I try to use Anki daily but I do occasionally miss a day. The good thing is that if you get right back at it the next day you will be quickly caught up.
Thanks for the video. I'm on Lesson 10 of the Accelerated Spanish system and enjoying it. The coaching is very helpful and they have a knack for helping me discover my weak areas that require more review. I plan to set this up for review of my weak points and for all the new vocabulary in the following lessons.
Go for it, Colette!! Lesson 10 is a great place to start expanding your vocabulary and using a rigorous SRS to manage your study time. Keep me posted on how it goes!
I might give this a try. But even if I don't, I can still learn from the technique! I liked it when you went a little bit off-script; when your personality shone through I was more engaged!
At what point in your learning system do you load up with lots of new words, at this point I am moving on from Ser. I am working through your ebook and other information you put out. You system is very good and I feeI I am making progress. In the past I've tried learning by watching and listening to spanish TV shows.
@@johnsinclair30 Great question! We usually recommend loading up with new vocabulary after Lesson 10. Once you've mastered the syntax and grammar from lessons 1-10, you'll be thinking and communicating pretty fluidly in Spanish. Then it's time to go crazy with all the new vocabulary you can learn!
Great video, Timothy! I see the benefits of using paper, but I personally prefer digital. I have a way to use your vocabulary lists to easily create Anki cards for Accelerated Spanish books 1 & 2 using your electronic spreadsheets of vocabulary. The advantage here is that I have fields for the kind of word it is (adverb, pronoun, etc. ) and the location so that I can mentally do Mr. Potato Head a little easier. Pictures could also be added if the user wants the visuals. I'll try to make a short video on how I do it and send it to you. Then if you approve of it, you can share it on your site. I don't mind you getting all the hits for it. :-) Your way of teaching Spanish, especially the idioms, is greatly expanding my understanding of Spanish.
Thanks, Amy! I am really glad to hear that Anki is working for you. I'd be very eager to see what you've been doing! Maybe I haven't given it enough effort and need to be converted. :D
Amy, any chance we could get you to upload your Anki deck to Anki’s website (they make it super easy to share your deck). I’d love to see how you are incorporating the location Yol
I’ve never been able to use paper flash cards except to cram for tests. It wasn’t until I got Anki and Flash cards deluxe (similar app) that I even found out that rote memorization even worked at all. I was convinced it was rubbish and you could only learn languages through immersion activities like reading listening and speaking. I’m now convinced rote memorization can help but doing the spaces repetition manually is just not for me. I always used recognition cards (if you consider reading Japanese kanji to be recognition.. I think it’s halfway between production and recognition… it’s not a proper alphabet) but after seeing your other video in trying out production (English on side 1) cards since yesterday. I’ve never lasted more than a week with production but you are pretty convincing and my Korean needs some more active studying. For anyone doing Anki, I think the learning intervals go something like 1 or 2 minutes and then 10 minutes and then the next day. This can exhaust you if you have a lot of reviews especially new vocabulary and you’re failing a number of them. Setting the first step to 30 minutes or at least 15 minutes had really helped me enjoy studying flashcards a lot more. I imagine you can do something similar with paper cards.
Hi Timothy First, thanks very much for this video. Having used Anki ‘por un tiempo ya’ I am quite comfortable with it, at least to make simple cards or to make cards that leave a blank to fill. With Anki there is no need to accumulate, organize or store paper cards. Just seems a lot neater and simpler to me. To each his own I suppose. On another topic, do you think flashcards can be used for phrases as well as single words? I have created cards like these and added grammar hints to coach me to the right verb usage or preposition usage, for example. I mean a card like this Front I left for (to) a new house. In fact, it is newly built. Back Me fui a una casa nueva.
Great question, Brian! I definitely do recommend using phrases on your cards. Here are some tips for using phrases on cards, and I'm happy to dive into more details if you want to get into more specifics: th-cam.com/video/qDZZk3R8Vu8/w-d-xo.html
Why not use a system with more levels and a longer schedule, like the 7 level box described in the book Fluent Forever and in other sources online? It seems like this would eliminate the need to have all the separate boxes organized and so forth--when a card graduates out of the final level it's done and gone... Of course if it works it works, but I have to admit I got a bit of a headache when you talked about needing to spend time labeling and organizing lots of boxes... Thank you for these helpful videos. I much prefer the idea using a paper system to staring at my phone too. of to start making some flashcards!
Good question! I personally actually like keeping my cards around for much longer than Gabriel Wyner does. When you keep your cards instead of permanently removing them, you can keep mixing and matching them in new and interesting ways for more varied practice. But I also agree that that's a valid system - I think it's just a matter of personal preference.
I am not happy with Anki and prefer paper flashcards. I understand the flow of cards through the system but I am not sure how to add cards to the system. If I start with 20 cards, how often can I add more cards and do I start a new schedule and box each time I add 20 cards? This seems cumbersome.
I would recommend up to about 10 a day, depending on how much you can handle. I'm guessing sometimes you'll create a bunch of cards at once, but I wouldn't recommend adding them all at once; I would keep them on a separate stack and just add them a little at a time.
How often do you use Spanish flashcards?
Daily. Otherwise spaced repetition does not work.
I try to use Anki daily but I do occasionally miss a day. The good thing is that if you get right back at it the next day you will be quickly caught up.
