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Anki – Brute Force Learning

Brute force is charging in without a Plan. A plan being taking 4-6 hours to arrange things and work out how these problems fit in…

2 Consecutive Calligraphy experiments

I added the Stroke Order Gifs to my Deck. I’m learning why the Brush Pen has to be perpendicular to the paper, and I have…

2384 cards to Master. 1192 Words in all.

1192 words is equal to HSK 1-4. its not the 1200 words it should be because some Words have synonyms that is part of one…

Analytics: I was hoping it was going to go down.

I was hoping the red was going to go down over time. Still my review is 200+ cards every day. My thesis is that as…

Not yet Mastered the HSK 4 Words.

I thought I mastered HSK4 (1200 words) months ago.   But when I downloaded the 2012 HSK http://www.chinesetest.cn/index.do from the official website I’m shocked by the…

No more Pleco. Anki moving forward.

My strategy for this Study Leave was to migrate from PLECO to ANKI. I theorized that Migrating from Pleco to Anki would save me 1…

Todays Progress – Migrating from Pleco to Anki

Tomorrow, 191210,  I will be using ANKI as my daily driver.  Problem: Cannot Uninstall Anki 2.0 – I forgot how I installed it. I didn’t…

Results of my First Day of Leave and Studies.

Reddit Thread I’ve started migrating from Pleco to Anki because there are key features that are easier in Anki than in Pleco. but Pleco is…

180 days maximum in SRS

Until I can use the new Word Daily, I believe my maximum Score in any SRS system would be 180 days or 6 months. This…

ANKI studies

The Anki Documentation Page was very helpful in helping me troubleshoot my problems today. The videos from the page had much clearer audio than the…

Finished a Notebook, Starting a new one.

I use only one side of a page because I like the feeling of a new undamaged page. I need to plan how I’m going…

Focusing on HSK 2 Exam.

So I’m discontinuing my Profiles of BizIT and Others to focus more on my HSK 2 exam preparation. Lately I’ve felt that I’ve forgotten a…

Health and studying

For me to study I need to wake up at around 5am, it seems. For me to wake up at 5am and not get sick…

Finished Pimsleur mandarin 1 (17.5 hours)

I just finished Pimsleur 1 mandarin. I hope I can finish the second one and apply for HSK 1 exam. More importantly I hope to…

NPCR’s Accent is a REALLY BIG HURDLE to get over.

 The difference between the accents of NPCR reader and some of my material is really strong. One is really designed for non-chinese listeners by the…

Cutting Back on Chinese Vocabulary Studies and Focus on HSK 1 Preparation.

Its very painful to cut back in the Vocabulary Studies. But I have to. Like the Duo Lingo which I quit after hitting 370 day…

Chinese Studies Update, Cisco Update. Sharex Desktop recorder

Chinese Studies Update September 22 2018 to October 1 2018 is 9 days from Today. Thats 17 words at 10,000k points (100 days till next…

Updates: 中语学习，Studies, Experiments,

Chinese Studies Update. 168 words left until I learn all of HSK4 (this assumes i learned all of HSK 3 which i think i did…

Realizations, Sisyphean

Realizations are Maxims, Policies and Mental models  1) We are almost never ready. So its best to think of situations considering – can we fail…

Chinese Studies December 19 to Feb 16

Update Yesterday to December 19.  from 5mm grid squares to 3mm. The Chinese in hello talk were always complaining about my how big my writing…

Installing Ubuntu Kylin 16.04.2 into ASUS X541N 15.6″ Notebook

Total Time of 2-3 hours.  Asus X541N  Intel 4 Core N3450 Procedure  Prepare the USB Boot Drive. I used Rufus in my Windows 10. Inserted…

汉语学业新笔记

so according to Pleco I’m at ~400 words learned. I’m not at the 600 word benchmark but a lot has changed. Especially as some words…

汉语学业新笔记

Since updates can derail me. I only do updates when i have nothing else to do. And since I can easily document my progress I…

Knowledge gets easier to keep, we build over it more frameworks

the implication of needing to only test for a piece of knowledge 1 in 10 days means in a week we can main a ton…

Evolution of my Chinese Studies

Personal Studies evolve. Because of changing circumstance, new information, trial and error, and personal life changes. So many better habits could have been learned prior…

汉语学业新笔记

Pleco scoring is 100 is default,  doubles even correct answer -40% every incorrect answer the score determines how many days till next time the card…

汉语学业新笔记 158字

汉语学业新笔记

Currently i have an ongoing understanding of Spaced Repetition and its peculiarities.  My Pleco Settings Profile Name. Meaning only. HSK 1-3 (600 words) Basic Settings…

汉语学业笔记

早星期我练习章一直到五。我练习两章每机会。我应该八十百分去练习下章。我希望练习直到二十四。我希望会写我的制造业学业。

中文学习笔记

今天我练习了汉字加语章一直五。我练习了一共三天。我完实用汉语课本章十。明天我应该上再章六至七。I need to migrate my desktop to chinese but I need to fix the text to be MUCH bigger. Like 14-16 font size big.