Days 1-3 of Japanese

Days 1-3 refer to Monday to Wednesday.

So yeah, being lazy and relearning hiragana at my very slow pace.  I know the basic characters, but haven't really looked at the combination ones.  Be proud guys, on Wednesday I studied for a whole 12 minutes!  This really does signify the philosophy I have.  What is the point studying material for hours upon hours on end?  Sure, the recall may be better, but it isn't worth it.  If I can mostly remember something the next day because of 12 min. of studying, then there is no point putting in all that extra time.  It would make learning tedious, going through drills over and over again.

So yeah.  I'd say 15 min. a day is good enough to retain the information the next day.  I have a month, so there is no point to spend one day and pour over the material for hours. A little time everyday is much better.   The only thing I really use to learn this script is flashcards.  There is this program I have called Anki, which is a flashcard generation.  The cool thing about it is that after you answer a flashcard, you can say if it was easy or hard.  Through that, the program can tell when to show you the flashcard again.

Anki is the reason my study times are so low.  If I answer a card right on the second day, it will show me the card four days later.  Now this seems bad since I will not see this information for four days, but if I can remember it after four days, then it is probably in my brain.  If I don't get it right, then it will show it to me the next day.  A counter-intuitive algorithm that works.