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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5326 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes  Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 33 of 35 04 November 2013 at 2:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
Now you know why we said not to increase the daily limit above 20 cards. :-) A few things which might help: - Make sure you use the "easy" button when something is genuinely easy. This can dramatically reduce your daily review load by spacing things out more. - Set "leeches" low (even as low as 4), so Anki automatically suspends words that are giving you trouble. For those words, go through your suspended cards every few weeks and see if you can make example sentence cards, or even make cloze cards where half the word is missing on each card. Or just leave them suspended. Again, getting rid of leeches will make your daily reviews much easier. - Don't hesitate to delete/suspend if a card is annoying you. You can always learn that word later. The important insight is that no word matters very much. What matters is the sheer volume, and whether a reasonable percentage sticks. If you can sacrifice a few words here and there, you can make Anki a lot more pleasant. And in the long run, what matters is whether Anki is fun, almost a game. Because if it's fun, you'll still be doing it in 2 months, and you won't be crushed like a bug under the weight of your deck.
Very cool! You might even consider backing off to 10 new words per day if that allows you to get in more reading time. Anki reviews are of somewhat limited utility if they're not reinforced by interesting content. And interesting content will give you at least 75% of the high-frequency vocabulary for very little time invested. So it's a good tradeoff. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jayjayvp Tetraglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 3870 days ago 26 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, German, Afrikaans Studies: French, Spanish | Message 34 of 35 11 November 2013 at 2:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have finished adding content from the Frequency Dictionary, now sitting on an anki
deck of well over a 1,000 cards of which 300+ unseens. I've cranked the number of new cards down to 15. One of my courses in Moral Theology has a set book which is not available in Dutch, and the original is in French. I`m currently plodding through the French book (Les Sources de la Morale Chrétienne') at a reasonable rate and am holding my own quite well. Of course this is a fairly specialized text within my own field but still. Quite happy. Also one episode of Engrenages yesterday and two of Buffy with French subs. Chronic shortage of time will remain a problem for the foreseeable future, but I`ll try and cram some French in. If need be under the guise of "moral theology" or "reading for my thesis"! As with German I`m beginning to figure out that academic French is quite a different language from informal French. Especially the latter will prove... eventful to learn! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jayjayvp Tetraglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 3870 days ago 26 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, German, Afrikaans Studies: French, Spanish | Message 35 of 35 27 November 2013 at 4:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Oof. It's been a little while. Still happily chugging along. Doing the Anki cards thing and struggling through my second French book, and the textbook too. I have unfortunately also decided to use Anki to learn the entire 5,500 word vocabulary of NT Greek throughout 2014. (A well placed pre-made Anki-deck clinched the deal) I found I didn`t have the courage to just drop Greek alltogether, after everything I've put myself through to actually pass all the exams in said language. Slap on top of French is now me translating the weekly Gospel pericope out of NT Greek into Dutch - completed the eight verses of the first reading of Advent this morning during a boring class - and shoving about 100 words/week through the Anki Machine of Doom. French will suffer, a bit, but not too much hopefully. Also I`m looking at doing next year's Summer Placement in France. Which would be awesome, but we'll see.
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