it's crazy how I started using anki a month ago because of your vids and now your finished with it xD I'm currently doing kaishi 1.5k deck
4 months ago | 22
Good on you brother, language learning isn't about words and arbitrary numbers. The amount of effort and complexity that goes into stringing together sentences and for essentially an endless well of possible situations is where it's at.
4 months ago | 4
I too have moved on from Anki. I still do about 15 mins of speed reviews in the morning, but never add cards, and whenever there is a word I want to USE NATURALLY I fail the card no matter what, then later in the week go through my “again cards” and use an app notepad or physical notepad while going through uses of the word in my dictionaries as well as quote searching on Twitter for real examples of that word being used. I can understand most every modern Japanese thing as long as I pay attention now. But in reality, using these words is the hard part. Knowing just HOW MANY uses one common word can have (especially verbs), it makes you feel like u don’t actually “know” the word. Like, actually look at all the uses of 入る，抜ける, and 乗る. You wont be able to intuit those use cases from an English definition, and immersion helps but imo takes too long to see all the uses. That’s why I explicitly search them (if u want to USE them). And then with the rarer words, as long as they aren’t 書き言葉, it’s about knowing the specific and rare SITUATIONS they show up in. IMO I haven’t found any better resource than quote searching Twitter for this. Especially things like オノマトペ. All this to say is that I now think it’s silly that I thought it would take my whole life to just “understand anime and novels”. Language is far deeper than that, so having new goals or realistically knowing when to call it quits is important.
4 months ago | 5
I wish you could share your deck for people like myself who are terrible at Migaku et al or just plain lazy in that aspect 😅
4 months ago | 0
@iamthestormthatisapproaching69
Tbh, i sorta feel like many online or digital resources just don't work well for me learning Japanese. And anki felt like it was working for me, but in reality, I keep going over the same Kanji just to eventually forget again and again and again. So now I'm left with an app called Kanji Study, but I only use that to look up words and phrases. I know that there's gotta be another method so maybe I'll try watching anime with easy-to-understand Japanese. And I'm not going to baby myself with resources for kids since I get second (or is it first?) hand embarrassment from that 😖😖
4 months ago | 3
Livakivi
Recently after a lot of consideration, I decided to stop adding new cards to Anki for learning Japanese and stop at 25,000 instead of going for 30,000 lol.
Finishing the "challenge" of going for 30,000 would have been cool, but I realized that it kind of becomes less about learning Japanese and more about just reaching an arbitrary number of the sake of it.
My journey thus far has been pretty pragmatic, and I've always had a good relationship with learning Japanese, so I decided that stopping is the best way to keep it that way.
I explain more in depth as to why in my new video, but anyway tbh I'm much more excited to continue now that I can focus on reaping the rewards of having learned this language, instead of having to focus just on the grind.
4 months ago | [YT] | 164