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Super important question about RTK???

Armando — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:15:02 +0000

Should I use only kanji.koohii.com for reviewing? Right now I’m using both anki and that site, but I feel like I’m reviewing TOO much… and I’m the kinda person that puts ‘hard’ in anki all the time so that doesn’t help… Also I’m learning an average of 100 kanji per day.

(To review on anki and koohii I write the kanji, then check if it matches)

If it helps, I feel like kanji are getting super easy to learn…

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マーク・ウェーバー — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:26:08 +0000

How can you learn 100 kanji a day??? 0.0 I limit mine to 5 or I can’t remember them xD

Since of what you are saying with anki, then I think you should set it up in memrise. Memrise does not have option for weather things are hard or not, but will reward depending on how close you are to the right answer.

Then it will make your “seeds”(words) ready to harvest. If you manage to harvest the words, then they are adopted to your garden which is your vocab. Your garden then needs watering everyone once in a while, how often is determinded on streaks and on % of times corret.

Very cool website :)

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Armando — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:33:18 +0000

I’m learning the kanji by meaning, no pronunciation. That’s why I can learn 100 per day.

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マーク・ウェーバー — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:34:52 +0000

Ahh, well that would explain :D
Thought you were a super human for a second :P

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MisterM2402 [Michael] — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:08:42 +0000

If you think you are reviewing too much, cut back on the kanji/day. I find reviewing the cards backwards and forwards really helps remember them, so stick with it… if that’s what you’re doing, that is. The objective is to remember them well, not to race through as fast as you can cause it’s boring. If you keep clicking “hard”, you’re obviously doing too many a day for them to stick properly. Kanji overload.

I once tried to do 100 RTK frames per day for a couple of days but I had to reduce it greatly cause the reviews were just too much XD I was really slow when I started, but by the end, once I had learned lots of little helpful methods and tricks for learning them, I could maintain about 50-60 per day. I slowed down to a crawl when I did the supplement a few months later, but that’s because it wasn’t as important.

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Armando — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:29:35 +0000

I’m only doing it keyword->kanji… what do you recommend for the other way around? Is there a way to reverse the anki deck?

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MisterM2402 [Michael] — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:55:46 +0000

Ummm, well I do keyword>kanji on Koohii and reverse on Anki. It’s good because… say you see the kanji「鳥」in a word somewhere, you’re only used to seeing the keyword FIRST so it (for me anyway) would be harder to recognise straightaway. While eventually you shouldn’t need to remember RTK keywords to learn vocab (some time in the distant future hehe), it’s pretty helpful sometimes :). So anyway, you’d go Settings>Deck Properties…>Select the model you want to change>Edit>Card Layout>Flip

Oh, and depending on how you have the card layout in the first place, you might have to juggle things around a bit, so that it looks/works better. For the standard RTK shared deck though, you shouldn’t need to do much more to it after it’s been flipped.

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Armando — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:14:57 +0000

Yup that’s the one I’m using, and I think that will save me oh so much time! (10-30 seconds from keyword to kanji w/writing vs 5-10 seconds kanji to keyword)