Re:Ask HN: Anyone using Anki/Spaced-repetition successfully?
by jameshush on Saturday June 25, 2022 @09:16AM
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Using Anki for about four years on and off, 1.5 years consistently while learning Chinese, my advice is:
1. Don’t be too hard on yourself. Some months I review 10-20 new cards a day; this month, I was busier than usual, so I changed it to 1 new card a day. There’s no rush.
2. For languages, sentences are drastically more helpful to have as cards than single words. I find it much easier to learn a whole sentence than just a word.
3. I have a mix of my cards and pre-made ones (e.g., Vocab from my textbook).
4. It's OK to let a card be a leech and to forget about it. If a card was a leech, I’d just let it go. It's not school, the goal isn’t to get 100%, its just to use as another resource.
5. I use Anki along with 2-3 other apps AND a private teacher. I treat it like an additional resource, not the end all be all.
1. Don’t be too hard on yourself. Some months I review 10-20 new cards a day; this month, I was busier than usual, so I changed it to 1 new card a day. There’s no rush.
2. For languages, sentences are drastically more helpful to have as cards than single words. I find it much easier to learn a whole sentence than just a word.
3. I have a mix of my cards and pre-made ones (e.g., Vocab from my textbook).
4. It's OK to let a card be a leech and to forget about it. If a card was a leech, I’d just let it go. It's not school, the goal isn’t to get 100%, its just to use as another resource.
5. I use Anki along with 2-3 other apps AND a private teacher. I treat it like an additional resource, not the end all be all.