AdamLeliel
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From: Nottingham
Registered: 2008-06-30
Posts: 91
Has anyone else done this? I'm really considering deleting my anki deck and starting all over again. I've barely done anything for a month, I can barely remember anything, my anki deck's a little messed up-- I think it might be time to start over.
Did this help anyone else?
lerris
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From: Orlando
Registered: 2006-06-17
Posts: 44
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I sort of did the same thing at around the same place. Two months of missed reviews resulted in basically every card being orange (I use the site to review). Instead though, I just picked up where I left off -- hit the 'review all' button and went at it.
If I was sure of a kanji I'd write it down then look at the answer, pass it if I was right. If I wasn't sure on one, I'd flat out not even look at the card -- just look away and fail it. That way I wouldn't accidentally see a kanji within a larger one that I wouldn't have remembered normally, in case that one came up for review.
I reasoned that if I started over, I'd end up with a horrible review schedule for a while since I'd basically be forcing the first several hundred right on through, knowing them by heart. Instead, I decided that if (2 months later) I could still pass the character from whatever stack it was already in.. I must have learned it and didn't need to review it again.
In the end I had about 300 failed cards (~70% retention, yay!), so I went through them next and started knocking them out. After that stack was trimmed down to basically nothing, I resumed adding cards where I left off.
alantin
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From: Finland
Registered: 2007-05-02
Posts: 346
I started again a couple of times and I find that with most characters I just didn't remember the keyword and just associating the keywords back to the kanji I already actually remembered, wasn't too hard or time consuming.
First you need to separate the ones you remember from the ones that need work!
AdamLeliel wrote:
I'm at about the 1000 mark. So, halfway.
Add the first 1000 characters to the site SRS and review them. That way you'll have the ones that need work in the failed stack, you can just consentrate on those, and you don't have to start from scratch again.
In the meantime you can just start using the RTK deck that comes with anki and suspend the characters you don't know yet.
I kind of "restarted" when I switched to Anki, but then I just blazed through the ones I already remembered perfectly (about 90% of RtK1 and some of RtK3). My review load was insane for the first couple of weeks after that, though. While I had already finished both books, I wouldn't be surprised if you were to get similar results. Even if you start over, I'm sure you'll remember more than you think.
Whether it's really the best choice, though, I don't know. You may be better off just reviewing and failing the cards you don't remember. That way you won't have to review 一二三四五六七八九十口日月田 more than once a week. >_o
Last edited by hknamida (2008 October 11, 9:42 am)
