Category Archives: SRS

Quoting the Greats – In Japanese

By Ryan | Published: May 15, 2010
Are you like me?  Do you want to own a language, not just know it?  One of the tools I used was Wikiquote.  Obviously, the Japanese version.  And in combination with an SRS, you`ll get your best results.  Here`s how I do it. Search by topic or by thinker, whichever suits your fancy. Read quotes.  Select ones you [...]
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Don`t Forget to Brush Your Teeth

By Ryan | Published: May 11, 2010
I`m sorry of sounding like your parents there.  It won`t happen again.  But what will happen is my reiterating the importance of habit development and your SRS study.  . . . Because it is like brushing your teeth.  How long does that take you?  About five minutes, right?  That`s how long it takes me to get through [...]
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The Compelling Reason to get Over Kanji

By Ryan | Published: April 25, 2010
A little while ago, I put up a series of posts about learning through extensive reading, which I totally believe is the number one way to learn anything.  Of course, it suddenly occurred to me that in order to do this, you would have to be literate in Japanese. And by literate, I really mean off-the-wall, [...]
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5 (+1) Ideas for Faster SRS Card Creation!

By Ryan | Published: April 23, 2010
The SRS does just about everything for you.  But creating cards can take some of the wind out of your sails if you don`t know how to deal with it.  Here`s some of the things I do for fast card creation: Freebie: I mentioned this before in my card creation video.  Have a notepad file [...]
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Video – SRS Cards in Seconds

By Ryan | Published: April 18, 2010
SRSs do 99% of the memory work for you.  The one percent is just you using it a few minutes every day.  However, if you`re doing the 10,000 sentences deal, then it can be quite a challenge if it takes you a long time to find sentences.  This is how I do it: I don`t focus [...]
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The SRS: Half the Work at No Cost

By Ryan | Published: March 28, 2010
So I know that I promised I`d talk about SRSs this week, I might as well do it now that I`m finally settled in at my fiancé`s parent`s place (I flew back to Tokyo from Auckland yesterday). An SRS (Spaced Repetition System) is free software.  That`s one of the best parts right there.  More importantly, an [...]
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Automate Your Studies, Automate Your Success

By Ryan | Published: March 20, 2010
When undertaking any long-term project, planning is important.  But planning can also be rather difficult, especially when it takes valuable time that could be used to enjoy the language of your choice. Which brings us to automation.  Automation doesn`t have as direct an impact on your studies as the other three principles do.  Yet it is [...]
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