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> due to the sheer exposure you're getting in the meantime. This helps less than you'd think. Many of my leeches are due to word similarities. Sometimes I'd h
by andrewzah 7y ago
> due to the sheer exposure you're getting in the meantime.
This helps less than you'd think. Many of my leeches are due to word similarities. Sometimes I'd have an issue of erroneously swapping two similar words, and my brain would get "stuck" following that circuit. If that makes sense?
The fix that I found was suspending one or both of the words and making up a lot of sentences for them. And physically writing them.
- Al-Khwarizmi 7y agoI can relate, more than half of my leeches are due to word similarities as well. In particular, they tend to happen if two similar words start appearing at roughly the same time (if a word has had enough time to "consolidate" well in my memory before a similar word appears, I tend to be OK). When this happens, I find the Anki "leech" feature to be useful. I just let it remove (suspend is the word, I guess?) those words automatically. Flashcards are not my sole learning method, so I will probably learn them anyway by other means at some point, so spending lots of time on repetitions to get them right is not worth it.