There are definitely ways to use in-context flash cards with unrelated languages. They serve two purposes: tampering with the frequency of natural...
I don't really believe in "damaging" a language, except maybe by doing massive amounts of speaking with a very bad accent and seriously incorrect...
My answer to this question is complex and personal. Your mileage may vary. Making translations manually to learn the language (A levels). I've never...
Corrections made a huge difference for me in French, as far as I can tell. I cannot reconcile my personal experience with all those studies. If I had...
There's a nice interview with the woman who translated Asterix into English: How long would it take you and Derek to do a typical album? There is...
This undergraduate thesis actually has a pretty bibliography covering note-taking research: NOTE-TAKING, CONTEXT, AND MEMORY. There's a lot of...
Thank you for an excellent post! Lots of great stuff here. Lots of people say this is true for them, and I believe them. But I've lived my life...
We actually have quite a lot of Middle Egyptian text. They spent thousands of years writing, and the desert is amazingly good at preserving things....
Note that I use a variation of my reading + SRS approach for Egyptian as well, and it works tolerably well there, too, despite the lack of cognates...
It's perfectly possible to learn a large amount of vocabulary without recall stress. Looking back at the last 30 months, here's a very rough estimate...
Using SRS as a "memory amplifier" improves my ability to remember these contexts considerably. Used well, the forgetting curve is really powerful....
Kind of… sort of… maybe? If I pull a sentence from a novel or a newspaper article (my two most common sources), I still remember much of the original...
One of the problems with breaking into the language exam market is that the student pays all the costs—the money, the time, the travel—but the...
Maybe I'm cynical, but technology startups make everything sound like a noble crusade to change the world. In Silicon Valley, you can't just say,...
Well, for some people, it's hard to find two good hours for studying every day, when they have their wits about them and they're ready for sustained...
The big advantage of Anki 2 over Anki 1 is synchronization. Under Anki 1, multi-device synchronization was bolted on, and it never quite worked...
If I add up all the time I spend reviewing sentence cards, it works out to about 3 minutes per card (until the intervals space out to 3+ years, at...
For me, the most efficient method is to capture text during extensive reading and make half-word cloze cards, where each card hides half the unknown...
I gave up on isolated vocabulary study with Anki a couple of years ago. It was too much work, it was painfully boring, and the near-synonyms were...
I gave up on using Anki for individual words and phrases without context, because I found it incredibly painful. Today, almost all my Anki cards come...
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