Japanese Progress for June 2010
*Cardcount: 3151
*Repcount: 17140
*Coverage (non-new cards): 99.9%
*Retention: 92.8%
I got more work done this month than last month due to being out of school.
A couple days before this post I decided to change the timing of my reviews to get more in. Instead of the 5 minute decremental timeboxing, I’m doing 10 minutes, then skip down to 5 minutes, 4, 3, then another 3, then I’m finished with sentence reviews for the day. It sounds a little complicated but now I get in 25 minutes of review time in instead of 15 which helps a lot. I tried a straight 10 minute decremental review but it was way too long for me to stay interested. It also takes a while to find good sentences to keep up with adding at least 10 a day. All in all, it’s probably about an hour a day dedicated just to SRS sentence work.
I’ve been watching a lot of videos on niconico douga as well. These are ideal for learning new vocabulary because there are comments scrolling across the video from japanese viewers. These comments are corresponding to the content you are watching so there is a lot of repeat usage so it sticks well into the memory. The comments going across the screen are distracting at first but I think they actually add a lot of entertainment value once you get used to them. You can also use them to work on increasing your reading speed because they are scrolling. I wish you could copy and paste the comments but they are done in flash. If anyone knows of a way to copy and paste from that site, it would be a big help. Especially because I don’t really feel like looking up kanji I don’t know manually.
