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I’m going to start a new things with my long-term sentence cards. After I’ve gotten a card right 6 times in a row, I reverse it so that I have to fill in the kanji for the hiragana. It’s absolutely perfect for JLPT study because that’s exactly what the JLPT has you do. Plus, practicing without multiple choice, I should be able to get the vocabulary down really pat without making stupid mistakes like confusing which kanji are in which words. That was a problem on a recent practice test I took, and so now seems like the best time to try to avoid it. Though, it may make my long-term and percentage numbers a little bit funky.

RTK:

77 kanji tested / 75% remembered
80 failed pile / 635 long term / 1293 cards total
51 re-circulated / 0 cards added

Sentences:

120 sentences tested / 73% remembered
482 long term / 811 cards total
0 cards added

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Study Diary, 09/23/08

September 23, 2008 – 7:39 am

Days left until the JLPT: ~75

From here on out, I can only study 120 sentence cards per day. Any more than that is just too much. 300+ per day just isn’t sustainable, and I definitely can’t do it when I’m taking all the classes I’m taking.

RTK:

117 kanji tested / 67% remembered
112 failed pile / 626 long term / 1293 cards total
0 re-circulated / 0 cards added

Sentences:

120 sentences tested / 75% remembered
460 long term / 811 cards total
25 cards added

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Study Diary, 09/22/08

September 22, 2008 – 7:21 am

Days left until the JLPT: ~76

RTK:

171 kanji tested / 57% remembered
73 failed pile / 618 long term / 1293 cards total
0 re-circulated / 0 cards added

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Study Diary, 09/21/08

September 21, 2008 – 7:57 am

Days left until the JLPT: ~77

RTK:

65 kanji tested / 45% remembered
0 failed pile / 606 long term / 1293 cards total
76 re-circulated / 0 cards added

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Study Diary, 09/20/08

September 20, 2008 – 11:09 am

Days left until the JLPT: ~78

My sentences review is on hold for this weekend while I brush up for my placement test on Monday. At least, I hope I’m taking a placement test on Monday. We do have a completely new teacher for this semester, and so I can assume that she’ll want to know what sort of students we are coming into this fall semester.

It sounds ridiculous to study for a placement test, but there’s no reason I shouldn’t put my best foot forward. I’ve been through Genki book 2 all the way, and there’s no reason a placement test shouldn’t bear that out. The only problem is that I’ve spent so much time on stuff far ahead of that this summer that some of the super simple stuff that is going to be on the placement test has suffered. Specifically my kanji writing vocabulary has become a little rusty. I can recognize a ton more kanji words than I could before, but I haven’t had to spontaneously write down a kanji word for this entire summer.

My ultimate goal is to place myself out of the beginners’ class I’m in, and in with the rest of the foreign exchange students in the intermediate class. If that doesn’t happen, there is still an upside in that my regular schooling wouldn’t get too much in the way of my studying for the JLPT2.

I’m also antsy to see where the rest of my classmates fit after their experiences this summer. We’ll see what happens with it.

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