Hooray I'm halfway trough the kanji.
My learning speed for the kanji has dropped a bit but at an average of 22 per day it's still going well.
At this speed it will take me 50 more days. My speed might drop a bit more as the amount of reviews per day is also slowly going up.
It's about 150 per day now instead of always below 150, it doesn't take me longer though as I can answer the mature cards a lot quicker.
The mature card count is over 10% now, so I can say I know 220 kanji now.
I got the anki deck fixed quite nicely. It's now Japanese with male and female audio to English.
I tried to get separate cards with kana and kanji but that didn't work well, so now it's just both kanji, kana and audio on the front side and English on the back.
I'm still learning the new cards in memrise itself, but I'm glad that I can review in anki now.
I got memrise exported to anki. But it's not in the way I want it yet. The cards are from English to Japanese and I want it the other way around.
Apparently you can only reverse the cards on the desktop version.
The cards also contain romaji which I don't want.
I would also like to split up the kana and kanji into separate cards.
I decided to continue the memrise course and completed part 1. I also selectively did a few parts from part 2 and 3.
Like the colours, numbers, weekdays etc.
I like memrise a lot for learning new things but not really for reviewing them.
Apparently there is a extension for Chrome to import to anki.
If I can get that working that would be nice.
Meanwhile I will continue selectively working trough part 2 and 3. With on top of the list the countries.
I'm starting to like the duolingo course. I still think it's too difficult to use duolingo from the start. But I think I'm at a decent enough level now to effectively use it.
I got my tree completely gold till the first checkpoint.
I did most of the lessons till the second checkpoint but I think they are still too hard for me.I will probably slowly start to work on them though and see if I will feel more confident after a few weeks.
Meanwhile I keep on learning my kanji in anki. I am at 840 so far and at my current speed I will finish in about 2 months.
I decided to do a little experiment with the core 2000.
I went trough part 2 till 10 in only 2 days. This wasn't very enjoyable of course and I doubt I learned much of the words.
But I interesting how the daily reviews are being affected by it.
The first few days were an overload of reviews of course. But now less then a week later it already starts looking a lot better.
It's still in the hundreds of course but I'm quite interested how quickly it will drop to about 100 a day.
I click easy on all sentences so they get pushed forward quite quickly. With the words I click hard on the ones I don't know and good on the ones I know.
This means the daily load will be mostly the hard cards in a few weeks.
I guess this would work terrible if I was actively trying to learn these cards instead of just clicking without really thinking. But I doubt learning the core words along the kanji works well anyway.
There a few ways to realistically deal with this :
1. Spend 100% of the effort on kanji first and then 100% on the words.
2.spend 90% on kanji and 10% on words, and after that 100 on the remaining words.
3. 50% kanji and 50% words and finish at the same time.
And the unrealistic way I'm dealing with it right now :
4. Spend my attention on learning the kanji at a manageable speed and spend time without attention on words in an unreasonable speed. And only start paying attention after I finish the kanji.
For the kanji 20 to 30 cards is quite doable. For the words I assume it would be an higher number as they also contain those same kanji. Let's assume between 50 and 100.
I will do some calculations later to see how long option 1 would take.
I assume option 2 and 3 will be slightly slower.
I'm not sure yet how I would calculate option 4 but I will think about it.
So I added core 2000 to my anki decks. And finished part 1 already.
I didn't want to deal with the sentences yet so I just clicked easy on. They will quickly be pushed forward a lot while I review the words.
I guess I will review for a few weeks before I start on part 2.
Every part contains 200 words and 200 sentences which includes those words.
I don't know if it's a smart idea to do both the kanji and the core 2000 at the same.
