-kanji-a-gazillion-times method as the only one that works

Last edited by Srdjan (2008 November 21, 5:20 pm)

I reckon making your own topic, something like "What everybody want's to talk about, but nobody cares about", or simillar.


I also reckon you don't forget that you are still a human, not a language-learning machine- if you put everything but japanese aside, if you forget that there are still other things around you, you may end up knowing how to say something, but having no idea what to say. I'm saying this because I believe 5 hours a day is really terribly few, and even though it may seem right now that less sleep means more time, the contrary is in fact true (at least from my experience)- I, for example, was never really able to feel like real me when being sleep deprivated ( and I used to be sleep deprivated a lot).
Also, don't forget to go out once in a while

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation
http://www.sleepnet.com/depriv.htm

Lack of sleep is a crime

Edit: comma

Last edited by Garland (2008 November 21, 5:55 pm)

We can discuss the sleeping thing on some other topic, but I assure you, it is not some nazi selftorturing self discipline thing, I got accustomed to it really slowly, and, as in the last two days, when Im not feeling like it, I just simply sleep longer, no problem, and in fact, my concentration during the day got a lot better... but, I am not excluding that there maybe is something wrong with the whole thing, just discovered something called cortisol :s. anyway all of this is coming from someone who used to wake up at 3pm a few years back

Thanks for your concern, will be opening a random topic soon, every forum needs a topic for random thoughts

Last edited by Srdjan (2008 November 21, 7:48 pm)