Hi everyone. I feel sometimes I am just grinding reviews, getting them wrong time after time until they eventually stick. I was wondering what other people do to learn? Would anyone recommend writing the example sentences down or anything?
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I’ve had the same issues sometimes. There’s a few things I recommend doing.
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Do all your reviews as close to the SRS intervals as you can. They’re set how they are because that’s what’s been found to be the most effective.
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Spend more time on your lessons. Instead of quickly pushing through, spend a little bit of time saying the reading and meaning to yourself and checking if you’re right. If you read through it a few times, instead of just 1, it will help them stick.
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Space out your lessons. Trying to learn a lot of things at the same time will reduce your accuracy. Do lessons at a rate that is comfortable and you’ll have less to remember. Your accuracy should be higher when you’re doing a smaller number of lessons at once.
Even though WK is a curated system, you still need to figure out what works best for you. Trying a few different things is a good idea so you can really hone in on an effective strategy.
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One thing I’ve tried that’s helpful is using BishBashBosh to study/cram the items I’ve recently gotten wrong after a review session.
http://jptools.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/bishbashbosh.html
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On my first run through of a lesson, I spend maybe a minute or two with the reading and meaning to try and get it to stick. If it’s kanji I’ve already learned that are being used in a compound word that makes sense or something easy to remember then it’s more like 10-15 seconds.
The main thing is to make sure you’re able to make the first review of those items in 4 hours. For this reason, I’ll only do lessons in the morning or early afternoon.
On the first review, I find that there are items that I can remember easily and others that I just blank on. For the latter, I spend a bit more time on the piece I missed during the review, i.e. the reading, the meaning, the mnemonic, etc. Sometimes I’ll adjust the mnemonic to something that works better for me.
After that, I just let the SRS do its thing and stop worrying about it. As the reviews come back around again, there are usually less and less items that I need to reinforce.
Rinse and repeat until the next level.
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Thanks for the tips, they have really helped
G’day everyone!
I am now on level 5. For the first 4 levels I did exactly what @pompomstu did, relying on my short-term memory; eventually I got it right, but this took a long time and became semi-frustrating, not to mention taking a huge amount of time to get through a level.
I decided I couldn’t continue this way as I am trying to learn as much as possible by July 2021. I made a plan to physically write out the kanji, their meaning and reading then could test myself. I also click on the kanji charts and scroll down so I can only see the character and attempt to regurgitate the meaning and reading. It is amazing how effective the small bit of extra study is. If I struggle with either the meaning or the reading I click on the character and re-read and re-familiarise myself with the mnemonics. I have increased accuracy to virtually 100% and thus am flying through level 5.
I strongly recommend this approach, it’s 5 minutes more work for maximum advantage.
Cheers,
Deibido
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