I’m excited because it is not long now until I will have a weekly dose of Ikuta Toma when he co-stars with Ohno Satoshi in Maou. Which has nothing to do with the rest of the post which is about Reviewing the Kanji. After a bit of a break from studying Japanese, I am back [...]
Monday, June 2, 2008
May 2008 has been Major Burn Out Month. I discovered my problem, however - it wasn’t burnout from Japanese, rather it was a burnout from University. I will definitely be making a post on the pros and cons of learning a language in the class room. That being said, I tried to maintain my Japanese [...]
Sunday, May 18, 2008
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 [...]
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
I define burning out as not being able to find the motivation to do something, feel as though I've done it too much. But if I give up then my Japanese learning journey is over. Learning a language is not fun and easy all the time. If it was we all know multiple languages by now. Unfortunately we sometimes need to push ourselves to just get that bit further. Here are some ideas on how to overcome burn out.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
What a busy month. I’ve moved house and become very very behind at university. So over all this month I’ve felt very stressed and I don’t believe I’ve made much progress in my Japanese at all. How Much TV I Watch As you know, at the end of last month I started to record [...]
Sunday, April 6, 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 [...]
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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 [...]
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
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