This was really helpful! My first language is Spanish and now I'm trying to learn Italian. Immersion it's key when you're trying to learn a new language, that played a big part when I was studying English, so keep it up :)
@@melym.3076 Algo tarde, quizás ahora sabes lo que dice, pero lo que dice es que el botón hard y easy, arruinan el algoritmo de anki y hace que no puedas aprender de una manera adecuada. Solo tienes que usar otra vez y bien.
After exactly 1 year of studying Japanese with anki, I realized that what you said is absolutely true. I spent so much time with anki learning vocabulary that I lost a lot of other things.
@@mariustan9275The inmersion is the most important thing on language learning, you should use anki just 30 mins or a little more but not more than 40 minutes.
thank you so much, I started searching for a video like this because I was having to review 200 words a day taking well over 1.5 hours despite only having about 2500 cards learned. This is because every single time I pressed again it would reset to 0 and I would just have too many cards and not be able to remember everything causing the cycle to repeat. Now with your help I can finally stop spending 2 hours a day on anki with the help of the new interval setting! thank you
Good video. With language learning I always found that using images instead of English is much better because your recall becomes much more natural - you are not translating. Great Anki tips. Thanks for taking the time. I have always used Quizlet, but this seems more customizable.
The more I watch these language learning videos , the more I realize that Khatzumoto really was right. Not about immersion but about having fun (although immersion is very helpful and fun). We should really think of ways we can study a language in a fun way and if we notice that we are not having fun doing it, either look for a different method or try to come up with something that might be fun (who cares if it does not work, you can stop and try something new). And the second thing that I think is important is that frequency beats quantity. Now, I do not know what the right frequency and quantity is and depending on how little you do, it will take you forever to get anywhere. I have been thinking of combining it with the pomodoro technuique, where you work for 25 min and take a 5 min break and every 4th break is a long 15 min break. So I will prepare some short audio clips (for example using subs2srs, it can chop a movie into short audio clips) and just listen to that during work while taking the short breaks and for long breaks I might step ouside or just do whatever.
@@diariosdelextranjero I also think that passive listening is helpful but when I learned English it was either grammar and vocabulary lessons in school or actively watching a TV show in English at home. So passive immersion is not needed but I think it will speed things up.
Great video man! I’ve definitely been using anki a bit inefficiently and I’m in the process of having to update my cards now and yeah, it’s painful. I love what you said about understanding it first and memorising it later, that’s a really great point! Great content, looking forward to more videos 🙌🏽
Nice tutorial! In addition to your advice on using Anki, the suggestions that you made about immersion were spot-on. I also appreciate your honesty about prioritizing your mental health, and also how you ajusted your study habits in accordance--Good job!
Great video! I started learning Japanese about a month ago and went hard on Anki thinking if I built up my vocab quickly it would jumpstart my language learning. All it did was burn me out. My anki reps were taking me 1.5 hours a day and climbing so I dropped my new cards to 0 for a week and now I've got it at 5 new a day. It might take me a little longer to get through the vocab but I feel a lot better about the time I'm spending in Anki. :)
@@johncaiwa you can spend this 2 hours on immersion: watching movies, reading book. But instead you are wasting so much time on flash cards.. Flashcards won’t put the vocab in long-term memory, it’s just a fake short-term memory trick the app uses, for you to think that you know vocabulary. Better spend your time on immersion
@@amonredwine nope. i can open my book to any page and point to any random word and i know it, thanks to anki. immersion does nothing. in one ear, out the other. spaced repetition and active recall are king. my 200 day streak is now over 700. passed the jlpt n2 because of it. now onto n1. also there is no such thing as fake short term memory. and when you recall a word months after seeing it, that is long term memory.
@@johncaiwa sure, sure. Spending so much time on flipping flashcards does really magical things :) Without immersion this is just spaced waste of time. Why would you learn a language and spend 80% of your time flipping flashcards instead of reading the book f.e. as you said :) Just think about basic concept of language and why we want to learn it
Agreed about immersion first. I'm having a much easier time being able to recognise certain words already instead of starting from scratch and I'm less discouraged. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for your help bro. It's always good to take a break and just immerse yourself in the culture. I too had this problem, more specifically with school. Hope the Spanish journey is going good; let me know! New sub.
Its nice to see people dont usually talk flawlessly, by seeing your bloopers. My spoken language is pretty bad, I was wondering how fluently you speak lol Good video. I am also worried about losing my duolingo streak.
I more or less followed the same path, until I realized that reading a good book ( in the language that you are learning) is much more efficient than using Anki. And you don't really need to make an effort to memorize anything. All you need to do is pay attention to the story and enjoy. With anki you will get tired and bored , A LOT, and you know you have to do it, because it's like homework. A good book is another story. And when you finish your book, you can start reading the next. Así que ahora utilizo Anki para algunas cosas, pero no para aprender idiomas. La lectura recreativa (leer lo que a ti te guste) es mucho más eficiente.
