juman Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5246 days ago 101 posts - 129 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: French
| Message 1 of 3 06 April 2012 at 3:00pm | IP Logged |
I have been using Anki (SRS) for a while now and find it really useful as I can bring it anywhere and it improves
my learning. In the beginning I really struggled to get it to work as the words just would not stick. I had so much
problems learning how to learn or how to connect the words together so the SRS did not really help.
But recently (through some links from this site) someone had written some information on how they entered data
into Anki and instead of writing the translation they added an image of the action. So on one side you would have
your L2 word and on the other an image of the action. This really helped me a lot for some reason. By using the
image I had it so much easier to memorize the L2 word. I did one adjustment though and added the L1
translation below the image to make sure I focused my thinking on the right section of the image. And this
helped even more as sometimes the images are associated to the word but does not really show the word.
So this took me from memorizing something like 5 new words per 3-4 days which I did before when I learnt
them by pure repetition to now when I add 20 new words everyday and I am even thinking about raising that
limit.
Anyone else had any aha-moments like this or any other tips regarding SRS to share?
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6625 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 2 of 3 06 April 2012 at 5:40pm | IP Logged |
You're probably a very visual learner. I'm more of an audio learner but I also like using pictures. I love applying fancy fonts/effects to foreign words, usually with a related picture in the background though not always. (I don't SRS those pics. The time it takes to make one is enough to remember the word for long, especially as I'm likely to go back and admire what I made)
I really love using sentences and in general using SRS for all those *special* things. Those moments when you think "ah that was a beautiful sentence, need to keep this in mind". Those tweets you add to favourites but don't go back to systematically. Anything that makes you think "I really, really don't want to forget this."
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emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5560 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map
| Message 3 of 3 06 April 2012 at 9:51pm | IP Logged |
Some SRS tips that you could try:
- Check out the "Download Image" plugin if you haven't already.
- Never hesitate to suspend, edit or replace bad cards. If a card bugs you for some
reason, chuck it. This makes SRS about a zillion times more fun.
- Experiment learning the word in context using Anki's [...] button to make "cloze"
cards, where you need to fill in a missing word. You can also add definitions or
whatever as needed. Not everybody likes this, but some people love it. And I like
having random cool sentences to read.
- If you're getting stuck on some point of grammar, grab a dozen examples from a book
and make them into cloze cards.
- 20 cards per day may be overwhelming after a few months. You'll "use up" a lot of the
available vocab at your level. Don't hesitate to change strategy, slow down, or focus
on more pressing needs.
I hope one or two of these help!
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