Flameseek Wrote:Another reason I've been thinking about focusing more on reading and listening is that I've noticed Anki helps me with readings and meaning (to a lesser extent) when I have enough time to process everything... but when it comes to listening, it doesn't seem to help me THAT much.
Well, I think that would be your card's fault, not the fault of Anki. If you want to improve listening alongside your vocabulary, subs2srs is really the way to go. Plus it's automated, so (given you have timed subtitles), it's trivial to make cards. It's all native material that should be intrinsically interesting to you.
Honestly, I think you should forget about VNs for ... 3-6 months? Run a bunch of anime adaptations of visual novels through subs2srs. You'll learn a bunch of spoken vocabulary that will show up in both that specific story and thematically similar VNs. Your listening will improve as an added bonus.
I think someone made a vn2srs thing, but it didn't look particularly robust. But if you can just dump text into cards you should be able to gloss it with whatever that Anki plugin is and have all the definitions automatically there for you - should be no big deal to copy/paste from a text hooker. If a text hooker doesn't work for that game, just choose another.