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• 2024.10.04: 3Q Practice Schedule / Basic Japanese 1 and 2 Course Schedule

  BJ 1 Schedule										BJ 2 Schedule
  Lesson	A class	B class	C class	D class	E class	F class	G class	H class	★★★	Lesson	A class
  L1	10/7	10/4	10/7	10/7	10/3	10/3	10/8	10/3		L16	10/3
  L2	10/9	10/8	10/9	10/9	10/9	10/7	10/9	10/8		L17	10/8
  L3	10/16	10/11	10/16	10/16	10/10	10/10	10/15	10/10		L18	10/10
  L4	10/17	10/15	10/21	10/17	10/16	10/21	10/16	10/15		L19	10/15
  L5	10/21	10/18	10/28	10/21	10/24	10/24	10/22	10/22		L20,L21	10/22
  L6	10/28	10/22	10/30	10/28	10/30	10/28	10/29	10/24		L22	10/24
  L7	10/30	10/25	11/6	10/30	10/31	10/31	10/30	10/29		L23	10/29
  L8/L9	11/6	10/29	11/11	11/6	11/6	11/7	11/6	10/31		L24,L25	10/31
  L10	11/11	11/1	11/13	11/11	11/7	11/11	11/12	11/7		L26	11/7
  L11	11/13	11/8	11/18	11/13	11/13	11/14	11/13	11/12		Interview	11/12
  L12	11/18	11/12	11/20	11/18	11/14	11/18	11/19	11/14		L27	11/14
  L13/L14	11/20	11/15	11/25	11/20	11/20	11/21	11/20	11/19		L28	11/19
  L15	11/25	11/19	11/27	11/25	11/21	11/25	11/26	11/21		L30	11/21
  Exam	11/27	11/26	12/2	11/27	11/27	12/2	11/27	11/26		Exam	11/26

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.