I Learned French in 12 Months

Re:I Learned French in 12 Months by jason0597 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @02:07PM (#22343198)

> Started consistently covering 50 new words a day on Anki

That's a lot! I could never do that... I'm learning Japanese, and I could never imagine myself doing more than 10 words a day.

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Re:I Learned French in 12 Months by laurieg on Sunday February 16, 2020 @05:23PM (#22344114)

The author definitely benefits from French and English being related languages. Remembering that "interesting" is "intéressant" takes a lot less effort than remembering it is "おもしろい".

I studied Japanese full time for a year and would probably average something like 20 word a day but even that was pushing it. I advise people to aim for 3-5 words a day and be consistent. Adding huge amounts of words very quickly and then giving up on reviewing them is all too common.

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Re:I Learned French in 12 Months by wes1350 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @08:56PM (#22344955)

Author here. You're absolutely correct. Make that deck 5000 non-cognate words and 50 words a day quickly becomes unsustainable. Not to mention the alphabet(s) required for a language like Japanese. French is a language I think any decently well-read person (so as to recognize many of the cognates) can learn vocabulary in surprisingly quickly, considering how much of English vocabulary is derived from French.

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Re:I Learned French in 12 Months by Hamuko on Sunday February 16, 2020 @03:14PM (#22343505)

I'm doing Japanese vocab on Anki and I have it set to the default 20 words per day. I'd say it's still pretty doable, although I do have relearn every day.

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