Need an opinion on 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.