How is effective spaced repetition inherently difficult? I thought the entire point of Anki was to make it easy, i.e. automate everything about it that can be automated. All the user has to do is turn it on and do the work every day, but presumably that’s true of Duolingo also (which I have no experience of).
I have actually not found Anki effective for language learning. My experience has been that my practice with flashcards has not transferred to the situation of trying to either utter a sentence in the target language, or understand one when I hear it. That is a hurdle I have never surmounted, however I go about the task.
Spaced repetition is almost designed to be difficult.
The method works best when you are presented with questions that are at the limit of of your abilities. If you see a lot of cards that are easy to answer you are probably wasting a lot of time. Therefore, when it works well you are seeing a lot of cards that are hard for you to answer. I think that feels bad for a lot of people because only being presented with the hard cards makes it seem like they aren’t good or improving at the thing.
Spaced repetition is inherently difficult because it requires a period of intense focus. It you’re doing it efficiently it’s hard on a minute-to-minute level. In my personal experience, it’s the most intense form of study I can scale up. When I’m using Anki, it’s the hardest 10-15 minutes of my day.
How is effective spaced repetition inherently difficult? I thought the entire point of Anki was to make it easy, i.e. automate everything about it that can be automated. All the user has to do is turn it on and do the work every day, but presumably that’s true of Duolingo also (which I have no experience of).
I have actually not found Anki effective for language learning. My experience has been that my practice with flashcards has not transferred to the situation of trying to either utter a sentence in the target language, or understand one when I hear it. That is a hurdle I have never surmounted, however I go about the task.
Spaced repetition is almost designed to be difficult. The method works best when you are presented with questions that are at the limit of of your abilities. If you see a lot of cards that are easy to answer you are probably wasting a lot of time. Therefore, when it works well you are seeing a lot of cards that are hard for you to answer. I think that feels bad for a lot of people because only being presented with the hard cards makes it seem like they aren’t good or improving at the thing.
Actually making the cards is what stops me.
Spaced repetition is inherently difficult because it requires a period of intense focus. It you’re doing it efficiently it’s hard on a minute-to-minute level. In my personal experience, it’s the most intense form of study I can scale up. When I’m using Anki, it’s the hardest 10-15 minutes of my day.