What do you do about bad days in anki/this site. I just did horrible reviewing kanji. I had less than 40 % correct in my reviews, and the more I failed the worse my mood got.By the end I didn't want to try and remember the cards I was failing. Do you just learn more kanji or take the day off?

hmmm I usually take a break from Kanji for a few hours and do something else in Japanese to take my mind off of it/ brighten my mood ^_^ Usually either watching one of my fav drama episodes or even going through one of my magazines picks me up and tends to renew my desire to learn more kanji/japanese. Then before I go to bed I'll try to maybe do some reviews again or just go over what I missed.

Back when I did a lot of kanji reviews on this site, I found that, if I felt myself getting frustrated (say I missed 3 in a row, or I had bad fail/pass ratio), it was in my best interest to stop for a couple of minutes and restart. Once you get bent out of shape you'll just keep messing everything up, as you described. That only goes from being a couple of bad reviews to being a bad day if you make it a bad day. Just reset (so you don't have to see your previous stats), wait a couple minutes, start again.

Thanks for the replies. I have been using anki and not keeping good track of my failed cards. I have to do a better job studying them. Today just isn't my day so I will take a break. I'm going to review all the cards again from this site tomorrow and see which cards I have forgotten and review them.

Drink heavily, try again tomorrow (or whichever day I decide to stop drinking.)

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So today I reviewed all he kanji I know to see how much I actually remembered. I remembered 264/310 hooray for me. The kanji I missed were easy I just did them too fast. So I feel much better about RTK than I did when I wrote this thread. Feels good to remember that many kanji.

I usually shrug them off and move on I doesn't really matter since it's like relearning something so in order to get better at something you have to practice it.

I don't have bad days. But, then again, I'm not human

ropsta Wrote:I don't have bad days. But, then again, I'm not human

Ha, ha. I thought I couldn't have bad days until I realized the true meaning of frustration. Trust me, you might encounter one eventually, unless you've got the patience of a buddhist monk.

If it's a bad day in general, like I have the stomach flu, I just lay around and watch Japanese things. I guess that could apply to a bad-kanji day too.

As long as you got real, real drunk the day before, or the day before that, then I think it's ok. Personally I think Anki should have a drunk button. 二日が暇ら多分暗記の酔ったボタんを作りたい. Just don't get swine flu　

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