the dark side of anki | how to use anki to prevent burnout pt 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- have you felt the deep dark despair of the black hole that is an anki deck backlog? hundreds and hundreds of cards just eating away at your soul. what if I told you that there was a solution??
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I'm not going through Anki burnout, but I have been thinking about making my own deck as I go through Assimil (Hebrew in my case, not Chinese). It took me while to realize that learning words from a random deck isn't nearly as helpful as *reviewing* words from the resource I'm actually using. So I'm looking forward to seeing your next video and starting my own deck!
I found that out early on in my chinese studies too!! I ended up having to learn like 4 words per sentence at the more intermediate level decks since the example sentences weren't selected based on a specific textbook or plan. It ended up just being too difficult to even go through. once I swapped over to making my own cards, my progress skyrocketed and I had less frustrations with the anki cards themselves! making the card was also another act of review!
Language learning by itself is enough to give you burnouts, doesn’t matter the method you use. I believe diversifying and changing them often is one of the only ways to prevent burnouts from happening. I recently had one for Japanese and just dragged myself away from it for a week and was able to get back to it quite quick. Forcing going back has already made me unable to learn anything for a whole month.
yeah I completely agree with that. ultimately, if you're not enjoying what you're doing, it's going to make the regular study needed to progress very difficult. some people have a higher tolerance for typically less enjoyable resources (I'm fine with textbooks since I find more enjoyment in my progress than the content itself at this point!!), but even so, if you need a change, then change it up!! hopefully you find something that you really enjoy so you can keep learning japanese :) good luck!!!
totally agree!
Great video! Excited for next week's video :D
thank youu!!! hopefully it'll be helpful for people :)
I can’t believe you used the young padawan line 😆. Now I’m going to picture Yoda when I watch your videos. I use anki both to learn new words in premade decks and my own sentence mined decks as well. I’ve found that anki is a great habit I can do every day whereas reading Korean is so hard I just don’t have the energy some days. Some weeks even.
HAHA I feel that!! there's a great sense of accomplishment from anki (especially when you look at the stats), whereas reading doesn't always give that same sense of progress :)
It makes total sense to use Anki to recall rateher than to learn a language. Would you say though, if you use Anki for a language similar to a language you already know, isn’t like a hybrid? It’s like you technically learn it but you recall some of it because of your other language helping you with your new one. What do you think?
Yeah, for a language that’s similar to your native, it’s less important to make that clear delineation between learning and recall tools. For me, since I know romanian, it’ll be so much easier to download a Spanish deck and just learn from there because there are so many cognates and similar words. It shouldn’t take too much time to learn, so you can pretty much combine the two. It’ll be more challenging than learning in comprehensible material and then reviewing on anki, but definitely won’t be insane.
But from English to Chinese, its much more challenging. You have to learn characters, pronunciation, meaning as well as deciphering things from context or picking out the right version of a character. That’s a lot to learn on a software like anki. Add recall to that and it’ll really get your brain cranking. It’s not impossible, but I definitely think downloading a Chinese deck to learn all the HSK words is much harder than learning them in input and then recalling on anki. Could be one of the reasons people get burnt out on anki!
@@bianca.phdinprogress Yeah it totally makes sense for very different languages! For similar ones, I feel like it can give you an advantage for immersion: you can master 300 words in Anki and you’ll already be way ahead in immersion than in the first case.
yeah definitely can see that being a huge advantage! if you're learning a language with the same script and from the same language family, it could actually be easier to start with a combination of decks and foundational resources (like a textbook or something to explain what's going on). cognates are OP in language learning hahah
I'm so confused. Cry.
aw what are you confused about?