Sudden loss of ability

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Reply #1 - 2010 April 28, 8:43 am
Ydde2009 Member
From: UK Registered: 2009-04-08 Posts: 21

Last week I could read almost every single kanji in anki no problem, was getting 90%+ with reviews. In the past three days however, it's like 60% and even words I learned months ago seem to be slipping through the net. It's like my brain is refusing to accept more vocabulary or something.

Does anyone else experience this?

Note: I'm studying Japanese 4-5 hours a day at the moment and and working along through KO2001 while importing sentences from WWWJDIC. I do feel I am going rather fast but that doesn't seem to be a problem.

Reply #2 - 2010 April 28, 9:18 am
Tobberoth Member
From: Sweden Registered: 2008-08-25 Posts: 3364

Sentences on WWWJDIC are from Tanaka Corpus. Beware of massive unnatural Japanese.

Reply #3 - 2010 April 28, 9:40 am
mullr Member
Registered: 2005-10-30 Posts: 67

Sleep, diet, attitude.  Those are what do it for me.  SRS exposes in quantifiable ways things we may not notice otherwise.  If I didn't sleep well one night, sometimes I just skip reviews the next day because I know it's not worth it; i'll just fail a bunch and get angry.  Are there factors like that for you?  Maybe it's something you can control.

Also: forgetting is part of learning.  If keep at it, you'll get it eventually.

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