Comment by Alex-Programs
1 day ago
Yeah, and flashcards generally work better when you're reinforcing existing learning. Learning by flashcards is hellish for me.
1 day ago
Yeah, and flashcards generally work better when you're reinforcing existing learning. Learning by flashcards is hellish for me.
> Learning by flashcards is hellish for me.
Wait, you're putting yourself in a situation where the first time you see a card, you have no idea what it is?
I've tried it in a few situations (e.g. my driving license theory test) and yeah it's absolutely awful and I quickly stopped. My modus operandi is obsidian notes->flashcards->revision to keep my knowledge up. However, a lot of people do actually do that!
People will genuinely download top x wordlists for a language and try to learn from them. Hideous, but they do it.
> People will genuinely download top x wordlists for a language and try to learn from them.
I’ve done that, and I’ve even created a whole SRS app to learn kanji which does that by default (https://shodoku.app).
I think this is common practice for the first 1000 words, and I don’t exactly recommend against it. Unless your target language is close to another language you already know, you are going to have to learn your first 1000 words somehow, and you will not learn them by comprehensible input in any reasonable time, unless you are actually living in the language area, and cannot use other languages.
I actually bought a vocabulary book which has 1000 basic words and example sentences and puts them in categories (e.g. work, travel, food, etc.). I then downloaded an Anki deck from the book and use it. To be fair though, I first read the word in the book, and practice it with a red-sheet (albeit in reverse, i.e. from english and try to recall it in japanese).
As for my kanji learning app. I made it so the first time you see a kanji, it does not hide any information, and it shows you the strokes in order as you write it on first encounter, after that you review it normally.