I wonder. Does it do any harm to fill out all 2042 card with stories and then just review them, say, 50 a day?

What I mean is, If you add the card starting from the beginning, and Anki keeps giving you cards to review while leaving the new ones untouched until you've cleared the old ones, couldn't you just enter all the stories in one go and then use Anki to pace you, and the book to learn the primitives?

If review is going to be necessary, would it be bad to incorporate both learning and review together?

I suppose it could work... If you make sure to turn off the option to make the new cards random. You do want to stick to the order of the kanji, while learning new cards...

That was going to my next question...

Also, wouldn't this also ensure that previous cards are known, to an extent, before new cards are introduced?

kazelee Wrote:I wonder. Does it do any harm to fill out all 2042 card with stories and then just review them, say, 50 a day?

I don't know about you, but I find the slow part of the process is picking a decent story and making sure it's stuck in the brain. I can't imagine doing that with 2042 cards all at once.

LoL.

There are ways to get stories for all the cards. And I found that a lot of the stories on this site suffice. Not all, but a lot of them.

It just occurred to me that this is what some one would be doing if they simply made flashcards and waited until they finished the book to review. 10 or 20 years ago this would be bad.

Meh, I couldn't have done that with my method. But it would definitely save a ton of time. For one you'd be saving those little bits of time you don't think about, and two you could just keep going and going and going. It would be harder to find a breaking point.

That's pretty much how I did it, except I didn't do them all at once. Even if all you do is copy and paste the top stories from this website, it still takes a hideously long time. Granted, I was reapplying formatting to each card, but 2042 is a big number no matter how you spin it. I split the process up into chunks, so that I would enter in about 100 stories a day, and then get on to reviewing and learning new cards after I was done.

And if you're using Anki, you could probably just use the premade RTK deck and just replace the link to each kanji's page with the actual story.

Screw that. Just keep the stories in that big internal database behind your eyes. Putting in a story or something like that would just be killer on the time and take away the advantage of doing it premade.

Dude, don't tempt me 8).

Wowzers: just noticed your posts man. 300. in 3 months. HAHAH. No wonder it took you 50 days instead of 30.