Tues, Apr 14, 12:21 AM. It's technically April 14, but it still counts as April 13. Lately I've been feeling really good, which means I need less sleep. I've started going to the gym every day again, which is very difficult since I'm really busy lately. Speaking of which, today was busy as heck. And yet, in the few free hours I had, I was still able to make some major surgical changes to GlowingFaceMan, giving it a brand new static front page. Easier said than done for a blogspot blog. Ok, enough of this tangent, it's time to do Mnemosyne reviews!
12:28 AM: Opened "japtemp.mem", a small file mainly for words I pick up from my Japanese girlfriend. 2 cards scheduled. Passed them in about 2 seconds.
12:31 AM: Opened "kanjiaid.mem", another tiny deck. This one is for vocab words and sentences using kanji which I'm stuck on. Today there are 8 scheduled, 2 failed. Finished them under 2 minutes.
12:33 AM: Opened "sam.mem", my main Japanese card deck. It's so huge it takes a dozen seconds just to load. Today there are 87 cards scheduled and 241 failed/unmemorized. I do 100 cards a day (meaning 100 total ratings regardless how many are pass/fail). So that means I'll do the 87 scheduled and then attempt 13 failed cards. I'll record any cards I fail...
12:42 AM: Failed the kanji 僚 (Heisig keyword "colleague", number 1707). I've always been having trouble with how the "pup tent" radical is slightly different in this kanji.
12:43 AM: Failed the sentence 「そちらで値をつけてくれ」, misread 値 as ね instead of ち.
12:46 AM: Missed the character 遺 (Heisig "bequeath", #1772). This is one of the ones I added last December, still fairly new.
12:48 AM: Missed 稼 ("earnings", #893). No excuse here, I should've gotten this one, time to review the story...
Ok, it looks like I've gotten into the "run" of hard cards. Somehow, I've come to notice that when you do 100 reviews a day, there's always a "run" of hard items that hit you somewhere near the end of the daily scheduled review. I think this has to do with how Mnemosyne orders the scheduled cards by ascending order in age. Thus at first you get cards you just recently passed, which are very easy. And at the end, you have old cards which are totally easy by now. The toughies are somewhere in the middle.
Failed in this "run": 姓 ("surname"), 「警察は密輸された銃を差し押さえた」(misread 密輸), 盛 ("boom"). It ended when I got down to about 15 scheduled items left. All in all, not too bad losses for a day. No more unremembered cards of the remaining scheduled.
12:57 AM: began doing the 13 failed cards for the main deck for today. Misses: 湾, 墳, 斜, 快, and 1 sentence. Passes: 券, 漏, 春, 裕, 甚, 旧 (a very deceptively hard kanji), 修, and 1 sentence.
1:04 AM: Finished the daily review for "sam.mem". It's now at 0 scheduled, 240 failed. In other words, the failpile went down a grand total of 1 net card. A little discouraging, but tomorrow only 75 cards will be scheduled, so there'll be a lot more breathing room.
1:06 AM: Now the main attraction. Opened "latekanji.mem", the separate deck for the final seven Heisig chapters. Here's how it looks: scheduled, 4. (From the prior couple chapters I added before starting this blog series) Unmemorized, 25 (the ones I added from Lesson 49). With this deck, I'll keep going until it reaches 0 scheduled, 0 unmemorized/failures. Gotta keep up momentum for the final sprint!
Stopped when my girlfriend came in with Framboise at 1:16AM. After 22 ratings (including passes and fails), the deck is now at 0 scheduled, 17 unmemorized or failed.
Tues, April 14, 2:55 PM. Opened japtemp. 9 scheduled, 0 failed. Passed all, failed none.
2:56 PM. Opened kanjiaid. 12 scheduled, 0 failed. Passed all, failed none.
2:57 PM. Opened flagship deck. 75 scheduled, 240 failed. 13 of the scheduled failed. At the end, 242 failed cards. Net change: +2 failed cards.
3:18 PM. Opened latekanji. 12 scheduled, 17 nonmemorized/failed. Failed 1 of the 12 scheduled. All in all, it took about 32 ratings before it was at 0/0. Finished at 3:31 PM.
Weds, April 15, 8:19 PM. Opened japtemp. 2 scheduled, 0 failed. Passed 'em both.
8:20 PM: Opened kanjiaid. 10 scheduled, 0 failed. Passed 'em all.
8:21 PM: Opened sam.mem. 82 scheduled, 242 failed. 8:25: Dinner break. 10:35: After dinner, my girlfriend and I chatted for a long time, and then I went and did some benchpress. Now I'm back and I'm resuming the reviews. And, then I had to take another twenty minute break so my girlfriend could cook some eggs for me. Sometimes I wonder whether she's secretly employed by some kind of food corporation. Finally finished the scheduled reviews at 10:56, with failed pile up to 252 cards, meaning I failed 10. Now I'll do 18 ratings on that pile to finish up the daily 100. Failed 5, and when the dust settled the failed pile was down to 239. Finished at 11:06.
