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In my last post , I reviewed Anki, a flashcard srs (spaced repition system) program that is almost essential for language learning. Now, I'm going to talk about the most common ways to use this flashcard program, as people have come up with ingenious ways to use this program to help them learn that I for one wouldn't have thought of by myself, but I'm a bit slow I think. The most obvious way to use flashcards is to memorize facts. When I was in second grade, our teacher was obsessed with using flashcards to teach us math. We would have contests and competitions over these flashcards and who could get the most right or recall the answer fast enough. To share a little secret with you, math and I still don't get along, despite the flashcards. When learning a language and being told to make flashcards, most people try to make flashcards in the same way that they use them for mathematics or science, or any other subject. You write out the Japanese word on one side and the En...

I was trying to decide what I should do for my first Friday Review series, if that name even sticks. At first I thought, "Everyone watches anime, so I'll do that!" However, then I thought, "If this is going to be unique, I should start out with something other than the usual anime or video game review," so I decided to do a combined review for 1 Litre of Tears , both the drama and film because they're both amazing. I was planning on doing GTO , but I'll have to do that one next time. Firstly, both of these are different adaptations of the same true story. That is, our story's heroine, Aya Kito (Aya Ikeuchi in the drama) was a real person who suffered from the disease spinocerebellar ataxia. For as long as she was able to hold a pen, she consistantly wrote in her diary. After her death at the age of 25 (she was diagnosed when she was 15), her mother published the diary. Well, I've also read that she actually had it published shortly before Aya...