Do you still recommend bunpro, Ed?
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 May 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
Taking a look now, trying to figure out how to use it.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 May 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link
I’m not using Bunpro at the moment but I have done. On balance not the best tool for testing your grammar, or at least not the one for me.
Most recently I’ve been using renshuu.org. Probably because the JLPT question style fits nicely with the lessons I’m doing.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Thursday, 13 May 2021 20:54 (two years ago) link
Okay, that looks pretty interesting. Wondering how you choose your lessons.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
Home > Mastery?
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
Hmm. They discuss pitch.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link
Seems like the web page works a little better than the app maybe.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 May 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
It wants me to learn 80 things a day. Okay.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 May 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
I should have warned the the interface is shockingly bad.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Thursday, 13 May 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
As in you’d really have to work hard to design a worse one.
But it’s OK once you get it set up and select some things to work on.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Thursday, 13 May 2021 23:13 (two years ago) link
Thanks. I might stick with Bunpro for a while and see how that goes.In other news, it feels like kind of a cheat when unlocking the Kanji only gives you the vocabulary word that is just the Kanji with the same pronunciation.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 May 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
I guess I can just give myself extra credit and look ahead at the Level 41 word that uses the on’yomi.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 May 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link
So just hit level 4, which unlocked a bunch of level 4 kanji and vocabulary in addition to the level 4 radicals and the level 3 vocabulary that got unlocked. Combinatorial Kanji Explosion!
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 May 2021 12:08 (two years ago) link
Seems like it takes a bare minimum of a week to get through a level.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 May 2021 23:10 (two years ago) link
This is useful: https://www.wkstats.com/items/wanikani
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 May 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
Past the middle of Level 4 now
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 23:28 (two years ago) link
My progression, if its of interest
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lmgeo6xqrbmz5p7/level%20up.png?raw=1
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Thursday, 20 May 2021 04:16 (two years ago) link
Yes, very interesting, thanks!
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 May 2021 11:24 (two years ago) link
tbh I am impressed you kept up that pace for that long until your first big break.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 May 2021 11:27 (two years ago) link
Wondering if it's a good idea to start studying the next level before it unlocks. Just gently, mind you, not like a crazy person.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 May 2021 22:03 (two years ago) link
https://www.joyokanji.com/radical-notes/130-flesh-radical-%E8%82%89-and-%E6%9C%88
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 May 2021 10:35 (two years ago) link
Okay, I don't want to go there, but I relate to that progris riport in a big way.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 May 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link
Last weekend I was about to finish Level 3 and wondering whether I would or should pay for Level 4. This week I followed the tight seven day schedule you followed for so long, trying to tweak it to see what can make it more palatable. Now in the weird calm before the storm of having minimal reviews before I try to Guru the last batch of kanji.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 May 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
Okay, this can be exhausting
― Blue Yoda No. 9 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 May 2021 21:42 (two years ago) link
Seems like the SRS goes twice as fast for certain vocabulary words.
― Blue Yoda No. 9 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 May 2021 22:56 (two years ago) link
Okay, solved this mystery at least. If the vocabulary is based on Kanji from Levels I and II, then it goes at the faster SRS.
― Blue Yoda No. 9 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 May 2021 13:20 (two years ago) link
Just leveled up to Level 6, baby.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc1IphRx1pk
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 May 2021 10:12 (two years ago) link
This system totally works, as long as I don't let it drive me crazy.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 June 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
Here is my general approach right now: when I level up, which right now is usually early Saturday morning, I do all the radicals and kanji right away but not the vocabulary. I don’t sweat that first batch of kanji too much, just let the SRS do the work, and don’t need to sweat the radicals at this point. I do try to glance ahead at the second batch of radicals that will be unleashed midweek, for me Tuesday afternoon/evening, so they don’t hang me up and delay me if I miss too many. I don’t start vocabulary lessons in any hurry at all, but do try to do such lessons in the morning so I get the first few reps in the course of a day to try avoid the big wake up pile up.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 June 2021 02:13 (two years ago) link
I even try to start vocabulary when I saw a gap coming up in 4 hours, of few or no reviews.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 June 2021 02:18 (two years ago) link
When I see
I’d do the vocab first, it helps lock in the kanji, something that becomes more important the less familiar the kanji is. it does slow you down though.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Friday, 4 June 2021 02:30 (two years ago) link
I mostly agree with what you are saying but the thing is, it only gives you the vocabulary for a given kanji after you've already passed that kanji, so it will help me lock in the kanji I already studied a bit, but not the new kanji.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 June 2021 03:01 (two years ago) link
I look at the first kanji unlocking as almost a pretest, as my grade school teachers used to say, and everything after as a retest.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 June 2021 03:12 (two years ago) link
Actually I try to look ahead and study the vocabulary related to the kanji before that vocabulary is unlocked in order to get a handle on the readings.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 June 2021 10:51 (two years ago) link
This got me again:https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-to-type-%E3%81%A5/33891So these twoづぢAre dudi
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 June 2021 13:21 (two years ago) link
Just unlocked Level 7 this morning.Now nibbling at the vocab so it doesn’t get lost in a review tsunami.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 June 2021 13:23 (two years ago) link
Ha, missed almost all the kanji -and one radical! - on the first 4 hour review. Clearly I am burnt, and not in the good sense.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link
Okay, back on track with those, mostly, and now really digging in to the vocabulary.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 June 2021 14:05 (two years ago) link
Think that’s killing me now is unfamiliar kanji with three different readings hitting me in the vocabulary.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 June 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link
At my Duolingo is actually helping, with some of the same vocabulary coming up.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 June 2021 03:21 (two years ago) link
At my level meant to say
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 June 2021 03:33 (two years ago) link
And just now learned an interesting expression from Duo, 上の空, which means absent-minded.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 June 2021 03:36 (two years ago) link
a bit like head in the clouds, above the sky?I did wanikani for a bit a few years ago and have started again, up to level 4 and am surprised how much I can rememberI just like the way kanji look and the words that happen when you put two or more together, fire + mountain = volcano etc
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 7 June 2021 12:13 (two years ago) link
Yes, like that.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 June 2021 12:33 (two years ago) link
Really don't know how Ed kept up that pace for a year.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 June 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
It kind of took over. I had to build it into my day. I wouldn’t recommend it, not least because towards the end of that period all other Japanese study went by the board.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Monday, 7 June 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
I can tell. I am feeling that now at Level 7. I keep promising myself that I am only keeping to the seven day cycle for now to learn how that works but trying to figure out if I should shoot for a ten day cycle or a two week cycle.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 June 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
Just took advantage of a tip that I could add fonts
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
And want to remark on the tiny helpful fact that Tsurukame lets you know if you should be typing in an on or kun reading for the kanji.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link