It’s the only way I can remember stuff. Tried taking 20 lessons without doing that right after and failed miserably in my reviews.
Does drilling the lessons in the self study extension right after I take them sabotage the SRS? I really mean RIGHT AFTER I take them.
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Nope! It’s completely fine.
right before it comes up in a review is the only fishy time to drill an item SRS-wise. Any other time is fair game to do what works best for you.
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tbh, i feel that the difficulty of the items somewhat varies with the level; the lower levels have really unintuitive readings and meanings, probably due to the greater amount of non-Sino-Japanese words in them. In the pleasant levels my A1>A2 reviews had terrible accuracy because of that, but it seemed to improve with higher levels (probably because of the less common and therefore more intuitive words.)
also with higher levels you really start to get a feel for what each kanji really represents; for example, 一本気 makes little sense when you first learn it, but over time the vocab items that appear allow you to associate 本 with not just 書 but also 元 and 期 and 因, etc.
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In fact, the first true SRS intervals are 5 seconds, 30 seconds, 2 minutes, and 5 minutes. Once you get a potential leech to past the 5 minute memory interval, you’re almost guaranteed to nail it on the review. It’s very important to move the lessons from short-term to long-term memory.
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This explains why I forget so many Eng-JP review items in the 30 seconds before it comes up for review again… and again… and again.
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I’d say you’re good as long as you don’t review an item right before you burn it
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Nope, I’d even encourage you to actually drill your lessons after doing them. I find WK’s Quiz to not be sufficient for memorization.
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What is a Sino-Japanese word?
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