[T-983] Active immersion first impressions

Dear Rine,

Under the pretense of still being ill, today I afforded myself about three hours of active immersion, making my first clumsy steps.

I wasn’t aiming for any particular number of sentences to find. I just watched an episode of a TV show and pulled out whichever sentences I felt like.

In the end I got a total of 25.

It would be cool if I would be able to maintain this kind of schedule, but it’s not realistic. Soon it will become a challenge to balance both immersion and SRS and the rest of my life.

But I used some slack I had these days to configure the migaku plugin and to install some monolingual dictionaries.

I also will set up yomichan by the end of the day.

Thanks for the relevant Refold links you sent me yesterday, it was very timely.

What I did

• Reps
• Active immersion
• Immersion iPod armed (now that I’m mobile again)

Obstacles for tomorrow and afterward

• Need to figure out a low-friction workflow to migrate Anki cards to SM items. I am aware of Raj’s converter, it’s just that I have a complicated setup where my Anki is on my Mac OS whereas SM is on the VM hosted on my wife’s laptop, which I access through my macbook.
• For some reason, my macbook shuts off at about 40% battery if it’s not plugged in
• About active immersion: I have to find a balance between looking up everything vs letting go of things that are too much for now. I also sometimes fall to the temptation of peeking at the English sub if it’s a particularly nagging plot point or if I want to verify my understanding
• It will be a challenge to incorporate both SRS + Active Immersion while maintaining the rest of my life.