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Language is really the ideal use case, you cannot stop and look up words every few seconds when talking to someone. And doing it while reading or watching TV sp
by rjh29 4y ago
Language is really the ideal use case, you cannot stop and look up words every few seconds when talking to someone. And doing it while reading or watching TV spoils the enjoyment somewhat. You need to frontload a ton of data into your mind and flashcards are the best way to do it.
Another good use case is country flags, because you can't easily look those up (other than pulling up an image of ALL the country flags)
- bluGill 4y agoOnly at the beginner levels. Once you get beyond beginner you realize that many words have 20 different definitions, and each definition maps to a different word in the other language - and the problem happens when you reverse as well.
- rjh29 4y agoI'm not a beginner (12k cards, 10 years). What works for me personally: 1) test word -> meaning, not word -> word in other language 2) I don't test reverse most of the time, unless I really want to remember how to say something - output tends to emerge by itself given enough input 3) When a word has multiple meanings I add context (usually a related word or colocation as a hint - whole sentences can cause you to associate the sentence with the word but not recall it in other situations). Words with lots of meanings (in Japanese I guess that would be stuff like 引く or in English 'run'?) tend to be very common words so you don't need to use flash cards so much anyway.