1. (roughly) how many schedules of each type do you have?
2. If it's more than 1 of each, why do you have that many? As a followup, what is presenting you from combining them into a smaller number (or a single) number of schedules?
1. At present I have 5 vocab and 3 kanji schedules.
2. One reason I have multiple schedules is because it feels good to have the materials from different sources separate. For instance I have separate schedules for kanjis that I study from the jlpt and the kanji kentei lists. Also, suppose I'm reading a book, I create a separate schedule for the vocab and kanji I encounter there.
As for what prevents me from combining them, like I said it feels good to have things clearly differentiated so that it's easy to judge exactly how far I've progressed or how many terms are remaining in a particular schedule. It's also a psychological thing (at least for me). Seeing a schedule with say 200 terms to study overwhelms me... I'd rather split it into two schedules with 100 terms to study each. Plus many of the terms in my different schedules overlap, so it's like a bonus when I study one schedule and go to another to find that the number of terms has lessened. :P
Having said that, I remember a couple of years ago I wanted to combine two schedules and the reason I didn't was because I couldn't find how to do it... it isn't very obvious to a new user I think.
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3 vocab 3 kanji
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1 Kanji and 1 Vocab are materials from a specific source that I added manualy... but they are redundant now so I think I will delete them soon.
The others are meant to keep study styles separated:
- I have a vocab schedule for all the vectors except Listening
- I have another vocab schedule for Listening only
This is because sometimes its not possible for me to practice listening - either lack of headphones or noisy environment.
For kanji is a bit similar:
- I have a schedule for kanji-def, def-kanji (I give this one priority over the next one)
- I have another schedule for kanji reading vectors (I rather do this one on desktop than on mobile)
1.At the present moment 3 Vocab Schedules & 3 Kanji schedule,but I expect them over time to became 5 Vocab & 5 Kanji schedules.
2.Each of my schedules is a level of JLPT & I get used to create a new schedule when I start a new level,never thought of creating a single schedule. Probably the pro of having a single schedule would be that I step out from the habit of knowing what answer jlpt5 schedule is expecting from me,so my brain cannot exclude a lot of words knowing for example that are answers for the jlpt4 schedule, the bad thing would be waking up & finding 600 items to review into a single schedule,that could be a little discouraging.
EDIT: I also have a 2 schedule for a game I was playing & where I add manually words & kanji encountered in there,but is a bit I don't play it,though I plan to go back to it as soon as I know enough words to play confidently.
1. 2 Vocab, 3 Kanji
2. So I have probably an unusual way of going about it. Vocab and Kanji each have one list I study from and one list I use to store terms I don't need to bother with anymore. I made these to store the terms that were clogging my schedule, preventing me from spending more time on newer words/kanji. Granted, the easier terms are mostly higher mastery levels, so they come up less often, but when I first decide I know a term well enough to ignore it, it might not actually have high levels. (This was especially true when I first started using renshuu, and words like 男 and 木 had 0 mastery levels--I wanted them out of the way so I could learn new things.)
It's also nice to see the number of terms on these lists grow--I know exactly how many terms I've truly mastered.
Oh, this works because all the terms in the "easy" lists are hidden. It is inconvenient if I want to review them every once in a while, though--I would have to go through tens of pages un-hiding all the terms on each page.
The third kanji schedule is for obscure, archaic, or particularly difficult kanji terms like 鞠, 匁, or 梧 that don't seem to have any common words associated with them. I might come back to these after I've gone over all the more common kanji, but it'll be a while :)
And in closing, I don't combine them because that would be beside the point.
I currently have 10 vocab schedules and 11 kanji schedules.
I keep them separate for several reasons. First, I have 3-4 schedules that are listening-only, because it is not always possible to study listening wherever I am studying, so I save those for when I'm at home. On the others, it is mostly a visual/mental thing - I like having the schedule sizes smaller to keep each schedule down to 1-2 (40-question) quizzes apiece, instead of having one schedule that has to be quizzed a dozen times to get through. Seeing the large numbers is somehow more disheartening than seeing a bunch of smaller numbers ^^;;
Lastly, the different schedules are all from different sources - JLPT/漢検, books I read, random things I find daily... so it's nice to keep them separate to keep things from different sources in different places.
1. 5 vocab - 3 kanji
2. reasons for splitting:
a) different vectors
- for different set of kanjis i learn just the definition and with quite other i drill readings.
