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I have this idea that I just can’t get out of my head. So I wanted to ask if any one of you has tried this.
Plastering your house with Japanese vocabulary cards.
I make flashcards for myself, but I have been slacking when it comes to practicing. So I got the idea that I’d take those cards and put them on the doors, cupboards, fridge, walls, and hang them near the T.V. and appliances. I want some to be in English, so I’ll have to recite the Japanese translation aloud; and some in Japanese, so I have to read it in Japanese and then recite what it means in English.
I have no other way to practice ‘immersion’. (Not counting Team Speak, since I can hardly ever make it on there.)
I sort of did that for a while by carrying half index cards with me all the time. Sometimes certain vocab just doesn’t want to stick so putting it in front of my eyes all the time works for me.
When I got my iPod Touch I installed the Japanese keyboard then downloaded a free app called Flashcardlet.
Creating several small ‘themed’ decks (10 to 25 cards per deck) I can then roll thru them when I have spare time since I always carry it with me. It’s not SM2 algorithm based like ANKI but you can ‘star’ cards and either include or exclude them from your study. I find that the wait period that ANKI starts giving me is too long after a while anyway.
It also uses Dropbox so I can also create the decks on my wife’s iPad (easier to type) then access them on the iPod Touch.
I use a different Dropbox acct than I use for ANKI just to keep things separate.
It’s amazing how much extra study time you can squeeze in say before a movie starts at the theater or if someone else does the driving.I don’t have a way to study when I’m not at home, at least not easily. I’m a klutz, so I always drop and\or lose my flashcards if I bring them out with me. (I don’t have any fancy i-products) Lol
I just started a new notebook, I hope that will be able to put study material in it for while I’m not driving at work. (I’m a trucker, sorta)
Flash cards are my favorite learning tool, as no one I know wants to help me. They get mad when they hold up something written English, and I say it in Japanese. They say something like “This is completely stupid. How am I supposed to tell you if you get it wrong? Why can’t you have (another person) do this for you instead!?” Yup, just what I need, a De-motivational speech form my parent\sibling\lover…. and they’ve all done it too.
That’s why I’m putting up all the flashcards around the house this week! I’m in the process of making 200 of them, so that I can ‘shuffle the deck’ around the house every couple of days.
Hopefully I won’t be ruining my pronunciation too badly. I find it very hard to practice that online, because it’s like talking over the phone, but with more echoes and erratic volumes. lol
My friends did that once, they got all my food and relabelled it all, it wasn’t japanese though, it was things like Girl Power, Dom’s Powdered Cabbage and stuff like that.
but I think the idea is fine, go round and relabel all your food in japanese, put japanese post it notes on the inside of every cupboard, put some vocab on the back of the bathroom door.
That’s exactly what I’m doing! ^_^ I wonder though, if I should keep it to just vocabulary, or if I should put a number of sentence cards up too. Some questions that I have to recite the answers to, part of conversations that I have to translate into Japanese, or from Japanese, or read in Japanese.
I have another thing I’d like to ask:
Should I write them out myself or make them on the computer and print them out?
I think it would be helpful to label all the stuff in your house. As in, sink, desk, table etc etc with the corresponding Japanese words. Also, it might be helpful to put sentences that are associated with what they are on. Like the fridge could have “I am hungry” or “open the fridge” etc.
Just ideas on top of whatever else you were thinking. :)
Yep. My wife would love that. ^_~ It is a good idea tho.
That sounds awesome! I’d get double to practice! I have to make it a rule.
“You can not advance until you perform the task on the Card”
I love it! Knowing me I’ll forget the one that’s over the toilet!
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