Wow I've had the same problems as you over the past few months. There's so much vocab to learn and when you look up more example sentences to understand them, there's ever MORE new vocab.
I personally gave up learning from Sample sentences(for now) and just learn by making a simple vocab deck. (I think it was overture2112 who said that way, it's basically 0+1) It's not ideal because I lose context but I feel a lot more motivated now because I don't have to worry about grammar and irrelevant vocab.
Also, one thing that helped my studying immensely was to not learn new facts from anki directly. Before, I just added new cards to anki and turned on "x new cards per day" and left it at that. I failed a huge amount of cards and some cards are easily forgotten after a few days. Now, I suspend all my new cards and I study say 40 new vocab per day using pen and paper. (and recommended to me by Rich_f, the Iversen method) At the end of the day, I select all the vocab I learned that day (easy for me, because I learn in the order I add my vocab) and gave them a random tag. Then I just use anki to CRAM the cards with that tag. If I fail anything, I make a note to learn them like a new fact later.
I really hope I didn't confuse you. My use of my words are really poor in English despite it being my native language.
I personally gave up learning from Sample sentences(for now) and just learn by making a simple vocab deck. (I think it was overture2112 who said that way, it's basically 0+1) It's not ideal because I lose context but I feel a lot more motivated now because I don't have to worry about grammar and irrelevant vocab.
Also, one thing that helped my studying immensely was to not learn new facts from anki directly. Before, I just added new cards to anki and turned on "x new cards per day" and left it at that. I failed a huge amount of cards and some cards are easily forgotten after a few days. Now, I suspend all my new cards and I study say 40 new vocab per day using pen and paper. (and recommended to me by Rich_f, the Iversen method) At the end of the day, I select all the vocab I learned that day (easy for me, because I learn in the order I add my vocab) and gave them a random tag. Then I just use anki to CRAM the cards with that tag. If I fail anything, I make a note to learn them like a new fact later.
I really hope I didn't confuse you. My use of my words are really poor in English despite it being my native language.