Codexus
Member
From: Switzerland
Registered: 2007-11-27
Posts: 721
Hi,
I've just gotten started and off course I'm a bit enthusiastic about it. So waiting 3 days to start reviewing the kanji I had just added and tested once was out of the question. I reviewed them early which resulted in many being moved to the next stack where the scheduled review is even farther. So I have no choice but to review them manually which increases the problem.
So what should I do? Pretend to fail them all so that they get to the bottom pile again? Is reviewing ahead of schedule a bad idea.
The ideal solution would be a special review ahead of schedule mode. In that mode, failed kanji would go back to the first stack normally but remembering a kanji would not promote it to the next stack.
What do you think? Does that make any sense?
vosmiura
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From: SF Bay Area
Registered: 2006-08-24
Posts: 1085
I did that too first time Codexus. After that I just went through them all answering "No" and started over again.
I would recommend that you don't review the cards that you just added immediately on this site. One strategy is to add them today, and then review them tomorrow. If you remembered after 24h then you'll probably remember most of them after 4 days too.
For myself, I used Anki to review since about two months. I wait about 30min to 1hour after learning before starting review in Anki, and I always answer "2" which schedules all newly learned cards for a review 1 day later. Then when I review the card the following day, depending on how easily I remembered I will answer "3" which schedules around ~4 days or "4" which schedules around ~8 days.
1525 kanji later, I'd say it was a great review pattern for me.
Last edited by vosmiura (2007 November 30, 4:25 pm)
sutebun
Member
From: Oregon
Registered: 2007-06-29
Posts: 172
Floatingweed5 wrote:
Personally, I don't put newly learned kanji into my review stack until a week after first studying.....
Quoted for emphasis. I agree with all the points that Floatingweed has made and review in a very similar method.
I think with all the buzz about SRS in online learning communities, it becomes easy to misuse them. Learn something first and only put it in the SRS after you are sure you've learned it (or put it in, but don't start scheduling weekly reviews until you learned it...).
Most of the kanji in RtK are not learned after making a story once and writing the kanji down 2-3 times. Some will be if the story associates with the kanji incredibly well in the learner's mind, but these are found farer and fewer between than more commonly.
