Anki. We talk about it a lot here. Many people use it and swear by it. I think it’s time it gets the proper introduction it deserves. Where to begin… Anki is a popular flash card application developed in 2006. Anki comes from the Japanese word 暗記 (あんき), meaning “memorization.” The app has significantly changed over the years, but at its core, it is an SRS … Continue reading →
You have a lot to learn. You have a lot of Japanese decks to conquer. Early on, you are confronted with a simple question: Should I work on one deck at a time, until I finish, and then move onto the next? Or should I do multiple decks at the same time, moving forward simultaneously through them all? Tough choice to make as a beginner, right? Decks … Continue reading →
See a sentence: Repeat that sentence out loud. Use your memory to understand (recall) that sentence. Then optionally write that sentence. Rinse and repeat. This is the recall method style of learning, and what you see here on the Jalup decks. This is great for those who want to listen and watch and read Japanese. What about when you want to actually produce your own … Continue reading →
One of the most interesting features of Anki is that the more you do it, the less you have to do it. Your goal is to continually push back all your cards further and further into some future void. Until you wake up one day fluent, and see 0 reviews due for weeks on end, and ponder whether you should delete the app from existence… … Continue reading →
The number 0 is the most beautiful number you will ever see in Anki. It is the number that confirms you have worked hard, emerged victorious, and can relax away from Anki for the rest of the day. 0 reviews remaining = pure satisfaction. 0 in the beginning is easy to obtain. When you only have a few hundred total cards in your deck, and daily … Continue reading →
The order of your Anki cards changes how you study. You catch whatever Anki throws, but you control that throw.
Continue reading →There’s a lot to study out there, and Anki will most likely have it for you spread out across multiple decks. I prefer to have everything in one deck. Different types of reviews may be thrown at you all at once in random order (whether that’s J-E, J-J, kanji, etc.) when it’s set up like this. But it saves you the time from having to review … Continue reading →
When I was in school, I lived in a apartment with an unnecessarily huge living room. It was a monstrosity, which I had no idea what to do with. I’m sure if I had more stuff, I could’ve made use of it, but I chose the apartment because it was $400/month and I couldn’t pass that up. So there I was with all of this empty … Continue reading →
