Friday, April 24. 9:38 PM. Opened japtemp. 5 cards scheduled, 0 failed/unmemorized. Passed four of them, failed one.
9:39PM. Opened kanjiaid. 6 scheduled, 2 failed. I passed 5 of the 6 scheduled, and 1 of the 2 failed, leaving the deck at 0 scheduled and 2 failed.
9:40 PM. Opened sam.mem. Since I'm short on time today, I won't do the full 100 daily reviews, but instead just do the scheduled ones. Today that means 67 cards.
9:51 PM. Finished the review of the main deck. Only passed 53 out of the 67 scheduled cards, a passrate of just over 79%, which is pretty awful. The failed deck has grown to 213, erasing days and days of progress there (of course, it I pushed through and did the other 33 reviews to make 100 for a day, that would really cut the losses a bunch).
9:53 PM. Opened latekanji. 10 scheduled, 51 failed or unmemorized (which is really 1 failed, leftover from yesterday, and 50 new cards I just added.) By 9:55 I had passed all the scheduled cards perfectly, and now for the big push with those 50 new cards.
10:15 PM: I made better progress than I figured I could in the short amount of time I had. Managed to get the unremembered/failed pile down to 28. Tomorrow I should be able to get this deck back to 0/0, and then maybe I'll add the next series of kanji to keep the momentum goin'.
Saturday, April 25. Lately I've been spending a lot of time reading some comics my brother and I used to read a lot when we were kids. The Adventures of Tintin. I was delighted to find they were all available on scribd, and now I'm up to "The Blue Lotus". Anyway, time to do some Mnemosyne... 6:47 PM. Opened japtemp.. actually, it was already open, since I was adding cards earlier. I added five or six new vocab cards for vocab I picked up from my GF. The deck is now at 3 scheduled, 6 unmemorized. Passed everything.
6:49 PM. Opened kanjiaid. 9 cards due, 2 in the failpile. Passed all but one of them.
6:51 PM. Opened sam.mem, the primary deck. 63 scheduled cards, and 213 on the failheap.
7:02 PM. Finished the 63 scheduled items, passing 53 of them for a pass rate of around 84%. The hardest thing isn't writing big complicated characters-- the complicatedness of a character has absolutely zero bearing on how difficult it is to remember-- the hardest thing is dealing with very similar radicals. The pairs which give me the most trouble are 豆 vs. the top part of 喜... in other words, whether to top the radical with 一 or 士... and 赤 vs. the top part of 変... in other words, whether to top the kanji with 亠 or 土. Kanji like 闘 ("fight"), 鼓 ("drum"), 跡 ("tracks") and 赦 ("pardon"), always give me tons of trouble because I have the greatest difficulty remembering which form to give the radical!!
7:14PM: Began the remaining 37 reviews to make 100 for the day on the main deck. One of them, 閑, I noticed I keep failing and always saying "why'd I fail this, it's so simple..." and then assuming I'll get it next time. The old myth that complicated=difficult and simple=easy strikes both ways. Finally I realized, no, I won't get this any time soon if I just keep plowing blindly, so I gave in and went and looked up a story at Reviewing The Kanji. Ahh, a tree beyond the gates at the garden of Eden... now hopefully tomorrow I'll pass this card.
7:26 PM: Having gotten the flagship deck down to 206 failed cards, I opened the latekanji deck. There I found 23 cards scheduled and 28 failed or unmemorized. I passed 27 of the 28 scheduled cards, an impressive passrate of over 96%. Nice :) Now I'm doing reviews in the pile of failed/unmemorized to wittle it down... Enough of this "hawser" kanji (綱), whose English keyword is some obscure nautical term I've never heard. I'm gonna use a pun trick for this one, and associate "hawser" with "Doogie Howser, M.D.", the old TV show about a 14-year-old child prodigee physician. Story: Doogie Howser, M.D., must treat Mt. Fuji's illness by wrapping the mountain with string.
7:59 PM: 52 reviews later, I have the latekanji deck down to 0/0 and see that beautiful phrase emblazoned across Mnemosyne's main button, "Learn ahead of schedule." (A feature which I never use since it would defeat the whole purpose of spaced repetition, but nonetheless a phrase which indicates the holy grail of having your deck totally cleaned up.)
8:01 PM: Opened Heisig to begin assimilating the 54th group of kanji. Heisig introduces: "Now that we've come so far as the elephant, we may continue on with more of the larger animals." Apparently this next group will have fewer new radicals, which should make it a little easier than Lesson 53. The kanji here are #1978 (馬, "horse") to #2005 (態, "attitude"), a total of 28 new ones... barely more than half the size of the previous chapter.
Lots of characters containing "horse" as an element, and it looks like the storytellers at Reviewing made up some great stories using the derivative notion of the "Trojan Horse".
Ahh, I will finally officially learn how to write one of the most pervasive, ubiquitous kanji which is seen everywhere all over Tokyo: 駅 ("station").
Yay.. as of writing this, I have hit the 2,000 point! 2,000 kanji, hooray!
What's up with Heisig frames #2003 and #2004 (熊 and 能, respectively)?? It's a minor thing since they're right next to each other, but the former is clearly built up from the latter, so the two ought to be switched. Weird...
Whee, only two more lessons to go! Soon I'll be able to kill a man with just my masterly handwritten kanjiii.
Lesson 49
Lesson 50
Lesson 51
Lesson 52
Lesson 53
Lesson 55
Lesson 56 (Not Online Yet!)
