About a week ago I finished step 5 in the Core6k standard order deck. I'm going to Australia for a couple weeks in ...shit, only two days now? Anyway, soon. I stopped adding new cards because I'm trying not to devote half my vacation to Anki reps. As I'm going through these reps, I realized that despite the Core decks consisting of five card types (single word reading, single word listening, sentence reading, sentence listening, English to Japanese translation), probably 70% of my due cards are single word listening. Because I fail them. All the time.
I can think of a few reasons for this. Context is always important, in any language. On top of that, Japanese has relatively few sounds compared to other languages and so a lot of words simply sound the same. Because I teach English I'm constantly having to translate words for kids and even Japanese very frequently do not understand words out of context.
So my question is--would it kill me to just delete the single word listening cards on all the future Core notes? Even with the fails my mature retention rate in Core is close to 98%. I wonder if really struggling through the single word listening cards is contributing to that rate? Or if I'm just needlessly bogging myself down? I mean in real life we almost always have context, right?
Anybody have any input on this or have done something similar?
I can think of a few reasons for this. Context is always important, in any language. On top of that, Japanese has relatively few sounds compared to other languages and so a lot of words simply sound the same. Because I teach English I'm constantly having to translate words for kids and even Japanese very frequently do not understand words out of context.
So my question is--would it kill me to just delete the single word listening cards on all the future Core notes? Even with the fails my mature retention rate in Core is close to 98%. I wonder if really struggling through the single word listening cards is contributing to that rate? Or if I'm just needlessly bogging myself down? I mean in real life we almost always have context, right?
Anybody have any input on this or have done something similar?