I always add the meaning of the word ,With a photo of the word & syno With a use of that word Sometimes i don't understand the meaning but i remember the image it helps tremendously
Awesome video man it was really helpful! I have been learning Mandarin for 2 years very casually because of a scholarship I got which is sending me to finish my university studies in Taiwan in July 2022, however I just got a 8 month contract in Spain starting in 4 months times and needed a faster way of learning a new language/vocabulary from scratch. These tips are going to help heaps with my Anki learning. I also like how you mention immersion is really important. I’ve been focusing mostly on Anki because I feel like I don’t know enough Spanish to even consider listening to videos or podcasts in the language, but I think I’ll give it a try. Looks like we’ll both be able to speak the same 3 languages eventually! That’s pretty awesome :)
Most helpful!! i've been pretty confused with using Anki - thank you for helping me follow a better gameplan!! Stay safe, and don't ever stop doing the good you do!! Cheers!
My tip: Don't be afraid to even set new cards to 0 when Anki gets too overwhelming. Wait until old cards get more mature so that your daily reviews decrease. Anki is only efficient if you actually do it. It wont help you if you drop it because you're too burned out.
I used anki for memorizing translation of TL sentences for 1 year. Then i started reading TL sentences, if i don't understand an expression, i look it up in the card back. I did it for 2 years and my TL improved much better.
Thank you. I am new to Anki and kinda confused how to use it effectively. Your video helps alot. the setting on Anki is so different from other apps. I was struggling how to be tested again since i pressed "hard" button alot. Now i knew why....phew.
5:00 Oh boy this hit close to home. I've been doing Anki for about 2 months now and I've gotten to the point where I'm staying up until 4 in the morning to get reps in.
Luckily, using the "again" button instead of "hard" was intuitive for me, but great video. What I got out of it was setting the options. Hope your language learning is going well!
If you want to get even better at your language learning then you might want to get the book "Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It" by Gabriel Wyner. It's sold digitally on Amazon and is really good. I purchased it back in 2014 and the things that he taught in the book are really good. He speaks several languages fluently and sings Opera, hence the need to learn multiple languages. One of the concepts that he used in learning language is to find out the frequency of use that each word has within a language and then learn the words according to the more frequently used words.
There is an addon called "Language Tools", it automates the card creation process... Nowadays I can add 20 sentences a day, without much work. I recommend.
Great video. Would you say that Anki (aside from immersion) has really helped you get fluent or basic conversational Spanish? Seems like immersion is what helps you learn and Anki is what drills it into your memory
I sure agree with a lot of points you say in the video : - Immersion/Input should be most of your time, not Anki - use multiple definitions and exemple sentences - use 'Again' button not 'Hard' - Make sure to understand the word before trying to use rote memorisation on it. Although I'm not really sure about that feature regarding the Again button. If you don't remember a word in your card, do you really want to press "Again" and be in the state of not knowing the word for 3 months ? I don't think so (unless it's an uncommon word you don't want to learn yet anyway, there you might as well suspend the card).
I noticed you're studying Mandarin - what do you do for characters? As far as I know there's not really any way to learn characters other than reading them and doing writing exercises, which Anki is pretty good for. But obviously doing crazy amounts of flashcards isn't ideal. What's your routine for using Anki with Mandarin?
They did an experiment and found out that it's actually more efficient to use one sentence than multiple. Supermemo is more friendly for newbs, with less options.
I deleted Anki on my computer and now I only use for some tests on my Samsung phone, I stopped using Anki for language learning it wasn't worth it at all
Instead of putting a word on the front of the card in your target language, is it a good idea to put a sentence instead with the word you wish to learn in it? I find that easier for me since I can build off the context of the sentence and figure out the meaning of the word. Loved your video!
ReadLang does this with the books or articles I read. You just tap on the words you're reading that you don't understand in your target language, and the definition pops up so that you're not pausing the reading process just to look up a definition. But even though it gave you the definition, ReadLang automatically adds the word, that you checked, into your deck. Then when I'm finished reading, I'll go through my flashcards for that particular story and ReadLang literally includes not just the word, but the entire phrase or sentence you were reading when you had tapped the word to get the definition. So it solidifies not just the word, but it teaches me to understand the context that was behind that word.
I also think sentence card is easier to guess. But I'm kinda afraid that I'll not be remembering the kanji's shape at all since I mostly just read the other words.
My native language is Spanish but I grew up watching English cartoons this gave me pretty much a native understanding of English now I’m trying to learn Japanese and yes imma start watching Japanese sun anime and reading
Thanks for the video, very thought provoking. I tried anki before and have started learning Spanish again but share your reservations about anki for languages. I think I prefer pen and paper and of course spaced repetition... but without the pressure ... life's too short - take it from me, I'm 70!
