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Mar. 17th, 2018 11:30 pmSo the website I'm learning kanji with, wanikani, has a SRS system where any item has a knowledge level, answering questions correctly adds a point, answering wrong removes a point, and at a certain threshold you unlock items using that item. Er, that was confusing. (I've had a long day -- choir retreat 9-3 -- and I'm too tired to sleep, so I'm doing other stuff instead. Like babbling in my journal.) So you start with a handful of radicals; once a radical has a high enough score, you unlock kanji using that radical (or any combination of radicals you know well enough); once a kanji has a high enough score, you unlock vocab using that kanji (or any combination of known kanji).
So you do lessons as they become available, and then review at intervals until you know the bits well enough to unlock more lessons. If a review session bumps any radicals or kanji up over the threshold, you might unlock 3-5 lessons (I mean, someone who answers everything perfectly may have bigger clumps of lessons, because of unlocking a bunch of stuff at once, but that's not me. Especially when I do things like confuse 九 and 力, or whatever.
I'm too tired to sleep so I decided to do a review. A couple items bumped over the threshold so I knew I'd have a lesson or two waiting.
...I have "42+" lessons. Because apparently, in addition to unlocking vocab based on the kanji that changed status, I unlocked the entire next level, which includes more radicals, more kanji, and more vocab.
...
I think I'm going to wait until it's *not* almost midnight (and I'm not braindead, gah) to start that.
(Sometimes I think I'm crazy for trying to learn Japanese -- or at least for trying to learn kanji -- because I'm so not used to logographic writing. (Is that the right word? Too braindead.) I mean, it makes interesting connections between words (entrance 入り口 is (enter)-ri-(mouth)) but argh. And most kanji have at least two pronunciations; the site only teaches one, but then sometimes vocab uses the other. (One and two are ichi and ni, but "one thing" and "two things" are hitotsu and futatsu.) So it's a ton of stuff and it takes years to learn -- literally. ...I guess it keeps me busy? Lol etc.)
So you do lessons as they become available, and then review at intervals until you know the bits well enough to unlock more lessons. If a review session bumps any radicals or kanji up over the threshold, you might unlock 3-5 lessons (I mean, someone who answers everything perfectly may have bigger clumps of lessons, because of unlocking a bunch of stuff at once, but that's not me. Especially when I do things like confuse 九 and 力, or whatever.
I'm too tired to sleep so I decided to do a review. A couple items bumped over the threshold so I knew I'd have a lesson or two waiting.
...I have "42+" lessons. Because apparently, in addition to unlocking vocab based on the kanji that changed status, I unlocked the entire next level, which includes more radicals, more kanji, and more vocab.
...
I think I'm going to wait until it's *not* almost midnight (and I'm not braindead, gah) to start that.
(Sometimes I think I'm crazy for trying to learn Japanese -- or at least for trying to learn kanji -- because I'm so not used to logographic writing. (Is that the right word? Too braindead.) I mean, it makes interesting connections between words (entrance 入り口 is (enter)-ri-(mouth)) but argh. And most kanji have at least two pronunciations; the site only teaches one, but then sometimes vocab uses the other. (One and two are ichi and ni, but "one thing" and "two things" are hitotsu and futatsu.) So it's a ton of stuff and it takes years to learn -- literally. ...I guess it keeps me busy? Lol etc.)