rdearman wrote:Voytek wrote:What do you think about using Anki only for exposure, without memorization and recalling?
That is what I do all the time, which is why I have probably at least a couple of hundred if not a thousand cards per day. It is a lot less stressful than trying to spend 2-5 minutes per card trying to memorise them. Also it is a lot better if you have audio on the cards as well as the text.
I don't agree that it is better to use audio on the cards. I used to use TTS and found it too slow (I could speak faster), and I felt didn't allow me to 'take control' of my own pronunciation. I ought to know how to pronounce the words on any given flashcard, and if i don't (rare), then I look up the phonetics.
On another note, I also found single word translation cards became way too complicated. I developed a lot of short cuts (often 3 letters) to type in (auto fill really due to the shortcuts) clarifying notes alerting me to various things such as telling me a word was a verb and not a noun if two words looked the same. Not only that, but then it became a battle of what definition do I write- all 10 definitions or 10 seperate ones and how do I know which definition (and thus translation) I was looking for as an answer. In the end it was a big learning experience and single word cards lost out.
Cloze deletion makes a lot of sense now. I find words in context- could be in a book, in a magazine, in some audio I've heard, in a course, I then add a sentence or two and blank out the word or phrase with a translation as my hint. Much easier, contextual (and not random, but sth i've come across), and the context a well as the translations (relative to that particular context) all make for pretty stress free cards. So, although it's not forgoing the recall, it goes a long way to assisting me in finding the answers relatively easily.