Hi all, just signed up for a paid account because at 50 I find that learning Kanji is opening up a part of my brain I have rarely used over the years.
Don’t think that context is necessary for my question but just to give you the picture of me being slightly ancient to start learning Japanese.
Anyway when I do my reviews I see the percentage which makes sense to me but the value by the tick and the other value don’t. The top right seems to show how many you have left to do but doesn’t tick down consistently when I get answers right
Please can someone explain how they work? I seem to have to answer double the amount of questions - or more than the number states - to clear down my review list.
It’s counting subjects (kanji, radicals, vocab), not cards. Kanji and vocab have two cards each, once for meaning and once for the reading, which is why it appears to take two answers to increase the number by 1.
I started learning Japanese at age 68. I’ll be 75 in a couple of weeks, so you aren’t nearly as ancient as I am. We aren’t the only older learners in here, either. Good luck with your studies.
Radicals have one card each (for meaning) and Kanji and Vocab have two each (for meaning and reading). An item is only considered done when you’ve correctly answered all of its cards. It only counts as correct if you get them all right on the first try.