Thank you for this practical, helpful advice. I’ve wanted to use Anki, but I was intimidated by not knowing what is its best practice. I’m feeling more confident now that you’ve shown how to reduce the number of newly introduced cards.
2:40 But loosing the entire six months is Okie if you have forgotten, dont you want to learn it again in 10 minutes rather than posponding it? Otherwise its cheating and just a feel good activity.
At one point I tried to cram 150 cards in a day and I had to spend 45 minutes a day doing reviews for the next 2-3 weeks... Instead I would suggest doing 7cards/day for 3 weeks, the result will be far better.
Mandarin is around HSK 6. Anki has helped a lot since I've started making fewer cards, and only monolingual ones. My Mandarin has improved a lot because of this program. New video on my Mandarin current level is coming soon.
glad I came across your video! although I don't use anki as much, I use RemNote which is similar to Anki basically both have SRS. lately I've been looking into ways to learn vocab with context. this is a practical way one could go about changing those cards. thanks for making this video, I could relate to it too. 加油！
Thanks for the video! It is really useful! I discovered anki around 6 months ago for learning my German and Japanese but I'm still perplexed on how hard this application really is. Your tips are really useful, but I noticed that you still use the default steps on your deck. Is it allright that way? I watched others videos before and almost every one of them says that the default anki setting for steps(1 10) is bad. Right now I'm using (5 60 1440 8640) for almost all of my decks. Good luck on your language learning journey! Cheers!
When it comes to Again button, why not to use Hard button when you wanna stay at your level but tell Anki that you didn't guess a word, and Again button when you feel that you completely forgot a word and wanna go back to the start.
I hate memorization. To this day I haven't memorized my address or my cell phone number. I have terrible memory. And yet I speak Portuguese, English, Japanese and am learning Swedish right now. I am against memorizing words. I focus on understanding the text I am reading. It is possible to understand a text even if you don't know some of the words in the text. There is no need to know every single word in a text to understand it. I have found so many people advocating memorization tools, apps or software. It really baffles me. Do you really need those? You only need to worry about important words. You can ignore words that are rarely used. Important words on the other hand are used frequently, so it means you are going to meet those words again and again and you will memorize them automatically, without any effort. I am reading a book on mathematics right now and it uses the word 定理 on almost every single page. Why do I need to memorize the word 定理 if the book I am reading uses that word on every single page? There is no need to memorize the word, just by reading the book the word gets stuck in my head. The same applies for every single word that you need. Important words are used frequently, if you read a lot, you will inevitably meet those words again and again, and you WILL memorize them, whether you want it or not. There is no need to use a special tool to memorize those words. Some people seem to be convinced they need to memorize a bunch of words BEFORE reading native material. They seem to believe that those words will magically allow them to read native material. But in my opinion they should be doing the EXACT OPPOSITE. You should be reading native material to ACQUIRE vocabulary, not the other way around!! Memorizing a bunch of unrelated words seems to be completely painful, boring, inefficient, tedious, time-consuming. Why would anyone want to do that? I have never done that. I have never heard of any other profession that does that. I have never heard of an engineer or mathematician or physicist using ANKI to memorize a bunch of words. Why do some language learners insist on using memorization tools like ANKI to memorize words, if no other profession does that?? If you want to learn medicine, you have to read books about medicine. There is no other way. You don't use ANKI to memorize words, what is the point? The important words will appear so often in the medical books that they will be burnt forever in your brain, there is no need to memorize them separately. That is why in my opinion memorization tools are really a waste of time. One last note: my memory is horrible, so I write down everything on a small notebook I carry all the time in my pocket. I already know I WILL FORGET things, so I don't even try to memorize. I just write them down.
But what do you do if you can only understand 10-20% of what you read? I feel like you have to learn at least the common words so you can understand sentences better and then you can piece other words together using context.
@@advenco344 I am studying Swedish right now and at this stage I am just translating song lyrics. Lyrics are usually simple and easy to understand, they use a very simple vocabulary, and they are very short and repetitive. And by listening to the songs I also learn correct pronunciation. You will learn the most common words naturally since they appear so frequently. There is no need to memorize them separately. I think it is much more efficient to try to understand what you are reading than try to memorize words out of context.
Learning a language does involve memorization and there's no way around it. How am I supposed to learn thousands of characters (Japanese) and words without memorizing them? Also, other professions DO use Anki, in fact Anki is pretty popular among med students
Your bloopers section made me laugh. Any advice for how to get over your reviews and immerse more? Every day I spend time using both Anki and Wanikani (and Duolingo) to learn words and kanji, but I rarely, if ever, consume content in the language I'm learning (Japanese). Obviously I should be consuming more content, but... how? I work for a living and otherwise I have maybe 30 minutes of free time except on the weekends, does reading/watching/listening to Japanese stuff have to become my only hobby? Or is this just a time management issue, you think? Have you had this issue, or know anyone that's had the same and gotten over it? TIA.
