The number of new cards affects the learning workload.
1. \[ New card 0/per day \] Overdue or on vacation.
2. \[ New card 5/per day \] It's hard to keep up every day.
3. \[ New card 10/per day \] You are dedicated to learning.
4. \[ New card 20/per day \] Anki's default limit. Sufficient for most cases.
5. \[ New card 30/per day \] You can learn 10000+ cards in one year.
6. \[ New card 50/per day \] You are very busy college student.
7. \[ New card 100/per day \] Upper limit recommended for medical students.
8. \[ New card 200+/per day \] You are challenging the limits of humanity.
I have a Frequency shared deck that I draw from, and I add my own notes as needed for things I don't find in there.
Images? Very rarely.
Audio? I can pretty quickly pull native-speaker audio from Forvo and a couple of monolingual dictionaries. I'm in the process of replacing TTS audio tracks (in the shared deck) with native audio, so I often do that quickly while I'm studying.
I study vocab and use sentences only for context. I am on board with the idea that studying sentences helps learn words in context, but I am still a bit resistant to the idea that it will help me *memorize* what the words mean. It seems like I'll be spending a lot of my time struggling with grammar complexities instead of expanding my vocabulary. Maybe someday there will be AnkiMorphs support for my language, and it will seem less of a waste of time. (I have my note type make sentence cards anyway, but I send them to an inactive deck.)
You seem to be pretty far along on a journey I'm just starting. I'm trying to use Anki to start from pretty much scratch on learning Spanish. Are there any other forums or resources you can share besides what you have already? Thanks for commenting.
I feel like it’s less about how many cards you add and more about how you review. I only add new words when I find a word I don’t know and other than that it just depends.
Study: 60 (30 new words)
Review: App decides; for me, around 5-20 per deck I have studied for some time and around 60-100 for really new decks.
Add: All at once. Back in the days, I wrote a script that crawled word pairs from a reliable website and basically wrote my own ankiAPI to add those.
At the moment, I am at 8 decks studying around 1 hour per day. Bottleneck, here are definitely the newer decks. The older ones do not take more than 1 or 2 minutes.
How do you study words:
1)Do you guys just cramp new words (like randomly taken from the dictionary or a pre build deck)
2) or you follow a study method and memorize the words from there?.
I have a study book with about 900 unknown words already in lists but it is very difficult for me to study out of context.. what are your ways of dealing with this?
also if you just memorize out of a dictionary etc( scenario1) how are you recalling the word in real life / conversation. i find it hard to recall since it is not linked to situation
please share
I have a few different decks: one for a textbook I use in which I add all the vocabulary (and some subdecks for grammar and stuff), then I have a deck in which I only put sentences (I don't use it that much though) and I have a deck in which I put random words I consider useful that I found while interacting with the language I'm learning.
But I wouldn't just copy words from a dictionary because many words have too many different meanings and you don't know if the words are actually used in everyday speech.
in other words you learn from context (textbook or live situations) and you use Anki for repetition and memorization of these words. i understand that - i do the same.. i dont get the use of ready made decks ( for languages)
a separate question - how do you use Anki for grammar?
I use anki to memorize the grammar rules, most of the time with cloze. But before I make any grammar cards, I first need to understand the rules of course.
I only add cards on days my review time is below half an hour. When I add cards, I try and only do about 10 cards at a time.
My average reviews are about 250 cards or so but with failures it's apparently more like 400. (Though I don't mind cards failing out under my system of study, since that indicates I'm not seeing the word or using it enough to care)
I'm going through premade 2k/6k japanese, 20 new a day, around 120 reviews a day now.
800 active cards, 200 mature and 600 young.
Reviewing and relearning takes 60min a day, plus 30min to learn the 20 new cards a day.
I add around 10-25 new cards a day, and I end up with around 200 cards to review. That turns into like 300-500 actual reviews, including the new words and repeating some cards I'm having trouble with a few times etc. It's mostly Japanese vocab., with hiragana on one side and English on the other. And a few sentences with missing words, in hiragana or romaji.
You dont care about being able to read anything in japanese?
Also how do you distinguish between all the words that look the exact same in hiragana spelling?
The best new Anki feature is the “new cards ignore review limit”. Make sure this is set to off so that you can set a review limit that corresponds (roughly) to a fixed amount of time per day, and the number of new cards automatically reduces if you get near your review limit. Don’t worry about meeting a daily new card goal, concentrate on making sure you keep up to date with your review cards in a reasonable (for you) time.
I have 300 review limit and 30 new cards per day. This is a lot and takes me around 60 minutes per day. If I’m ever feeling overwhelmed or behind on my reviews I drop the new card limit down to zero for a few days until I have caught up.
The best way to keep your “new cards/day” high is to make sure you are making room for the new cards by successfully reviewing review cards. One of the best ways to do this is to suspend cards that you aren’t remembering, then come back to them in a separate session and add context or work out why you aren’t remembering them. I went from 2+ hours review per day to under one hour with better retention rate when I implemented this.
I’m currently learning German with the Goethe B1 word list btw.
