Hi! I have learned about 750 kanji, but haven't used Anki yet. If I add them all as new cards, they will follow the same "pattern", i.e. repeat every 2 days, then 3 days, etc. Since I want to space them out, and not end up with hundreds of kanji one day and none (or only the new ones) the following day, I am looking for a way of evening them out so it seems like I learned them gradually with Anki, from the beginning (only a few every day). What would you suggest? Thanks!
EratiK
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A lot of people don't use Anki to learn kanji, they use this site, Reviewing the Kanji (abreviated as RevTK). That said, if you're sure you prefer Anki, there is a reschedule fonction. When you browse your deck, select the cards you want then click on the Edit menu, then Reschedule, then choose the interval you like.
Last edited by EratiK (February 14, 3:43 pm)
Ephel
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I was in your same situation, I didn't had problems making my way through all the kanji I needed just adding 50-100 of them every day. If you really know them, you'll hit easy every time and really fast, so reviewing shouldn't take long... and you could discover that there are some kanji you're getting wrong.
You'll have a lot of reviews to do in the first weeks, but they can be done very quickly if you don't get scared by numbers. Just don't write the kanji that you feel are really easy. Then it will all normalize to a more sensible number (and you'll have time to write down everything if you want to practice your handwriting).
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Since you're ading a bunch of new cards, the SRS doesn't know about your knowledge really. So I think setting yourself a daily limit of cards to review should work well.
If you use RevTK then one small thing you can take advantage of is that the blue stack (new cards) is organized by add date (24h period). Therefore if you add kanji 1-100 today, and then more tomorrow, even if you don't finish the first 100 today, tomorrow even though it could show something like 120 new cards (say you did 80 the first day) you will first have a randomized set of the first set of cards you added (the remaining 20 from 1-100), and then a randomized set of the second set you added. Since the kanji become increasingly complex, and are based on previous characters (building blocks), reviews could go faster by controlling how randomized they are (TLDR if you add all 700 at once as they will all be randomized together).
