Comments on: Is Your SRS Deck…Constipated?

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[…] a card is hard, boring or annoying, I just delete it. This saves me from endlessly reviewing the same 50 horrible cards. And if I need to know […]

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Deletions | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:00:25 +0000

[…] know we’ve said it a bunch of times, but it bears repeating. When your SRS deck starts to become more of a chore than a game, bad cards […]

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Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:00:58 +0000

[…] your momentum, just like having a horribly lop-sided katamari. Luckily, with the SRS, there’s a simple solution. Keep items that are at or below your level. Lose ones that just exist to flummox […]

By: SteelGolem

SteelGolem — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:25:41 +0000

that is brilliant! thanks for the suggestion, i’ve suspended a bunch of stuff now that i know i can do that. (rtfm, i suppose? のヮの)

By: mike

mike — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:33:41 +0000

I can’t delete anything either, but I can suspend the hell of out stuff. What I love about suspend is:
1) The card goes away and stops bothering me and hinders my progress.
2) I don’t get that awful feeling like I burned a book.

By: AQ

AQ — Thu, 19 May 2011 20:33:50 +0000

Something very odd is going on I,ve tried getting into SURUSU and it won’t let me in i,ve resetted my password maybe 3-5 times now and when I re-put the new password it still says it is incorrect -__-. I recently started using SURUSU maybe 3-4 weeks ago mostly for sentences and everyday I miss adding sentences really brings me down since I know things will start making sense once I keep SRSing those sentences. could the site be going through an update? Is anyone else having this issue as of late (this week mostly)?

By: Tabacha

Tabacha — Tue, 03 May 2011 02:50:17 +0000

Thanks! though Khatz says you need to have learnt 10000 sentences, but he doesn’t say you should have that many in your srs all at once. Not that he doesn’t say the opposite either.

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 02 May 2011 19:19:08 +0000

I think that this post only really applies after your first 5000 sentences.

By: ライトニング

ライトニング — Mon, 02 May 2011 13:49:16 +0000

For some reason, even though i have gone monolingual, i still think of a sentence meaning in english..

Example:
Front
この作品
Back
この作品「さくひん」
作品（作ったもの）

Even though i learned it with a japanese definition, i still manage to think “made thing” when i see it.

Another question, should I bother to learn the readings of definitions?
Such as:

水没（水中に忱んで見えなくなること）
Something to do with In water becomes cannot see, right? I already feel the meaning, but should bother to learn readings of kanji in the definition and should i try to understand everything in it even if i get a feel for it?

By: jumbocrunk

jumbocrunk — Mon, 02 May 2011 12:32:39 +0000

16,000 or so for me. I don’t think that there is a total “too many”, put personally there is a daily limit for reps. My daily reps are 150-200 so its not a problem for me.
If you have a feeling there is too much, there probably is. Delete liberally, leave only ones that you can give yourself a good reason not to delete.
Remember that Katz recommends 10,000 sentences, and I would definitely agree that is a good target to have. If you are like me and don’t have a problem with a big deck (that sounds funny) go nuts.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 02 May 2011 11:55:57 +0000

I got around 3000+ in my deck and I still think it’s not enough. I’ve decided to go monolingual now

I don’t think there is a “too many” more of, is it useful. Just my personal opinion

By: Tabacha

Tabacha — Mon, 02 May 2011 07:52:53 +0000

How many sentences do y’all have in your SRS? Is there such a thing as too many? How many do you have Khatz?

By: Michoso

Michoso — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:29:45 +0000

Running into a small problem…
I’ve done some major cleaning in one of my decks and I find myself often marking cards as failed just so I can them more. I do this for almost every card in this deck because they are so awesome. Gets really tough with 100s of reviews every day though.

I think I have issues 😀

By: Areckx

Areckx — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:46:58 +0000

「な」 adjective

By: ブライアン

ブライアン — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:18:52 +0000

Don’t bother translating it. Just define the new words in the answer section. Use a translation if you have one available (the Yahoo dictionary is a reliable source for sentences w/ translations) but otherwise don’t worry about it. If you’re at least passingly familiar with the grammar, that’s all you’ll need. If it doesn’t make sense to you with all of the words defined… skip it and move on. And it’s a good way to transition to monolingual cards. (Just swap out the English definitions for Japanese.)

By: ライトニング

ライトニング — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 01:55:58 +0000

Because i have not switched to monolingual yet (coming soon!) i do not know what is better for me.

A)Get Sentence, Get readings and meanings of words, make meaning of sentence with my knowledge and or past similar sentences

B)Get sentence, take word(s) i do not know, enter in Jisho.org, get sentences with those words, hope the sentence was error free.

By: Rout

Rout — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:23:59 +0000

Totally.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:07:47 +0000

Khatzu, help! I’ve been doing so much in Japanese I’m starting to have trouble with English words. Both “apprication” and “application” sound equally correct to me. Is this normal?

By: David Thomas

David Thomas — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:23:16 +0000

The ない in 少ない is not a negator, it is a homophone but has no grammatical meaning. It means ‘few’, the negative form is 少なくない.

By: Dr.SMS

Dr.SMS — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:48:24 +0000

Fortunately,, my decks are having sever diarrhea not responding to treatment 🙂 …

nice post,,, Actually the reason behind this frequent bowel motion is simply

your “Critical Frequency (theory 🙂 ) “…

I love U man,,, I love U bro <<< stop getting so effen emotional …

Schade! this is my first comment,, after hardcore reading phase of reading

your super fantastic(x100) post about different aspects of language

and our pathetic human psyche …

I declare it : Proudly AGATTer (German)