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 University so there will be a lot to do. Hopefully I’ll have time to keep up a decent pace on my Japanese studies.
I decided to post my stats from my Spaced Repetition System this time. As I posted on twitter a while back, it’s cool to start seeing cards I added during my first month of Japanese study and how incredibly simple they were. One of these cards is shown at an interval of 4.4 years which means I’ll probably never see it again.
I’ve done 14500 sentence reps so far. I wonder what the average number of reps if for someone who has completed the 10,000 sentence project. If your SRS shows stats like this,(even if you haven’t completed it) feel free to post them in the comments as I find them quite interesting. If I divide the 14500 reps I’ve done by the number of 2666 cards have I have, it comes out roughly to 5.44 reps per card. So if I do 5.44 reps per 10,000 cards, I should end with roughly 54,400 reps. Yikes… however, it’ll probably be even more than that to know each card well enough to not have to review it for a couple years.
Here is some info from mine:
Deck created: 10.3 months ago
Card Maturity
Mature cards: 904 (91.1%)
Young cards: 88 (8.9%)
Unseen cards: 0 (0.0%)
Average interval: 161.5 days
Card State
Active cards: 992 (100.0%)
Correct Answers
Mature cards: 91.5% (2861 of 3127)
Young cards: 86.1% (13802 of 16037)
First-seen cards: 59.0% (1620 of 2745)
I guess it still counts my reps I did with the 1200 cards I deleted. Right now I’m adding about a rate of 8-10 new sentences per day as I work through a JLPT2級 book.
Good progress how do you feel your Japanese ability is right now? What do you think your weakness is?
My Japanese ability is so-so. I think this feeling will last until I store a few thousand more words into my long-term memory. It’s a pain when reading manga or something and having to skip long swaths of information because you just don’t know enough words in the sentences to get what’s going on. This is more of a pain for stuff where the characters go on long monologues explaining their “genius” or whatever.
My biggest weakness is probably listening. I’ve been focusing on a lot on written because of that nature of SRS work. The kanji kind of give away the meaning of the word and sometimes you don’t get the sound of the word stuck in your head that way.