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• 2024.04.09: Practice Schedule / Basic Japanese 1 Course Schedule

  Lesson	A class	B class	C class	D class	F class
  L1	4/8	4/9	4/10	4/8	4/9
  L2	4/10	4/12	4/15	4/10	4/10
  L3	4/15	4/16	4/17	4/15	4/16
  L4	4/17	4/19	4/22	4/17	4/17
  L5	4/22	4/23	4/24	4/22	4/23
  L6	4/24	4/26	5/1	4/24	4/24
  L7	5/1	4/30	5/2	5/1	4/30
  L8/L9	5/8	5/7	5/8	5/8	5/1
  L10	5/13	5/10	5/13	5/13	5/7
  L11	5/15	5/14	5/15	5/15	5/8
  L12	5/20	5/17	5/20	5/20	5/14
  L13/L14	5/22	5/21	5/22	5/22	5/15
  L15	5/27	5/24	5/27	5/27	5/21
  Exam	6/3	5/31	6/3	6/3	5/22

• 2024.04.09: Practice Schedule / Basic Japanese 2 Course Schedule

  Lesson	A class
  L16	4/8
  L17	4/11
  L18	4/15
  L19	4/18
  L20,L21	4/22
  L22	4/25
  L23	5/2
  L24,L25	5/9
  L26	5/13
  Interview	5/16
  L27	5/20
  L28	5/23
  L30	5/27
  Exam	5/30

Zen and the Art of Dictation

• Let's learn Japanese through drill and practice!
• You will practice 10 sentences in an episode.
• It's a very simple exercise. You just follow the audio you hear and type in roman letters.
• The first objective is to learn the basic Japanese sounds and hiragana/katakana combinations.
• You can practice as many times as possible. The more you practice, the better you will get.
• Please regularly contribute your time to this practice.
• It is important to practice every day rather than to practice a lot at once.
• The following is the psychological evidence of the importance of regular practice:
• Hermann Ebbinghaus (ca. 1885): forgetting curve

  $b=\frac{100k}{\left(\log \left(t\right)\right){}^c+k}$

  
  Figure 1: The forgetting curve described by Hermann Ebbinghaus.

  Here, b represents 'Savings' expressed as a percentage, and t represents time in minutes, counting from one minute before end of learning. The constants c and k are 1.25 and 1.84 respectively. Savings is defined as the relative amount of time saved on the second learning trial as a result of having had the first. A savings of 100% would indicate that all items were still known from the first trial. A 75% savings would mean that relearning missed items required 25% as long as the original learning session (to learn all items). 'Savings' is thus, analogous to retention rate.