1200 expired in Anki- I just got sick of seeing Kanji that I've never seen in real life, and I live in Japan. I've started going through RevTK lite to see if that'll make a diffference, and I'm trying the site this time instead of Anki. It's sad because I spent 3 dilligent months doing RTK and now I've forgotten a lot. I'm not sure the time was worth it when I really wasn't learning Japanese, just character meanings.

Last edited by captal (2009 February 21, 6:33 pm)

Jarvik7 wrote:

1950 expired cards. I win. (I stopped using the site to review)

That's cheating! :p

I recovered from over 500 expired cards, with about a week of earnest work, so don't despair.  Just stop adding cards, do 20 at a sitting a few times a day.  You'll be all green in no time.

I have about 100 reviews that I do a day right now and I just finished RTK yesterday with 1544 in 4 or more reviews. 1000 is like 10 days, but I think I could plow thorugh at least 500 in a day because I know I would need to get it done.

Haha, nice thread

I was there at the beginning of the year (1300+ expired). I didn't have much motivation to review after I finished adding new cards, so I let it slide since October or so.  I just now caught up. It was tough, but I remembered a lot more than I thought I would. The first few review sessions were terrible, but then my brain finally got back in the kanji groove and my retention rates now are about the same as before, if not better (because I am reviewing mostly Box 4+ cards).

P.S.: Copycatken, I love your avatar

Every now and again I get the newsletter from my old university. It is full of stories of graduates who have gone on to achieve great things. Unfortunately in the decade or so since I graduated I didn't really achieve much. But reading those stories made me feel like a loser.

Sometimes when I read this forum, I also feel like a loser because people seem to be mastering japanese at a great speed, and zooming through heisig in a few weeks.

Fortunately this thread came along and I realize that for a lot of people learning japanese is a struggle too with lots of false starts. So thanks for reminding me that not everyone can master japanese with ease !

2053 expired cards.
I'm a bad person

Hey guys, 1225 due.

Does Anki have expired cards?

Honestly I stopped worrying about reviewing....
Once I got all those stories in my head  I just took on formal stuff (like KO2001 or KM) and native stuff (like berserk , deathnote , fuji news network ) ....Reviewing takes care of itself through reading and anki-mining-production
The story and the keyword  is just a shortcut , as heisig acknowleges himself,  remember ? actually even shortcut is an understatement : it's more like those two little wheels on the side of the bycicle  or like the crutch for the tough football player who got  his leg broken ? do you still need the wheels once you know how to ride a bike ? do you steel the crutch once you're healed  ? on the contrary it's crippling you more than anything else. You can't move as fast as you should.

The anti heisig are definetely right when they say that kanji don't mean s.... if there's no connection with vocabulary . Now I just see vocabulary for most of the kanjis  ,  often the story  and  once in a while a keyword . When I stumble on a brand new kanji I just get a look at the story I laid out monthes  before and everything's back in my head in a a couple of minutes. I use the story and the keyword for some weeks and eventually it just become the same as the bulk I learned : I don't even bother to remember an arbitrary keyword of wich I have no practical use for and that just gets in my way. I intend to speak and understand japanese like a japanese .I don't even think it's useless to review , I think it's harmful   . RTK is just a gate for total foreigner : why should we always wait on the threshold even for a single second ?  we're not newcomers anymore.

so there's 2023 expired card in my reviewing the kanji stack and I don't intend to change that....in my opinion the community is far more worth of attention.

Last edited by ghinzdra (2009 April 28, 6:15 am)

harhol wrote:

It has "due"cards, which are basically the same thing.

Well then 2200+ in my on-yomi Heisig deck (because I had a break for over a month now ...) ;__________;

571... I keep trying to claw my way back and my fail rate is high enough that it makes things worse (because some many go back into the fast-cycle early piles).  I have to say it is comforting that I haven't hit 1,000.... long weekend so maybe I can hack the pile down a bit at a time.