@@juns5979 yeyyy i'm not alone! i plan uploading my deck when it's finished, i've already created 550 cards, mein ziel ist bis zu 1000 erreichen :) es ist eine mischung von B1 - B2 wortschatz, alle andere wörter kenne ich ohne problem.
This video makes me sad. I don't want to rag on you for making it. I just advise everyone to read the Anki manual in depth, along with SuperMemo's "Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge." Also keep in mind "SuperMemo" appears in the Anki manual ten times.
If you're learning geography through Anki, I would recommend using a premade deck and not overloading yourself. I used some geography decks in the past, but I personally use Geoguessr Seterra to learn geography now.
This is life-saving. I reviewed my Anki flashcards right before I saw this video and I wish I watched it before since I just click on the hard button all the time. thank you.
I don't use ANKI, because it doesn't teach me. SRS repeatedly tests me, which is good for reviewing things I already know, but is not a way for me to learn. The other problem is "meaning", which means memorizing an English translation. That works for a language close to English, but not for Chinese, where each word may have many different different English "meanings". Vocabulary is very important. You can't memorize all the thousands of words used in ordinary sentences, but you can memorize the "core" 500-700 words that are used over and over in ordinary sentences. If ANKI speeds that up, it's good.
Hi, I couldn’t make out the video you suggested watching. I think you said Matt versus something. Can you tell me or better yet give me a link to the video. Cheers.
Inmersion IS important, but if you try to inmerse as soon as you've decided to start studying a new language it'll be frustrating because you'll understand 0% . I think the ideal thing is to, first getting some basic vocabulary and some basic grammar, THEN inmerse through comprehensible input videos.
This was really helpful! My first language is Spanish and now I'm trying to learn Italian. Immersion it's key when you're trying to learn a new language, that played a big part when I was studying English, so keep it up :)
I'm trying to learn Spanish and I'm Italian
Hola Marian, me podrías decir cual es el tip que comparte el chico? , estoy aprendiendo inglés pero no entiendo a que se refiere
@@melym.3076 Algo tarde, quizás ahora sabes lo que dice, pero lo que dice es que el botón hard y easy, arruinan el algoritmo de anki y hace que no puedas aprender de una manera adecuada. Solo tienes que usar otra vez y bien.
After exactly 1 year of studying Japanese with anki, I realized that what you said is absolutely true. I spent so much time with anki learning vocabulary that I lost a lot of other things.
Core 2k/6k deck
What did you lose specifically? I don't really understand this video.
@@mariustan9275The inmersion is the most important thing on language learning, you should use anki just 30 mins or a little more but not more than 40 minutes.
@@mariustan9275vocab is just one aspect, you need to practice speaking and learn grammar too.
@@Matt-jc2ml I don't get how you lose other things by still doing Anki though.
2:19 I found this very helpful. I feel like this is a key tip to do because I kept having to restart all my progress if I messed up once
this is exactly what was happening with me
I have been using Anki for over a year, and I feel like this video was made specifically for me. Truly happy you made this, thank you.
Thanks for the hint on the algo used by Anki. I have figured out how to use the app on my own, but the card selection was an unknown ;)
thank you so much, I started searching for a video like this because I was having to review 200 words a day taking well over 1.5 hours despite only having about 2500 cards learned. This is because every single time I pressed again it would reset to 0 and I would just have too many cards and not be able to remember everything causing the cycle to repeat. Now with your help I can finally stop spending 2 hours a day on anki with the help of the new interval setting! thank you
Good video. With language learning I always found that using images instead of English is much better because your recall becomes much more natural - you are not translating. Great Anki tips. Thanks for taking the time. I have always used Quizlet, but this seems more customizable.
Can't wait to see more language content like that from you! Subscribed!
The more I watch these language learning videos , the more I realize that Khatzumoto really was right. Not about immersion but about having fun (although immersion is very helpful and fun). We should really think of ways we can study a language in a fun way and if we notice that we are not having fun doing it, either look for a different method or try to come up with something that might be fun (who cares if it does not work, you can stop and try something new). And the second thing that I think is important is that frequency beats quantity. Now, I do not know what the right frequency and quantity is and depending on how little you do, it will take you forever to get anywhere. I have been thinking of combining it with the pomodoro technuique, where you work for 25 min and take a 5 min break and every 4th break is a long 15 min break. So I will prepare some short audio clips (for example using subs2srs, it can chop a movie into short audio clips) and just listen to that during work while taking the short breaks and for long breaks I might step ouside or just do whatever.
I think it is a balance between active learning and listening passively.
@@diariosdelextranjero I also think that passive listening is helpful but when I learned English it was either grammar and vocabulary lessons in school or actively watching a TV show in English at home. So passive immersion is not needed but I think it will speed things up.
