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Spaced repetition systems have gotten better

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663 points domenicd | 4 comments | 18 May 25 11:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.552s | source
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montebicyclelo ◴[18 May 25 12:41 UTC] No.44020969[source]▶
Language vocab seems a good use case. What other things are people here using spaced repition for?
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1. cjauvin ◴[18 May 25 13:02 UTC] No.44021104[source]▶
For language learning I find that using longer phrase fragments is better than single words.
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2. Alex-Programs ◴[18 May 25 13:11 UTC] No.44021170[source]▶
The advice with gendered languages is to always learn the word alongside some context that includes its gender, e.g. "Der Tisch" (The masculine table) rather than merely "Tisch->Table".
3. jwrallie ◴[18 May 25 13:49 UTC] No.44021408[source]▶
If the phrases are found by yourself in context from your own exposure to the language, it is even better.

I got introduced to this idea a few years ago from AJATT [1] and my personal experience is that it works very well.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20100406173634/http://www.alljap...

4. ix101 ◴[18 May 25 14:42 UTC] No.44021761[source]▶
It's surprising how much easier to translate a foreign when it's given in a sentence. Also helps when there are multiple translations for a word depending on context.