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Spaced repetition systems have gotten better

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655 points domenicd | 3 comments | 18 May 25 11:42 UTC | HN request time: 1.207s | source
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Pooge ◴[18 May 25 12:45 UTC] No.44020989[source]▶
I'm sorry, I didn't read the article but I thought my experience would be a good anecdote.

I've used Anki for multiple years and learned around 18'000 Japanese words. It's difficult to say but I'd say I've learned how to read around 5'000 kanji. When I studied in Japan, my kanji reading—don't mix that up with comprehension!—was way above everyone else's. And most of my classmates were either Korean or Chinese.

That's what 10 minutes of free time—I did that during my daily train rides—can get you! Keep practicing. Being ignorant is the first step towards becoming more knowledgeable.

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1. cjauvin ◴[18 May 25 12:59 UTC] No.44021087[source]▶
There's a surprising gulf between word recognition and overall sentence comprehension. I'm learning Farsi with a combination of Anki and Youtube videos and sometimes I find myself in the weird state where I recognize every word in a sentence, but yet cannot assemble its overall meaning.
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2. Pooge ◴[18 May 25 13:24 UTC] No.44021262[source]▶
I completely get what you mean and I had the same trouble. But keep at it, it will click.
3. 55555 ◴[18 May 25 16:55 UTC] No.44022676[source]▶
Yeah there’s a few different levels. 1) not knowing the words 2) knowing all the words but not what they mean together 3) not being able to keep up with the speed at which the sentence is spoken…