Saturday, April 19. 10:03pm. Opened japtemp. 4 items are scheduled, 0 failed. Passed them all.
10:04 PM. Opened latekanji. 6 things due, 11 failed or unmemorized. Wittled this down to 0 scheduled and 5 failed/unmemorized.
10:06 PM. Opened the main sam.mem file. Today I'm looking at 60 scheduled cards and 214 not memorized. 10:17 PM: Finished the scheduled part of the review, and began the other 40 to make 100. The failed pile has grown to 218, meaning I only missed four cards, a failure rate below 10%, not bad at all. 10:28PM: Finished the 100 for this deck's reviewing for today. The failpile is now down to 204! Sub-two-hundred is in sight! :)
Noticed something interesting this review. I had previously passed 紫 ("purple") a couple times, writing 比 instead of 此 as the top radical and not catching it. Only today did I catch the mistake. This shows how you've gotta be really careful that what you wrote matches the answer. These two radicals are tricky since they resemble each other so closely!! It also shows the danger of relying on visual memory instead of imaginative memory...
10:33 PM: Opened latekanji. 12 scheduled, 26 failed or unmemorized. By 10:36, I finished the scheduled ones, passing 9 of them (75% pass rate). After 33 more ratings, I got the failpile down to 16-- I was surprised at how many of those really hard kanji from lesson 51 I was able to dispatch on the very first try after only imagining the imagery for them one time yesterday!
Monday, April 20. 9:34 PM. Lately I haven't posted a lot on the blog. It's because I'm working on programming stuff in C for some future web project I plan to do. Basically I'm currently writing my own custom HTTP server. Anyway, I opened japtemp and found 8 cards scheduled. Passed them all. At 9:37 I opened kanjiaid and found 12 scheduled, 5 failed. Quickly wittled that down to 0 due and 1 failed.
9:39 PM. Opened main flashcard pack, sam.mem. 80 scheduled, 204 failed. When I finished going through those (at 9:57), the failed pile was up to 216 cards. 12 fails out of 80 makes a 15% fail rate, ouch. I have 20 reviews left to get the daily 100, I'll need at least 13 passes, or a 65% pass rate, to make take a net bite out of the evil failpile. Let's see... (Lots of suspensful drumrolls and tense music) Nope, at 10:04 I finished with 205 cards on the "needs more study" pile. A net growth of 1.
10:05: Opened latekanji.mem. 13 scheduled, 16 failed or unmemorized. YES! 100% pass rate of the 13 cards which were up for review!! That included some kanji from the "hardest chapter", lesson 51. Damn do I feel good :) I'm the king of kanji... Now let's see how many reviews it takes to reduce this failed/unmemorized pile to something manageable.
10:18: After clearing the 13 scheduled late kanji, I got the failstack down to just 1 card, and it took 21 total reviews, meaning only 5 repeat reviews were needed.
As for the one I missed, it's 沈 ("sink"). This is interesting. For the story, I went with mspertus's advice (from Reviewing The Kanji) and used the story of Archimedes and the Golden Crown. It seems like a good possible story: the character has "water" and "crown" in it, and what could burn itself more painfully in your mind's retina than Archimedes running naked through the city screaming "Eureka"? It's always really nice when you can incorporate a famous ancient story; probably the best example is 判 ("judgment"), for which the story of King Solomon and the two fighting mothers is perfect. Unfortunately, for "sink", the famous myth just doesn't work too well. First, it totally ignores the other primitive in the character, leaving it up to rote or visual memory to fill in that gap, and even worse, the image just isn't readily evoked by the keyword, to me. I'll try a different story, the one about the yakuza dumping a waitress's body in the sea, weighed down by a golden crown (h/t jreaves and thegeezer3). It isn't as "neat and tidy" as old 'Medes, but maybe it'll stick in memory better, and it hits all the primitives.
10:31: Opened Heisig and began entering the cards for lesson 52. JH opens the lesson saying: "The final grouping of kanji revolves about elements related to animals. It is a rather large group, and will take us all of four lessons to complete." So I guess most of the remaining kanji I'll be learning will be animal-related. In saying "final grouping", Heisig isn't factoring in Lesson 56, which is a small collection of "special" originally intended to give students a nudge into the world of doing their own Heisig-style analysis on new kanji not covered in RTK1. (The whole point of the Lesson 56 becomes moot, though, when you buy RTK3...)
The lesson goes from kanji #1904 to kanji #1926, a total of 23 new elements for my lexicon (writicon?). When I saw that this lesson has the "tail feathers" radical, I got excited thinking maybe I'd finally add the "bird" (鳥) kanji to my repertoire, but it looks like that'll have to wait 'til a later lesson ;)
Per Fabrice's advice in the currently top-rated story at Reviewing, I rekeyed Heisig's "gracious" (雅) to "elegant", since it's less likely to get confused with "graceful" that way.
10:59PM: The new cards have been added to the deck. Whew... gotta keep up the momentum and get through these final pages of the book!!! I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!!
Lesson 49
Lesson 50
Lesson 51
Lesson 53
Lesson 54
Lesson 55
Lesson 56 (Not Online Yet!)