9:39PM. Opened kanjiaid. 6 scheduled, 2 failed. I passed 5 of the 6 scheduled, and 1 of the 2 failed, leaving the deck at 0 scheduled and 2 failed.
9:40 PM. Opened sam.mem. Since I'm short on time today, I won't do the full 100 daily reviews, but instead just do the scheduled ones. Today that means 67 cards.
9:51 PM. Finished the review of the main deck. Only passed 53 out of the 67 scheduled cards, a passrate of just over 79%, which is pretty awful. The failed deck has grown to 213, erasing days and days of progress there (of course, it I pushed through and did the other 33 reviews to make 100 for a day, that would really cut the losses a bunch).
9:53 PM. Opened latekanji. 10 scheduled, 51 failed or unmemorized (which is really 1 failed, leftover from yesterday, and 50 new cards I just added.) By 9:55 I had passed all the scheduled cards perfectly, and now for the big push with those 50 new cards.
10:15 PM: I made better progress than I figured I could in the short amount of time I had. Managed to get the unremembered/failed pile down to 28. Tomorrow I should be able to get this deck back to 0/0, and then maybe I'll add the next series of kanji to keep the momentum goin'.
Saturday, April 25. Lately I've been spending a lot of time reading some comics my brother and I used to read a lot when we were kids. The Adventures of Tintin. I was delighted to find they were all available on scribd, and now I'm up to "The Blue Lotus". Anyway, time to do some Mnemosyne... 6:47 PM. Opened japtemp.. actually, it was already open, since I was adding cards earlier. I added five or six new vocab cards for vocab I picked up from my GF. The deck is now at 3 scheduled, 6 unmemorized. Passed everything.
6:49 PM. Opened kanjiaid. 9 cards due, 2 in the failpile. Passed all but one of them.
6:51 PM. Opened sam.mem, the primary deck. 63 scheduled cards, and 213 on the failheap.
7:02 PM. Finished the 63 scheduled items, passing 53 of them for a pass rate of around 84%. The hardest thing isn't writing big complicated characters-- the complicatedness of a character has absolutely zero bearing on how difficult it is to remember-- the hardest thing is dealing with very similar radicals. The pairs which give me the most trouble are 豆 vs. the top part of 喜... in other words, whether to top the radical with 一 or 士... and 赤 vs. the top part of 変... in other words, whether to top the kanji with 亠 or 土. Kanji like 闘 ("fight"), 鼓 ("drum"), 跡 ("tracks") and 赦 ("pardon"), always give me tons of trouble because I have the greatest difficulty remembering which form to give the radical!!
7:14PM: Began the remaining 37 reviews to make 100 for the day on the main deck. One of them, 閑, I noticed I keep failing and always saying "why'd I fail this, it's so simple..." and then assuming I'll get it next time. The old myth that complicated=difficult and simple=easy strikes both ways. Finally I realized, no, I won't get this any time soon if I just keep plowing blindly, so I gave in and went and looked up a story at Reviewing The Kanji. Ahh, a tree beyond the gates at the garden of Eden... now hopefully tomorrow I'll pass this card.
7:26 PM: Having gotten the flagship deck down to 206 failed cards, I opened the latekanji deck. There I found 23 cards scheduled and 28 failed or unmemorized. I passed 27 of the 28 scheduled cards, an impressive passrate of over 96%. Nice :) Now I'm doing reviews in the pile of failed/unmemorized to wittle it down... Enough of this "hawser" kanji (綱), whose English keyword is some obscure nautical term I've never heard. I'm gonna use a pun trick for this one, and associate "hawser" with "Doogie Howser, M.D.", the old TV show about a 14-year-old child prodigee physician. Story: Doogie Howser, M.D., must treat Mt. Fuji's illness by wrapping the mountain with string.
7:59 PM: 52 reviews later, I have the latekanji deck down to 0/0 and see that beautiful phrase emblazoned across Mnemosyne's main button, "Learn ahead of schedule." (A feature which I never use since it would defeat the whole purpose of spaced repetition, but nonetheless a phrase which indicates the holy grail of having your deck totally cleaned up.)
8:01 PM: Opened Heisig to begin assimilating the 54th group of kanji. Heisig introduces: "Now that we've come so far as the elephant, we may continue on with more of the larger animals." Apparently this next group will have fewer new radicals, which should make it a little easier than Lesson 53. The kanji here are #1978 (馬, "horse") to #2005 (態, "attitude"), a total of 28 new ones... barely more than half the size of the previous chapter.
Lots of characters containing "horse" as an element, and it looks like the storytellers at Reviewing made up some great stories using the derivative notion of the "Trojan Horse".
Ahh, I will finally officially learn how to write one of the most pervasive, ubiquitous kanji which is seen everywhere all over Tokyo: 駅 ("station").
Yay.. as of writing this, I have hit the 2,000 point! 2,000 kanji, hooray!
What's up with Heisig frames #2003 and #2004 (熊 and 能, respectively)?? It's a minor thing since they're right next to each other, but the former is clearly built up from the latter, so the two ought to be switched. Weird...
Whee, only two more lessons to go! Soon I'll be able to kill a man with just my masterly handwritten kanjiii.
Lesson 49
Lesson 50
Lesson 51
Lesson 52
Lesson 53
Lesson 55
Lesson 56 (Not Online Yet!)
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