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Up until now I had studied everything Anki wanted me to each afternoon. I’m doing season 3 now and Anki wants me to study around 120+ cards a day, which is a bit overwhelming as it can take a very long time to do.
What is your study plan when it comes to Anki?
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-ZachWanna see photos from my trip to Japan: instagram.com/zachradgeI usually do them in two batches.
One in the morning and one at night.
If I’m really not in the mood, I will do them in short bursts of 20 cards every 30 mins or so. Depending on how much time I have.
I start it up every morning while I drink my coffee. Sometimes I skip a day. This morning I did ~160 cards in 25 minutes. I need to weed out the old decks that I no longer need. I don’t know how it’s going to go for me as I get further along in the textfugu Seasons. I figure that if the Anki cards are piling up so much, I need to slow down and let them thin a bit. If I charge ahead too quickly, I don’t remember things as well.
I just get everything done what anki tells me. I don’t plan when to do what. I just don’t do the vocabs and kanjis together in one chunk, since I think it’l then become a little difficult to distinguish them. Normally I have a total of between 110 and 130 cards per day.
However many I have due, I do it every single day. Sometimes I custom study and get it to around 180 or something per day.
the keyword here is “everyday”. i study everyday and just do whatever anki is telling me to do. if i think too many cards are coming, i stop reading textfugu lessons so no new cards are added until i can recall the old cards. if you are good, anki will give you less cards to do everyday.
as to where and when, i do not really have a specific schedule. it is more like a habit specially with a nice mobile phone in my hand all the time. if i am waiting something, i do some cards. while walking i sometimes do. on the bed. when i wake up. i use “review forgotten cards” option if i finished the cards anki tells me to do.
sometimes i also use the “review ahead” option to review cards for the next 2 days. this way i can review cards i have trouble with.
I am only in season two, and therefore do not have many cards yet, but I do my cards while my coffee is dripping. I make old school pour over coffee and have 20 minutes a morning to kill while mu coffee does it’s thing.
I have just found myself wanting to do everything worthwhile in my life at as slow enjoyable pace.
Study all your reviews everyday. Don’t worry about doing it all at once. If you don’t have the app for android or ios (and you have a device), get it. It makes doing your reviews so much easier. Even if you don’t have time to add new cards, you can do your reviews while you walk to class or sit on the toilet or during a commercial break or while you ride your motorized toilet to class during a commercial break.
120 reviews should not take you that long…you should have been here back in the glory days when about 10 of us were doing RTK. The review count could get over a thousand just by missing one day. Eat your Wheaties and buckle down.
I’m doing them every day. I used to do them right before studying a chapter on TextFugu, but with Season 3 they’re kind of piling up. Today I had 243 cards (took about 30 minutes), so after I did the cards I took a break and did the lesson later in the day. I have six decks (Hiragana, Katakana, Radicals, Kanji, Vocab and Sentences), and I run down them in that order. Vocab and Sentences are the ones growing the most.
In order to cut down on how much you need to review, you might want to mark the ones you feel are easy as “easy” instead of “good”. That way they get pushed farther back. I have only just started doing that. I hope it will help.
I usually do them in one go each day whenever I feel like it and have time. If you have a lot of review cards, stop going through and adding new material.
If you’re getting good at some card consider choosing Easy instead of Good. It will only push it forward in time by an additional 30%, but it can do much to get rid of easy cards since those extra 30% stack each time you press Easy.
If you have some cards you keep failing at, suspend some of them or convert them to “new” cards (Browse→(Select cards)→Edit→Reschedule…) and lower the limit on how many new cards you get per day to 2 for example (from the deck’s options dialog). Those cards that you keep failing at is usually the ones which take up the most time so it’s important to not have too many of them at once. Taking a few of them at a time also decreases the risk of mixing up cards a lot.
Erryday.
I’m kinda addicted to it though, and not in a good way. I feel terrible if I don’t do all my cards every day, so I just keep on doing them even if I’m having a crappy time or am losing sleep because of them (i.e. from staying up late doing a bunch of cards I forgot about during the day). There’s probably a bunch of better, more useful things I could be doing with my time than spending it reviewing so many cards – and there are a couple of reliable sources that agree you shouldn’t be wasting too much time on flash cards – but I can’t bear to let them go undone for a day. Having said that, there *are* days occasionally where I completely forget to/don’t have time to do my cards, but like I said before, I feel bad when that happens.
Key tip: if reviewing cards is causing you grief, take a break and come back to them later, or just stop for the day and start doing something more productive like reading a news article or watching a TV show or listening to some music (all in Japanese, of course).
@Kyle: Were there really about 10 of us? Also, I never had to do 1000+ in day or anywhere near that, that’s insane! That’s got to have been Bbvoncrumb, he’s hardcore like that (⌐■_■)
Ugh, I’m getting swamped with the katakana vocab. It throws 20 new words every day so far. Thankfully they’re just awful translations, so I can generally guess the meaning outright and then it sticks. But they take me longer than the actual Japanese because they’re so many.
Make sure to stick them into a separate deck.
That way you can get into katakana mode and it goes quicker.
Decided to keep them together with the rest of the vocab, actually. Since in Japanese text katakana will be mixed in, I figure it’s better to train myself to jump between the two than to study in katakana mode. It’s not like the cards take me long individually. It’s just that there’s so many of them :P
I do whatever Anki tells me to do when I get home from work every day. And on the weekend usually in the morning or early afternoon.
Took me ages to get through all those katakana words, lol. They’re good words to know though.
I’m about half way through season 6 now though I’m slowing down a lot to make sure I get verb conjunctions into my head properly.
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