chochajin wrote:

Today after OVER 5 hours of studying only KO2001 in Anki I finally finished book 2 of KO2001 as well.
I started with book 1 end of May / beginning of June, so it took my about 1 month to finish both books.
I couldn't finish them earlier as I a have full-time job and thus not really much time to study (at least not as much as I'd like to have).

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Over 5 hours of studying ONLY KO2001 in Anki. That's a new record and I'm tired now *g*
As I have to work tomorrow again and the whole week, I figured it's better to try and finish it today

Also I know:

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According to this site.

Finishing KO2001 really helped increasing my vocab and reading speed!
Next I wanna unsuspend the production cards and also finally start studying grammar.
Although I didn't do production until now, my output ability also increased thanks to KO2001 (^-^)v

Wow, both KO2001 volumes in 1 month is impressive.  Otsukare sama deshita.

I got 100% on my RtK reviews (30 of them this morning) for the first time ever. I'm very proud of myself

In a related note, I just broke 1000 kanji in KO2001! Yay!

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Last edited by kanjiwarrior (2011 February 10, 6:12 pm)

KO2001. Kanji 1110. Took me 11 days to go through the 555 kanji in the second book, and I finished tonight.

One week at the new job and my expired pile is up to 400+.

Today's completed milestone: opening up Anki and doing at least one review

Last edited by mafried (2009 July 18, 12:04 pm)

avparker wrote:

blackmacros wrote:

KO2001. Kanji 1110. Took me 11 days to go through the 555 kanji in the second book, and I finished tonight.

You, sir, are amazing.

I think you mentioned you have (japanese) tv shows playing while doing your reviews and studying. Don't you get distracted?
I'm trying it today and my pace of reviews just slows to a crawl.

Thanks

Yeah I have my library of Japanese Tv shows playing on random in the background but at a low volume. I can still hear the words, but when I do my reviews the KO2001 audio drowns it out (which is what I intended). That way I can do audio reviews and have shows playing concurrently. I don't have too much trouble getting distracted by it personally, but I could understand if you did.

Last edited by blackmacros (2009 July 18, 3:05 am)

avparker wrote:

blackmacros wrote:

Yeah I have my library of Japanese Tv shows playing on random in the background but at a low volume. I can still hear the words, but when I do my reviews the KO2001 audio drowns it out (which is what I intended). That way I can do audio reviews and have shows playing concurrently. I don't have too much trouble getting distracted by it personally, but I could understand if you did.

Ah, my KO2001 deck doesn't have audio, and I had the tv show up at nearly normal level.

I guess the good thing is I can actually understand about 80-90% of the show even when I'm not paying attention :-)

About the audio - do you have the audio play when you show the answer?
i.e. like this?
Question: Kanji sentence
Answer: Kana sentence + Audio + English sentence

Yep thats exactly how I set it up, except if there were new words (other than the target compound) I would also put those word(s) and a short definition in the answer.

Burritolingus wrote:

Now to figure out what to play through next...

Obviously Dragon Quest IX.

My recent milestone achievement is having finally reached the point where I can understand enough Japanese to enjoy reading/listening to native Japanese media. I had intended to make my way a list of 8000 or so JLPT vocab before moving on to native media, but after almost two months straight of learning around 100 words a day, yesterday I finally snapped and started delving into real Japanese and was pleased to find that I actually enjoyed it. I started playing ルドラの秘宝, an old Squaresoft SNES RPG, and I can fully understand about 80 percent of it, can pick up about 15 percent from context, and the remaining five percent is too small to really bother me. I've also started watching TBS news, and although it's usually too fast for me to understand at first, I know most of the words, so I can usually understand it after a few repeat listens.

I'm glad I spent all that time going through Kanji Odyssey and mining sentences from Yahoo!, as I feel like it enabled me to learn a lot in a short period of time, but at the same time I'm pretty happy to finally be beyond that stuff. Learning Japanese from non-learning materials sure is a lot more fun.

Hashiriya wrote:

how did you do 100 words a day? anki? also, did you use a japanese-japanese dictionary or j-e? i imagine if i was moving at 100 words a day, i sure would forget a lot...

I can't speak for how he did it, but I think you would be surprised with exactly how much you can accomplish if you have a goal, a method (nothing complicated just "I will reach my goal by doing x"), time and motivation.

Hashiriya wrote:

I'm not doubting your goals or study time, i'm just simply saying learning that many new words in a day would be hard to memorize..... of course i study with smart.fm but i am just interested in yalls (yes i'm from Georgia) learning style so i could compare it to my own... maybe you wrote about it somewhere already... you could just point me to the thread...

I didn't mean to imply you were . I was just saying that people can accomplish a heck of a lot more than they generally think they can.

As for my learning style I might make a post in a few days or so once I've had a chance to relax, and enjoy the fruits of my labour (Chrono Trigger and Haruhi Suzumiya- in Japanese of course ). Or you could check out the "Re-examining your SRS workflow" thread. I wrote a bit in there about how I study, and I believe Elphalpo mentioned a bit about how he was working through his JLPT list.

I didn't really use any special methods, I just inputted everything into Anki and then spent many hours a day of my abundant free time reviewing old cards and adding new ones. I didn't seem to actually forget that much. My failure rate didn't seem much higher than when I was only learning around 20 words a day.

I started out using the Yahoo! Japan J-E dictionary simply because it was a lot faster than J-J, but as I got better I started using J-J in cases where I found the English definitions lacking.