Memorize More Japanese by "Interleaving"

[@colingallaway5301]

I'll start interleaving my Anki decks from now on! This might be one of the best tips you've given out so far, but I also enjoyed the "Making Connections" video. In general, your "Japanese Tips with Koichi" series will be effective for learners of all levels.

[@Tofugu]

Colin Gallaway thanks! ♥K

[@jemuzu89]

This is a great talk. It totally makes sense. I often find it overwhelming when I launch Anki, and the first thing I see is a huge list of different Decks, and deciding which one(s) to tackle. Now I've created a "日本語" deck, and threw all of my other decks inside. Now when I launch Anki, I can simply study from the master deck containing everything from Kanji to sentences. Thanks a lot Koichi!

[@AniMeg4321]

Koichi, you sound like you have so much knowledge, you could do an entire Ted Talk session, haha.

[@memelad4233]

Im glad you started uploading again.

[@lyrablack6565]

I did not realize I was using this interleaving without knowing what it was. It is the best way for me to learn any subject since I was young :3

[@haggbard]

After watching this video I started a new Anki deck. I haven't studied japanese for a while and wanted to try something new this time around. Thanks for the tip, it gave me inspiration to start again.

[@TheMavenDojo]

Just realized that Mokujin (a character from a fighting game called Tekken) literally means Woodperson. lol

[@kaleahyoudou906]

Bro I know exactly who ur talking about💀

[@ElyseuSchenkel]

Wow ! Wanikani is exactly like this, perfect . You will to memorize some reading and after it you forget it and wanikani shows other reading and It´l make a strong conection in our brains and when you return to yourselve , you know 3 or 4 reading for the same kanji .. And using a pretty simple way like this ! Thanks Tofugu . こういち (y)

[@seestarsailer]

thanks for the tip ! i am writing my vocab in hiragana and kanji already but i will be adding the sentences as well

[@MicMic18]

You helped me so much Koichi! I have learned so much hiragana right now and I'm so so grateful!

[@exsparkxelraz5569]

How you learn it what kind of flashcards you used ? I'm wanting to make some hiragana and katakana flash cards i just made them a week ago been making samples but they don't feel right

[@MicMic18]

@@exsparkxelraz5569 I used Tofugu to learn and the cards repetition of them really helped me a lot

[@exsparkxelraz5569]

@@MicMic18 thank you 5 years later.

[@MicMic18]

@@exsparkxelraz5569 hehehe it still was helpful

[@25thofbaam7]

this is really helpful because i remember it when you was explaining and when you shuffle the cards i remembered the meanings

[@matsuringo24]

This is probably going to come off as some extreme shilling, but thank god for WaniKani. I'm way too lazy to do this shit physically or make my own SRS decks. I give that shit a 10/10 all day if you're new to Japanese and/or rebooting a previous attempt and have gone rusty.

[@jaminallen3119]

Thanks! Great. I'm gonna try it. 👌

[@Jadensound]

I'm Just starting my hiragana and I think this will help thx

[@jprspereira]

How did it go? :)

[@turt8560]

you fluent yet?

[@meliquinnxx]

so helpful thanks

[@PeterAStanton]

Interesting, but at 6:26 you said "they're going to go down together", however, when you get one wrong, you'll correct yourself and then when the other one comes up you'll get it right (even though you wouldn't have a minute ago). No? I find this happens with Wanikani (and I expect with Anki too, but I don't have as many reviews) and sometimes I burn something perhaps I shouldn't have.

[@yassinebargache6068]

said el houat..

[@subtilizer8907]

Do you have any advices for advanced japanese learners

[@princessthyemis]

This sounds AWESOME! Been studying for almost a year now, and without realizing it I HAVE been "batching" my decks and will definitely try this. However, creating all the decks by hand seems incredibly daunting, and I can't figure out how to work Anki.

[@TheWishDragon]

Is there a way to do this digitally, I do SRS with Anki but I'm not so sure how I would do this on paper because I have so many cards digitally and I'm worried that I'd make my place cluttered with paper (I'm a student so there's paper everywhere anyway haha). Maybe some lists and a random number generator? I dunno. Someone please reply if you can think of a good clean way to do it digitally. Thanks. :)

[@Tofugu]

TheWishDragon Just do it in Anki! ♥K

[@TheWishDragon]

Tofugu I'll work out a combined system for them. Thanks xD

[@Tofugu]

TheWishDragon If I'm not misremembering, I think there's a "combine all the decks into one deck" plugin to help automate this process too.

