Still shadows Japanese out loud on his daily walk while other people stare. Still doable. Japanese Level: 40 Personally I think that while you’ll progress faster by adding more cards/day, it shouldn’t be done to the point that you exclude active immersion time. One thing to help get your review times down, especially after the first 1000. Finally I reach a vague understanding, with some niggling grammar points still unresolved. But well, I’m adding very few cards compared to many others. I also don’t always have enough self-made cards to add 10 new ones every day. You’re still improving, but you start to develop thoughts that maybe it’s time to put Anki down for good. Having done about 50% of them without even looking, simply super clicking through them, I started to “semi-“super click and at least look at the card in that split second, and only stop if I have no idea whatsoever… kinda fun actually. Make sure you are getting enough sleep, eating properly and not drinking alcohol. I was reaaaaaly slow at the beginner phase (I started learning Japanese a month before finals) Don’t let the problem develop in the first place. It is a great feeling to see your review number go down to 0 for the day and get a congratulations screen. Thanks for this blog and I’m gonna some Kanjis ass now! Still, adding close to 20 new cards per day definitely pushes my limits because the number of daily reviews really begins to pile up after a bit. When you let the reviews due number get too high, you leave yourself in the hands of pure evil with an uncertain fate. This way my reviews would go down to around 15-20 and I’d be able to get back into the grove easily after. immersion is way more important IMHO. J-E: 30 cards so far until I finish Jalup beginner (feb 29) And then a little more. Daily new cards J-E: 0 I always create more cards than I need and always have a backlog of sentences for cards I want to make, too. The J-Js can take me a long time, 30s to 60s each. I’m keeping my number or reps stable while adding cards, which seems like the right way to do it, but I do have a growing fear of cards silently waiting to bury me. My reviews per day have stayed at around 120-160 per day, which takes me about 50-60 minutes to review. I’ve got the goal set to finish the first 100 cards of each by the end of the month. I think the best way to handle it is to pace oneself, just like in any race. You might notice that, in our example, we said 10 new cards per day would require 10 minutes of daily review. Our suggested 10 new cards per day is a good starting point, but if it’s too much then you could decrease it to 5 flashcards per day. Delete your Anki deck, and restart from scratch. Also, are you a glass half full or half empty kind of person? You accomplished your Anki training for the day. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Forgot one thing. After I add you deck to my list, I will be studying 75 cards a day and will likely have to review 250 to 350 cards a day. I’ve been through all kinds of numbers over the years. I add maybe around 20 new cards a month. Oh, and I also deleted the premade “8500-Something Japanese Sentences” deck because I just really did NOT want to deal with it, I didn’t have much commitment in it in the first place (only about 300 cards in), and I’m planning on doing Korean this fall anyway… Also found out how to correctly merge decks (got the three fragments of “Tofugu Ultimate Nouns” into one, further bringing my deck-count down to 7), and discovered that I actually have to manually enable syncing for individual decks, and all this time it had not been statesaving to the server :O. So long as one half isn’t completely neglected. I do 20 with the sentences, and 20 with the Kanji. One thing to look at is your lifestyle. You are now 30 pounds overweight. 50 cards a day from 8000 card point is 3 hours, maybe a bit more depending on how much I add and i if have to branch. One trick I do with this is to time-box “Super-click” with writing out cards I don’t know. J-E I am reviewing about 10 a day in like 3 min tops. And if you feel like you are slipping, recall the horrid experience you already had of recovering the last time you fell. I did the super click and you know what I found? As in all video games and the way Anki was built, there are some really addicting features. There’s no right and wrong here, just do what suits you without completely neglecting the other. (almost). You will do this, but you can mentally push it off and are justifying yourself for doing this. It’s still going to be the same hell to drop 50 pounds or 52 pounds. I’m adding new ones now, since I’m pretty motivated. Don’t go crazy trying to compete with ’em… unless that’s your thing :D. RTK: 30 cards a day only because I want to get it over with by the end of march I just did the “mash the ==> button” method today too (had ~1100 reviews due over ten decks), except I had a slightly different method: Look at card briefly, if I know the answer, hit Very Good, if not, hit Good. This means I can be flexible with my time and give myself days off from card creation, or even increase my daily new cards if I feel like it. It’s so easy with JALUP Next, so I’m tempted to do more, but I don’t want an insane amount of reviews the next day that it may start to feel overwhelming. So what happens next? The killer is the kanji