My last lesson plan was a complete fail due to RTK reviews taking longer than anticipated.
Long story short, about a month after finishing RTK I noticed my reviews were not going down and my accuracy was poor and not improving. I saw no progress whatsoever for over 30days. I made the decision to drastically crank my anki settings to study my cards more often and improve my accuracy. Slowly over two months, my accuracy went from low 70s to high 80s, sometimes peeking into 90s but if my workload did anything it increased.
Virtually no progress but this is finally starting to change.
I turned the settings back to normal a little over a month ago and workload has gone down substantially while maintaining accuracy. I should have normalized my settings much sooner so I could have a lower workload sooner, but it sure is nice to have accuracy still peeking into the 90s some days. Overall, my RTK workload was over 400 cards for several months, now it is hovering around 250 and dropping. Since I made the change a little over a month ago, I’ve managed to increase mature cards from 500 to 750 which is amazing. In another 45 days I expect to have 50% of my RTK cards mature and a workload in the mid 100’s which will make more time for studying other things.
Moving on
I plan to do roughly my old lesson plan set back by several months. I’m still working on the plan so things may change. I’m still not not sure how I want to prioritize everything. One thing I’m considering adding is what I’m calling Easy Vocabulary™ because I believe I can make a list of words that I can learn much quicker than a normal vocabulary list. Basically easy vocabulary are words whose constituent kanji give a hint to both the word’s reading and it’s meaning. I will write more about Easy Vocabulary at another time because there is more to it than this. I’ve added the WIP plan below.
| Exercise | Cards* | Cumulative Cards* | Finish by* |
|---|---|---|---|
| jpod 101 dialogs | 119 | 209 | dec 2 44 to go 2/2/2017 |
| shirokuma vocab | 500 | 709 | jan 21postponed |
| Rtk lookalikes | 85 | 794 | TBDdone nov 4 |
| shirokuma manga | TBD | ||
| Easy Vocabulary™ | TBD |
* card counts could be WAY off which will obviously effect the schedule.
Postmortem:
Once again I’m a little behind the schedule I set for myself. I’m not sure exactly what happened. I didn’t take any breaks and I was pretty busy except for the week between christmas and new year. It’s probably because I estimated to liberally how many jpod101 dialogs I could get through in a day. Turns out even 2 a day are too many so I’m oscillating between 1 and 2 per day. Overall I was pretty happy until I revisited this list today so I think the list was a little ambitious.