This guy has to be a genius. Thank you for saving me from rote, boring memorization!
Thanks for the video. I'm on Lesson 10 of the Accelerated Spanish system and enjoying it. The coaching is very helpful and they have a knack for helping me discover my weak areas that require more review. I plan to set this up for review of my weak points and for all the new vocabulary in the following lessons.
Go for it, Colette!! Lesson 10 is a great place to start expanding your vocabulary and using a rigorous SRS to manage your study time. Keep me posted on how it goes!
I might give this a try. But even if I don't, I can still learn from the technique!
I liked it when you went a little bit off-script; when your personality shone through I was more engaged!
Thanks for the feedback, Jasper! Much appreciated. And if you try the technique, please let me know how it goes!
Super helpful! thanks!
At what point in your learning system do you load up with lots of new words, at this point I am
moving on from Ser.
I am working through your ebook and other information you put out.
You system is very good and I
feeI I am making progress.
In the past I've tried learning by
watching and listening to spanish TV shows.
@@johnsinclair30 Great question! We usually recommend loading up with new vocabulary after Lesson 10. Once you've mastered the syntax and grammar from lessons 1-10, you'll be thinking and communicating pretty fluidly in Spanish. Then it's time to go crazy with all the new vocabulary you can learn!
Great video, Timothy! I see the benefits of using paper, but I personally prefer digital. I have a way to use your vocabulary lists to easily create Anki cards for Accelerated Spanish books 1 & 2 using your electronic spreadsheets of vocabulary. The advantage here is that I have fields for the kind of word it is (adverb, pronoun, etc. ) and the location so that I can mentally do Mr. Potato Head a little easier. Pictures could also be added if the user wants the visuals. I'll try to make a short video on how I do it and send it to you. Then if you approve of it, you can share it on your site. I don't mind you getting all the hits for it. :-) Your way of teaching Spanish, especially the idioms, is greatly expanding my understanding of Spanish.
Thanks, Amy! I am really glad to hear that Anki is working for you. I'd be very eager to see what you've been doing! Maybe I haven't given it enough effort and need to be converted. :D
Amy, any chance we could get you to upload your Anki deck to Anki’s website (they make it super easy to share your deck). I’d love to see how you are incorporating the location Yol
Bump! I’m just too committed to digital/Anki at this point to go old school paper. But still disorganized. Would love to see your method!
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I’ve never been able to use paper flash cards except to cram for tests. It wasn’t until I got Anki and Flash cards deluxe (similar app) that I even found out that rote memorization even worked at all. I was convinced it was rubbish and you could only learn languages through immersion activities like reading listening and speaking. I’m now convinced rote memorization can help but doing the spaces repetition manually is just not for me. I always used recognition cards (if you consider reading Japanese kanji to be recognition.. I think it’s halfway between production and recognition… it’s not a proper alphabet) but after seeing your other video in trying out production (English on side 1) cards since yesterday. I’ve never lasted more than a week with production but you are pretty convincing and my Korean needs some more active studying.
For anyone doing Anki, I think the learning intervals go something like 1 or 2 minutes and then 10 minutes and then the next day. This can exhaust you if you have a lot of reviews especially new vocabulary and you’re failing a number of them. Setting the first step to 30 minutes or at least 15 minutes had really helped me enjoy studying flashcards a lot more. I imagine you can do something similar with paper cards.
Hi Timothy
First, thanks very much for this video.
Having used Anki ‘por un tiempo ya’ I am quite comfortable with it, at least to make simple cards or to make cards that leave a blank to fill. With Anki there is no need to accumulate, organize or store paper cards. Just seems a lot neater and simpler to me. To each his own I suppose.
On another topic, do you think flashcards can be used for phrases as well as single words? I have created cards like these and added grammar hints to coach me to the right verb usage or preposition usage, for example.
I mean a card like this
Front I left for (to) a new house. In fact, it is newly built.
Back Me fui a una casa nueva.
Great question, Brian! I definitely do recommend using phrases on your cards. Here are some tips for using phrases on cards, and I'm happy to dive into more details if you want to get into more specifics:
th-cam.com/video/qDZZk3R8Vu8/w-d-xo.html
Why not use a system with more levels and a longer schedule, like the 7 level box described in the book Fluent Forever and in other sources online? It seems like this would eliminate the need to have all the separate boxes organized and so forth--when a card graduates out of the final level it's done and gone... Of course if it works it works, but I have to admit I got a bit of a headache when you talked about needing to spend time labeling and organizing lots of boxes... Thank you for these helpful videos. I much prefer the idea using a paper system to staring at my phone too. of to start making some flashcards!
Good question! I personally actually like keeping my cards around for much longer than Gabriel Wyner does. When you keep your cards instead of permanently removing them, you can keep mixing and matching them in new and interesting ways for more varied practice. But I also agree that that's a valid system - I think it's just a matter of personal preference.
@@learncraftspanish Ok, interesting. That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!
I am not happy with Anki and prefer paper flashcards. I understand the flow of cards through the system but I am not sure how to add cards to the system. If I start with 20 cards, how often can I add more cards and do I start a new schedule and box each time I add 20 cards? This seems cumbersome.
I would recommend up to about 10 a day, depending on how much you can handle. I'm guessing sometimes you'll create a bunch of cards at once, but I wouldn't recommend adding them all at once; I would keep them on a separate stack and just add them a little at a time.