Don’t Review Sentences in Your SRS

After a brief love affair with smart.fm (who look like they have actually improved a lot since I last used them – good to know for if/when I go back!), I’ve been back with anki a little while now. One thing I haven’t done in a gazillion years is reviewing sentences. I think perhaps reviewing sentences has its merits but it has never worked for me. I am too focused on trying...

How Should You Structure Your Flash Card Deck?

In my post Divide and Conquer – a Vocab Post, Atreya asked the question: I am quite confused about the method by which I should structure my Anki Deck. By method I mean, how does one create the cards in Anki? Now, the short answer is, of course: Any way you want. But that doesn’t help those who may be a little lost in how to structure flash cards in their deck. The best way to...

Learning Vocabulary: jMemorize

There are many ways to learn vocabulary. One method I use is Flash Cards. Electronic flash cards. I like the Leitner System which puts cards into different boxes. When a box is full, you review the cards in the box, moving the ones you know to the next box and the ones you don’t know back to the first box. The idea is spaced repetition, the higher up the boxes the longer it takes to fill...