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| JordanB8m Newbie Hong Kong Joined 4920 days ago 23 posts - 27 votes | Message 1 of 14 19 June 2011 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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I plug in a load of words into Anki, and I can't remember all of them as I quickly go through them. There are words that I repeatedly don't get, and Anki suspends them forever. I go from a list of originally 600 words to a list of 500 words, and it keeps shrinking.
Why does Anki do this? Edited by JordanB8m on 19 June 2011 at 3:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6581 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 2 of 14 19 June 2011 at 3:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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They're called "leeches" or something similar, I think. The idea is that these words that you fail to remember again
and again will steal a lot of your time (since they keep popping up) without giving you anything in return (since you never get them right). To prevent you from getting to a point where you have to go through fifty of them every day (since they don't go away they keep piling up), Anki suspends them to free up your time. I think there's a setting somewhere to turn this off. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| JordanB8m Newbie Hong Kong Joined 4920 days ago 23 posts - 27 votes | Message 3 of 14 19 June 2011 at 3:54pm | IP Logged | ||
Why not have a couple "leeches" come out of suspension every once and a while so that you're not not stuck on the same cards. One day I opened Anki and was asked to review 6 cards. 6 cards!? Then it asked if I wanted to review early, so I did, and it gave me the same cards! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 14 19 June 2011 at 4:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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If there aren't enough new cards, the latest reviewed ones are likely to show up next day (depending on how well you knew them). Nothing strange about that.
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| JordanB8m Newbie Hong Kong Joined 4920 days ago 23 posts - 27 votes | Message 5 of 14 19 June 2011 at 4:11pm | IP Logged | ||
So how does one quickly learn a lot of vocabulary when Anki limits you? Edited by JordanB8m on 19 June 2011 at 4:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| etracher Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 5333 days ago 92 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: Modern Hebrew, Russian, Latvian | Message 6 of 14 19 June 2011 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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All you need to do is turn off the 'suspend leeches' function and those cards with leech tags will remain in circulation in the deck.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6581 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 8 of 14 19 June 2011 at 5:29pm | IP Logged | ||
How well do you know the words before you put them into Anki? Many people feel that Anki is good for not forgetting, but not very good for learning. These people prefer to use other methods to memorize the words before entering them into Anki. If you find yourself repeatedly failing cards this might be the method for you. Spend more time with the words before using Anki. Look up usage examples. Use them in sentences. Look up other words that share the same root, and so on. Or try things like Iversen's wordlist method (search on this forum to find the method) or mnemonics to fix the words in your memory. Just shoving lots of words into Anki works for some (like me), but doesn't work as well for others. 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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