/jp/ - Otaku Culture

any epub reader for linux capable of displaying vertical text?

so what is everyone here's process while reading?

when you run into something you don't understand, do you just skip it and move on? or do you stop and look it up (using google, 日本語文型辞典, dojg, etc.)?

i've been lazily just skipping shit and telling myself i'll figure it out eventually but i'm pretty disappointed by the level i'm at based on how long i've been learning so i'm thinking that my approach may not have been the best one...

What is the optimum # of new cards per day?

Doing 40 even with a retention rate as low as 65% will net you close to 9,500 memorized cards per year, whereas 20 a day with a retention rate of 90% will only net you around 6,500 by comparison.

Though obviously, the more cards you do per day, the more reviews you're going to get, and the more likely you're going to be to burnout or get overwhelmed and have your memory start dumping as a result, so it's not so simple as just "more new cards/day = better".

Has anyone actually done any serious experimentation with this? Everyone just seems to timidly stick to the default rate of 20, and given how unoptimized most of Anki's default settings are, I can't help but wonder if this is really the best possible setting to use.

Does anyone here also speak Korean? I would like to learn both Korean and Japanese eventually. Would it be practical to try and learn both at the same time, or is that a bad idea? How similar are they to each other (or more specifically, would learning one help me learn the other)? Which one is easier to learn or makes a better starter language? Thanks.