Systematiker wrote:rdearman wrote:Systematiker wrote:I have one follow-up question regarding the test group use of SRS:
Since it's pegged to native-input and recall from lookups, I'd have to make my own cards, right? It wouldn't be ok to use, say, a premade vocab list to drill on top of native input? I'm asking for a couple of reasons, as if I'm going to do it, I'd be in for either Korean or Czech, and in both cases making my own cards is going to be exponentially harder (the former due to difficulty of lookups after being mostly audio up to now, the latter being an A0 start so I'd be jumping in at the deep end with lookups from nongraded native material).
No, you have to make your own. The control group have the luxury of pre-made courses and frequency lists, but the test group have to use what is in the native content.
May I front-load that (i.e. begin making lists or cards now under those rules), or must that creation also be done within the study period?
Edit: Also, how bad would it skew your data if I front-load a bunch of course study in the next couple weeks before you officially start?
You don't know which group you'd be in.
In theory what you do in the next couple of weeks really wouldn't matter, because your level is determined at the time of the first exam. After you take that exam however, if you're part of the test group, you'd have to remove all your decks you made from the courses and start clean with only the deck you generate from the native content and a subs2srs deck. If you're part of the control group you could carry on with those cards, since you'd be allowed pre-made cards.