readings. ‘Total’: the number of hours you spent on Anki in the last month. On the Sentence side, I do 10 cards/day from the JALUP decks, and a big chunk of new self-made cards (30+) over the weekend, which over a given week averages out to ~15/day. If it doesnt: flip the card, read the furigana a few times, read the top sentence (the front) a couple of times without the furigana focusing on the problem words kanji(RTK super helps with this), then mark it wrong. Take the full sentence of the word and make a flashcard in a spaced repetition system (Anki is the SRS of choice). The most important thing is to make sure you understand each concept on a deeper level than before and not just focus on the number. Though, I definitely do not see myself giving up anki anytime soon. Short answer: About add 25 new cards a day, for an average pace, if you’re studying flashcards for 30-60 minutes a day. This will include however many new cards you select per day, plus any older cards that are up for review at that time. After a few weeks, if you have too few/many reviews, adjust the amount of new cards until you have a manageable number of reviews every day. I still do use Anki as a tool for recording cool Japanese phrases/sayings/etc, but I don’t use it for memorization anymore. By the time you’ve done 2000-3000 J-J cards, you’ll wonder why it was ever difficult for you. I plan on adding kanji to my RTK deck as I meet new ones I the wild that I find useful, so the number here will probably not be very stable. The vast majority of the cards I actually know, and when I had made the decision that “I will super click “Difficult” for every card at lightning speed,” my brain was more focused, alert, and I was actually able to run through cards at 10x the speed or more, because my brain wasn’t spending more than half the time analyzing which button to click, and then moving the mouse. In any case, I prefer to stick to the 10-20 range for new cards per day. Sometimes you do well, sometimes you don’t. And does J-E teach grammar or should I learn from Tae Kim’s website? Make it a top priority. For decks in other languages, the amount has slowly decreased to below 100. Tomorrow I will add my last 5 J-E cards, and I’m very excited about that! i have my limit set to 9999 for all types of decks as well. Level around 25 It is not very fast but it is progress that doesn’t end up making me quit which is what matters. I dont do j-j, only j-e. New RTK Cards: ~3-5/week All that said, I just got back from a 2-week vacation during which I added zero new cards per day… so I might go a little crazy this week to make up for it! Kind of contradictory of me to say, since I spend so much time with the SRS. Meaning is not too bad, but the readings… good grief. Because it needs to be used daily, Anki can actually be a great way to build a study habit for USMLE Step 1. You can start with 30-40 cards per day and increase this as you get comfortable and more familiar with the program. My threshold number is around 700-800. You can’t move forward without new cards, and while you would think the more the better, deciding on a new card count is just as important, if not more, than your daily reviews. Adding 15 takes like 20 min unless I really struggle to get some of them. I usually add about 100-150 cards per day for a few days then take a break and dont add for a few days. If you keep up with your Anki schedule, you’ll be ensuring that you dedicate some time every day to Step 1 review. I am bilingual already after all with english being my 2nd language, but strangely my stronger language due to it being the language I use more on average (school and outside the house) I am not too sure being bilingual can help me with understanding Japanese, but I am sure it will help with the mind partition and thinking in a language and grasping grammar and different ways of speaking since arabic and english are crazy different already. I have used Tae Kim’s Guide to Japanese a lot for that. (That's actually only 10 new words per day, if you do both English-to-Chinese and Chinese-to-English.) There was a period where I was adding as high as 40-50 cards a day, and a period as low as 20 cards a week. 6 answers to question "the 20 new cards a day that's the default on anki mobile seems a bit low - how many are you all doing?" Founder of Jalup. I feel like the numbers everyone works with can be great for seeing how everyone handles it. But if you find that you can stay on top of all your Anki reviews a day, then you can increase it to 20 new cards a day. Set the timer, or daily card limit. Slow and steady wins the race. Your daily learned new cards has a direct impact on your review count, so the more new cards you do, the more you increase your reviews. You should be able to push it off a bit. Incredibly. I also had no time to actually learn how words are used through reading, writing and speaking. I think I’m going to try what Robert did just so there isn’t such a large number there making me feel like poop about the whole thing. However, I think that long term this balances out either way you swing it, as long as you eventually make that time up. There is a number of “due reviews” in your Anki deck that will make you reach a point of no return. Software Engineer. HTML tags allowed in your comment:

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