Hi all,

I just joined this forum to find out more about learning language. Im currently studying Mandarin using AJATT (or ACATT). Im up to around 1000 sentences so far and put aside around 2 hours per day for review.

I'm often finding that im not able to finish all my reviews and just wondering if this is ok? Does everyone here always get their reviews down to zero each day? lately ill have periods of around 150 or so reviews that i can get through in under 2 hours, but then ill have a day of around 250 or something which i just cant manage, or ill feel bored or like its a chore, so i just stop.

Can someone also please explain the time feature in anki for when the day starts. Mine is currently set to 8am. So i will do my 2 hours of reps in the morning and when i come home at night to finish those i haven't done, there is more added? is this supposed to happen?

Is it ok to do say 2 sittings per day this way. If you have 200 reviews..and do 100 in the morning.. come home in the afternoon and there is say 140 waiting... then just do 100 more... leaving 40?.... would that be the actual amount for the day had you done them all in the morning?

Hope you get me.. and thanks for any advice.

What kind of reviews do you do? For doing just sentence recognition in Japanese I find it averages around 15 seconds a question - or sometimes faster, so I could do 150 cards in under 40 minutes. I usually do all reviews every day.

To answer your question about number of reviews, cards expire throughout the day, that's why the number keeps increasing all the time. Doing more reviews sooner won't reduce the total number of due cards.

Also whenever you forget a card, it will show up later in the day - so if you have 200 due and you fail 20 you will have to do 220 reviews to get to zero.

Anki doesn't schedule reviews in per-day blocks. Reviews are scheduled on something closer to a per-minute basis I think. So the amount of reviews shown in the morning do not represent the total amount of reviews that will become due that day. They just represent the number of reviews that are due at that specific moment in time. When you get home to find an extra 40 reviews that is because, while you were away, another 40 cards have become due. In other words, you had 200 cards due around 8 am in the morning and an additional 40 cards were due to be reviewed by the end of the day for a total of 240 cards due throughout the entire day.

And the time-feature is just for statistics purposes I believe. It doesn't change how often reviews become due, or when.

As for reviewing, its ok not to do them all in one sitting, or to leave some undone completely. Any reviews you don't do now just have to be done later, is all. Although it is probably better to do your reviews as close as possible to their due time because that is the time that Anki has calculated is best for you to remember the card. There is obviously a bit of leeway though, because the calculations aren't 100% accurate of course.

If you want to know how many reviews will be due use the graph feature... For example If I open my kanji reviews deck and it says theres 60 reviews due, once I get that down to 0 I check my graph and it may tell me that there are 50 more due over the next 24 hours so I can expect that there will be a few more If I check back in a couple of hours. It's a good tool to use for breaking up ur reviews into manageable chunks throughout the day... It's in the tools menu, right at the top and the "due" graph is the one you wanna look at. Ever since finding out about it I haven't been able to go without it!

This thread might help you out:

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...5#pid61985

As others mentioned, Anki schedules down to the second so that a card becomes available the very second that it expires. The "day start" time is for reporting purposes (when Anki tells you how many cards will be due today, for example). It's a recognition of the fact that many people's days don't end or begin at midnight, or any other arbitrarily chosen time. Just set it to some at which you will be assuredly asleep (4am for me) and it'll do its purpose.

acute Wrote:Does everyone here always get their reviews down to zero each day?

I try to. It's best to get to zero at least once a day. If you're regularly leaving your reviews unfinished for a few days at a time I suggest you make sure you configure Anki to review cards with the shortest interval first to avoid neglecting the brand new cards that need urgent attention (the default is to review the largest interval cards first which makes sense if you accumulate a lot of due cards and intend to sacrifice the recent cards until you catch up with the reviews).

I think it's best to avoid a yo-yo situation where you alternate between adding too many cards and being unable to do all your reviews. Try to to find a pace that allows you to complete your reviews.

acute Wrote:Hi all,

I just joined this forum to find out more about learning language. Im currently studying Mandarin using AJATT (or ACATT). Im up to around 1000 sentences so far and put aside around 2 hours per day for review.

I'm often finding that im not able to finish all my reviews and just wondering if this is ok? Does everyone here always get their reviews down to zero each day? lately ill have periods of around 150 or so reviews that i can get through in under 2 hours, but then ill have a day of around 250 or something which i just cant manage, or ill feel bored or like its a chore, so i just stop.

Can someone also please explain the time feature in anki for when the day starts. Mine is currently set to 8am. So i will do my 2 hours of reps in the morning and when i come home at night to finish those i haven't done, there is more added? is this supposed to happen?

Is it ok to do say 2 sittings per day this way. If you have 200 reviews..and do 100 in the morning.. come home in the afternoon and there is say 140 waiting... then just do 100 more... leaving 40?.... would that be the actual amount for the day had you done them all in the morning?

Hope you get me.. and thanks for any advice.

?? You're from Taiwan and you're studying Mandarin...? :/
不会吧...除非是...

thanks everyone. Makes much more sense now.

I live in Taiwan but im not from here

acute Wrote:thanks everyone. Makes much more sense now.

I live in Taiwan but im not from here

I thought so
In case you need a online dictionary, this one is quite good (has traditional and simplified)
http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/chin...ionary.php
加油啊！

Yeah, I always get my reviews down to zero. If I can't do that, I stop adding new cards since I'm obviously in over my head.