Previously I used to add sentences after I’d done all my reps. Going through the articles one by one, whenever I came across an interesting sentence I would stop, copy it into the SRS, look up any unknown words, add them as the answer, press Add. And then and only then would I get back to the article. As you can see, this frequently hampered my speed of reading and my enjoyment of the articles. Plus I felt some sort of pressure, looking at the number of sentences added and thinking “I need to add 23 more to make up my quota for the day!” which further lessened my enjoyment.
So for the past couple of days I’ve switched up my way of doing things. I created a new Word document that I leave open all day. When I find a good sentence, I copy and paste it into the document and then just keep moving. No need to analyze, no need to look things up. If there’s a kanji I don’t understand I leave it for the next day, unless it gets in the way of my understanding. When all that’s done, when I open up my SRS the next day, before I do my reps – not after, because sometimes reps take forever and then I tend to get lazy – I add all the sentences one by one, looking up the words as I go. This has the added advantage of giving me an “extra” repetition since I’m seeing the sentence again after the previous day. It’s been working pretty great so far.
The hunt for good radio programs continues! And I haven’t been able to make myself watch any of the j-dramas I downloaded, because I really don’t like j-dramas! But I can watch them alright when I’m super-duper bored. I just haven’t had any of those days in quite a while, so I just keep stockpiling and stockpiling. And that’s all for today.