11:06 PM: Opened latekanji. 26 scheduled, 0 failed. Took 33 clicks to get down to 0/0. By sheer coincidence, 33 is also the # of cards scheduled for tomorrow...
Apr 16, 2009. 1:55 PM: I'm currently in the math tutoring room, which is deserted, so I decided to study some kanji/japanese while sitting around filling in time. Opened japtemp. 4 scheduled, 0 failed. Passed 'em all.
1:57 PM: Opened kanjiaid. 11 scheduled, 0 failed. Right off the bat, I got a sentence card and read it and was so sure I had it right I pressed "space", "5" in succession, and as the answer side appeared for a brief instant before the card was fived, I saw I totally misread one of the kanji. Lol, is my face egged. Besides that, the review went smooth.
1:59 PM: Opened sam.mem. 58 scheduled, 239 failed. 2:08: Finished the review, failed pile is now at 245, meaning six cards were failed. 2:17 PM: Finished the rest of the daily 100 reviews here. Now there are 0 scheduled, 228 unmemorized.
2:18 PM: Opened latekanji. 33 scheduled, 0 failed. 2:24: After going through all those scheduled cards, only 2 were failed (論 and 響)! I'll stop here to go to a logic meeting and when I finish that I'll reopen the deck. (It'd be silly to continue right now with just two cards on the stack both of which I recently reviewed.)
4:31 PM: My laptop somehow ran out of batteries even while it closed in my backpack. Why the heck didn't it go to sleep mode? It's constantly going into sleep mode when I don't want it to. Anyway, you can probably guess what happened: I reopened latekanji and found 33 scheduled. That's right, the last review was not saved. Ick. Good thing I almost aced it... I think since only 2/33 were failed in the "real" review, I'll just go through and pass all of these. Sure, those two cards will be passed when they shouldn't, but oh well, them's the breaks.
4:34 PM: Opened "Remembering The Kanji" and started going through lesson 50. In Heisig's words, this one is simply "an assortment of leftover primitives that were not introduced earlier for want of a proper category or because we had not enough elements to give sufficient examples of their use." It goes from kani #1853 to #1879 (27 in all), plus two new un-numbered primitives, "drag" and "clothes hanger".
4:44 PM: Finished a preliminary reading through the section and now I'm adding the cards and contemplating the stories (with generous help from Reviewing The Kanji). 5:03: Finished adding the 27 new kanji. The current state of the latekanji deck is now 0 scheduled, 27 unmemorized.
Lesson 49
Lesson 51
Lesson 52
Lesson 53
Lesson 54
Lesson 55
Lesson 56 (Not Online Yet!)
12:28 AM: Opened "japtemp.mem", a small file mainly for words I pick up from my Japanese girlfriend. 2 cards scheduled. Passed them in about 2 seconds.
12:31 AM: Opened "kanjiaid.mem", another tiny deck. This one is for vocab words and sentences using kanji which I'm stuck on. Today there are 8 scheduled, 2 failed. Finished them under 2 minutes.
12:33 AM: Opened "sam.mem", my main Japanese card deck. It's so huge it takes a dozen seconds just to load. Today there are 87 cards scheduled and 241 failed/unmemorized. I do 100 cards a day (meaning 100 total ratings regardless how many are pass/fail). So that means I'll do the 87 scheduled and then attempt 13 failed cards. I'll record any cards I fail...
12:42 AM: Failed the kanji 僚 (Heisig keyword "colleague", number 1707). I've always been having trouble with how the "pup tent" radical is slightly different in this kanji.
12:43 AM: Failed the sentence 「そちらで値をつけてくれ」, misread 値 as ね instead of ち.
12:46 AM: Missed the character 遺 (Heisig "bequeath", #1772). This is one of the ones I added last December, still fairly new.
12:48 AM: Missed 稼 ("earnings", #893). No excuse here, I should've gotten this one, time to review the story...
Ok, it looks like I've gotten into the "run" of hard cards. Somehow, I've come to notice that when you do 100 reviews a day, there's always a "run" of hard items that hit you somewhere near the end of the daily scheduled review. I think this has to do with how Mnemosyne orders the scheduled cards by ascending order in age. Thus at first you get cards you just recently passed, which are very easy. And at the end, you have old cards which are totally easy by now. The toughies are somewhere in the middle.
Failed in this "run": 姓 ("surname"), 「警察は密輸された銃を差し押さえた」(misread 密輸), 盛 ("boom"). It ended when I got down to about 15 scheduled items left. All in all, not too bad losses for a day. No more unremembered cards of the remaining scheduled.
12:57 AM: began doing the 13 failed cards for the main deck for today. Misses: 湾, 墳, 斜, 快, and 1 sentence. Passes: 券, 漏, 春, 裕, 甚, 旧 (a very deceptively hard kanji), 修, and 1 sentence.
