掲示板 Forums - Something extra to help you memorise vocabs

Oh fun one
You could also use it at the end of quizz to quickly add a few sentences in another schedules for extra practice around the problematic words. Or the word you like. Or a secondary word schedules for the kanji whose meaning or readings are still not stable (a support schedule with to go through quickly).
Or also browsing the dictionary/sentences. Just taking some time after a quizz can "unlock" some words/kanji by understanding a single detail. No need to always plan additional review. I often do that with kanji for example. But one day before the quizz. Like I often browse the words that use a particular kanji to try to understanding the general or main meaning. Because the translation often shower you with meaning you don't need or are too rare and just useless even for japanese. It's doing its job as a "bilingual dictionary" but when you're learning, it's just... the worse x). At some point, I was so annoyed, I change the definition ("translation") of a few hundred kanji by removing everything except one or two words. It didn't cover everything but I was never able to remember everything to begin with. Still can't. Ask me all the definitions ("translations") of 掛ける and I won't be able to answer you (even if I'm able to use it).

Anyway, I'm getting off track
Thanks for sharing! =p

​This is a really good advice actually, thank you! Sometimes I save the most interesting sentences in a separate word file too, but populating a new schedule with said sentences sounds useful indeed. I'll give it a try!

That is a nice idea! I will definitely try it someday.

​Oh yeah definitely. To be fair sometimes I don't even complete the review of this file in the same day. Sometimes the next one, another time I just delete it and start again from scratch cause it's late and/or I don't feel like it. But what I like about this method is that it forces you to type words multiple times, and since this is not a file where you keep adding stuff, but you reset quite often, you just keep doing it.

At first, I also had doc files I made for vocabs, but then I realised I never went back to those and it took me too much time. Different story for grammar, it's quite handy to come back to my notes when I have doubts. 漢字 mmh, I like the idea of having files where I type the readings and words nice and tidy, but when I review them I just use the app and go through the terms of a schedule usually. I do keep notes of vocabs and grammar I find in games/movies and so on though, as a separate thing.

I've been making notes on my mobile device I primarly use, but mainly for the grammar side of things, and it comes with extra steps. Each note file is basically its own topic...which gets a little disorganized after a while. And there's enough of them to need some cleaning up. Especially since some have some cross between them at times. Its a bit of a mess, but I have a basic format.

While I'm kind of on a study hiatus, I figured I'd resume a project of taking these notes and trying it into a book to organize it. I finally got around to figuring out how to upload them in bulk into a text file which somehow miraculously never lost the formatting. I'm gonna stick with that. I used to have to remotely cut and paste each file, which loses a bunch of the firmatting I wanted. Also, it's because I'm using Word 97, a part of the only software suite I use on other machines for portability, and I don't have restrictions on using it. The downside is there's no way I can get furigana, so I'm adapting.

It's still in the WIP phase of things, as I'm trying out stuff, but I found that way of things has worked for me to make it easier to reference. I've come across so much stuff for research in this learning process, that it gets rough trying to navigate and get the right picture. I'm taking the initiative to fix that, and still do what I do.

Theobaldus (07月1日, 15:38)

Icepick87 (07月1日, 20:26)

Also, it's because I'm using Word 97, a part of the only software suite I use on other machines for portability, and I don't have restrictions on using it. The downside is there's no way I can get furigana, so I'm adapting.

​Not sure if this can help, but when I add furiganas in my notes in general I just add those in an extra line on top and make the font tiny (7.5-8) compared to the size of the standard text below (12). Now that it's above, you can also move it as little as you can with a trick. Insert a blank space before the furigana you're moving. Now select said blank space and change the size of the font. This way, you'll be reducing only the size of the empty blank space, and it's quite useful to place the furiganas on top of the 漢字 with more precision. In the picture below I went from 7.5 to 5.5 to get the desired effect.

As an all purpose word editor, I often use WPS for taking "serious" notes. The base version it's free.

Hope this helps!

​The trouble with that is the way it's formatted, I need it to line up with the text for it, even if I assume that every other line is used to put in for "furigana". I can already figure out formatting, but this is much more tedious and laborious to do manually when I could just simply use kana in places on the same line or somewhere, or sparingly by relying more on me remembering readings.

Plus, that doesn't play well with cut and paste as it is. It's a process that just isn't automated. So I just try to avoid it as much as I can and worry less.