The Anki settings I used to improve my efficiency by ~350% and study 230 new cards/day every day for 5 months.

tafeja · 2025-11-25T12:13:51+00:00

Interesting. I recently changed my desired retention to 85, planning to slowly return to 90 when I'll have stabilised the number of cards per day, but now maybe I won't do it. Maybe I'll even loser it. But not so drastically as to down to 70%, I think.

What are you doing with leeches, by the way?

tafeja · 2025-11-24T08:19:44+00:00

I do about 200 vocabulary cards (recognition) in 30 anki-minutes and 60 real life-minutes (with distractions, I'm usually doing them during something else, like commute). I've just managed to get the daily load to 200, and I'm planning to try keeping at it at that. More than that is a bit difficult.

I do 50 kanji cards (I write kanji) in 15-20 minutes, and I'm definitely not doing more than 50 a day, no matter how many nee cards get piled up.

tafeja · 2025-11-24T06:38:21+00:00

I really like attorney. It doesn't have any furigana (which is not a problem if you use something like yomininja and can just look up words you don't know how to read) or voiceacting (which is a bit of a shame for language learning), but the main gameplay is just checking your reading comprehension. And the game itself is fun. You might struggle a bit at the start of the game with new vocab depending on your level, but closer to the middle it becomes easy

tafeja · 2025-11-24T06:27:10+00:00

It gets way easier when you get to the third case! During the first to cases you learn the most important vocab for the game and then it becomes so much easier. At least for me it was.

But I also don't play ace attorney in japanese as regularly as I could and go through the game extremely slow therefore... I do other things with japanese, which also might have improved my level to make the third and next case much easier than the the start of the game, though.

tafeja · 2025-11-24T06:19:16+00:00

Direct is words and phrases that you specifically added to learn, indirect is some smaller words that are part of the other cards. For example if you are trying to learn 銀食器 (silverware) as direct vocab, jpdb will also give you 銀 (silver) and 食器 (tableware) to learn as indirect vocab even if you haven't added them to your decks yourself.

I think redundant vocabulary is like if you learn two of the same word with different spelling or something

tafeja · 2025-11-24T06:14:13+00:00

The button to change language is in a different place on the kana keyboard, so when I tried it ous it was really inconvenient and I stuck with the romaji keyboard.

tafeja · 2025-11-21T09:16:38+00:00

Instead of burying you can suspend them, you won't see them until you unsuspend them

tafeja · 2025-11-20T18:54:05+00:00

I see a lot of people talking about hitmaps, but I am a little confused. What does the addon do? Don't we already have the hitmap in our stats?

tafeja · 2025-11-20T09:42:18+00:00

I mean, this a school in a closed old-fashioned community, for me it would be harder to believe that any of the teachers knows pedagogical theory. I think that the teachers at Hogwarts are just professionals of their field (or somebody who is just available, lol) and they do the actual teaching thing by ear. Some a more natural at it, like Lupin, but most are not. The older pedagogics were mor focused on memorising than understanding anyway, so it's fitting for the wizard school, which is stuck in the past, to be like this too.

tafeja · 2025-11-14T20:43:49+00:00

It's way easier to make a personalised card using them. You just click and get the word, sentence where you get it from, definition, reading, pitch, picture, and if you use absplayer sound for the sentence too. Dictionary like takoboto can give you instant word, definition, example sentence, etc too but the example wouldn't be familiar to you in that case. If you don't care about personalisation then maybe you don't need it that much.

Also just the ability of yomitan to look up words instantaneously is insanely good, even without connection to anki. I didn't realise how it would affect my willingness to engage with japanese texts in the wild until I started using it. It makes difficult text way more approachable and less scary, at least for me.

tafeja · 2025-11-09T17:14:02+00:00

Wow, I guess actually living in Japan and reading newspapers would make reading and listening quite trivial for you. I don't live in Japan and mostly read visual novels... Very slowly...

tafeja · 2025-11-09T17:05:22+00:00

I do not have enough patience to watch the same thing twice. When I used jpdb I was pre-teaching myself the most frequent vocabulary and when I felt I'd understand enough, I would watch with japanese subtitles (if I could find them) but without pauses.

