Basically someone talking about how to use Anki effectively based on his own experiences and what he found he was doing wrong.
It might be not so great as it’s about learning medical terms for med school so not quite a new language.
Not sure if you’ve seen Quizlet before or not. I like that tools it offers. If you have not already looked at that you might take a look. Not sure how easy it would be but Quizlet also allows sharing decks with others so if you have anyone you are learning with—or are in any online groups for learning German that might provide some options to help.
It sounds like you’ve already homed in on one of the big items—relevance and context to you personally.
One last thing, do you speak the word aloud? If not maybe try. That will engage other parts of your brain and so perhaps create more links to the meaning and a stronger memory of the word and meaning.
Last edit… Do you listen to any German language music or watch German language movies/shows?
I did understand that. I find that my ability to read Korean is improving with my ability to understand the spoken language and my vocabulary improved faster than with just flash cards.
Might be me but my thinking was still along the lines of forming more connections to the meaning and so making it more efficient learning of the vocabulary.
I find my ability to speak foreign languages greatly improved by listening to music, conversations, TV shows and movies.
At least at the conversational level; this is more notably so in German where there are so many articles to learn, and many expressions such as ‘doch’ and ‘ach so’ which are so common in every day speaking. By watching and listening people converse with each other —instead of just reading and memorizing over and over the same sentence—the articles and these expressions began to appear naturally and many of my previous mistakes subdued.
So, if your end goal is to understand a language there is a case to be made for listening rather than just reading, it may very well be just how we really learn languages. Of course this is always one test away.
not sure if this would help or not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbvaITy3oeQ
Basically someone talking about how to use Anki effectively based on his own experiences and what he found he was doing wrong.
It might be not so great as it’s about learning medical terms for med school so not quite a new language.
Not sure if you’ve seen Quizlet before or not. I like that tools it offers. If you have not already looked at that you might take a look. Not sure how easy it would be but Quizlet also allows sharing decks with others so if you have anyone you are learning with—or are in any online groups for learning German that might provide some options to help.
It sounds like you’ve already homed in on one of the big items—relevance and context to you personally.
One last thing, do you speak the word aloud? If not maybe try. That will engage other parts of your brain and so perhaps create more links to the meaning and a stronger memory of the word and meaning.
Last edit… Do you listen to any German language music or watch German language movies/shows?
No, because my goal is reading only.
I did understand that. I find that my ability to read Korean is improving with my ability to understand the spoken language and my vocabulary improved faster than with just flash cards.
Might be me but my thinking was still along the lines of forming more connections to the meaning and so making it more efficient learning of the vocabulary.
I find my ability to speak foreign languages greatly improved by listening to music, conversations, TV shows and movies.
At least at the conversational level; this is more notably so in German where there are so many articles to learn, and many expressions such as ‘doch’ and ‘ach so’ which are so common in every day speaking. By watching and listening people converse with each other —instead of just reading and memorizing over and over the same sentence—the articles and these expressions began to appear naturally and many of my previous mistakes subdued.
So, if your end goal is to understand a language there is a case to be made for listening rather than just reading, it may very well be just how we really learn languages. Of course this is always one test away.