AltSci Cell

As with other posts in this series, this is the results of a test I took today, Friday, Aug 20th, 2021.

任 札 表 冷 責 貿 九 卒 嫌 務 棚 選 二 奥 商 行 元 受 押 易 担 拾 糸 育

This row took a week to learn. I got 5 wrong, one of which is of this row. I got 表 wrong, forgetting it having remembered it multiple days before. I drew chilly 冷 without the ice radical (type 2, loss of detail). I forgot shelf 棚 (type 3, forgetting). I drew first time, beginning 初 instead of beginning, former time, origin 元 because they are synonyms (type 1, synonym). I forgot pick up 拾 (type 3).

This week has been stressful and has involved a lot of work, depriving me of relaxing time to look at kanji and think about them. As such, this blog will be short. I will not apologize for content I create. Next row is row 31, the last of MIT OCW Japanese 5, which will mean I will have completed MIT OCW Japanese 1-5 in 98 days + however long it takes me to learn row 31 (started May 14, 2021). That's 14 weeks. Assuming that each Japanese course is intended to be taught in 10 weeks, that would mean I did 50 weeks of Japanese in 14 weeks (28% of the time). This misses the obvious classes, discussion, and homework, but I assume that my other learning compliments these tests well. Along with the tests, I'm reading Japanese for Busy People and listening to JapanesePod101.com lessons.

I just finished the listening part of JapanesePod101.com's Beginner course. That's a pretty big achievement because it means that I can start the Lower Intermediate course. It does not, however, mean that I have learned everything. I said I finished the listening part. The tests that determine whether I correctly understand the concepts conveyed clearly show that I do not retain even 50% of the material. Alas, such is learning. This is also true of kanji I have learned. If we do the math assuming the 10 kanji from lower rows is representative of the whole, I got 3 wrong (not counting 元 since I definitely know it, synonyms) so 70%. If we multiply 0.3 by 467 (the number of kanji in lower rows) we get 140.1. So of the 467 kanji, I may fail to write 140, which means my writing ability is around 467 * 0.7 = 327 kanji. Recognition I am close to 100%, so I don't have any problem reading the 467 kanji. Forming sentences is a problem I have because I haven't been working on that as much. Whenever JapanesePod101.com asks me to repeat after them I'm flustered. It doesn't help that I'm often walking while I listen, but it's pretty clear that my ability to come up with the words I want in Japanese is limited.

That's all I have for today. Thanks very much for reading.

I'll hopefully post all tests as I pass them. Wish me 運.

Previous episodes:
Learning to Read and Write Kanji
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 5
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 6
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 7
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 8
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 9
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 10
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 11
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 12
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 13
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 14
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 15
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 16
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Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 18
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 19
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 20
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 21
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 22
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 23
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 24
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 25
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 26
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 27
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 28
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 29

Javantea out.