It’s Saturday! And a very important day in my life. Which is why I’m sitting behind my computer blogging about Japanese. …Okay, now I feel silly. Back to the Wii to finish some games.
About Anki though, it’s an SRS system that, unlike Khatzumemo, allows you to upload pictures, sound and other files, not just text. Based on the experiments in this AJATT post, I managed to obtain (ahem) a text-to-speech program called NeoSpeech, and I’ve been using it to convert some of my sentences to spoken Japanese. The results, as might be expected, are extremely wooden in all but a few cases. That doesn’t matter though, because I’m not using the sentences for listening practice. I’m using them for writing practice. I put the sentence – picked out of my usual reps – in Neospeech, put the result in the question portion of Anki, and put the written sentence in the answer portion. My task is to accurately reproduce all the kanji and other portions of the sentence correctly just by listening to the spoken word. It’s pretty challenging, though. I’ll have to try it for a few more days before giving a better verdict, but it has potential as a drilling method.
And that’s all for today.
