I'm having a hard time keeping my attendance rate up and my oblivion words down. I'm frustrated… - Feed Post by CodyChan
I'm having a hard time keeping my attendance rate up and my oblivion words down. I'm frustrated as all get out. My friend asks me why I even bother with this site. I've found it very helpful, yet I almost dread visiting it. Any ideas on how I can work this out? Perhaps I'm focusing on the wrong things here. S.O.S ＼(ﾟｰﾟ＼)
posted by CodyChan
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hello, thank you very much for finding JCJP useful.
One of the purposes of JCJP is to make your Japanese learning to be more fun. So please take it easy. Too many oblivion lists might seem intimidating, I remember there were some users complaining about the same thing.
What I would do, you can just ignore the oblivion list and focus on moving forward to gain more EXP, level up, and learn more vocabularies and kanji as you proceed.
I'm thinking to remove oblivion list and only let it work on the background of JCJP system. What do you think about this?
oblivion is useful because it helps me remember forgotten characters. maybe take away the new instead cause i find that difficult but that's your choice. じゃね
It's all about habits, I've found. Once you get in the rhythm of attending regularly, it's much harder to skip days because it's just sort of part of your routine (and by extension your oblivion will remain a manageable size normally). Just find a time that works for you and stick with it. You'll see it only gets easier the more days in a row you study (even if your study time starts at almost midnight every day like mine does lately :D )
@beeant While the oblivion list may seem a bit intimidating or even demotivating for newcomers, for others (me at least) it may serve as a tool for planing their next reviews and to know when it's about time to progress with new lessons. It would be better to give users the choice to display or hide their oblivion list instead of completely removing it.
From my personal experience, Motivation is a finite resource.
虎穴に入らずんば虎子を得ず。If you do not enter the tiger's cave, you will not catch its cub.
You have to be willing to set a goal and sacrifice the time you have now to venture forward and accomplish the task that you set out to do. This will separate you from those that talk from those that do.
Set yourself up a plan, Set a goal of how many words/kanji phrases you can/will learn a week. It can be one or 100. You just need to be consistent, we learn by behavior. If we don't repeat something, we eventually lose out on it.
This site should be a part of your curriculum, but not the whole 9 yards. Use flash cards/PodCasts/Anime, Just try to get as involved as you can. TRUST ME this will be rewarding for you for just following this behavior, because not only will have learned japanese, but you will have also gained the gift of behavioral learning and that can applied in more ways than you think :)
tl;dr Consistent learning in many different ways is helpful, don't be in the pits, Set yourself goals/tasks and meet them anyways possible!- @armerala @rblopes, thank you for actually finding the oblivion list useful. I also like the oblivion system myself, but I also find it intimidating, and demotivated to clean that large number of items in oblivion. Especially when a lot of them are the words I have already mastered.
Ok, I'm not gonna remove the oblivion list for now. I will think of a way to make it less intimidating, or replace it with something better that serve the same purpose. Do you have any ideas? - no sorry but if i do I'll let ya know
