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Even if they were, writing cards yourself forces you to engage with the material in a way that's highly conducive to learning it. It makes knowledge gaps more v
by Version467 3y ago
Even if they were, writing cards yourself forces you to engage with the material in a way that's highly conducive to learning it. It makes knowledge gaps more visible and forces you to understand it if you want to have any chance breaking the material down into pieces that make good cards.
The positive effects of SRS rely just as much on the repetition as they do on the creation of the cards. I know that not everyone agrees with this, it's certainly been true for me.
Premade decks might work for language learning, but even then I'd be wary.
- romeros 3y agowriting your own cards is very tedious.
- SamPatt 3y agoTrue, but I suspect that's due to learning being tedious. Memorization isn't the same as learning. Using a preexisting deck is memorizing someone else's learning.
- Version467 3y agoIt gets easier the more you do it. As you become more comfortable with the software as well as develop an intuition for what makes a good card, the effort shrinks dramatically. Not just because I'm faster at creating cards, I also create fewer cards overall.
- Al-Khwarizmi 3y agoI've been studying Chinese with a premade deck for several years and it's working very well. Of course, ideally one would want to create cards, but I only can devote around 30 minutes per day. Under that restriction, creating cards is not really an option.
- outlace 3y agoWhich deck?
- Al-Khwarizmi 3y agoSpoonfed Chinese.
- SamPatt 3y agoWell said, this is the key part for me: >It makes knowledge gaps more visible It's the same principle behind teaching others. It's easy to think you understand something until you are forced to communicate it beyond the surface level.