A little place for learning languages
By thomas on Dec 13, 2007 in SRS | 4 Comments
For Japanese, I use Anki as my SRS. It’s a great piece of software for studying Japanese. Here are a few reasons why:
It guesses kanji (Chinese character) readings automatically. This saves me from having to manually type in readings.
It has a lot of cool graphs and stats you can use to analyse […]
By peter on Nov 6, 2007 in SRS | 0 Comments
“Al rescate” is Spanish for “to the rescue.”
Some of you may have noticed my lack of posts in the past couple of weeks. My work life and my home life conspired to consume any free time I had so that I could not even study new Spanish or Greek material, let alone write about it. […]
By thomas on Oct 7, 2007 in Study Methods | 12 Comments
I’ve been studying Japanese off and on for about 8 years. If you break it down chronologically, I had:
2 years in a Texas university
1 year in a Japanese university
1 more semester in a Texas university
3 or 4 years of not studying Japanese at all
1 year living in Japan, surrounded by Japanese but only studying […]