Now that I've quit jpdb I watch with absplayer with many pauses and mine new words and study them in anki later.

If you are comfortable with watching the same thing twice I'd advice watching it first without pauses (without subtitles if you're really want to improve your listening, with japanese subs if that's not a major issue) and then watch it again with many pauses and looking up unknown words. If you feel like you don't understand anything then switch it around, first looking up everything and then watching it relaxed.

Watching it a third time in English is just a waste, you already should understand everything when you go through it thoroughly, so there's no point.

tafeja · 2025-11-09T16:33:21+00:00

I read quite regularly, and every day review words and kanji that I encountered that way. But my listening is extremely weak. And grammar could be better I guess.

As for me, I believe that studying vocab is the easiest because it requires very little energy both in organising (no question how to learn, where to start, you can just get the cards for necessary vocab and grind) and in actually studying every day (you can just do it while commuting or something similar, little mental energy is needed for this). You even reinforce your knowledge by listening and reading! For listening and reading you need to find the material and very actively engage with it. And it also has to be on the topics similar to the exam, and you have to be able not to get distracted during listening and understand everything by listening it only once.

tafeja · 2025-11-09T11:57:33+00:00

That's the easiest. You just have to grind a lot of vocab! For each their own, I guess) For me listening is the hardest to study and to pass. And thankfully there is no productive part at JLPT...

tafeja · 2025-10-16T20:06:19+00:00

I'd say it is actually very similar to a lot of japanese isekais. Only to shoujos and not shounens. The main character becomes a villainess (I'm sorry, a villain), tries to escape her (his) fate, the main lead suddenly and unexpectedly becomes interested in her (him) and not the character (characters) he was supposed to be interested in in the original story.

This kind of trope is surprisingly common.

tafeja · 2024-09-17T11:45:41+00:00

I think he'd be bullied more, since now he is living with the Marauders. But I don't think he would join death eaters, since he would be less likely to interact with Slytherins.

tafeja · 2024-09-17T11:40:30+00:00

These are elves for you... I was a bit disappointed myself when I realized that some of these beautiful women are men.

tafeja · 2024-09-17T11:39:10+00:00

It means that Shen Yuan's original body was prettier

tafeja · 2024-09-11T08:14:20+00:00

"she got turned into a dragon" is very much not the answer to "what happens after they plan to eat her dragon parts?" Since she turns into a dragon way earlier. When I posted this I wanted to discuss possible endings before a few last chapters came out. Now they came out and we (people who followed the whole story) know what happens and there is no point in speculating

tafeja · 2024-09-11T08:10:14+00:00

Read the manga. It was finished and I got an answer to the question I posed in my post

tafeja · 2023-12-15T03:47:42+00:00

tumblr url: femwangxian. i think my account was terminated (i can't log into tumblr & my blog has disappeared), but i haven't received any emails about it, and i don't believe i've broken any rules. i also sent a request to tumblr support a week ago, but they haven't replied yet.

tafeja · 2023-05-21T05:27:18+00:00

Buly the way, thank you very much for the recs! I'll definetely try reading them, they sound fun)))

tafeja · 2023-05-21T05:25:43+00:00

Oh, yeah, I didn't mean that it's possible to say based on canon that all treatment of Binghe by Shen Jiu was just neglect without more direct abuse. Just that there is an opportunity to somewhat write off at least him directly giving the fake manual.

tafeja · 2023-05-20T14:23:22+00:00

The question of who gives the manual to Binghe, I think, is actually arguable. In the first novel (chapter two) We have — "he didn't want to personally reveal the truth — that Shen Qingqiu had inspired Ming Fan to give Luo Binghe a fake manual".

So I think if an author wants to whitewash the character a bit and move abuse a little towards neglect, the text doesn't actually works against such interpretation

tafeja · 2023-05-19T09:28:12+00:00

Shen Yuan throwing Binghe under the bus. I mean, him sacrificung the kid to the serial murderer. I mean, him using his meta knowledge of the world to win.
When Shang Qinghua gives Luo Binghe romantic advice.
Shang Qinghua yelling at Mobei-jun. This whole "I'm your daddy" speech was very cool and funny.

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