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How is your language learning going this week? - Weekly discussion (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I am just coming back to it after a long break. Resuming kana and JPDB studies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like a specific learning system you got there, has it been working out well for you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, so far I've enjoyed JPDB. I switched from Anki, and while there is no offline capability, I prefer it to my experience with Anki in this case. As I'm still early, that doesn't mean much - the proof will be in how effectively I learn.

It felt good that many of the 6+ month forgotten cards came back to memory without big efforts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've started and stopped a handful of times over the years. One thing that surprised me was how much easier it was to learn something the 2nd(+) time around.

It's apparently an actual thing: https://www.psychology-lexicon.com/cms/glossary/52-glossary-s/16841-savings.html

Makes me feel better about learning stuff that I'm not able to reinforce yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Thanks, that's encouraging!

On JPDB some of the old batches of kanji/vocab are still cropping up. I'm not sure why they weren't in the first "mass" of long overdue review cards. I forgot them but after a review or two they seem to stick well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That's quite rewarding: knowing that you retained from past learning! Keep it up! As you know already, it's all about persistance.