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This might sound a little weird, as going through Anki decks (I believe) should be an easy thing to do. Just go from card to card until you’re done for the day. However, for some reason I tend to make it too stressful. I want to get every word correct and if I don’t I get frustrated. I also tend to get tired even though it only takes about 5-10 minutes. Because of this, I’m less likely to click ‘again’ because I know it’ll increase the number of cards I have to review in the short-term.
This is of course hurting my ability to study and recall words. My question is, does anyone have any tips or tricks that will help me change my perspective and quit taking it so seriously?
When it comes to changing one’s own perspectives, outside advise may work perfectly, or be no use at all. It’s a highly personal and complex matter. You want to stop taking it so seriously, but what do you think it is that drives you to take it so seriously even in spite of that?
This might not be directly relevant, but there may be other ways around your problem. I did a similar thing when teaching myself A-level pure mathematics. I answerd every single question in the book (many thousands that would normally be skimmed through in an actual class). Getting a question wrong was frustrating, but I satisfied myself by working out exactly what went wrong whenever that happened. My god that was a lot of work, but I enjoyed it.
You want to get every word correct, but if you actually *did* get every word correct every time, there’d be no need for doing flashcards :P Making mistakes is part of the learning process and an integral part of how Anki works – if you definitely didn’t know a card, click “Again” so that the SRS algorithm can work its magic.
Also, 5-10 minutes? Is that *really* too much? How many cards are you doing in that time? If you get stressed over 5 minutes of studying a day, how are you going to get anywhere with the language (unless, that is, you’re immortal and have all of eternity)? I don’t *mean* to sound mean, but that really isn’t that much time.
@Astralfox: Must have been a pretty crappy textbook if you can get through *every* question in great detail :P Or maybe it’s just that high school maths is piss-easy; uni- and real-world-level maths is ridiculous in comparison haha
I’m sure university level maths is another world, but a decent textbook can be thoroughly worked through with time. Not sure what you meant by ‘real world level’ maths; from who’s perspective? In terms of daily life, I’ve never needed more than GCSE stuff.
By “real-world”, I meant “beyond university” level. Not a a great choice of words, I just couldn’t think what to call it :D
It depends on what kinds of problems they are – if they’re simple “Work out this value” or “Solve for x” style ones, then yeah, it’d be possible (if time consuming) to do them all. One’s that talk about proving or showing that or explaining why something’s the case are a lot more involved though.All that aside, did it actually help to go through every single question? How many variations of the same thing do you have to do before you start tearing your hair out through boredom and despair? Did you not stop at some points and think “Yep, I think I’ve got this section covered after 9001 questions, any more would be overkill”? :P
@Astralfox: Asking myself ‘why’ isn’t something I thought of, definitely something to ponder.
@MisterM: That’s the thing, I know 5-10 minutes isn’t much. I’ve been doing a pretty good job lately staying honest with myself, clicking ‘again’ when I don’t know the word. I suppose if I keep it up, I’ll build the discipline to get it done more efficiently.
Honestly, I am not using Anki.
I upload all that I need to remember onto a private course on Memrise.com
It’s fun and I find it much, much better then Anki.
It will take some amount of time to enter in what you want to learn, but I love that site so it doesn’t bother me.
What I do is look up all the Vocab, Kanji, ect that is in the lesson ahead of me in my textfugu textbook so when I go through that Textfugu lesson(let’s say it’s 2-2 Kanji) I can go through that Memrise lesson of 2-2 Kanji right after.
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