To Grammar Or Not To Grammar, That Is The Question

I’ve been reading a few articles lately about learning grammar vs. not learning grammar. Most of these articles are in the Not To Grammar group, which is interesting as I am in the “at least at first, if you want to, and I do, To Grammar” group. Yes, perhaps I’m in the minority with the latest crazes running through the language learning community… I don’t...

How Should You Structure Your Flash Card Deck?

In my post Divide and Conquer – a Vocab Post, Atreya asked the question: I am quite confused about the method by which I should structure my Anki Deck. By method I mean, how does one create the cards in Anki? Now, the short answer is, of course: Any way you want. But that doesn’t help those who may be a little lost in how to structure flash cards in their deck. The best way to...

Carlie’s Japanese Progress – March 2008

We are well into April now, so it’s time for a March 2008 update on my Japanese progress. On the 18th of March I started up a log of how many hours I watch Japanese tv/movies. I record what I watched and whether I was watching with subs, without, or it was just on as background noise. From the 18th-30th I watched 15 hours of Japanese TV. I find that I don’t watch it for days, but...

New Anki File

I’ve started a new anki file. I let the one go too long that the spaced repetition was messed up, and it had such a huge workload as so many cards had expired – I would have never gotten to new cards. Plus, a fresh start is refreshing! So I’ve started again. I picked out a whole heap of words I was interested in reviewing. Stuff like 付き合う. I look up the word in my...