I used Anki wrong for a year (language learning)
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2024
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From now on, I'm going to be uploading language learning videos with the occasional song here and there. Also technically, this video is clickbait because I used it wrong for 11.5 months, not 12 months.
Regarding the paintings of the bulls in the background of this video, I didn't know about Spain's culture when I got them and am removing them in future videos. See pinned comment.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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 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 🙌🏽
Can't wait to see more language content like that from you! Subscribed!
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!!
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!
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.
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 :)
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
Thank you so much for sharing. And the edited out parts at the end. And a huge thank you for the ice age stuff!
Thankyou so much for this - the 50% new interval again is a game changer, I've had it on zero for 3 years...
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 ;)
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.
Thank you for the interval tip. I think this will save me so much time.
Nice video! Very informative, especially for beginners.
Dude, your bloopers at the end are too relatable 😂
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
This was excellent, I really appreciate it!
Great advice. Thank you for sharing.
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.
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.
Appreciate this video bro. I’m about to start using Anki and this was extremely helpful
Glad I can assist
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'm recently started learning german and also using ANKI. Thanks for all your recommendations
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'm just learning Anki. You gave good information & by the way, do you use DeepL Translator or which? Great vidéo
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
Thank you so much for this video. It really helped me.
Thanks for this video! I'm in the process of making a 1,500 note deck and these tips are really helpful!
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!
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.
You saved me from going down the flashcard rabbit hole. Thanks!
Thanks for your helpful tips.
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 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?
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
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!
Love the bloopers at the end
thanks bro good luck in learning
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
Thanks for the advice
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)
Great video!! It really helps me :D thanks.
Great tips man! Thanks a lot
Thanks for the tips!
Buen video, Giovanni. Saludos desde la Argentina.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
Damn this open my mind i do spends alot of time on anki than interacting with the language
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.
Great video! How did you make the backlog cards?
Yo estoy aprendiendo Inglés y Coreano, no comprendia la pestaña de "opción" en el apartado tarjetas nuevas.¡Muchas gracias por el video!
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!
Good tips - Thank you.
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.
Really helpful video, I like it
love your bloopers😂
Good stuff man, I am also learning Spanish and Mandarin.
que massa seu trampo. abraços do brasil
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.
I realized I need cards in English to Target language and then the Target Language to English for every single card
Can you advise roughly how many cards/minutes per day you average?
i am trying this anki thing but i am stick too much to traditional writing of flashcards so i dont know if this works
Oh man, thankyou thankyou thankyou
tks so much!
I personally like to use quizlet instead
Any reason why?
I keep thinking about trying Anki but it’s &25 and it seems so complicated to us I’m afraid to try it
tengo un problema. intento configurar mi anki como explican en el minuto 2:15 pero la interfaz de anki se ha actualizado y no encuentro la opcion.
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.
Can u make updated vid speaking every language u know
Nice video, I agree with you 100%.
If you have a card with one question and on the other side a very long text (hundreds of words) how can you remember all of that?
Isn’t it better to make 10 cards and just have 5-10 sentences at the back of the card?
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.
Is it better to put target language on the front or back? Thanks in advance!
Front
I can change the ''new interval'' to 0.50? I'm in a different version (2.1.60), the max is 2,00
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?
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
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.
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.
How do you get on the interval?
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!
You can join our Chinese program (a real immersion class), and then use Anki to help you remember the words.
Do you manually enter the words you do not know in the series you watch into Anki or is there an easier way?
Manually with lots of copy paste
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.
Can you share your mandarin Deck ?
As a native spanish speaker I can say that I don't know many of the words you are learning using Anki
Awesome!
Thanks man
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
I want to learn Czech. So should the 'question' be in Czech and the 'answer' in English? Or should it be the other way around? Or should I do both?
Prompt for information in the language you're learning, and show the answer in your native language. At more advanced levels though, even better is to show the answer using a monolingual definition.
ese torero en el fondo!! Nice!
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
Great bro! Thx
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.