Hello, dudes! A question! I don’t know if I applied correctly, because it’s the first time I’ve been on the forum, but… I use anki and his new fsrs, I have a deck of 6 cores divided into 6 others with 1 thousand words each. The cards consist of a word and two sentences in context, I only use the buttons good and again and that’s the thing that baffles me. Let’s say I see a word, initially I don’t remember what it means, but reading the word in context I immediately remember both the pronunciation and its meaning - is it good or again? This baffles me, because I seem to know the word, but if it stands alone, then it causes me difficulties - should I click again?
I understand there are words whose reading becomes clear only if you read the sentence, and in this regard I am very kind to myself and click good if I read the word in context. is my method good? read words in context
Knowing isn’t black or white, so you’ll have to choose your own strategy for srs, how strict you want to be. Recognising a word in context is one important step in the way to recognising it on its own.
The problem with srsing by context sentence is sometimes less helpful than you think - you start to recognise it because of that particular sentence and don’t recognise it in the wild.
That’s how it went for me, so I require myself to judge it by the single word, but I have a context sentence so if I do forget I can still quickly remind myself of that.
There’s no one right answer here…
It’s way too difficult, isn’t it? Hit again too often and you’ll be stuck reviewing the same cards again and again over what are really just minute details, but hit it too sparsely and in a few months you’ll have a ton of reviews for kanji you swear you’ve never seen before… Personally, I think if someone is able to put up with the hassle they should absolutely go with the former. But that’s what is ultimately so helpful, at least in my opinion, about Anki as a resource for learning. It’s self-evaluation. If you know you know something, and know you’d be able to pick it out in everyday life, then even if you got the card wrong on an objective level you can still mark it as “good.” Some people would call that being too lax, and it’s certainly not something I ascribe to as I’m quite a bit too harsh on myself, but if it works for you and you think it’s worth doing, then by all means go nuts.
Though I guess that’s just a really long winded way of me telling you to trust your gut (LOL)
Thanks guys for your answers. it was interesting to read your opinion on this matter. I think I’ll still stay as strict with myself mostly as I was, clicking again if I couldn’t remember the meaning or reading of a stand-alone word. I think it will be necessary to correct the appearance of the cards by removing the sentences from the front side. I only thought about it today, because most of the first cards from the deck were familiar to me since I had already studied Japanese before, but when a lot of reviews began to appear on previously unknown cards, this happened. I think it will be useful to install the incontext addon, as it promises quite nice things: random sentences from a chat with the right word. I think this will fix the mechanical memorization of sentence patterns, because that’s how I feel, sometimes I may not even finish reading the sentence to the end, but I already remember the meaning of the word. now I was watching simple vlogs about life in Japan and began to remember a lot of words I had learned earlier, which for example allowed me to remember and memorize 細い( damn, I can’t forget what it means and what this hieroglyph looks like because I saw it twice in a video about a narrow road… ), even though this word was by essentially a leech… I think yes, it’s a huge mistake that my cards have contextual sentences on the front, it would be better to transfer them to the back side altogether. It just started to infuriate me that I still can’t remember the word when I just see 細い separately from the sentence, the same one, damn, I confused it 遅い and was wrong about its meaning and reading it 5 times, and after watching the vlogger, I feel impatiently that I know the first word. it turned out to be messy, I just wrote out my thoughts…
For me, most of my cards have the word on the front and the sentence on the back like this. But if the word is hard to remember without context I’ll put the sentence on the front like this. Usually I do that for grammar points or for words with many senses.
(I do sentence mining, not premade decks, but the theory should be about the same!)