(Note from Fran - you can “suspend” all the cards and manually “unsuspend” them as you work your way through a textbook, although I appreciate this is a bit fiddly!)Ī lot of people recommended that you should use a single deck, and dump everything you came across into it, which seems a bit too messy for my liking. Some people recommended that you should download a pre-made deck to match the textbook you are using (there is a huge library of decks submitted by users accessible from within Anki.) But I felt this would mean that it would start automatically adding vocabulary past the point I’d got to in the book. While I saw Anki mentioned and recommended everywhere, I could never figure out a way to use it that really worked for me. It was originally developed for language learning (being named after the Japanese word for ‘memorisation’) but has since been applied to many subjects, including medical studies. If you can’t remember (or remember incorrectly) it will show it to you again sooner. If you remember the card correctly, it will increase the length of time before it shows it to you again. You should be able to recall the information, but at a slight stretch. It does this by aiming to present you with a flashcard exactly at the point you were about to forget it. Luckily my vocab cards were all associated with the “Japanese” tag already, so I didn’t have to mess with this.A special guest post from Step Up Japanese student Phil Kinchington!Īnki is a flashcard app that uses a Spaced Repetition System (SRS) to help you learn and memorise information by creating strong, long-lasting memories. If you don’t have tags on your cards, you’ll have to add them yourself… you can do this under Edit → Browse Items… and add the tags yourself in the “Tags” field at the bottom there. For me I type in “Japanese” and it shows all my JLPT4 Vocabulary cards (which I added from Anki’s built in deck download feature File → Download → Shared Deck…), and I leave it set at 2 minutes per session for “time boxing”… so as long as I leave that cram session open, every 2 minutes I can take a break and go do something else for a bit and when I come back I will be able to review the cards I chose “Again / Soon” for right away. I’m kind of winging this at the moment, but basically if your cards have tags on them, you can choose Cram Mode, type in which tags you want to cram on, and then it will just let you go hog wild and study as many as you want for as long as you want. I’ve set mine to 2 minutes (in the “Session limit (minutes)” box) which is a nice brief setting that I can pop over to periodically when I’m not doing something else. This allows you to set a specific amount of time you want to review so that you can trim down your studying into more bite-sized chunks to help keep you from getting overwhelmed. I was having trouble keeping motivated to do my vocabulary drills in Anki and some of the people in the chat pointed me to some helpful features that have really helped me get back to my studying with Anki… so I wanted to share!
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