Hey everyone, how do you guys go about learning vocabulary without Anki? I'm finally getting really annoyed of doing reviews... I think I may scrap Anki, but I'm not sure how to study without it.

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If I were to study vocabulary without Anki, I would use the 'word lists' technique,
http://learnanylanguage.wikia.com/wiki/Word_lists

You do have to review a little, but generally the idea is study the words one day using the procedure described in the article. Review them the next day. Review them a week later. Done.

This works best if you are reading (or otherwise using the language) enough to encounter the words again regularly. If not, you are quite likely to forget them again ... but of course you could put them into a new word list if you encounter them later.

I've learned a dozen or so words with wordlists, but I went back to Anki. I'm reading a lot more now so maybe I'll try them again, or not. Anki on my cell phone is really convenient for studying at odd moments. I try to avoid Anki burnout by making sure my example sentences are short (so I'm not repeatedly reading or ignoring large chunks of irrelevant text). I also have a daily review limit set so that I don't go too far and don't have a giant number intimidating me if I do little reviewing for a while. Also timeboxing - limiting myself to 10 minute or shorter sessions on Anki helps.

If those anti-burnout measures aren't enough for you or you just really want something different, then by all means give the word list method a try.

If you know enough words you could start reading and try to pick up from context. If not, you're going to have to memorize via repetition. One way or another; it's a tedious process. Anki may end up being the most painless way to do it.

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Plenty of reading and listening should do the trick, L-R should work too.

From the linked reddit thread, you can simulate the "Vocabulary-centric reading" with Rikaisama and make use of the frequency statistics.

When I want to take an Anki vacation (I never quit for good), I get some of the Campus Word Book notebooks. They're tall, skinny notebooks perfect for word lists, and that's about it. You can find them on JBOX or amazon.co.jp.

But now that I can confidently yank my word list out of my Kindle Paperwhite and turn it into a .csv file, I'm going back to Anki. It saves a ton of time over lots of scribbling into notebooks. Run the word list through E2A to add dictionary definitions, and the sentences will come from the book you look it up in. (So if you enjoy the book, you'll enjoy the sentences, too!)

I'm in the same boat. I love my grammar deck, but I grow tired of Anki very quickly for vocab. In particular, I don't like losing the context of where I found a word. A sentence isn't enough, and isn't really viable for words I find in printed or Kindle books. And I would rather spend time reading Japanese instead of typing in sentences, or hacking Kindle books into text format.

I'm playing now with using vocab lists in Midori to study words from a specific show, book, or article. E.g. I have one list for all of the words I'm gleaning from 名探偵コナン, another for words from 下妻物語、etc. I drill them for a while, then throw the current set out and fill it up again as I encounter unknown words. I like the idea of keeping vocab lists dynamic like this.

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If you do Heisig, it doens't hurt to play with the vocab review modes in RevTK's "Labs" page.. you'll get words only made of known kanji.