Just hit 1000 cards vocab cards the core deck. Took me 27 days, although would have been shorter if I didn't start so slow (like 10 a day for the first week). Now I'm doing about 60 per day. Good recall rate too, my weakest day was 96% (missed 10 out of 250 reviews).

egoplant wrote:

Just hit 1000 cards vocab cards the core deck. Took me 27 days, although would have been shorter if I didn't start so slow (like 10 a day for the first week). Now I'm doing about 60 per day. Good recall rate too, my weakest day was 96% (missed 10 out of 250 reviews).

Could you please elaborate on how you study?

Finished my Core 6k deck yesterday. Took me about 14 months, but I had long periods where I didn't do any new cards (just to let the reviews calm down a bit).

Finally in the tripple digit area. Only 999 Kanji left to go.

egoplant wrote:

frony0 wrote:

Kamikaze style reviews no doubt.

What does that mean?

Implying that you were being more or less suicidal in your voracious adding of new cards

Fail isnt a very objective word but there is a high likelihood of burnout at that rate. Reviews eventually level off at around 12 times your daily add. So if you're adding 50/day that's 600 reviews/day if you keep it up.

Listen, study however you like but this forum is full of threads following ppl doing several hundreds of reviews/day and one day they just disappear. Usually turns out they missed a day or two and, faced with 2,000/3,000+ reviews, couldn't deal any longer.

It's also maybe worth mentioning that this forum is full of ppl who have self-studied Japanese to fluency, and to my knowledge none of them were adding more than 35 cards/day (even that is a little crazy in the long term in my opinion... and the long term result is the only thing that anyone other than oneself actually cares about).

Well it's been about 38 days and I think 30-50 new cards per day is a good pace for me. My highest point was 80+ per day, but that isn't realistic for the long term. So far I still haven't broken 300 reviews per day. I do about ~3/40/50/2 again/hard/good/easy (just a guess since my stats are messed up from cram decks, but the "again" percentage is accurate since I check that every day). For my kanji deck it's pretty much 5/10/70/15. I don't really care about the deck as much, and they are super easy since I know a lot of vocab for each one.

Last edited by egoplant (2012 December 30, 6:28 pm)

Ok I'm going to give an update (I signed up with immersion classes and I'm back for another semester of school with it).

The class itself wasn't hard but it's trying to teach you via only in JPN to JPN with the aid of visuals, audio,pictures, kana/kanji, using gestures to get the point across (but still only in JPN to JPN) and take notes in JPN and reply back only in JPN).

Now it sounds good and all but I noticed that the course itself isn't hard and I understood almost everything (two words slipped by me but he explained it and I got it instantly (hate when stuff is written in kana lol). This course has taught me that I actually know then I give myself credit (the immersion I did years back really helped me out). Now I know what to do and I'm planning and putting the effort to get things done.

Focus on production style activities (thanks to the Internet this isn't bad). Get daily speaking practice online if you can, do language exchange (starting doing this recently again). Focus srs learning on grammar, production style cards, JLPT material (because I know I will have to take it again but I know why I screwed up). Basically I'm giving myself to get to my goals (I have this odd feeling my goals will switch yet again and the cycle continues....). Basically I'm using the srs less and less but I still try to add 5-15 cards per day (again, it's oriented for me to fill those gaps and get going more)

I only went to one class, so there are still lots left but I will see how it goes. I'll give it more chances but so far, this is my first impression.

What do you guys think I should do?

Last edited by ta12121 (2013 January 07, 10:12 pm)

kitakitsune wrote:

After 3 years and one month living in Japan, I finally got stopped and gaijin carded by the police.

Did you get checked at the train station? I got checked while on holiday in Japan a month ago and I don't even look foreign.

Last edited by DevvaR (2013 January 07, 11:47 pm)

1500 words!

psychopatate wrote:

My first comment in Forum c:

I reached frame 1000 on New Year's Eve, and took a WEEK to reach the 1100th
I found out the Forum is such a wonderful place and couldn't stop myself from spending half of my Japanese-study time reading every random post I come across ^^
Honestly, I've hanged out in Forum this week more than I have done in the past 3 months (please don't tell me I'm taking too much time to finish RTK1, I already know :'( )

I've set a deadline, by March 1st, I will have finished it, and I'll post that here

*Bon courage* to everyone !

Welcome! And good luck!

2500 sentences in my Anki deck. With a retention rate of about 90% I think I'm doing quite well. Can't really add too much during term time; the last I want to do is wake up to 300 due cards. :p

And good luck to all young padawans fighting through RtK. (Protip: add a Japanese keyword if you know a Japanese word using that kanji. 秘 and 密 might be a pain in the ass due to the similar keywords, but you can add ひ密 and 秘みつ to show which kanji Heisig wants by "secret" or "secrecy".)

Last edited by Stian (2013 January 09, 3:32 pm)