I've learnt 400 kanji but have only just started using an SRS

CallumReader New member

From: England Registered: 2011-09-06 Posts: 9

I've been using RTK for just over a week and I've just finished lesson seventeen. After each lesson I have made a flash card set on quizlet.com and used that to review my progress and practice what I've learnt. This has been incredibly effective and I can now recognise 95% of the kanji I've practised almost instantly. However, after browsing through various sites related to the Heisig method I quickly noticed the recurring term "SRS" and after discovering what this was referring to I chose to download Anki and use the "RTK 1+3" flashcard set. As I'm not yet familiar with the system and I am being bombarded with all of the kanji that I've already learnt. What would be the best thing to do at this point in time? Just go through everything I have done so far and click "very easy"?

EDIT: I was also thinking of practising my Kanji at school as well (which is why I started using quizlet in the first place) and was wondering if there is any easier way of inserting flashcard sets into Anki?

Last edited by CallumReader (2011 September 11, 6:04 am)

SomeCallMeChris Member

From: Massachusetts USA Registered: 2011-08-01 Posts: 787

In order to scatter the timing so you don't get bombarded by 400 kanji at one time every time they come due, I'd go through the first 400 hitting the buttons more or less randomly (except to only hit 'Again' if you actually fail the card of course).

Or you could go into Edit->Browse Items and suspend most of the first 400 and unsuspend them a few each day to get them into your reviews (but of course answer them as 'easy' or 'very easy' if they still are.)

Ginmanm Member

Registered: 2011-01-27 Posts: 103

I'd stick to the SRS given on this site because its not a hassle to add new content like quizlet. I do my kanji reviews first thing in the morning (literally) so it doesn't pile up, so try setting a time to review where you MUST do it no questions asked. You only need to study once per day, any more than that is a waste of time.

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CallumReader New member

From: England Registered: 2011-09-06 Posts: 9

Thanks to both of you for your advice

Getting technical with Anki sounds like it'll be pain and it'll probably take a while for me to get things in order so instead I just took Ginmanm's advice and used the SRS on the site. It is absolutely perfect for what I want I can use it at school and it didn't take me long to go through each kanji to see which ones I know inside out and which ones I have difficulty remembering.

Ginmanm wrote:
I'd stick to the SRS given on this site because its not a hassle to add new content like quizlet. I do my kanji reviews first thing in the morning (literally) so it doesn't pile up, so try setting a time to review where you MUST do it no questions asked. You only need to study once per day, any more than that is a waste of time.

At the moment I do one lesson a night as soon as I get in and then a review after the lesson with the exception of Sunday when I tend to go through several lessons and review my performance on quizlet after each one. Now I'm just going to use this site instead

TwoMoreCharacters Member

From: Sweden Registered: 2010-07-10 Posts: 480

If you're happy with this site's reviewing system then that's all good, but I'd just like to point out some advantages to Anki, because in the long run, I think it's better. I've only had a quick look at this site's system, but I think it's a lot easier to get the reviews done when Anki shows the amount of cards due for every single day the way it does. I don't really feel any need for discipline, I just see that number of cards due and think that I've gotta do them.

For reviewing in school etc, there's Anki apps for iPod touch/iPhone and Android, that sync your decks perfectly. And if you're gonna use Anki for reviewing other stuff like sentences or simple vocabulary, you might start feeling that it would have been better to have your kanji in there too, so you could have a single center for all your reviewing.

The main thing I like though, is the customization. We spend so much time reviewing, having it look good will do a lot for the motivation.

Last edited by TwoMoreCharacters (2011 September 11, 4:30 pm)

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