Hey guys , my everyday goal is to learn 10 new words a day. I used to do 20 but I just didn’t remember it all days after. Do you think that 10 a day is a fair amount? Or should I bump it up a notch? I’d like your opinion on the matter
Do you use Anki? Ten new words per day with daily SRS reviews is perfectly doable.
yes I think that’s a fair amount
in one year you’ll have 3650 words (if your memory is perfect) and more realistically around 3200, and that’s cool, if you keep it up for let’s say 3-5 years you’ll have a nice size vocab
Consider the time it’s going to take you to achieve a certain level and decide, whether you are satisfied with it:
* Lower-intermediate (10k words): ~2.74 years * Upper-intermediate (20k words): ~5.48 years * Advanced (30k words): ~8.22 years * Native: (60k words): ~16.44 years (Although you’ll likely drop Anki way before that and just learn passively, so it doesn’t really count. Also, not all words need to be memorized – many of them will just stick without any effort)
Definitely doable. When I first started JLab I couldn’t remember anything and it got frustrating. I stuck with it and the deck is really easy now because it repeats a ton of the vocab/kanji throughout the sentences. Decks like Tango are a little harder to memorize but I can still keep 85% ish and above on everything. Some things stick and some don’t, but that’s the point of srs. Especially still being a beginner, the first jump into a deck like tango or core is hard because there’s the expectation that everything will stick after seeing it 3 or so times. Definitely not the case but it 100% gets better over time. I think it’s also just a matter of training your brain to be in the mode of memorization since that’s not a huge thing in day to day life.
Not to change the subject, but I don’t like Anki. Unless I’m doing it wrong, how do you test yourself? I’m a study, then review, then quiz kind of guy. I lost interest in Anki very quickly.
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Do you use Anki? Ten new words per day with daily SRS reviews is perfectly doable.
yes I think that’s a fair amount
in one year you’ll have 3650 words (if your memory is perfect) and more realistically around 3200, and that’s cool, if you keep it up for let’s say 3-5 years you’ll have a nice size vocab
Consider the time it’s going to take you to achieve a certain level and decide, whether you are satisfied with it:
* Lower-intermediate (10k words): ~2.74 years
* Upper-intermediate (20k words): ~5.48 years
* Advanced (30k words): ~8.22 years
* Native: (60k words): ~16.44 years (Although you’ll likely drop Anki way before that and just learn passively, so it doesn’t really count. Also, not all words need to be memorized – many of them will just stick without any effort)
Definitely doable. When I first started JLab I couldn’t remember anything and it got frustrating. I stuck with it and the deck is really easy now because it repeats a ton of the vocab/kanji throughout the sentences. Decks like Tango are a little harder to memorize but I can still keep 85% ish and above on everything. Some things stick and some don’t, but that’s the point of srs. Especially still being a beginner, the first jump into a deck like tango or core is hard because there’s the expectation that everything will stick after seeing it 3 or so times. Definitely not the case but it 100% gets better over time. I think it’s also just a matter of training your brain to be in the mode of memorization since that’s not a huge thing in day to day life.
Not to change the subject, but I don’t like Anki. Unless I’m doing it wrong, how do you test yourself? I’m a study, then review, then quiz kind of guy. I lost interest in Anki very quickly.