/deletions/ You don't know a language, you live it. You don't learn a language, you get used to it. Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:09:19 +0900 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.13 /deletions/#comment-1000006351 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:54:24 +0000 /?p=5208#comment-1000006351 […] my decks had gotten huge.   He added a huge and prominent delete button on the card.   When you delete a card, you get congratulated for “keeping it clean.”  Thanks to surusu for making deletion […]

]]> /deletions/#comment-1000003980 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:44:40 +0000 /?p=5208#comment-1000003980 […] If you come across an entry that wows you or seems really important, copy it into the days new entries.  Doing this puts it back in a shorter term loop and reinforces that this notebook is exciting.  (BTW, you don’t have to “study” each page, just glance at it.   If there is something you want to target and do some work with, go ahead.)  Cross out pages that you think you may never be interested in again.  Deletion and skipping over.  Happy feelings bring happy learnings.  (See ajatt.com on the importance of deletion.) […]

]]> /deletions/#comment-317644 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:05:03 +0000 /?p=5208#comment-317644 […] It’s important to throw things out.   It’s important to decide what isn’t important any more.  It’s taking up space physically and mentally. ( This goes for your flashcard decks, too. See AJATT on the importance of deletion.) […]

]]> /deletions/#comment-176707 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:08:59 +0000 /?p=5208#comment-176707 I deleted 10 cards alone yesterday hahaha…those cards were making my life a misery, so i just felt they had to go 😀

]]> /deletions/#comment-175719 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:06:19 +0000 /?p=5208#comment-175719 I had the same problem in school. I did both French and German (for five and four years), and hated every minute. Classes were boring, the teacher unpleasant, and I ended up determined that languages “weren’t my thing” and resolved to never study them again. A few years later I got a German girlfriend, and decided to learn german for her. Things went so much better the second time… I learnt what I wanted to learn, I had fun, I did it all on my own terms. And I’ve been rather successful without lessons.

]]> /deletions/#comment-174907 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:46:08 +0000 /?p=5208#comment-174907 I would’ve picked chinese(mandarin or canton?) just to get my eyes accustomed to seeing kanji. 😛

]]> /deletions/#comment-174816 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:37:45 +0000 /?p=5208#comment-174816 Awesome!  You know what, I had kinda dismissed SRS for me personally for language learning for that exact reason: I’d used it for a few months and had 400-some-odd cards and it just got to be too much of a hassle.  You’ve made me think I should maybe give it another shot, this time deleting cards after they’ve been done to death (I never deleted a card before, ever).
Cheers,
Andrew

]]> /deletions/#comment-174780 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:00:00 +0000 /?p=5208#comment-174780 Another way I’ve seen to do this, is set the leech threshold for your SRS very low, and it’ll take care of problem cards itself– and you know which ones you really like, because you want it back when it suspends the card.

]]> /deletions/#comment-174662 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:00:37 +0000 /?p=5208#comment-174662 Very true about the ew feeling, I usually don’t go a day without at least some deletions. The SRS needs to stay fun, or else you will avoid it until it’s days, weeks, months before you dare to touch it again. You will dread it.
Also, when something is fun, you are so much more motivated to do it, and when something is not, well, you won’t! I have an example.
I started AJATTing last year in 8th grade around the start of the year. Next year(right now), according to district reqs. I have to take atleast 3 years of foreign language. First off, none of the choices appealed to me. German, French, Spanish, Chinese (Sorry If you get offended 😛 )
I chose german because my dad wanted me to, and I really didn’t care which one I did.
Basically
It’s terrible. My class is full of airheads, and it’s not fun at all. Today we took a listening test which counts towards our semester exam grade, and we’d have to speak back into a voice recorder. Everybody, including me, understood about 20%, and with that comprehension, how are you supposed to know what to say back?
They speak too fast for people in a beginner German 1 class, and guaranteed, no lies, we didn’t know 75% of the words, because we never learned them.
How fun.
 

]]> /deletions/#comment-174648 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:05:32 +0000 /?p=5208#comment-174648 Awesome post! Yeah, I am deleting more often, and I think deleting has really allowed me to keep the flow of my SRS journey, instead of me periodically sighing at a sentence I hate, which really disrupts my motivation in the SRS process. Thanks!

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