Need an opinion on Lessons

[proudbulgarian]

Hi guys, I just reached level 3 and I have over 100 new items to learn.
How do you people usually do your lessons? Do you do them all at once or just a few at a time? How many do you like to learn at once and how much time do you give yourself between lessons?

[ephemient]

@ephemient

Personally, I don’t mind plowing through 100 reviews at once, but I prefer to have the review load spread out evenly day-to-day.

I use the “ascending level then subject” lesson order and all lessons at once, except:

• I don’t do more than 5-10 kanji lessons in one session
• I don’t do more on-level lessons if I have 5 or more kanji that I haven’t gotten past apprentice 1

So on a good day, if I recall all of the kanji on the first review, then I can unlock everything in a few 4-hour intervals. On a bad day, if I can’t recall anything, at least I don’t have more than 5-10 new kanji to focus on. (In general I find radicals stupid and vocab easy, the big challenge is brand-new kanji.)

YMMV, of course.

Other users have expressed their different methods over in that thread, and more recently there was also discussion here:

Is it important to keep lessons at zero?

It seems every time I do a review 5 or 10 more lessons pop up making it really hard for me to get them down to zero. I’m currently stuck at 20-30 lessons all the time because of it. Is it important to keep lessons at zero and to just power through them all in one sitting to get them there? Or does it not matter as long as I’m doing the lessons regularly.

[proudbulgarian]

Thanks to for the quick response.
Also I am rather new to this foruming thing. Is there a way to delete threads or do I just let it rot?

[Rowena]

I’m doing 12 lessons a day, first thing in the morning, with 2 reviews of those items during the day. I don’t worry about what type of lessons they are, the number I do doesn’t change. It keeps my overall number of reviews consistant.

[Radish8]

There’s no way for users to delete threads, no. I wouldn’t worry about it ^^

Your approach to lessons depends a lot on how you find them and whether you’re trying to level up in a certain time and so on. Personally I like to do a reasonably consistent number each day, because as Rowena said it keeps my review count fairly even from day to day.

There’s no particular need to do all of the lessons at once. The vocab has no effect on your levelling up time, so even if you’re trying to level up quickly you can space out the vocab lessons to “fill in the gaps” on the days when you don’t have radicals or kanji.