Hi everyone,

I spent 2 years and half in Japan, and went back to my country 5 years ago.

At that time, I learn a little bit of japanese. I have done both Minna no Nihongo (beginner books), start learning kanji with Kanji in Context, I got the old JLPT 3 Kyuu, and I failed the old JLPT 2 Kyuu (I was not good enough on Kanji, but really, the grammar killed me).

I was using Anki to flashcards Kanji and vocabulary, mainly using Kanji in Context (and some older stuff from the Minna no Nihongo).

Went I left Japan, I stopped using Anki. I re-tried to use it a few times, but I was overwhelmed by the numbers of cards that I failed.

Now, I went back to Japan for a week, and I feel motivated to learn again.

The question is : should I reset all my Anki deck and defreeze chapter by chapter after studiyng them again, or should I keep intact my history and just try to finish the deck ? The problem when I do that is that all cards will be sheduled for review in the next 2 or 3 years, which not really correspond to my memorisation of the cards...

So, what would you do guys ?

Many thanks,

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I ditched about 4000 cards last year when my profile got corrupted. I just used it as a way to start from scratch, the easiest cards disappear quickly if you hit "Easy".

I think you could breeze through most of Nayr's Core 5000 with Morphman ordering the sentences. That's where I would start if I were you.

Ditch 'em. Start something new and exciting and fun. Reviewing is all very well and good, but if they're truly important words they'll find their way back into your Anki deck again soon enough. Make a new deck from a new source.

If you think the deck contains vocabulary that you want to study, there's no reason to ditch it. On the other hand, making a new deck might be nearly as easy. Personally, I'd just ignore the card pileup and study what shows up with the old deck. I have done that a few times, and it wasn't that bad.

Keeping is less redundant work than ditching.

I would probably keep it unless you're not happy with the material. Making decks is very time consuming.

Thanks for your advices.

So finally, I ditched my old kanji cards and kept only the ones from Kanji in context. I reseted the deck history and started to learn it again, unfreezing chapter by chapter of KIC. It's not that bad, I hope to be back to my former knowledge, and, why not, finally starting to learn new stuff !

I still have to find a way to re-learn grammar. I quickly re-read the Minna no Nihongo (beginner), but it's not enough, and I'm not sure that I want to start the intermediate Minna all by myself.
I have the old edition of both どんなときどう使う日本語 (the yellow with 200 points and the white with 500). I guess I will figure a way to do nice flashcard from the yellow one first, and start from here.

By the way, I should go back to Japan in July. Do you think that it's worth to buy the new edition ?

Thank you,