Today we're releasing a very important feature to help you blast through all the kanji and vocabulary you need for the JLPT or just every day life in Japan. 

I, to be honest, love flash cards. I think they are a great tool for memorizing kanji, or vocabulary. I usually start out with all of my cards in one enormous pile then separate them into smaller piles that seem to be memorizable in one day each. Then I go to work one pile at a time; one card at a time. Every couple of days I go back and review all the piles I've seen so far. It's this last part that isn't so very wise.

As the days turn into weeks, that review pile becomes ginormous. Reviewing ALL the cards every few days quickly drains me of my will. There comes a day when I decide to take a break and suddenly it's weeks later and the cards are gathering dust along with my motivation. The funny thing is that a large percentage of the cards in the review pile don't really need to be reviewed. I've already memorized them, but separating them from the smaller percentage of cards that I don't know so well and DO need to review is a chore. Read more...