- "just typing" schedules i am able to solve faster, as there is less reading and no switching from one type of question to another. (i sometimes also change the settings between sessions for general schedules, but keeping one type of vector in one schedule is more convenient)
b) type of content - i have separated own names from meaningful words - i feel i have different mindset when learning each one
c) difficulty - just for time management - i need much more time for one study session to learn "hard" schedules
1. 18 vocab and 18 kanji.
2. Basically for organization and for the sheer number of terms. I prefer to take a large number of smaller quizzes over a small number of enormous ones.
I have my vocab schedules sorted by text (MNN, Genki, etc), test (KK, JLPT), and "free" terms. It helps me quickly quiz the easy stuff and frees up time to concentrate on the more difficult terms. My kanji schedules are sorted by test, 常用漢字, and "not in test". There are so many because I have each of the KK levels in a separate schedule. I'll probably begin combining them eventually, but I've been saying that for a while.....
2 vocab, 4 kanji. I've got one schedule for general vocab and one for yojijukugo (sometimes these show up in the general vocab too... but I often get them "wrong" when they do because I forget what term the question is looking for and provide a different synonym instead.) The kanji are split up into general kanji and then one schedule for each Kanken level 2 through 1, because each level adds so many new (really esoteric) kanji that I wanted to be able to "add" them all and then go through and unsuspend ones I wanted to study by level. Also, I too prefer multiple shorter schedules over one huge one - it's easier for me to timebox that way.
I have 7 different vocabulary mastery schedules. They include different vectors for testing the items. So, for instance, there's one that's just for kanji compounds whose readings pose special difficulties, so for that one the only vector is kanji to romaji. Another schedule is for katakana / borrowed foreign words, and I use that one especially to test meaning or audio to romaji. I have one schedule where I'm gradually introducing new items from the JLPT2 list, and I want to be able to control the rate at which new items come in, separate from my other schedule. One list includes words that I know, but for which I specifically don't want to be tested on the kanji. Anyway, I think you get the idea.
1. I have 5 vocab and 4 kanji.
2. Mostly it's to keep sources separate. I do tend to combine things once I've got a fairly reasonable level of mastery, though, to keep me from just knowing which things are in which list. But somehow, I feel that it's reasonable to separate out sort of "daily use" things that will all get jumbled together from things from specific sources (ie, Final Fantasy) because I know that, on an average day, there's only one place I'm going to encounter words like 飛行船.
1. I have 4 vocabulary and 1 kanji schedule.
2. From the 4 vocabulary schedules I only use 2, the other 2 are there for historic reasons. I didn't delete them, because there is no easy way to merge schedules or create a word list from the schedule for later use. I created them, because I wanted to learn a few words fast outside of my normal schedule. Because my schedules become easily filled with many words that I need to study, there was no easy way to manage that with one schedule.
My other two other vocabulary schedules are one for my regular vocabulary (JLPT + some private words) and one for learning to write kanji. In addition to the kanji schedule I tried a different approach to learn kanji or my ability to survive in Japan ;). My idea was to add words of kanji I know or words I need to read on my everyday life. Important for me was to really write the kanji down, so I use a mixed approach between the digital and analog world. I use the quiz question, write down the kanji on a paper and check with the correct answer if I did that right (to make that perfect I would need a "this answer was wrong" button for a correct answer, but that might only be me or there might be better approaches). Actually this method works really well for me in terms of learning even it's not very convenient. I also see that this approach might not be good for everybody. Every time I find a word I need/want to read, I add it to the list, especially focusing on combinations of kanji from which I already know some or all kanji.
1 vocab and 3 kanji. Vocab is for N3, since that's what I'm prepping for. Kanji schedules are as follows:
[list]
[li]Jouyou[/li]
[li]Jinmei-you[/li]
[li]Kokuji[/li]
[/list]
I've got them separate so that I can focus on specialized groups at a time or prioritize things if I want to. What would be nice though, actually, would be if I could tell it to [i]only[/i] test me on kanji included in the list when testing on it. I don't mind the Jouyou quizzes being a free-for-all, but the other two are specialized, and were set apart for a reason.
At this time I have 13 Vocab and 6 Kanji schedules (although this # varies).
I have some combined schedulles; but prefer to keep most text book, KK, JLPT, and user lessons as separate schedules. I frequently adjust my schedules by add/delete terms and lessons; having multiple schedules makes this easier. I also think this gives me a better grasp of how I am progressing .
