nickoakden wrote:

.....is this as genius as it looks?

what do u mean? did u try it? did it work for ya?

Yeah, I'm using it now. I really like it. I try and spend a whole bunch of time on Japanese, but I'm not Mr. AJATT, so I still like reading my RSS feeds, and a couple of forums. Keeping this on all the time makes me do at least a little bit of revision, with very little effort involved.

I feel productive.

Wow! I love it.

Wasn't the creator of this Firefox add-on on this forum? There must be another topic somewhere where people discussed the idea, I've gotta go though. Maybe someone can find it.

smujohnson wrote:

To all the rest that think it sucks, then just don't use it.  I think this was a really original idea.

I think it sucks, I don't use it, and it's not original. There was a book (I think it was called read japanese now or something) that did the exact same thing in the 80s.

Yay for negativity

At best you're spoiling your SRS intervals. At worst you're learning to use kanji in ways that are incorrect, like "If you 着't mind 扇 service and humor..."

Last edited by Jarvik7 (2009 February 03, 6:24 pm)

Not at bad idea.  I think the original concept was from the book called "The Kanji Handbook" with the term being kanji hybrids or something like that.

Anyways, the only problem I see is that it's an eternal crutch.  If you start reviewing them and forget something, the English will always be there to bail you out, meaning you're not remembering them from your own recall which you should be doing.  And because the English is always there, you're probably translating them in your mind constantly which is another crutch.  And another thing, I seem to get the feeling that since the English is present, you'll probably be focusing more on that rather than the kanji being used with it when you start getting into some of the more complex kanji. 

The reason why the original way we do it is better is because we only get to look at english if we get it wrong, not have it aid us during the testing process before we check and see if we were correct.  That's just my opinion.

Last edited by KREVA (2009 February 03, 8:37 pm)

DavidZ wrote:

Jarvik7 wrote:

At best you're spoiling your SRS intervals.

Beginner question: Is spoiling your SRS intervals really a danger to avoid?

I'm new to SRS's -- have been reviewing on this site for only one month now.

Is it really counterproductive to review more than the SRS prompts you? So I should avoid looking at my old kanji outside of the SRS sequence, and rather focus all my study time on adding new kanji/stories?

No, it's just inefficient to to extra review.

Thats a really smart extension. Thanks for pointing it out. I can't see me using it 24/7 but certainly a half hour here and there can't harm things. It's great that it does the Heisig word list as well. It may be a little unconventional but  its a really smart way to re-inforce all those kanji we have been learning.