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In fact you shouldn't use Anki for learning itself - put cards only when you're ready, when you have been taught them, and then use spaced repetition for recall
by StefanBatory 2y ago
In fact you shouldn't use Anki for learning itself - put cards only when you're ready, when you have been taught them, and then use spaced repetition for recall.
- exe34 2y agowhat does it mean to have learnt a word if you can't recall it?
- mandmandam 2y agoEver have a word on 'the tip of your tongue'?
- exe34 2y agothat's fair - but I consider it useless if I can't recall it when I need it for everyday words. for really rare words that I'll use 5 times in my career, sure, I'll explain it to chat gpt and it'll get it in one go.
- StefanBatory 2y agosorry, I wasn't clear. Personally, I just went through word lists. When I had them memorised, I'd put them into Anki deck. Because I am going to forget them over time.
- exe34 2y agoI haven't quite convinced myself either way, whether learning a big list and then anki them for recall is better, or having a big list on anki but only introduce two of them a day. personally I find it makes it much more enticing to learn two new phrases each day, rather than trying to remember same 50 phrases all week.
- sn9 2y agoUnderstanding versus remembering. You first understand and only afterwards encode your understanding in cards. It's in reviewing the cards that you put the understanding into your long-term memory (or possibly reveal gaps in your knowledge, in which case you revise your understanding).
- exe34 2y agoSwedish: Vad har det med saken att göra? direct translation: what has this with the matter to do? meaning: what does this have to do with it? Where does understanding come in? I can imagine what understanding mean for mathematics, science, etc. but for language, I'm having difficulty figuring it out.
- dambi0 2y agoThe understanding comes from knowing when to use that phrase compared with other phrases that might mean similar things. Idiomatic usage to some extent. If learning a language was just remembering direct phrases then machine translation would be trivial
- exe34 2y agoright so "med saken" was the new word, I understood the rest of the phrase. so it took like 4 seconds to understand. it'll take about 10-20 reviews to remember it for good. so the understanding took far less time than remembering. I could read a whole grammar book 10 times, but if I don't remember any of the words, then I'll never be able to write/say something. having all the words on the tip of my tongue is no good for communication.
- dambi0 2y agoI understand the English words you are using. I’m still not convinced I understand what you are saying. In this particular case recall doesn’t seem to be the problem.
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- coffehour 2y agofwiw, one of the biggest uses of anki is learning language vocabulary. for that, i think you can jump right into anki. obviously grammar, pitch accent -- if it applies, and other things surrounding the language will benefit from material outside anki but as someone who spends a lot of time learning languages; my first exposure to 90%+ of words is anki (i rely on pre-built decks).