![]() This way, I can control how far ahead it goes. Firstly I have a 'Genki' deck, which I'm manually populating with the vocabulary from the vocab pages in each chapter. But if you’ve never used Anki at all, it’s a very good guide to getting it set up and starting to use it.Īs a result of watching this video, I have developed a way of using Anki that seems to be working for me. ![]() It's a bit long, as it covers every detail of how to use it, and exactly how she has all the settings configured. On that channel Alivia has a video specifically about using Anki to study Japanese that has been very useful to me. I’d pretty much given up trying, and then I discovered the Alivia’s Japanese Nook YouTube channel. Of course, this is also the reason it has been possible to adapt it for so many different subjects. Anki doesn’t guide you or force you to work with it in a specific way, and the design of the cards is almost infinitely configurable. Also, I'd then be constantly having the dilemma of "do I put this in, or is it not worth it, or how can I add this in a meaningful way, that I'd understand why it was there when I came back to it?"Ī big part of the problem is how open and flexible the system is. (Note from Fran - you can “suspend” all the cards and manually “unsuspend” them as you work your way through a textbook, although I appreciate this is a bit fiddly!)Ī lot of people recommended that you should use a single deck, and dump everything you came across into it, which seems a bit too messy for my liking. Some people recommended that you should download a pre-made deck to match the textbook you are using (there is a huge library of decks submitted by users accessible from within Anki.) But I felt this would mean that it would start automatically adding vocabulary past the point I’d got to in the book. While I saw Anki mentioned and recommended everywhere, I could never figure out a way to use it that really worked for me. It was originally developed for language learning (being named after the Japanese word for ‘memorisation’) but has since been applied to many subjects, including medical studies. If you can’t remember (or remember incorrectly) it will show it to you again sooner. If you remember the card correctly, it will increase the length of time before it shows it to you again. ![]() You should be able to recall the information, but at a slight stretch. It does this by aiming to present you with a flashcard exactly at the point you were about to forget it. A special guest post from Step Up Japanese student Phil Kinchington!Īnki is a flashcard app that uses a Spaced Repetition System (SRS) to help you learn and memorise information by creating strong, long-lasting memories.
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