I Was Wrong About Anki!

I used to use Anki for Language Learning. However, at some point I decided to stop and do something else instead. In this video, I explain the reasons for this change and what I do now in order to learn new words.
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00:00 Intro
00:41 Recap
2:30 The Turning Point
6:46 Why Anki is less effective
9:12 Summary
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[@hexcitrine]

unfortunately, my mind is super resistant to any kind of formal study, so i am not a person who could ever manage to stick to flashcards (especially when it comes to something like language learning). i threw out the idea of using SRS about a week after attempting it, so instead, a lot of my learning of my target language, chinese, has been heavily, heavily based on taking in content in some form (books, podcasts, and youtube/bilibili videos mainly). in my case, it's worked very well in the 8 months i’ve been learning the language. i think there's a sense of natural repetition that comes from interacting with a language in this way, where the word appears at the frequency that it naturally occurs at in the language. i don’t personally know if SRS/anki can manage to represent the natural frequency of words (as well as grammatical concepts), but the actual language itself certainly can. i’m sure SRS/anki works for people, just not me.
i am much less structured in my approach, though. i don’t typically do what you’ve been doing with repeating watching specific content, even if it is probably beneficial. though i will occasionally revisit a video i liked when i first watched it months later as a sort of “benchmark” to see how much i’ve progressed in comprehension. i also don’t really aim for 100% understanding of all the words, just a general feeling of “yep, i understood enough where it feels like i got something out of this”. i mostly look up words when it’s come up enough times that it feels vital to what’s being conveyed, at which point, my brain has probably noted it as significant enough that it’s more willing to hold onto the meaning. it does require being comfortable with that ambiguity from not grasping every single detail of the content you’re taking in, though.
though, my primary goal is comprehension of chinese media (especially reading chinese books), so this works particularly well for my personal goals. i’ve read a couple of books written for native adults at this point, so it’s worked pretty well for i initially wanted to accomplish. i’m sure most other language learners have the goal of communicating with others, so that might require different approaches. though at this point i’m so in love with the language learning process that i’ve been starting working on communicating with others :)

[@spoonerboy6281]

I still using Anki for Japanese and even for English. The problem is that people don't suspend old flashcard for example if I see that I'm gonna review one word in over ten mounths I'll inmediality suspend it because is a word I see with frequency in my immersion journey.

[@santiagoorozcoguayara828]

interesting video to begin to enter more languages in a more educational way, thanks for sharing the advice.

[@TAINGUYEN-cn6tb]

I completely agree with you, I also used Anki to learn English vocabulary, the huge amount of vocabulary made me very tired, and creating cards also took quite a while even with add-ons. image and audio support

[@LePaul-vu7mb]

Anki is a huge waste of time. 15 years ago, I used to spend days on end making complicated cards with images, sounds, and formatted with Latex... and having more sides than index cards can have in the 3 conventional physical world.