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Smart.fm
For the last few days, 6 to be exact, I’ve been using smart.fm to help brush up, basically relearn, Japanese. “Why exactly are you learning Japanese?” you might be thinking, well it’s a rather long story and for another post (probably in the next couple of days).
Now smart.fm, for those that don’t know, is a language tutoring/drilling(rote) website that uses some rather interesting and entertaining ways to teach a person a new language as well as help others brush up on things they may have forgotten.
Basically you have multiple user generated/created lists and from those lists you run through a set number of words, that range from verbs, adverbs, nouns, ect. Each time you run through a list, or part of one, the pattern changes bringing new words first and recovering old ones near the end. For example from one of my lists I have 137 new (0%), 56 (1%-49%), and 7 (50%-99%), so far 0 are completed. This basically means the number of times you have run through single word vs. the number of times you answer correctly.
This above method is fine for me due to the fact I learn mostly through rote (repition). So far I’ve managed to cover quite a few words and kanji and they are sticking, for the most part. I will be using smart.fm to help but i’ll also be trying to read news, listen to music and watch some tv (using keyholetv), I also have a few other resources that I’ll be using (mostly a grammar book and a dictionary). Basically I’m trying a slightly different version of AJATT (All Japanese All The Time), one that I can work into my study saturated world. You can read up on AJATT at alljapaneseallthetime.com.
The only downside that I can see from using smart.fm is that it doenst help with writing, it does a small section for each item where you type in the hiragana, so I’ll have to work something out with that.