10:04 PM. Opened latekanji. 6 things due, 11 failed or unmemorized. Wittled this down to 0 scheduled and 5 failed/unmemorized.
10:06 PM. Opened the main sam.mem file. Today I'm looking at 60 scheduled cards and 214 not memorized. 10:17 PM: Finished the scheduled part of the review, and began the other 40 to make 100. The failed pile has grown to 218, meaning I only missed four cards, a failure rate below 10%, not bad at all. 10:28PM: Finished the 100 for this deck's reviewing for today. The failpile is now down to 204! Sub-two-hundred is in sight! :)
Noticed something interesting this review. I had previously passed 紫 ("purple") a couple times, writing 比 instead of 此 as the top radical and not catching it. Only today did I catch the mistake. This shows how you've gotta be really careful that what you wrote matches the answer. These two radicals are tricky since they resemble each other so closely!! It also shows the danger of relying on visual memory instead of imaginative memory...
10:33 PM: Opened latekanji. 12 scheduled, 26 failed or unmemorized. By 10:36, I finished the scheduled ones, passing 9 of them (75% pass rate). After 33 more ratings, I got the failpile down to 16-- I was surprised at how many of those really hard kanji from lesson 51 I was able to dispatch on the very first try after only imagining the imagery for them one time yesterday!
Monday, April 20. 9:34 PM. Lately I haven't posted a lot on the blog. It's because I'm working on programming stuff in C for some future web project I plan to do. Basically I'm currently writing my own custom HTTP server. Anyway, I opened japtemp and found 8 cards scheduled. Passed them all. At 9:37 I opened kanjiaid and found 12 scheduled, 5 failed. Quickly wittled that down to 0 due and 1 failed.
9:39 PM. Opened main flashcard pack, sam.mem. 80 scheduled, 204 failed. When I finished going through those (at 9:57), the failed pile was up to 216 cards. 12 fails out of 80 makes a 15% fail rate, ouch. I have 20 reviews left to get the daily 100, I'll need at least 13 passes, or a 65% pass rate, to make take a net bite out of the evil failpile. Let's see... (Lots of suspensful drumrolls and tense music) Nope, at 10:04 I finished with 205 cards on the "needs more study" pile. A net growth of 1.
10:05: Opened latekanji.mem. 13 scheduled, 16 failed or unmemorized. YES! 100% pass rate of the 13 cards which were up for review!! That included some kanji from the "hardest chapter", lesson 51. Damn do I feel good :) I'm the king of kanji... Now let's see how many reviews it takes to reduce this failed/unmemorized pile to something manageable.
10:18: After clearing the 13 scheduled late kanji, I got the failstack down to just 1 card, and it took 21 total reviews, meaning only 5 repeat reviews were needed.
As for the one I missed, it's 沈 ("sink"). This is interesting. For the story, I went with mspertus's advice (from Reviewing The Kanji) and used the story of Archimedes and the Golden Crown. It seems like a good possible story: the character has "water" and "crown" in it, and what could burn itself more painfully in your mind's retina than Archimedes running naked through the city screaming "Eureka"? It's always really nice when you can incorporate a famous ancient story; probably the best example is 判 ("judgment"), for which the story of King Solomon and the two fighting mothers is perfect. Unfortunately, for "sink", the famous myth just doesn't work too well. First, it totally ignores the other primitive in the character, leaving it up to rote or visual memory to fill in that gap, and even worse, the image just isn't readily evoked by the keyword, to me. I'll try a different story, the one about the yakuza dumping a waitress's body in the sea, weighed down by a golden crown (h/t jreaves and thegeezer3). It isn't as "neat and tidy" as old 'Medes, but maybe it'll stick in memory better, and it hits all the primitives.
10:31: Opened Heisig and began entering the cards for lesson 52. JH opens the lesson saying: "The final grouping of kanji revolves about elements related to animals. It is a rather large group, and will take us all of four lessons to complete." So I guess most of the remaining kanji I'll be learning will be animal-related. In saying "final grouping", Heisig isn't factoring in Lesson 56, which is a small collection of "special" originally intended to give students a nudge into the world of doing their own Heisig-style analysis on new kanji not covered in RTK1. (The whole point of the Lesson 56 becomes moot, though, when you buy RTK3...)
The lesson goes from kanji #1904 to kanji #1926, a total of 23 new elements for my lexicon (writicon?). When I saw that this lesson has the "tail feathers" radical, I got excited thinking maybe I'd finally add the "bird" (鳥) kanji to my repertoire, but it looks like that'll have to wait 'til a later lesson ;)
Per Fabrice's advice in the currently top-rated story at Reviewing, I rekeyed Heisig's "gracious" (雅) to "elegant", since it's less likely to get confused with "graceful" that way.
10:59PM: The new cards have been added to the deck. Whew... gotta keep up the momentum and get through these final pages of the book!!! I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!!
Lesson 49
Lesson 50
Lesson 51
Lesson 53
Lesson 54
Lesson 55
Lesson 56 (Not Online Yet!)
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