After I complete a session of learning new Kanji I write a list of the new keywords that I've learned, as a method of knowing where I left off in the book (I'm using a PDF).

Does anybody see an issue with once a week reading through the whole list and writting out each Kanji?

I gave this a try a few days ago and it helped me to realize which Kanji I really didn't remember.

Will this cause me issues in the future, or can this be a legitimate way to detect keywords that really cause me to draw a blank?

Why not just let the spaced repetition system quiz you on kanji as they become due? That automatically detects which kanji you don't know, except it does it at smart intervals which saves review time.

I don't really think it'll cause any problems, but depending on how many you're learning in a week it could take up a lot of precious time haha. Or perhaps I misunderstood you and you're writing out all of the kanji? If that's the case, I can pretty much assure you that it is a huge waste of time, especially the further along you get, and you should definitely let the SRS take care of long term memory.

In terms of reviewing outside of the SRS, it definitely can be useful for things you've just learned, but after a week or so you should have them in there decently enough that you don't need reviews outside of the SRS to keep a 90-95% retention rate, depending on your pace. And even if you don't seem to be remembering them that well in the beginning keep in mind that the SRS will absolutely take care of getting them stuck in your head, you've got no need to worry!

sup3rbon Wrote:I don't really think it'll cause any problems, but depending on how many you're learning in a week it could take up a lot of precious time haha. Or perhaps I misunderstood you and you're writing out all of the kanji? If that's the case, I can pretty much assure you that it is a huge waste of time, especially the further along you get, and you should definitely let the SRS take care of long term memory.

In terms of reviewing outside of the SRS, it definitely can be useful for things you've just learned, but after a week or so you should have them in there decently enough that you don't need reviews outside of the SRS to keep a 90-95% retention rate, depending on your pace. And even if you don't seem to be remembering them that well in the beginning keep in mind that the SRS will absolutely take care of getting them stuck in your head, you've got no need to worry!

Don't worry, I wasn't writting out all of the Kanji. Seeing how I'm at 228 it would not only be a complete waste of time, it would also be rather confusing.

I will just stick with using Anki, as I wasn't following a 90-95% rentetion rate plan. I was doing full reviews to ensure a 100% renention rate. After reading around on here though it looks like 90-95% is pretty standard, and if I'm in that zone I'm doing just fine.

90-95% is pretty awesome. You're doing just fine.

A weekly review wouldn't hurt, but as you are already using Anki it wouldn't really help either.