Core decks vs extensive reading

(2015-12-15, 8:21 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: Once again, thanks a lot for the replies guys.

My current deck does have sentences in the front. That's how I'll be reading words anyway, so I like that idea. But on the other hand, I wonder if I'll end up guessing certain words more than learning to read the kanji itself, or maybe remembering words just because I recognize the rest of the sentence.

Does anybody know if that's an actual issue? I'm sure both ways would work in the end, but I have to make up my mind before I get started because of the way Anki reviews work. Starting over would definitely suck.

I think there is nothing to worry about:

Several people put the sentence separately on the front - and still test only the single word vocab.

Using white as a colour makes the sentence completely invisible (you have to mark the area to make it visible). Yellow would do the same and one member stated using light grey. Personally I just use normal black some cm below the vocab (well apart!), so if I do not recall the word I can see without any time loss the sentence.

In case I need help from the sentence I simply rate the word as difficult.

If you change after a while your opinion of reading also the whole sentence ("I like that idea"), you just skip the sentence reading if the word itself is sufficient. Or you just skip the sentences for the really easy words. Or every second sentence. Or whatever. That means you are flexible to change even if you first start out reading out all sentences.