ファブリス wrote:

No I'm afraid that's not a priority

Shame.

What about importing sentences?

If you've got time, can you tell us a bit more about the review schedule? Similar/same as the current spacings or something different?

sutebun For this problem I would recommend to re-do your story at that point, that's probably the best time to do it. Tagging cards for that purpose would be a little overdoing I think.

But as for tagging in general I first thought of doing that, and then I figured that the tagging will be redundant because sentences can be grouped in sentence collections ("sentence packs"). For searching sentences containing a word, you can simply search the sentences themselves. For searching sentences based on "theme", such as a "manga", or "travelling", the sentence collections themselves have a title and description which can be searched.

Due to the site's popularity often the 'members reviewing today' section is so large that it pushes the site news off the screen.

Not a biggie, but I reckon the site news is more important than a list of names and numbers, i.e. it took me a day or two to realise that Fabrice had written a bit of news about his Japan Times appearance.

So for me, an improvement would be seeing a number, e.g.  " X member(s) reviewing today" which you could then drill down on to get a list of names if that was important to you.

This way the homepage would have more of a consistent feel to it, would be less cluttered (in my eyes) and one need never worry about not getting the site news hot off the press!

ファブリス wrote:

Do you go from pronunciation to kanji, or do you do just reading review ?

I do reading review and gap fills (but not from reading)

For vocab I always go from English to Japanese (and make sure I write the kanji if I know it for that word).

edit: I find that reviewing from Japanese to English, or the compound to Japanese is not nearly as helpful.

Last edited by nagisa (2007 December 03, 9:51 pm)

It's very exciting to read the further development on the front page.

Yes, it's the answer portion that will be the most varied. In addition to straight Kana for pronunciation, the answer could be:

1. English (or French, or Spanish) translation.
2. Word definitions and explanatory notes in English (or French or Spanish, etc.)
3. Definitions and explanations via Japanese-Japanese.

Plus what ever additional items that get thrown on: Politeness levels, male/female variant, situational, whatever.

For Anki, I have 4 blocks: Sentence, Pronunciation, Notes (definition and explanations), and English Translation. I figure when I advance, I just don't display the English translations (easy to turn off) and can add start adding notes in Japanese.

Still, the thought of a shared system of sentences is very exciting. And a tracking system of your On yomi and Kun yomi uses is something I thought Anki would develop first (seeing as it tracks Kanji use already).

Good times ahead, good times.

Interesting, I've found myself entering and reviewing sentences into the work-in-progress area without using any answers, I only entered a translation for those grammatical constructs I had more difficult to understand. Even when I entered a grammatical explanation, I found it not so helpful during review, because my mind was not in "studying" mode while reviewing.

There is a "notes" area which can serve as the "answer" part from traditional flashcard programs but I'm coming at it from a different perspective. Ultimately I think it's possible to review without entering any notes at all. If you reviewed properly, but you don't remember the meaning of the sentence (vocabulary aside), I'd say you need to look it up again.

I'm saying this because it seems like it would take forever to enter even just a thousand sentences in the way AJATT recommends, while adding so much details.

I think what I'm working on is more akin to the AJATT method than traditional flashcards. The interface is designed to make it easy and fast to enter sentences.

Regarding the pronunciation, it comes directly with the vocabulary attached to the sentence, which itself comes from the dictionary. I like the fact that you have to move your eyes from the vocab to the sentence, there is no furigana in the sentence, neither a full pronunciation under the sentence. I';ve found myself sometimes forgetting the reading in just the split second it takes to move my eyes from the vocab word and it's reading, to the sentence further up the page. I think that's a good indication I need to pay more attention.

Review tests :

Writing : it seems most people consider writing as secondary, and I would reckon that if you read something often enough you can remember the writing with the help of the keywords, since the keywords combos are like mnemonics in themselves. So I currently have random writing reviews without flashcard status, but the selection could be made based on recently added material, or any range of dates for example, or even only those words that appeared in the sentences, etc.