![]() What was easy to you will still be easy to you, and will be reflected in your future reviews. Since you didn’t actually lose your Japanese ability, your new intervals from a reset deck will start to fall into place where they used to be. ![]() You lost the intervals, but you did not lose all of the Japanese you’ve learned. It’s easy to equate your progress with your Japanese ability. Going through the simple stuff again is a great opportunity to patch up holes in understanding you didn’t realize you had. You handled it the first time, but a second round of this might be too much. Your 1,000 are gone, but in in several days 300-400 may return. Even when you finally get them down to 0, many will be due again soon. If you had been taking months off, and you try to break through these 1,000 cards over several days, you are going to be marking many of them wrong. If you could just break through those 1,000 cards, life would finally get back to normal! This isn’t 100% true. You give yourself a new chance to figure out what daily new card/review count works best for you. It’s about your own life and creating the study patterns that are going to make you successful. Some people should learn 20 new cards every day. They start off with all the varying advice that they have read and heard, but all of this needs personal customization. You can go at your own pace.Ī lot of people approach SRS in a way that isn’t efficient to them specifically. ![]() You can study now for as much or as little as you want. Resetting your progress is liberating. You remove a giant weight from your shoulders. I’ve seen people choose quitting over facing this perceived hell. 1,000 reviews built up as a wall that you need to overcome before being able to return to Japanese, after having already taken months off and having a lack of motivation, can be fatal. The worse thing you could do to your Japanese is not lose all your progress, or go slow, or waste time. However, I’ve seen a lot of people who have done this. When asking people for advice who are doing well (or have done well) with SRS, this is what you’ll usually hear: Reset your deck and start overĭelete all your progress and begin anew. Efficiency isn’t efficient when you hate what you are doing. I’ve talked about this efficiency with people who hate Anki, or are trying to learn all the kanji before even touching sentences. efficiency, rather than just focusing on the latter. But over the years I’ve realized the importance of a balance of reality vs. Eventually you’ll make your way back, and it’ll be worth it. This leads to the advice “just go through it at whatever pace you need to.” Set daily limits, don’t add new cards while catching up, think positive, etc. If you delete all of this, you are throwing away this work. If you have been using flash cards for months, all of the interval lengths were created from your manual input. They were based on your understanding levels and the best timing you need to review. The whole point of SRS is to match your studying to the timing you need to maintain memory. Resetting the entire deck means you have to waste time studying material you already know. When returning to a deck after a long absence, you may have forgotten many of your cards, but chances are you haven’t forgotten them all. Resetting the deck is an even worse solution. The common philosophy, which is pushed by Anki itself, is to work your way out of the hole you’ve dug for yourself. I talk a lot about how and why to prevent yourself from ending up in this situation. Which option is better? Struggling through getting your reviews down to 0Įveryone who has gone through the Anki avalanche knows about the pain. There are a lot of strong opinions on both sides. Reset everything, and start again from the beginning. Struggle and suffer through several days of reducing your reviews down to 0.Ģ. When confronted with this situation, you have 2 options:ġ. Eventually this downward spiral leaves you months later having avoided Japanese, having several hundred or thousand reviews due, and making it hard for you to get back to Japanese. The larger they grow, the less you want to do them, causing them to grow even further. Your card reviews build, and build, and build. While we all have a perfect vision of how we are going to progress through a flash card deck, things have a way of not working out as planned.
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