In my current setup I have notes with JP Word, EN Word, JP Sentence, EN Sentence and JP Audio. For each note I generate four cards:
– JP Word + JP Sentence to EN word
– EN Word + EN sentence to JP word
– JP Sentence to EN Sentence
– JP Audio Sentence to JP Sentence and EN Sentence
This works fairly well for retention and it allows me to practice listening too. The main drawback is that it fairly limits how many new words I can study every day since each word generates four cards which is a lot. These day I mostly study 4 to 6 new cards a day which means basically a new word a day, which isn’t much.
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This is highly inefficient imo. Keep point 1 (and maybe 2), but leave 3 and 4 to your daily dose of immersion in manga and anime (or whatever suits your fancy for listening and reading)
usually 1 for passive vocab (J->E)
more rarely, there can be 2 cards for a note. This is for active vocab (J->E and E->J)
I’d only recommend #1. Trying to force en -> jp in the beginning needlessly slows you down.
It usually takes hundreds of encounters with a vocabulary word for it to enter your normal usage (if ever). Consider how many vocab words in our native language we know vs how many we actually use.
The goal with flashcards should also just be to finish reviews as quickly as possible to make way for more reading/listening. No need to needlessly elongate reviews.