Re:Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall
by andmikey on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @05:22AM
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One way you can achieve this using SRS is forcing very short recall times. I average under 2 seconds a card in review: my view is that if I can't recall it in under 2 seconds (what would be realistic in a real-life scenario when speaking a language) then I don't know it. It's a method that's trained me to be very fast at recalling words when needed.
Re:Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall
by ramblerman on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @07:34AM
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Interesting idea.
Do you manage that yourself. I.e. you time your own response, and if it feels slow you mark the card as forgotten?
Re:Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall
by andmikey on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @09:32AM
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Yeah, it's something I can time myself: I'm on about 6 years of daily usage at this point so it comes very easily. Anki also lets you set a time-out on cards as well. I'll know just from looking at the front of the card whether or not I know the word. If I do, space then 'good'; if I don't, space then 'again'. Very rarely I'll know a card but only after a longer moment to think about it - that's a 'hard' card.
You need to be able to recall it very fast, and that only comes through repetition beyond the "I won't ever forget this" stage. SRS doesn't make a statement about this, and you can still use it to achieve that over-learning, in my opinion. It may be better to achieve it through reading texts in the foreign language because the repetitions are faster.