Great video man! I’ve definitely been using anki a bit inefficiently and I’m in the process of having to update my cards now and yeah, it’s painful. I love what you said about understanding it first and memorising it later, that’s a really great point! Great content, looking forward to more videos 🙌🏽
Nice tutorial! In addition to your advice on using Anki, the suggestions that you made about immersion were spot-on. I also appreciate your honesty about prioritizing your mental health, and also how you ajusted your study habits in accordance--Good job!
Great video! I started learning Japanese about a month ago and went hard on Anki thinking if I built up my vocab quickly it would jumpstart my language learning. All it did was burn me out. My anki reps were taking me 1.5 hours a day and climbing so I dropped my new cards to 0 for a week and now I've got it at 5 new a day. It might take me a little longer to get through the vocab but I feel a lot better about the time I'm spending in Anki. :)
2 hours a day 200 day streak. 25 new cards a day. 2 hours is too little
Core 2k/6k
@@johncaiwa you can spend this 2 hours on immersion: watching movies, reading book. But instead you are wasting so much time on flash cards.. Flashcards won’t put the vocab in long-term memory, it’s just a fake short-term memory trick the app uses, for you to think that you know vocabulary. Better spend your time on immersion
@@amonredwine nope. i can open my book to any page and point to any random word and i know it, thanks to anki. immersion does nothing. in one ear, out the other. spaced repetition and active recall are king. my 200 day streak is now over 700. passed the jlpt n2 because of it. now onto n1. also there is no such thing as fake short term memory. and when you recall a word months after seeing it, that is long term memory.
@@johncaiwa sure, sure. Spending so much time on flipping flashcards does really magical things :) Without immersion this is just spaced waste of time. Why would you learn a language and spend 80% of your time flipping flashcards instead of reading the book f.e. as you said :) Just think about basic concept of language and why we want to learn it
Thankyou so much for this - the 50% new interval again is a game changer, I've had it on zero for 3 years...
Thank you so much for sharing. And the edited out parts at the end. And a huge thank you for the ice age stuff!
Agreed about immersion first. I'm having a much easier time being able to recognise certain words already instead of starting from scratch and I'm less discouraged. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for your help bro. It's always good to take a break and just immerse yourself in the culture. I too had this problem, more specifically with school. Hope the Spanish journey is going good; let me know! New sub.
Thanks bro. Your reminder of using context sentences for study vocabulary is really helpful. Nice video!!
Its nice to see people dont usually talk flawlessly, by seeing your bloopers. My spoken language is pretty bad, I was wondering how fluently you speak lol Good video. I am also worried about losing my duolingo streak.
Thank you for the interval tip. I think this will save me so much time.
I more or less followed the same path, until I realized that reading a good book ( in the language that you are learning) is much more efficient than using Anki. And you don't really need to make an effort to memorize anything. All you need to do is pay attention to the story and enjoy. With anki you will get tired and bored , A LOT, and you know you have to do it, because it's like homework.
A good book is another story. And when you finish your book, you can start reading the next.
Así que ahora utilizo Anki para algunas cosas, pero no para aprender idiomas.
La lectura recreativa (leer lo que a ti te guste) es mucho más eficiente.
I always add the meaning of the word ,With a photo of the word & syno
With a use of that word
Sometimes i don't understand the meaning but i remember the image it helps tremendously
Awesome video man it was really helpful!
I have been learning Mandarin for 2 years very casually because of a scholarship I got which is sending me to finish my university studies in Taiwan in July 2022, however I just got a 8 month contract in Spain starting in 4 months times and needed a faster way of learning a new language/vocabulary from scratch. These tips are going to help heaps with my Anki learning. I also like how you mention immersion is really important. I’ve been focusing mostly on Anki because I feel like I don’t know enough Spanish to even consider listening to videos or podcasts in the language, but I think I’ll give it a try.
Looks like we’ll both be able to speak the same 3 languages eventually! That’s pretty awesome :)
Most helpful!! i've been pretty confused with using Anki - thank you for helping me follow a better gameplan!! Stay safe, and don't ever stop doing the good you do!! Cheers!
You saved me from going down the flashcard rabbit hole. Thanks!
My tip: Don't be afraid to even set new cards to 0 when Anki gets too overwhelming. Wait until old cards get more mature so that your daily reviews decrease. Anki is only efficient if you actually do it. It wont help you if you drop it because you're too burned out.
I used anki for memorizing translation of TL sentences for 1 year.
Then i started reading TL sentences, if i don't understand an expression, i look it up in the card back. I did it for 2 years and my TL improved much better.
sorry what means TL¿
@@federrr7 target language: language you wanna learn
I'm recently started learning german and also using ANKI. Thanks for all your recommendations
I'm lazy and sometimes don't review but since i have few cards(like 100/200) I'm slowly changing the English words with images where i can
Thank you. I am new to Anki and kinda confused how to use it effectively. Your video helps alot. the setting on Anki is so different from other apps. I was struggling how to be tested again since i pressed "hard" button alot. Now i knew why....phew.
