Thank you for your reply! Japanese Kanji are a bit special to learn, because you have to *train your visual recognition*. When you see a word, like 調整, then you should be able to know its meaning and reading almost instantly, and without any uncertainty.
The reason for this is a bit hard to explain it, so here is an analogy: Imagine you are illiterate, and you want to learn the latin alphabet. Imagine you use ONLY mnemosyne for learning (no additional book reading), and repeat every character in intervals of, let's say 1-5-10-20 days. Imagine that after about 2-4 repititions you start to confuse each character with other characters, because some look really similar to others, so you rate them 0 and start over again and again. Imagine that after about 30 days you remember about 80% of the characters, but it takes you about 10 seconds to remember each character, and you mix up 20% of the characters with other characters. Now you start reading a book - it will take you one minute to read a single word, and because in most words there is at least one character you confuse, you are unsure what each word and each sentence means. Disencouragements: 1) You keep confusing characters, so you have to restart learning by grading them 0, sometimes over and over again 2) Actual reading will take you a very long time 3) While reading, you are constantly unsure if your visual recognition is right or not The analogy with the latin characters doesn't fit perfectly, because in Japanese you have about 2000 characters, and each character may be read different depending on the context. A problem for non-japanese learners is that you aren't confronted with text in daily life that much, so you won't train your visual recognition along the way. I hope that explains why you have to repeat Japanese Kanji MUCH more often than other learning items :) And I think setting the initial easiness to 1.5 might do the trick. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/510302c8-1784-4d6e-8bfd-877bcfd88881%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
