It’s been two weeks since the new goal was set. I finally brought down the amount of Anki card reviews to zero and even learned 30 new sentences.  I didn’t intend to finish up the reviews, and didn’t even think about learning new sentences. But I was on a roll and I couldn’t stop.  I also added 2000 cards with audio.

Here are two more questions to add to the common questions/statements list.

1. What’s your sign?
   무슨 띠 세요?
2. What’s your blood type?
   혈액 형이 뭐예요?

OK, back to Anki SRS.

Doing SRS reps for several months, I’ve  noticed some patterns with those cards that fail repeatedly. -no sticky in the brainy. For me it usually comes down to these four reasons.

1. The card is way too hard because the sentence is too long or has many new patterns or words.
2. I don’t see new words or words often enough in multiple contexts.
3. The words are hard to pronounce or sound weird to my ears.
4. The words or patterns look like other words or patterns.

This is how I solve them.

1. Delete the card. Ahh, that feels good. I never have to see that card again.
2. Find more sentences with that word in it.
3. Use rhinospike.com to get the correct pronunciation then repeat out loud and often.
4. Suspend all cards with words that have look the same but have a different meaning. Once the card is nailed down, reintroduce the suspended cards.

This time it’s 3000 sentences in ~6 months.  The deadline is January 7, 2011.

Korean study continues! I’m still reviewing my anki deck (sort of)  but i haven’t added anything for several weeks. At the moment I have a backup of around 900 cards. Honestly, I just lost interest after I did six months of anki. I reached my goal didn’t bother making another.

As I said, Korean study continues but these days I’m doing other stuff.  My latest project is memorizing and reciting things that are said to me or asked of me over and over and over to me by Koreans I’ve never met or just met.  It’s all true. The list is not complete and not in any particular order.

1. 나이가 어떻게 돼요? / 몇 살이에요? / 몇 살이세요?
2. 이름이 뭐예요? / 성함이 어떻게 되세요? 돼요?
3. 언제 한국에 오셨어요? / 한국에 얼마나 있었어요?
4. 결혼하셨어요? / 왜 결혼 안 하셨어요? 했어요?
5. 어디서 오셨어요?
6. 어디 사세요?
7. 오빠나 언니 있으세요? / 가족 어떻게 되세요?
8. 한국음식 좋아하세요?
9. 맵지 않아요? 괜찮아요?
10. 왜 한국에 오셨어요?
11. 무슨 일 하세요? / 어떤 일 하세요? / 어디서 일하세요?
12. 한국 좋아하세요?
13. 한국 날씨 좋아하세요?
14. 미국은 날씨 어때요?
15. 잘생기셨어요. / 잘생겼다! / 멋있으세요.
16. 한국 나이가 어떻게 돼요? / 한국 나이로 몇 살이에요?
17. 한국말 잘하시네요./ 한국어 잘 하시네요.
18. 한국말 이해할 수 있어요? 한국말 이해돼요? /한국어 이해되세요?
19. 어디서 태어났어요? / 고향이 어디세요?
20. 가족들 보고 싶지 않아요?
21. 얼마나 여기 있을 거에요? / 얼마나 여기서 지내실 거에요? / 얼마나 여기에 머물 거에요?
22. 미국에서 무슨 일 하셨어요?
23. 소주 좋아하세요? / 몇 명이나 마실 수 있으세요? = 주량이 어떻게 되세요?
24. 쉴 때는 뭐하세요? / 일 끝나면 주로 뭐하세요? 주말에는 주로 뭐하세요?
25. 여자친구 있으세요?/ 어자친구 있어요?
26. 핸드폰 번호가 어떻게 되세요?
27. 젓가락 사용 참 잘하시네요. 젓가락을 참 잘 쓰시네요.
28. 어디 가요? / 어디 가세요?
29. 집에 가요? / 집에 가세요?
30. 아침/점심/저녁 식사하셨어요?
31. 안녕하세요? / 안녕하십니까?
32. 참 예쁘세요./ 정말 예쁘세요./ 정말 예뻐요.

1. How old are you?
2. What’s your name?
3. When did you come to Korea?
4. Are you married? Why aren’t you married?
5. Where are you from?
6. Where do you live? Where do you live in Buan?
7. Do you have brothers or sisters?
8. Do you like Korean food?
9. Isn’t it too hot?
10. Why did you come to Korea?
11. What kind of work do you do?
12. Do you like Korea?
13. Do you like Korean weather?
14. What’s the weather like in the US?
15. You’re handsome! ;)
16. What’s your Korean age?
17. You speak Korean well.
18. Can you understand Korean?
19. Where were you born? What’s your hometown?
20. Do you miss your family?
21. How long will you stay here?
22. What kind of work did you do in the US?
23. How many bottles of soju(Korean vodka) can you drink?
24. What do you do in your free time?
25. Do you have a girlfriend?
26. Can I have your phone number?
27. You use chopsticks very well.
28. Where are you going?
29. Are you going home?
30. Did you have lunch/breakfast/dinner? (How are you?)
31. Hello, how are you?
32. You are very pretty.

It’s here!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ankisrs/id373493387?mt=8

This is the month of maintaining , retaining and no gaining.  I can’t seem to keep the anki deck down. I haven’t added  new stuff in over three weeks. I review everyday but never down to zero.

Two times this month I tried to speak only in Korean. It was difficult but I did manage to express my thoughts in broken Korean and have them understood. In addition to the regular anki deck I’ve started another, this time going from English to Korean. So far, so good. I have about 20 sentences committed to memory.  The content is sometimes not so useful for me but the form is helpful. For example I can say, ” I have been thinking getting plastic surgery”. No I really haven’t wanted rhinoplasty, but  yes I have done some thinking.

I have nothing more to report except that I am disappointed. This is the end of a six month experiment. I made progress but the not progress I had dreamed of. Oh well, I’ll keep going.