I suppose that depends on how many you are trying to learn a day. Initially I was trying to do 30+ a day which I thought was fine, but my retention sucked. I've had better luck with a set schedule of 20 per day mon-fri, with review of the 100 from that week on saturday. after 5 weeks (or 500 cards) I would spend a whole week reviewing the 500. 1-100 on monday, 101-200 on tues, ect. And the next week I would resume learning 20 a day. Rinse and repeat until complete.

With this method, it takes roughly 6 months to get through, but I havn't forgotten even 1 since I've started. Good luck!

Edit: I forgot to mention, after learning 20, I would review those 20 for the next two days after learning my next 20.

So it looks something like this.

Monday: Learn 1-20

Tuesday: Learn 21-40, Review 1-20

Wednesday: Learn 41-60, Review 1-20 and 21-40

Thursday: Learn 61-80, Review 21-40 and 41-60

Friday: Learn 81-100, Review 41-60 and 61-80

Saturday: Review 1-100 with extra emphasis on 61-100 since you didn't get as much review on them.

Last edited by Poskusin (2011 July 26, 1:10 pm)

Thanks for the input guys. It helps a lot. I was just having a bit of a wobble.

I think what I was doing wrong was probably forcing myself through a lesson every day regardless of how long it was rather than giving myself some sort of limit (either time or number of cards).

I might do something like Wulfgar suggested and give myself a time limit for every day and see how well that works for me.

Also I should probably spend more time on my stories. It seems like some of them just don't stick.

Last edited by palelaura (2011 July 28, 6:48 am)

You could always try the approach where you leave all leech cards behind and keep going until you hit the end and then refocus your attention on the cards you failed. This way you won't bog yourself down and then later you can focus all your attention on the hard ones. Just an idea.