(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.
Sentence cards definitely cause me to guess the meaning of the word being tested by accidentally memorizing the sentence. No question. I've found myself reflexively passing several cards that upon further inspection contained several words that I didn't know because I'd memorized the english translation. However, the sentence cards I have in my collection are not there to learn vocabulary, but to practice reading and internalize japanese grammar. My other problem with sentence cards is that they take twice as long to review as single word cards.