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SRS Observation

By mattgirod | Published: June 21, 2010

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. The card is way too hard because the sentence is too long or has many new patterns or words. [...]

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New Goal

By mattgirod | Published: June 21, 2010

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

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For the Month of May

By mattgirod | Published: May 31, 2010

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 [...]

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Anki Official Release for iphone/ipod Touch

By mattgirod | Published: May 31, 2010

It’s here! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ankisrs/id373493387?mt=8

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Six Month Report

By mattgirod | Published: April 8, 2010

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 [...]

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Five Month Report

By mattgirod | Published: March 7, 2010

녹차 라테 We talked over lattes in in the town of Kimje . I told her I wasted my time for the first year of studying Korean. I spent all that time struggling,  trying to retain what I had learned and trying to output using grammar rules.  But she said, “No. You have what you [...]

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Spaced Repetition Systems

By mattgirod | Published: March 4, 2010

Here’s a cool explanation. http://www.xamuel.com/spaced-repetition-systems/ The following bit caught my attention. The guy is experimenting with SRS and listening to music. “Basically, if you listen to the same song over and over, it gets tiresome. And if you haven’t listened to a song in awhile, it sounds better. Hmmm, this sounds analogous to something, doesn’t [...]

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