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• 2024.10.04: 4Q Practice Schedule / Basic Japanese 1 and 2 Course Schedule

  BJ 2 Schedule
  Lesson	A class	B class	C class	D class	E class	F class	G class	H class
  L16	12/9	12/6	12/9	12/9	12/11	12/9	12/10	12/10
  L17	12/11	12/10	12/11	12/11	12/12	12/12	12/11	12/12
  L18	12/16	12/13	12/16	12/16	12/18	12/16	12/17	12/17
  L19	12/18	12/17	12/18	12/18	12/19	12/19	12/18	12/19
  L20,L21	12/23	12/20	12/23	12/23	12/25	12/23	12/24	12/24
  L22	12/25	12/24	12/25	12/25	12/26	12/26	12/25	12/26
  L23	1/6	12/27	1/6	1/6	1/8	1/6	1/7	1/7
  L24,L25	1/8	1/7	1/8	1/8	1/9	1/9	1/8	1/9
  L26	1/15	1/10	1/15	1/15	1/15	1/16	1/14	1/14
  Interview	1/20	1/14	1/20	1/20	1/16	1/20	1/15	1/16
  L27	1/22	1/21	1/22	1/22	1/22	1/23	1/21	1/21
  L28	1/27	1/24	1/27	1/27	1/23	1/27	1/22	1/23
  L30	1/29	1/28	1/29	1/29	1/29	1/30	1/28	1/28
  Exam	2/3	1/31	2/3	2/3	1/30	2/3	1/29	1/30

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.