Glad to be of help
Appreciate this video bro. I’m about to start using Anki and this was extremely helpful
Glad I can assist
5:00 Oh boy this hit close to home. I've been doing Anki for about 2 months now and I've gotten to the point where I'm staying up until 4 in the morning to get reps in.
Yesterday I deleted 3 decks with 1700 words, it's paintfull but i found a new amazing way of creating Anki cards!! :)
Wow how long does this take you? I’m doing 500 a day I need to do more
@@STEFFICHANNEL Now I'm creating 20-30 flashcards per day!
@@STEFFICHANNEL 500 damn
@@STEFFICHANNEL ah yes, 500 anki cards per day
@@STEFFICHANNEL who are u lying to
Great advice. Thank you for sharing.
Damn this open my mind i do spends alot of time on anki than interacting with the language
Luckily, using the "again" button instead of "hard" was intuitive for me, but great video. What I got out of it was setting the options.
Hope your language learning is going well!
Nice video! Very informative, especially for beginners.
Dude, your bloopers at the end are too relatable 😂
Love the bloopers at the end
If you want to get even better at your language learning then you might want to get the book "Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It" by Gabriel Wyner. It's sold digitally on Amazon and is really good. I purchased it back in 2014 and the things that he taught in the book are really good. He speaks several languages fluently and sings Opera, hence the need to learn multiple languages. One of the concepts that he used in learning language is to find out the frequency of use that each word has within a language and then learn the words according to the more frequently used words.
There is an addon called "Language Tools", it automates the card creation process...
Nowadays I can add 20 sentences a day, without much work.
I recommend.
Great video. Would you say that Anki (aside from immersion) has really helped you get fluent or basic conversational Spanish? Seems like immersion is what helps you learn and Anki is what drills it into your memory
I sure agree with a lot of points you say in the video :
- Immersion/Input should be most of your time, not Anki
- use multiple definitions and exemple sentences
- use 'Again' button not 'Hard'
- Make sure to understand the word before trying to use rote memorisation on it.
Although I'm not really sure about that feature regarding the Again button. If you don't remember a word in your card, do you really want to press "Again" and be in the state of not knowing the word for 3 months ? I don't think so (unless it's an uncommon word you don't want to learn yet anyway, there you might as well suspend the card).
When you press Again instead of Hard, it will show you the card later during your review time to make sure you know it.
I noticed you're studying Mandarin - what do you do for characters? As far as I know there's not really any way to learn characters other than reading them and doing writing exercises, which Anki is pretty good for. But obviously doing crazy amounts of flashcards isn't ideal. What's your routine for using Anki with Mandarin?
This was excellent, I really appreciate it!
They did an experiment and found out that it's actually more efficient to use one sentence than multiple. Supermemo is more friendly for newbs, with less options.
I deleted Anki on my computer and now I only use for some tests on my Samsung phone, I stopped using Anki for language learning it wasn't worth it at all
Why do you say it wasn't worth it?
Instead of putting a word on the front of the card in your target language, is it a good idea to put a sentence instead with the word you wish to learn in it? I find that easier for me since I can build off the context of the sentence and figure out the meaning of the word. Loved your video!
Exactly, I think that's better than adding the context in the back of the card, it has worked wonders for me.
sentence mining all the way
ReadLang does this with the books or articles I read. You just tap on the words you're reading that you don't understand in your target language, and the definition pops up so that you're not pausing the reading process just to look up a definition. But even though it gave you the definition, ReadLang automatically adds the word, that you checked, into your deck. Then when I'm finished reading, I'll go through my flashcards for that particular story and ReadLang literally includes not just the word, but the entire phrase or sentence you were reading when you had tapped the word to get the definition. So it solidifies not just the word, but it teaches me to understand the context that was behind that word.
@@YourMajesty143 Thank you so so much for the advice!
I also think sentence card is easier to guess. But I'm kinda afraid that I'll not be remembering the kanji's shape at all since I mostly just read the other words.
My native language is Spanish but I grew up watching English cartoons this gave me pretty much a native understanding of English now I’m trying to learn Japanese and yes imma start watching Japanese sun anime and reading
I realized I need cards in English to Target language and then the Target Language to English for every single card
I'm just learning Anki. You gave good information & by the way, do you use DeepL Translator or which? Great vidéo
Thanks for the video, very thought provoking. I tried anki before and have started learning Spanish again but share your reservations about anki for languages. I think I prefer pen and paper and of course spaced repetition... but without the pressure ... life's too short - take it from me, I'm 70!
I personally like to use quizlet instead
Any reason why?
Thanks for this video! I'm in the process of making a 1,500 note deck and these tips are really helpful!
