just out of curiosity, how do you choose what goes into the whole SRS thingie and for how long are you planning to continue?
Initially I was planning on retiring Anki in the 10K mark… reaching the 6K words a couple of weeks ago I’m wondering if there’s really a difference …
I mean. For reading, it wasn’t until I started that it felt “smooth” afer some time… for watching, I’m really into japanese native content maybe 2-3 months ago, and I’m clearly in the rough edges part of the process still…
Will dropping SRS be like any of the other changes you can do when learning ?? I wonder …
Argh, I wrote so much and I hate the whole text. I’ll keep it if u wanna read it… but the conclusion is: you’re going to Japan, right? Use the language and reduce your intensity on SRS. See if u miss it. If you do, just get back on tract with it.
I do admit that I don’t consume as much native content as you do. My whole goal from the beginning was to focus on writing/speaking, with the latter still lacking (I don’t practice it). I never really intended to consume native content, but to produce stuff in Japanese. That’s why I do EN => JP.
Maaaan… idk… u do JP => JP cards and all that stuff, right? You don’t do single words, I believe? I feel like you could do just fine without SRS… but SRS does help. I think it’s a matter of analysing the time you have available for Japanese and what your goals are.
How much time are you using to prepare study materials vs actually SRSing? I think that’s the key really. Your methods seem awesome, but maybe you don’t need to go through them… u can just make simple cards of words u wish to learn and that’s it. Exposure will take care of you.
I’m doing mainly 2 decks: Core 10k and a 4500 katakana word deck. I intend to go through Core 10k because I see sooooo many words out there that are from the latter parts of the deck. For example, when I’m watching a show, I stop to see what a word means and most of the times (like 30 to 50%, it’s on the Core 10k). So I kinda accepted that if my goal is fluency, I’ll have to know them. The katakana deck… it’s just super useful, mainly EN => JP. We can all read katakana vocab, but being able to use it is a whole new weapon. And it’s very effortless to do those reviews.
Now personally, I intend on building a Post Core 10k vocab deck, because I also see a lot of useful words (that I think are relevant in English/Portuguese) that aren’t part of WK/Core 10k. But by this point, I’ll finish the Core 10k in the next few months. I won’t go as fast either, because I’ll be trying to use the language way more. However, I did establish a limit for the words to add. I don’t add anything that has under 1 million results on google and that I feel are irrelevant. At that point, it starts becoming too much SRS that it’s ridiculous. Those I will leave for calmer days. I’m in no hurry of learning them.
For English, I know by experience that under 20 million results, I start seeing words I know, but rarely see. 10 millions and I don’t know quite a lot of them. 5 million and that’s where natives are messing with me with their vocab
Ohh… you’re right. I’m finding (sometimes with dissapointment) that some words are more commonly expressed in as katakana loanwords… so a quick review should prove a nice way to get aquainted with those (do you know if by any chance those decks are ordered by frecuency as well?)
Funny, I tried for a short time using these frecuency lists for the same purpose … but actually adding any new steps into the routine is something that I’m avoiding… though maybe after the 10K landmark or something like that I’ll make use of these to see if anything new makes the cut or not.
Here’s where I got them from (check bottom of the page)
Then I asked @Baggykiin to use a bot and order them by number of results on Bing (Google requires payment or something). It has some bias towards computer terminology and other stuff, but it’s not that bad at all. I haven’t tried the original deck though, so not sure how better it got.
Then @hinekidori added his magical template to the deck itself. That’s the deck you can find on Kitsun.
You can either use Kitsun (it’s free for now at least) or ask Hine to get it for you.
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