I have been using SRS (Anki, Mnemosyne, Khatzumemo`s new form surusu) for about 3 years.
Long time reader but this is my first comment. Rather than (potentially) improving my reading speed, I’m working on enhancing my human interactions. This does wonders for my motivation to use Anki, becomes reinforcing these fun and useful terms puts me that much closer to better speaking ability. Now the data I enter is vocabulary I can imagine myself actually using. So after learning my lessons, I’ve wiped my Anki data clean. They would have been perfectly fine just chilling in my passive vocabulary, and simply continuing to read more would reinforce them enough. Driven to totally master that vocabulary, I was trying to force into my active vocabulary quite a few items which really had no business being there. The problem was that these were words I would basically only see in writing, and many of them were fairly easy to figure out in context. So I added a bunch of semi-archaic vocabulary from Lu Xun stories. Mistake #2: Adding all unfamiliar words in my readingsĪround the time I was getting more enthusiastic about Anki, I was also reading a lot more Chinese literature as part of an effort to sophisticate my Chinese. Lesson learned: Don’t enter language you’re pretty sure you’ll never need. I was entering data into Anki, which was dutifully passing it on into a “memory black hole.” And then I kept having to review those names over and over again, and then forgetting them. Only problem is I never talk or write about those countries in Chinese. Yeah, this is kind of a newbie mistake, but I wanted to learn lots of obscure country names, so I just entered them all in. Deleting all your SRS data is something you don’t ordinarily want to do (it builds on itself and evolves over time), but in my case I have no choice. In fact, I’ve come to the conclusion that the only way forward, short of abandoning SRS as method, is a total Anki reset. The mistake I made was big enough to destroy my enthusiasm for SRS and Anki (a great program).
#RESET MY ANKI APP HOW TO#
Khatzumoto frequently tells us about some of the mistakes he’s made and how to avoid them, and John Biesnecker has some tips as well. It’s hard for most of us to like, and it’s easy to get it wrong.
I stated that I had my “misgivings” (a post still unwritten), but that I think it’s a good technology which will eventually become more pervasive.
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