I keep thinking about trying Anki but it’s &25 and it seems so complicated to us I’m afraid to try it
Thanks for the advice
Buen video, Giovanni. Saludos desde la Argentina.
Thank you for this practical, helpful advice. I’ve wanted to use Anki, but I was intimidated by not knowing what is its best practice. I’m feeling more confident now that you’ve shown how to reduce the number of newly introduced cards.
You can join our Chinese program (a real immersion class), and then use Anki to help you remember the words.
2:40 But loosing the entire six months is Okie if you have forgotten, dont you want to learn it again in 10 minutes rather than posponding it? Otherwise its cheating and just a feel good activity.
Very helpful GS. Thanks
Thank you so much for this video. It really helped me.
tks so much!
English should be on the front? That’s what I did, but I thought I did them wrong so I’m trying to flip them, lol.
First of all, anki just the app to help you remember vocabulary, don’t waste your time on it so much. Keep listening and speaking together
As a native spanish speaker I can say that I don't know many of the words you are learning using Anki
Awesome!
At one point I tried to cram 150 cards in a day and I had to spend 45 minutes a day doing reviews for the next 2-3 weeks...
Instead I would suggest doing 7cards/day for 3 weeks, the result will be far better.
How is you Mandarin today? Did Anki help you? I see a lot of videos saying flash cards don’t work.
Mandarin is around HSK 6. Anki has helped a lot since I've started making fewer cards, and only monolingual ones. My Mandarin has improved a lot because of this program. New video on my Mandarin current level is coming soon.
Great tips man! Thanks a lot
Yo estoy aprendiendo Inglés y Coreano, no comprendia la pestaña de "opción" en el apartado tarjetas nuevas.¡Muchas gracias por el video!
glad I came across your video! although I don't use anki as much, I use RemNote which is similar to Anki basically both have SRS. lately I've been looking into ways to learn vocab with context. this is a practical way one could go about changing those cards. thanks for making this video, I could relate to it too. 加油！
@@GiovanniSmith oh cool, thank you for that!
I can change the ''new interval'' to 0.50? I'm in a different version (2.1.60), the max is 2,00
Could you somehow share your Spanish Flashcards? I would love to learn from them since you already optimized them
Yes I would love that too!
Great advice!
My OCD hopes that after a year of uploading this, he fixed "restorán" to "restaurante".
Was that in one of my Anki cards? If so, that would have been deleted
@@GiovanniSmith on the very first example of a "good" card. I forgot to add a time stamp.
Yeah that's deleted
Restorán is fine lol
Good stuff man, I am also learning Spanish and Mandarin.
Thanks for the video! It is really useful! I discovered anki around 6 months ago for learning my German and Japanese but I'm still perplexed on how hard this application really is. Your tips are really useful, but I noticed that you still use the default steps on your deck. Is it allright that way? I watched others videos before and almost every one of them says that the default anki setting for steps(1 10) is bad. Right now I'm using (5 60 1440 8640) for almost all of my decks.
Good luck on your language learning journey! Cheers!
When it comes to Again button, why not to use Hard button when you wanna stay at your level but tell Anki that you didn't guess a word, and Again button when you feel that you completely forgot a word and wanna go back to the start.
I hate memorization. To this day I haven't memorized my address or my cell phone number. I have terrible memory. And yet I speak Portuguese, English, Japanese and am learning Swedish right now. I am against memorizing words. I focus on understanding the text I am reading. It is possible to understand a text even if you don't know some of the words in the text. There is no need to know every single word in a text to understand it. I have found so many people advocating memorization tools, apps or software. It really baffles me. Do you really need those? You only need to worry about important words. You can ignore words that are rarely used. Important words on the other hand are used frequently, so it means you are going to meet those words again and again and you will memorize them automatically, without any effort. I am reading a book on mathematics right now and it uses the word 定理 on almost every single page. Why do I need to memorize the word 定理 if the book I am reading uses that word on every single page? There is no need to memorize the word, just by reading the book the word gets stuck in my head. The same applies for every single word that you need. Important words are used frequently, if you read a lot, you will inevitably meet those words again and again, and you WILL memorize them, whether you want it or not. There is no need to use a special tool to memorize those words.
Some people seem to be convinced they need to memorize a bunch of words BEFORE reading native material. They seem to believe that those words will magically allow them to read native material. But in my opinion they should be doing the EXACT OPPOSITE. You should be reading native material to ACQUIRE vocabulary, not the other way around!!
Memorizing a bunch of unrelated words seems to be completely painful, boring, inefficient, tedious, time-consuming. Why would anyone want to do that?
I have never done that. I have never heard of any other profession that does that. I have never heard of an engineer or mathematician or physicist using ANKI to memorize a bunch of words.
Why do some language learners insist on using memorization tools like ANKI to memorize words, if no other profession does that??
