Jalup Intermediate frees you from your English shackles and gives you a nonstop dose of Japanese. But doing so is no easy task, and one of the longest running complaints I get here is that Jalup Intermediate is too damn hard. “I don’t understand anything.” “As I go through the cards I understand less and less.” “My lack of comprehension snowballs me into frustration and … Continue reading →
People like to choose a number of flash cards they have to learn in order to become fluent. X blocks of knowledge until you ascend past other mortals. 10,000 has been a popular choice for a long time. It’s a great looking number. It’s not too little; it’s not too much. It is reminiscent of the massively popular “10,000 hours” that gained steam a decade … Continue reading →
Choosing an amount of new flash cards to learn daily looks like a simple task. You start off with the total number you want to complete from a deck or decks. You decide when you want to finish it by. You divide one by the other, and you get your daily goal count. In the Jalup app, I even provide you an automated tool to … Continue reading →
Learning Japanese creates perfectionists out of us all. In part it’s caused by the enjoyment you first have as a beginner. Your early Japanese cards are easy. You understand them, and proceed to the next one without hesitation. What you learn builds off your previous knowledge, in a way that feels good and logical. One day things change. At first you spend more time on … Continue reading →
When you are wading through nothing but Japanese, feeling lost for an extended period of time is the norm. When you get caught up on sentences that are confusing, and then try to proceed, an unsettling feeling can take root. “I just need to know what this sentence means! Then I’ll be right back into Japanese only.” You ask someone for help. Since the people … Continue reading →
Have you managed to fit in every 2-minute block you can find in a day to do some Anki reviews? As if that wasn’t enough, there is one other time to squeeze in which you may not have considered yet. And it may be the most powerful time of all: the moment when your alarm clock goes off and you wake up. A lot of people … Continue reading →
While we all have a perfect vision of how we are going to progress through a flash card deck, things have a way of not working out as planned. You get busy for a few days. You get sick. You have a streak of low motivation. Your card reviews build, and build, and build. The larger they grow, the less you want to do them, … Continue reading →
Anki reviews are a strange thing. You may not look forward to doing them, but once you get them done, you want that progress saved, forever. When I originally studied with Anki I always thought to myself “what would happen if I lost all my progress?!” That would be the end of the world. Lately on Jalup I’ve offered various up dates (audio and revised content) … Continue reading →
