I actually don't know how many new words I am hitting a day to be honest. But in my Core deck it's 5 cards per new word so 100 cards a day is 20 words. However, because it is standard order, many of the example sentences will have unknown words. I add those to my sentence deck at the end of the day. For every 20 example sentences there are usually 10-20 new, non-focus words that I add. On top of that I will add random stuff I encounter in my daily life. Usually stuff my students teach me ("We never say 試みる！Use 試す!"), everyday stuff that I still don't have a word for, any word I come across that I can read and easily guess the meaning of, and easy opposites/correlates of Core words that I guess correctly (e.g., I recently learned 下旬 and 上旬, 中旬 was obvious). This will usually be 10-15 new words per day on top of the other stuff.
A few weeks ago I parsed all my decks to do a word count and come up with a bit over 5000. I'm looking forward to doing it again in a couple weeks when I finish Core6k step 5. Then I can give a precise number of new words/day over a given time period.
Flamerokz Wrote:...In fairness to you you've seem to already gone through it all (and in standard order too! My goodness you are strong-willed) so I suppose I'm not telling you anything of value, but I would highly suggest others do not follow this wretched path. If nothing else, the reward does not warrant the work required.
I'm actually only about 40% of the way through 6k. The first two steps were pretty brutal but I was persistent and, maybe more importantly, plugged every worthwhile vocab word from the example sentences not covered in the step into my sentence/clozed deck. Now when they come up later it's easy mode because I already know them.
Seems like you had a pretty bad time with Core. I'll agree that finishing Core2k took some doing, but I did get it done in 3 months (concurrently with RTK!). I'm doing 100 cards a day now and it's also going relatively quickly.
I'm all too familiar with the way that Anki and real world performance interact, as I go from studying Anki every day to the classroom every afternoon. And I still really think the extra work involved in the standard 5-card Anki deck pays off. I don't know if you or anyone else reading has ever taught EIKEN, but it's a Japanese English test. Most of the high school kids who are any good are aiming for level 2, which falls somewhere between JLPT 3 and 2 (probably closer to 2). In 8 months I've gone from "Let's look up every single word on the page in our dictionaries together!" to being able to translate or at least explain nearly all the words in a given reading section. Words don't always want to come, but they usually do. Back when I was just doing a sentence deck words never came, nevernevernever. I could be wrong, I could just be a sucker for punishment or, most probably, a creature of habit, but Core6k in standard format does justify the time involved for me!
learningkanji Wrote:What deck do you use?
Just do a search on the Anki website for Core 2000 (or 6000) and I use the one that comes in steps of 1-10.