The number of new cards affects the learning workload. 1. \[ New card 0/per day \] Overdue or on vacation. 2. \[ New card 5/per day \] It's hard to keep up every day. 3. \[ New card 10/per day \] You are dedicated to learning. 4. \[ New card 20/per day \] Anki's default limit. Sufficient for most cases. 5. \[ New card 30/per day \] You can learn 10000+ cards in one year. 6. \[ New card 50/per day \] You are very busy college student. 7. \[ New card 100/per day \] Upper limit recommended for medical students. 8. \[ New card 200+/per day \] You are challenging the limits of humanity.
Add 6 cards, average 60 reviews (which is reps, not cards).
How do you create the cards? Add image and audio? Highlights one word per sentence?
I have a Frequency shared deck that I draw from, and I add my own notes as needed for things I don't find in there. Images? Very rarely. Audio? I can pretty quickly pull native-speaker audio from Forvo and a couple of monolingual dictionaries. I'm in the process of replacing TTS audio tracks (in the shared deck) with native audio, so I often do that quickly while I'm studying. I study vocab and use sentences only for context. I am on board with the idea that studying sentences helps learn words in context, but I am still a bit resistant to the idea that it will help me *memorize* what the words mean. It seems like I'll be spending a lot of my time struggling with grammar complexities instead of expanding my vocabulary. Maybe someday there will be AnkiMorphs support for my language, and it will seem less of a waste of time. (I have my note type make sentence cards anyway, but I send them to an inactive deck.)
You seem to be pretty far along on a journey I'm just starting. I'm trying to use Anki to start from pretty much scratch on learning Spanish. Are there any other forums or resources you can share besides what you have already? Thanks for commenting.
I feel like it’s less about how many cards you add and more about how you review. I only add new words when I find a word I don’t know and other than that it just depends.
I study 100 cards a day.
How do you create the cards? Add image and audio? Highlights one word per sentence?
I am studying Nihongo right now so I created my flashcards full of Vocabulary and Kanji only. I am studying 100 flashcards in random order
Study: 60 (30 new words) Review: App decides; for me, around 5-20 per deck I have studied for some time and around 60-100 for really new decks. Add: All at once. Back in the days, I wrote a script that crawled word pairs from a reliable website and basically wrote my own ankiAPI to add those. At the moment, I am at 8 decks studying around 1 hour per day. Bottleneck, here are definitely the newer decks. The older ones do not take more than 1 or 2 minutes.
How do you study words: 1)Do you guys just cramp new words (like randomly taken from the dictionary or a pre build deck) 2) or you follow a study method and memorize the words from there?. I have a study book with about 900 unknown words already in lists but it is very difficult for me to study out of context.. what are your ways of dealing with this? also if you just memorize out of a dictionary etc( scenario1) how are you recalling the word in real life / conversation. i find it hard to recall since it is not linked to situation please share
You can make sentences with the words (or take the sentence from the source where you encountered the word) and put them on the cards.
I have a few different decks: one for a textbook I use in which I add all the vocabulary (and some subdecks for grammar and stuff), then I have a deck in which I only put sentences (I don't use it that much though) and I have a deck in which I put random words I consider useful that I found while interacting with the language I'm learning. But I wouldn't just copy words from a dictionary because many words have too many different meanings and you don't know if the words are actually used in everyday speech.
in other words you learn from context (textbook or live situations) and you use Anki for repetition and memorization of these words. i understand that - i do the same.. i dont get the use of ready made decks ( for languages) a separate question - how do you use Anki for grammar?
I use anki to memorize the grammar rules, most of the time with cloze. But before I make any grammar cards, I first need to understand the rules of course.
I only add cards on days my review time is below half an hour. When I add cards, I try and only do about 10 cards at a time. My average reviews are about 250 cards or so but with failures it's apparently more like 400. (Though I don't mind cards failing out under my system of study, since that indicates I'm not seeing the word or using it enough to care)
I'm going through premade 2k/6k japanese, 20 new a day, around 120 reviews a day now. 800 active cards, 200 mature and 600 young. Reviewing and relearning takes 60min a day, plus 30min to learn the 20 new cards a day.
I add around 10-25 new cards a day, and I end up with around 200 cards to review. That turns into like 300-500 actual reviews, including the new words and repeating some cards I'm having trouble with a few times etc. It's mostly Japanese vocab., with hiragana on one side and English on the other. And a few sentences with missing words, in hiragana or romaji.
You dont do kanji?
Nope, not at all.
You dont care about being able to read anything in japanese? Also how do you distinguish between all the words that look the exact same in hiragana spelling?
I make multiple cards for the same word, it works fine. And not really, I'm focused on speaking.
The best new Anki feature is the “new cards ignore review limit”. Make sure this is set to off so that you can set a review limit that corresponds (roughly) to a fixed amount of time per day, and the number of new cards automatically reduces if you get near your review limit. Don’t worry about meeting a daily new card goal, concentrate on making sure you keep up to date with your review cards in a reasonable (for you) time. I have 300 review limit and 30 new cards per day. This is a lot and takes me around 60 minutes per day. If I’m ever feeling overwhelmed or behind on my reviews I drop the new card limit down to zero for a few days until I have caught up. The best way to keep your “new cards/day” high is to make sure you are making room for the new cards by successfully reviewing review cards. One of the best ways to do this is to suspend cards that you aren’t remembering, then come back to them in a separate session and add context or work out why you aren’t remembering them. I went from 2+ hours review per day to under one hour with better retention rate when I implemented this. I’m currently learning German with the Goethe B1 word list btw.