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A good way to practice is to tell your wife not to translate, so you have no choice but to figure out what is going on yourself. When your brain knows it needs to do so, you’d be amazed at how quickly it stats to comply.

Check out the following links:

Guide for using Anki 2 with TextFugu:

http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/guide-to-using-anki-2-with-textfugu/

Track your progress and share your ideas/concerns when you finish a season (gain a level ^_^):

http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/textfugu-season-completions-for-great-motivation-of-heart

List of additional Japanese resources you may find helpful:

http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/japanese-learning-resources/

List of Common Errors in TextFugu:

http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/common-errors-in-textfugu/

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Yay! It’s working. ^_^

Weird. I don’t know how I wouldn’t have noticed that before.

Thanks for that. ^_^

@Admiral Awesome – Has this answered your questions?

I found that when I turn off the option to bury related cards it works properly. Only creating one of each card. I still don’t know why it would create two when the option is selected though…

Welcome to TextFugu and Happy New Year!

That’s some amazing progress, especially if you are doing WaniKani as well! @_@

Check out the following links:

Guide for using Anki 2 with TextFugu:

http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/guide-to-using-anki-2-with-textfugu/

Track your progress and share your ideas/concerns when you finish a season (gain a level ^_^):

http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/textfugu-season-completions-for-great-motivation-of-heart

List of additional Japanese resources you may find helpful:

http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/japanese-learning-resources/

List of Common Errors in TextFugu:

http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/common-errors-in-textfugu/

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Welcome to TextFugu and Happy New Year!

Good luck getting into J 3-4. ^_^

Check out the following links:

Guide for using Anki 2 with TextFugu:

http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/guide-to-using-anki-2-with-textfugu/

Track your progress and share your ideas/concerns when you finish a season (gain a level ^_^):

http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/textfugu-season-completions-for-great-motivation-of-heart

List of additional Japanese resources you may find helpful:

http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/japanese-learning-resources/

List of Common Errors in TextFugu:

http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/common-errors-in-textfugu/

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While you’re focusing on lessons, don’t sit and think about it. Wait maybe 3 seconds tops if you think you almost have it, but still hit Again if it takes that long. If nothing’s happening just hit Show Answer. That said, make sure you do properly read the answer once it comes up, and repeat the meaning a few times quickly in your head, while looking at the Japanese.

The key to this is signaling to your brain that it doesn’t have time to go pull it out of the backroom, it needs to be able to access the data quickly. If your brain knows this is needed, it will generally start behaving accordingly.

This is one of the reasons that songs are easier to remember. A song has a temporal and rhythmic structure to it. If you break this structure, the song doesn’t work and it’s ruined. You brain is keyed into that. If you had to stop and think about the right words every time, you wouldn’t ever be able to sing a song without going through it in your mind beforehand. So your brain knows that in order to do it properly, you have to be able to access that info quickly without contemplation, and thus it complies. You may need a key to trigger it first, which might be a tune or a few words of the song, but then your brain goes BAM and spews the rest out, often times even if you don’t want it to. :P

There’s a lot more things that make songs easier to remember, but this is a big part of that near auto-recall, which is what you want to harness when listening to and speaking common words.