Week 5: slowdown

Adding sentences seems to be helping me to maintain interest, but my reviews and new cards are slowing down to a crawl. I'm trying to simply do a few each day, not worrying about amounts.

Week 4: Break

Following someone's advice, I stopped adding new cards this week so I could focus on catching up on reviews. Once I'm mentally ready, I'll start new cards again. Probably in the next day or two.

Week 3 : break the barrier

I kept thinking I was finally at where I quit previously, and then a card I remembered would pop up.

I'm at over #500... breathe. I can do this.

I'm getting lazy and impatient to be done, skipping cards instead of simply breaking up the practice throughout the day. I wonder if I would be better served by not intermingling new cards and review cards?

Week 2

Honestly, did not think I was going to succeed with 27 new words each day this week, which is a very bad thing for me. Once I skip once for no good reason, I quickly stop studying altogether.

I'm finding cards I found difficult before to be much easier but I'm not sure if that's because I've started breaking up my reviews throughout the day when it feels tough, or if it is because I've reviewed these kanji off and on throughout the years in previous attempts.

I think the fact that I'm hesitating less to use the easy button helps, I don't have quite as much of a glob of loads and loads of cards at one time weighing me down and discouraging me and distracting me from cards I really need to actually be reviewing. I always had this tendency to pick the sooner reviews for some reason, even if I immediately identified the correct kanji.

One thing that has been annoying me though, is sometimes the lack of clarity in the cards when I review. For example, is Heisig's keyword for 槙 "a plant" or "to plant"? I'm trying not to use the book, and have been relying on a deck that uses koohi user submitted stories, and I've seen both uses used between the two stories. That is not the only one.

I have made a few corrections but I'm afraid of distracting or discouraging myself too much, which is why I'm not using the book. I want to make it as simple and easy as possible to review the cards. Of course, it also doesn't help that my deck is modified and has cut many cards out anyway...