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By: Don’t Be Snobbish, Do Be Picky: Trash Is Good For You | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 02:59:36 +0000

[…] means that everything in Japanese is good for you — as long as you’re having fun. First Law of Language Acquisition, remember? If you actually like it, not “I have numbed my soul” like it, but actually […]

By: serge

serge — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:37:36 +0000

Question: can you load mnemosyne files into Anki?
My mnemosyne is busted for a while, first it had me rehearse 900 sentences all of a sudden, then it only gives me 5 sentences to practice a day…

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:52:16 +0000

This past week, I tried a new spin on my kanji SRS reps. I’d been doing the same 2000 kanji (Heisig vol 1) for a month and it was starting to get boring (anti-#1). I noticed that I either knew it right away, or I thought that I “should” know it and racked my brain for a whole minute before giving up.

So I decided that was stupid (anti-#1): if I didn’t know, I shouldn’t waste 60 seconds on it. I shouldn’t waste 10 seconds on it! It’ll be back. So, new rule: you have 2 seconds to answer (#3). Even for kanji I knew pretty well, this switched me from “walk through the story”-mode into “quick, what’s the first thing you think when you see this?”-mode.

The time needed for SRS reps, of course, went way down. Surprisingly, the percentage-correct didn’t go down at all (#2). It turns out that, most of the time, even for kanji where I was consciously using the story, it had somehow unconsciously made an association straight from shape to idea.

And since I can get through more kanji in less time, I’m seeing all of them a lot more frequently now (#3). I don’t know that this can work for sentences, or for learning new kanji, but it makes review of old kanji much easier for me.

By: Tyler (Brokenvai)

Tyler (Brokenvai) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:48:21 +0000

I’m gonna write this on my liver.

But no, seriously; I’d say this perfectly boils All Japanese (At) the (Right) Time(s). Which happens to be all the time you have.

By: adshap

adshap — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:45:07 +0000

The 3 Ps of AJATT?

By: HC

HC — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:06:06 +0000

Short. and. Sweet.