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0 pointsrendaw1y ago0 comments

I had similar issues... anki would drill me hard while stuff was still in short term memory (single session) then push it back weeks or months before I had any retention. I'd get to it again and it'd be completely gone, queue re-learning it from scratch.

I brought it up around the time I tried it and got shouted down. Pretty much every spaced repetition app was treating anki like a holy emissary, so I gave up on spaced repetition entirely.

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Tijdreiziger1y ago

There is definitely an aspect of online language learning communities where certain sanctioned methods are treated as gifts from the gods, while other methods brand you as a no-good heretic who doesn’t really want to learn the language.

Aerroon1y ago

I had a similar experience. In retrospect I felt like I was wasting my time trying to use it. I somehow ended up with memorization sessions that were too easy and impossibly hard and there seemed to be no way to kind of bridge the gap.

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