If you want to learn medicine, you have to read books about medicine. There is no other way. You don't use ANKI to memorize words, what is the point? The important words will appear so often in the medical books that they will be burnt forever in your brain, there is no need to memorize them separately.
That is why in my opinion memorization tools are really a waste of time.
One last note: my memory is horrible, so I write down everything on a small notebook I carry all the time in my pocket. I already know I WILL FORGET things, so I don't even try to memorize. I just write them down.
But what do you do if you can only understand 10-20% of what you read? I feel like you have to learn at least the common words so you can understand sentences better and then you can piece other words together using context.
@@advenco344 I am studying Swedish right now and at this stage I am just translating song lyrics.
Lyrics are usually simple and easy to understand, they use a very simple vocabulary, and they are
very short and repetitive. And by listening to the songs I also learn correct pronunciation.
You will learn the most common words naturally since they appear so frequently.
There is no need to memorize them separately.
I think it is much more efficient to try to understand what you are reading than try to memorize
words out of context.
Learning a language does involve memorization and there's no way around it. How am I supposed to learn thousands of characters (Japanese) and words without memorizing them? Also, other professions DO use Anki, in fact Anki is pretty popular among med students
@@hcm9999 awful advice
@@nfrankiksa4596 And yet I speak Portuguese, English, Japanese, and I am currently studying Swedish.
Your bloopers section made me laugh. Any advice for how to get over your reviews and immerse more? Every day I spend time using both Anki and Wanikani (and Duolingo) to learn words and kanji, but I rarely, if ever, consume content in the language I'm learning (Japanese). Obviously I should be consuming more content, but... how? I work for a living and otherwise I have maybe 30 minutes of free time except on the weekends, does reading/watching/listening to Japanese stuff have to become my only hobby? Or is this just a time management issue, you think? Have you had this issue, or know anyone that's had the same and gotten over it? TIA.
Ur English is great ❤️❤️❤️. Keep going. U can)
thank you. i've made some similar mistakes before. i feel not alone! this will help me in my german learning. greetings from argentina.
dude! I'm also learning german with Anki.
@@juns5979 yeyyy i'm not alone! i plan uploading my deck when it's finished, i've already created 550 cards, mein ziel ist bis zu 1000 erreichen :) es ist eine mischung von B1 - B2 wortschatz, alle andere wörter kenne ich ohne problem.
thanks bro good luck in learning
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Is it better to put target language on the front or back? Thanks in advance!
Front
Great video! How did you make the backlog cards?
i am trying this anki thing but i am stick too much to traditional writing of flashcards so i dont know if this works
Thanks for the tips!
Can you share your mandarin Deck ?
This video makes me sad. I don't want to rag on you for making it. I just advise everyone to read the Anki manual in depth, along with SuperMemo's "Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge." Also keep in mind "SuperMemo" appears in the Anki manual ten times.
am getting soft from your video, thx alot. how do i make my soft more than 50sec long? I clicked loop recording, pressed the record
lol what is your soft? probably good the video didn't make you hard hahaha
Does this also apply to learning political geography? Like learning the name of every country?
If you're learning geography through Anki, I would recommend using a premade deck and not overloading yourself. I used some geography decks in the past, but I personally use Geoguessr Seterra to learn geography now.
Good tips - Thank you.
This is life-saving. I reviewed my Anki flashcards right before I saw this video and I wish I watched it before since I just click on the hard button all the time. thank you.
Have you used excel instead of Anki at any point of time ?
@@diariosdelextranjero do you mean as an active-recall tool or as a way to add cards like csv ?
@@juns5979 As an active recall tool. I would drop Anki alltogether because it allows you to bullshit yourself.
I don't use ANKI, because it doesn't teach me. SRS repeatedly tests me, which is good for reviewing things I already know, but is not a way for me to learn. The other problem is "meaning", which means memorizing an English translation. That works for a language close to English, but not for Chinese, where each word may have many different different English "meanings". Vocabulary is very important. You can't memorize all the thousands of words used in ordinary sentences, but you can memorize the "core" 500-700 words that are used over and over in ordinary sentences. If ANKI speeds that up, it's good.
The new % should really not be anywhere near 0% for long time learning, otherwise the review time will become unmanegeable after a year or so.
Can you advise roughly how many cards/minutes per day you average?
Hi, I couldn’t make out the video you suggested watching. I think you said Matt versus something. Can you tell me or better yet give me a link to the video. Cheers.
Matt vs Japan. One of his older videos
love your bloopers😂
Really helpful video, I like it
Great video!! It really helps me :D thanks.
Inmersion IS important, but if you try to inmerse as soon as you've decided to start studying a new language it'll be frustrating because you'll understand 0% . I think the ideal thing is to, first getting some basic vocabulary and some basic grammar, THEN inmerse through comprehensible input videos.
Nice video, I agree with you 100%.