Φιλόσοφος wrote:Oh, and wordlists are generally a very poor way to study a language.
That quite a reductive comprehension of what technology or even Anki can bring to language learning.
Backing up to the OP's questions.
Anki isn't a requirement or even a perfect tool - i'm a big fan of it and use it regularly - promote it around me but it has it's limitations.
It's not a learning tool.
It's a recall and testing tool.
If you find that you learn better by writing things out and using the physical movement as part of your learning process you are exactly like almost everyone else. People learn better by doing several things:
- physical activity like writing or moving while learning
- making learning emotional and personal
- using multiple input systems - visual, auditory, oral and physical
Anki can give you some of those inputs but just writing sentences and reading them out loud can be just as useful. If you want to use a low tech spaced repetition system - here is a good description:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system