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Reply #1 - 2012 July 31, 5:23 am
Juraya New member
From: Germany Registered: 2012-01-13 Posts: 2

Hello guys, like the topic suggests I did not learn or review anything due to some reasons (university and some family stuff). Now I want to start learning it again. So my question is, how do I get back into it. I am currently at 416 kanji and I remember reading here that a good way to go for it is going through all the kanji and "no" all the kanji you dont remember instantly. Would you recommend that method?

Reply #2 - 2012 July 31, 6:28 am
frony0 Member
From: London United Kingdom Registered: 2011-12-10 Posts: 257

You're only at 416, your review pile can't be that huge, and you will undoubtedly remember far FAR more than you think smile

If you use Anki, turn off "show next times" in preferences, set the review settings to review from largest interval, and burn through the top 75% like nobody's business, since those will be the easiest cards. Then you will just have about 50-200 left which you're a little hazy on, but those will almost certainly come back strong after just one review.

So by my logic, you can fix this with one day of heavy burning and refreshing (possibly two if you really end up with over 100 badly forgotten, which would be surprising).

As for leniency, it's really up to you. If your pace is rather high, you can be lenient with cards you KNOW you'll remember next time you see them, and get as many out of the way as you can without being foolish so you can learn more. Otherwise, if you're a slow runner, it's a better idea to fail any cards you construct even slightly wrong, or who's story you recall wrong (or not at all) since you'll have plenty of time to perfect each kanji. Of course you can go anywhere in between; it's really just up to you.

Bear in mind, even if you do screw up that choice, Anki or RevTK will eventually fix everything anyway; such is the nature of SRS.

Reply #3 - 2012 July 31, 7:45 am
EratiK Member
From: Paris Registered: 2010-07-15 Posts: 874

The "no instantly" is good once you're done with RTK to increase your retrieval speed, but while learning, I don't know. I'd rather struggle 30 seconds and get one right than fail one. It's up to the individual.

Last edited by EratiK (2012 July 31, 10:37 am)

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Reply #4 - 2012 July 31, 9:49 am
Curious_Cub New member
Registered: 2012-06-10 Posts: 1

lucky you...416 kanji only...

Came back from roughly a month long hiatus from RTK, I now have to go through almost 600 kanji now, not including the 70ish failed ones I left  (>_<)

Failing the forgotten kanji as well as unfamiliar ones is a pretty good strategy. Forces you to study those that you definitely need help, plus seeing the kanji helped to refresh my memory. Quite helpful for me~big_smile

Hope you find it as effective ( and useful) as I did, good luck to your endeavors and never give up~ perseverance and consistency is key progressing!

p.s I am a relatively new member, so take what I say with a pinch of salt...
     don't get discouraged by the number of kanji, just go through one kanji at a time smile

Reply #5 - 2012 July 31, 4:24 pm
Juraya New member
From: Germany Registered: 2012-01-13 Posts: 2

Thanks for the answers guys.
I´ve gone with the method I mentioned and surpisingly I could remember more than half of them almost instantly and there were only a few ones (mostly the newest in my deck) which I could hardly remember anything about. Shows me at least that the method is really kicking in ^__^

I just want to get quite a bit done, since I have holidays until mid October and I want to do more than just repeating my university stuff.

Reply #6 - 2012 July 31, 4:39 pm
frony0 Member
From: London United Kingdom Registered: 2011-12-10 Posts: 257

Juraya wrote:

Thanks for the answers guys.
I´ve gone with the method I mentioned and surpisingly I could remember more than half of them almost instantly and there were only a few ones (mostly the newest in my deck) which I could hardly remember anything about.

frony0 wrote:

you will undoubtedly remember far FAR more than you think

Nailed it tongue

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