I'm now have found a routine with a small overhead that I think works quite fine but haven't been doing it long enough to tell the full effects of it yet. There was a question on how it looks like so I thought I would summarize it here.
Step 1 : Write a list of words/phrases + translations you want to memorize
Step 2 : Cover up the language you are learning and based on the translation write down the L2 answer
Step 3 : Indicate per item how long time you want to wait until you see it again (1d,2d,5d,1w,2w,3w,4w,5w)
Step 4: Create one list per date where you want to see the item and rewrite each item into each list.
Step 5: When you have remembered something for 5 weeks it is done and doesn't have to be rewritten or tested anymore
And here are some more details on I have structured each step and some images on how it looks like :
Step 1 : List of words/phrases + translationsA couple of times per week I sit down and write a basic list with two columns where one side is my target language and the other side is English. I base the list on a textbook so I spend some time reading explanations of words/phrases/grammar rules and look for things that I think is relevant.
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Step 2 : Cover up the language you are learning and based on the translation write down the L2 answerI put a paper over the column of the text I'm learning and write out the answer on a scrap paper that looks something like this after a while :
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Step 3 : Indicate per item how long time you want to wait until you see it again (1d,2d,5d,1w,2w,3w,4w,5w)When learning items and writing items down for future I first indicate per item how easy it was by using the scale mentioned above but I can skip steps I find the item really easy. I indicate on the right hand side when I want to see it again by writing .1,.2,.5 for pushing the item x days into the future and +1,+2,+3 for weeks into the future. When rewriting the item I write how long I waited since the last repetition so after a line you might see something like .2+1 which says that it was two days since I last saw this but as I think it is easy I push this one week forward. On the left hand side I write down the number of repetitions I have seen each item.
I do this for about 6 lines at a time as a minimal but might do several of these in a day.
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Step 4: Create one list per date where you want to see the item and rewrite each item into each list.As mentioned above I do about 6 words at a time but might do several of these per session. This allows me to split each page into several parts that will be scheduled for a future date. So each date might have chunks like this on several pages. So after writing a chunk I put down the date it should be reviewed again and put the page number on a calendar. So on the Feb 1st I will need to review chunks on page 8 and 4.
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Step 5: When you have remembered something for 5 weeks it is done and doesn't have to be rewritten or tested anymoreI havent't been doing this long enough to get to this point yet however so far the system gives me what I want. The time I spend in front of the computer is once or twice per week for this and then I can spend all the other days just repeating items that are scheduled for the day or adding new items in from the lists I create when I'm in front of the computer.
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