[T-970] This is better than standard sentence search

Dear Rine,

I added a new option to my SM ctrl + f3 setup. (For onlookers, here’s what ctrl + f3 does in SuperMemo.)

I have @WilliamPalace(GuillemPalau) to thank for this one:

https://youglish.com/ !

Here’s the description Mr. Palace posted in the resources channel:

You can search for a word and have youtube videos on specific timestamp where that word is pronounced plus the transcript. So you can get real world examples for the pronunciation of any word. About 15 languages are supported and in English you can filter by region American, Australian, British, etc.

The selection of 15 languages includes Japanese.

So you can just search for a word and it generates a time-stamped queue of Youtube clips where the word is said. Not only words, you can search for entire phrases. I find I get more results than I do with my usual sentence search engine, which is this one Raj told me about some time ago.

I hope this might help with initial encoding of a new word you want to learn.

In the last few days I accidentally decoupled my mining from my SRS-ing because I delayed the import of new sentences into SM.

So I suspect I’ll need to relearn most of those words.

The weakness in my process, I think, is that I’m not taking the final drill seriously enough.

I ought to incorporate a final drill in each Japanese-learning session I do because I think otherwise I end up with items I frequently fail, because the new vocab hasn’t cemented in my mind on initial exposure. Not only that, but I might be even violating the 20 rules by trying to memorize what I haven’t learned, which puts me in danger of attracting the unwanted attention of the SuperMemo police.

Here’s an idea and you tell me if it makes sense:

As soon as I import a new batch of sentences into SM, I should add them to the final drill and do a review like that.

The time for this should be planned for. So that, if I have, say, 45 minutes to study, 30 minutes should be active immersion, so that I can have 15 minutes to (pre)review the new material.

How does that sound?

Otherwise:

What I planned/did today

Obstacles