Japanese: Week 19

1693 suspended cards to go. Yeah, that’s an decrease of only about a hundred. I once again got distracted from enabling the cards by other projects. Oops.

On a more positive note, I acquired a collection of 8555 sentences in a shared deck for Anki, so I should be able to find sentences for a lot more words, now. The English translations that came with them seem a little suspect, unfortunately. I’ll have to try not to rely on them too much.

Also positive: I’m not having much trouble with the cards that I am enabling, and I’m blowing right through my daily reviews. Which, actually, is kind of bad since it means I haven’t been adding as many as I could have. Well, I knew that already.

Japanese: Week 18

Just a little to write today. 1804 suspended cards remain. I’ve been a little too conservative re-enabling them, but I was afraid of causing a repeat of my previous failure. I’ll try enabling them at a quicker rate in the coming week.

One tangential note: some time ago I bought a fountain pen, in large part to use during my Japanese practice. I’d previously been using some cheap gel pens, but a few quick estimates indicated that a fountain pen would be cheaper over time, and (I hoped) more comfortable to boot. I’ve been using it ever since, but tonight it ran out in the middle of a review session, so I grabbed a gel pen. The difference was amazing–the fountain pen was so much smoother and easier to write with. I’d quite forgotten how poorly other pens wrote since I’ve been using my fountain pen exclusively. So, a couple of dollars for a cheap fountain pen and eight dollars or so for a bottle of ink were a great investment, I think.

Mushroom Season

It’s early in April, which means tasty mushrooms are making an appearance.

We’ve found the first mushrooms of the year today; may we find many more.