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Well, that went as well as could be expected

Thanks to StudyCard Studio, I did okay on the kanji. Ito-sensei must be lazy: the questions were taken directly from the workbook, but with answers and questions swapped. And I, lucky devil that I am, did those self-same exercises just half an hour before the midterm, with no idea how useful they would truly be. Fortune smiled on me today.

That was the kanji. On the listening, I lost bigtime. As expected.

However, I did get the chance to use the passive form we just learned in an away message:

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nihongo no chuukanshiken ni watashi ga korosarete imasu.

I am being murdered by a Japanese midterm.

So will I learn from this experience, and not let myself fall behind anymore? Will I start taking Japanese seriously? Experience says no. Experience says I’ll delude myself into thinking it’ll work, with no real change to my habits. But, maybe this time, just maybe…

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One Response to “Well, that went as well as could be expected”

  1. jauricchio says:
    February 13, 2006 at 11:14

    Paul, in reply to your previous comment:

    I do like the Palm synchronization. I haven’t used it for a while, but I like that it’s available. It was great when I took the bus to work: a good thirty minutes (depending on traffic) with nothing to do.

    I used to use another Palm-only program, SuperMemo, but it didn’t make the transition to the Treo. Something about the updated PalmOS broke it badly. SuperMemo let you rate your knowledge of each card 1 (answer came immediately) through 5 (never seen it before) and adapted the intervals based on that. StudyCard only has correct/incorrect.

    I love the way they implement the Palm version. On OS X, you can have images and fonts and styles and all the Unicode craziness you want. How does that translate to the Palm, which probably doesn’t have the same fonts and certainly doesn’t have decent i18n? When you export to Palm, StudyCard renders each card as an image. The Palm version just displays images! So what you see on the Mac is what you get on the Palm, modulo lower resolution. An elegant solution, I think.