Morgana wrote:you could go into Options > Reviews tab > Maximum reviews/day and set it to something lower for a while as a psychological measure (and to prevent the number from climbing ever higher!).
This is helpful, thank you!
I'm not sure yet if I want to revisit those cards or just get rid of them and stop Anki/start over. I kind of enjoy the process of making a card, but not so much the process of reviewing them. I do think that practicing recall is useful, but I'm just not a fan of flashcards for this purpose....I haven't used Anki in almost 2 months and so far I don't think it's hampered me, so I'm leaning toward suspending it indefinitely.
cjareck wrote:We never learn patterns of verbs, at least not at a 'normal' school. We acquire them naturally. Perhaps students of Polish language have to learn them.
Nevertheless, be prepared that the number of exceptions may be quite impressive. I already stated this somewhere (here?) that my children sometimes try to apply pattern where they should use an exception. This probably what awaits you if you learn patterns, not the verbs themselves.
Yes, I do remember you mentioning those exceptions! It surprised me at first to hear that you don't study verb patterns in school, but now that I think about it, it makes sense that you would just pick up conjugations naturally. When you are talking and want to use an uncommon verb (that's regular) that you may not have come across very often, do you just guess at the conjugation or do you have a good feel for the conjugations based on lots of exposure even if you've not formally studied them?
I will probably end up practicing only on the most useful/common verb conjugations, since there's just so many verbs!