[@TheWishDragon]

Tofugu I remember that! Thanks again. ^^

[@MissLiebelula]

Try cerego.com, for me the best for memory practice.

[@TheKaze1991]

probably it's a cool way to learn vocabulary and kanji in one big bowl, but i just imagined how much time it needs to prepare all the cards for radikals, kanji and vocab. i mean not on beginner level but like intermediate or upper-intermediate...

[@jmacalangi]

Does anyone have or know of any interleaved Nihongo decks that they are willing to share? I'd like to try it out before making my own. It sounds effective to me.

[@elliephillips7218]

Hey, can anyone recommend me some good Anki decks? I’m struggling to find good ones

[@weebo2328]

I do them myself... I don't know if there is another way...

[@psychoticwater8110]

simple, effective sounding.....and why didn't i think of something like this sooner XD nice man I'm starting doing this once i have pulled enough vocab to make enough cards O_O

[@eratonysiad2582]

Also, I've got both my kanji and my vocabulary in separate decks, but it takes 5 minutes to complete both, so would it really make a difference?

[@thorkik]

Chris vd. Heijden If you are using kanji you can make a deck to put them both under, it's fairly easy. And yes, it will make a difference (at least in my experience)

[@Tofugu]

Chris vd. Heijden because your decks are going to get bigger, and, it's just nice when you see two connected items one after the other by chance.

[@eratonysiad2582]

It's not. I've got separate decks for N4 and N5.

[@Tofugu]

Chris vd. Heijden combine them!

[@eratonysiad2582]

Tofugu But then they become huge.

[@amyelevens]

Thank you for this video it's pretty relevant to things I've been thinking about while studying. I do use the interleaving technique! However, sometimes it feels like I'm cheating when a vocab word will come up with a kanji in it that I know I've seen, and I may know the meaning, but do not remember the reading of, but then later in that review session the kanji itself will come up and I'll get it right because of seeing that vocab word that used it earlier. Like, if I hadn't have seen the vocab word on that day, I would've probably gotten the kanji wrong. Does that make sense? Anyway, I do generally feel like this technique helps a ton.

[@Tofugu]

d I think that's okay - that actually illustrates why this method is actually good. You're making those connections, and it only feels like cheating because it's working so well ;)

[@Gumigee]

Where do you get those cards? I need them especially for kanji.

[@emmared1426]

Those are just colored pieces of paper and he wrote kanji on them. You can buy the paper in bookstores or you can even print out what you need and just use scissors to make them into flashcards.

[@Gumigee]

Emma Red Thank you, after some searches I found some good ones, hard paper like. Pff...love them.

[@emmared1426]

+Kertesz Lv No problem :)

[@AndrewKelley]

I know far too many (incorrect) facts about Koichi from WaniKani mnemonics. It's strange seeing him in reality being a normal person.

[@Ariz04]

that intro tho

[@TheMindofagenius1]

does anyone who is subscribed to the Tofugu mailing list think the "こんにちは”s in the beginning are becoming weirder and weirder? especially the latest one with this video in it xD

[@Tofugu]

***** no comment

[@TheMindofagenius1]

Tofugu HAHAHAHAHAHA xD

[@Dre2Dee2]

*spots the Tofugu shirt* ... GIIIIVE D:

[@moshimoshiumeboshi]

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[@Dre2Dee2]

... THAAANKS D:

[@quotestrange]

Oh I see. If you studied the separately, it would be more confusion

[@falsevacuum4667]

I really don't like radicals..

[@eratonysiad2582]

What's the green card?

[@emmared1426]

Nothing. It's empty

[@eratonysiad2582]

What's on the other side?

[@emmared1426]

+Chris vd. Heijden Most likely...nothing. It's just there. Why is it so important to figure out the "mistery" of the green card?

[@eratonysiad2582]

Cause it's there. That's why. If there's a gun hanging on a wall in a movie, it'll have to fire sooner or later, or you don't put the gun there.

[@emmared1426]

+Chris vd. Heijden ...Or you put it there for decoration

[@osakaben10]

this video didn't make any sense at all(sad to say) this guy was all over the place and i didn't see how this could be a system at all...i hate to nitpick. but, it just seems that he wasted all of his time to make flash cards in categories then just mix them all up with no strategy at all. i'lll try memrise and other aps.