1:04 AM: Finished the daily review for "sam.mem". It's now at 0 scheduled, 240 failed. In other words, the failpile went down a grand total of 1 net card. A little discouraging, but tomorrow only 75 cards will be scheduled, so there'll be a lot more breathing room.
1:06 AM: Now the main attraction. Opened "latekanji.mem", the separate deck for the final seven Heisig chapters. Here's how it looks: scheduled, 4. (From the prior couple chapters I added before starting this blog series) Unmemorized, 25 (the ones I added from Lesson 49). With this deck, I'll keep going until it reaches 0 scheduled, 0 unmemorized/failures. Gotta keep up momentum for the final sprint!
Stopped when my girlfriend came in with Framboise at 1:16AM. After 22 ratings (including passes and fails), the deck is now at 0 scheduled, 17 unmemorized or failed.
Tues, April 14, 2:55 PM. Opened japtemp. 9 scheduled, 0 failed. Passed all, failed none.
2:56 PM. Opened kanjiaid. 12 scheduled, 0 failed. Passed all, failed none.
2:57 PM. Opened flagship deck. 75 scheduled, 240 failed. 13 of the scheduled failed. At the end, 242 failed cards. Net change: +2 failed cards.
3:18 PM. Opened latekanji. 12 scheduled, 17 nonmemorized/failed. Failed 1 of the 12 scheduled. All in all, it took about 32 ratings before it was at 0/0. Finished at 3:31 PM.
Weds, April 15, 8:19 PM. Opened japtemp. 2 scheduled, 0 failed. Passed 'em both.
8:20 PM: Opened kanjiaid. 10 scheduled, 0 failed. Passed 'em all.
8:21 PM: Opened sam.mem. 82 scheduled, 242 failed. 8:25: Dinner break. 10:35: After dinner, my girlfriend and I chatted for a long time, and then I went and did some benchpress. Now I'm back and I'm resuming the reviews. And, then I had to take another twenty minute break so my girlfriend could cook some eggs for me. Sometimes I wonder whether she's secretly employed by some kind of food corporation. Finally finished the scheduled reviews at 10:56, with failed pile up to 252 cards, meaning I failed 10. Now I'll do 18 ratings on that pile to finish up the daily 100. Failed 5, and when the dust settled the failed pile was down to 239. Finished at 11:06.
11:06 PM: Opened latekanji. 26 scheduled, 0 failed. Took 33 clicks to get down to 0/0. By sheer coincidence, 33 is also the # of cards scheduled for tomorrow...
Apr 16, 2009. 1:55 PM: I'm currently in the math tutoring room, which is deserted, so I decided to study some kanji/japanese while sitting around filling in time. Opened japtemp. 4 scheduled, 0 failed. Passed 'em all.
1:57 PM: Opened kanjiaid. 11 scheduled, 0 failed. Right off the bat, I got a sentence card and read it and was so sure I had it right I pressed "space", "5" in succession, and as the answer side appeared for a brief instant before the card was fived, I saw I totally misread one of the kanji. Lol, is my face egged. Besides that, the review went smooth.
1:59 PM: Opened sam.mem. 58 scheduled, 239 failed. 2:08: Finished the review, failed pile is now at 245, meaning six cards were failed. 2:17 PM: Finished the rest of the daily 100 reviews here. Now there are 0 scheduled, 228 unmemorized.
2:18 PM: Opened latekanji. 33 scheduled, 0 failed. 2:24: After going through all those scheduled cards, only 2 were failed (論 and 響)! I'll stop here to go to a logic meeting and when I finish that I'll reopen the deck. (It'd be silly to continue right now with just two cards on the stack both of which I recently reviewed.)
4:31 PM: My laptop somehow ran out of batteries even while it closed in my backpack. Why the heck didn't it go to sleep mode? It's constantly going into sleep mode when I don't want it to. Anyway, you can probably guess what happened: I reopened latekanji and found 33 scheduled. That's right, the last review was not saved. Ick. Good thing I almost aced it... I think since only 2/33 were failed in the "real" review, I'll just go through and pass all of these. Sure, those two cards will be passed when they shouldn't, but oh well, them's the breaks.
4:34 PM: Opened "Remembering The Kanji" and started going through lesson 50. In Heisig's words, this one is simply "an assortment of leftover primitives that were not introduced earlier for want of a proper category or because we had not enough elements to give sufficient examples of their use." It goes from kani #1853 to #1879 (27 in all), plus two new un-numbered primitives, "drag" and "clothes hanger".
4:44 PM: Finished a preliminary reading through the section and now I'm adding the cards and contemplating the stories (with generous help from Reviewing The Kanji). 5:03: Finished adding the 27 new kanji. The current state of the latekanji deck is now 0 scheduled, 27 unmemorized.
Lesson 49
Lesson 51
Lesson 52
Lesson 53
Lesson 54
Lesson 55
Lesson 56 (Not Online Yet!)
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