Archive | April, 2010

20 April 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Japanese Progress for April 2010

• Cardcount: 2666 • Repcount: 14500 • Interval: o Mean: 5.8 months o SD: 7.8 months o CV: 133.9% o Median: 3 months o Max: 4.4 years • Coverage (non-new cards): 99.5% • Retention: 94% Well, another month of Japanese study has gone by. I’m closing in on the end of my junior year of [...]

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10 April 2010 ~ 1 Comment

How I learn Japanese vocabulary quickly

When learning foreign languages, we often look for parts of the new word which remind us of a word in our native language. This often comes in the form of cognates with relatively closely related languages. For instance, the English, “magnificent” goes together obviously with the Spanish, “magnifico.”Learning words like this is ridiculously easy. But [...]

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