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Being relatively new to Spaced Repetition System (SRS) based learning, I found the experience quite surprising. What originally felt like looking at abstract hieroglyphs quickly turned into a daily habit, allowing me to learn about 300 words from scratch.",[55,64,66],{"id":65},"helpful-definition","Helpful Definition",[68,69,70],"blockquote",{},[60,71,72,73],{},"\"Anki is a free and open-source flashcard program. It uses techniques from cognitive science such as active recall testing and spaced repetition to aid the user in memorization.\" — ",[74,75,79],"a",{"href":76,"rel":77},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAnki",[78],"nofollow","wikipedia.com",[81,82,84],"h2",{"id":83},"wait-youre-learning-japanese","Wait, You're Learning Japanese?",[60,86,87],{},"You heard correctly. I'm currently taking a stab at the Japanese language. It all has to do with some reflection I had regarding my future progression as a person and an engineer. Being a (mostly) autodidact in programming, I've experienced both upsides and downsides to my unorthodox path. Without getting into too much detail, I've set my sights on pursuing graduate research in Japan. This, paired with my longstanding interest in the country, has pushed me to embark on this new language learning journey.",[81,89,91],{"id":90},"why-anki","Why Anki?",[60,93,94],{},"I feel like my inclination towards Anki as my preferred SRS platform is not very unique. Especially among Japanese learners (and even more so for those interested in the JATT learning approach), Anki feels more like a rite of passage than anything else. With such a huge mountain of unknown language structures ahead of you, it only feels natural to start with learning the basics through flashcards. Of course, its FOSS nature also attracted me very much. Who knows, if I find any egregious bugs I might end up submitting a PR someday.",[81,96,98],{"id":97},"the-results","The Results",[60,100,101,102,107],{},"And now for the million-dollar question: how much did I learn in my one month of continuous Anki use? Before I answer, I'd like to share some details around my approach. For anyone interested, I picked the Kaishi 1.5k core deck as my starter deck, which contains 1,500 of the most common Japanese words, with each card containing an example sentence using the word. I started off with 10 new cards a day (as per the recommendation of the YouTuber ",[74,103,106],{"href":104,"rel":105},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002F@Livakivi",[78],"Livakivi","). That felt waaay too easy at the time, so I bumped it up to 20 new cards. Shortly after, I understood the concept of review piling, and suddenly I had to lower it again to 10 new cards. Luckily, I could keep up this pace until the end of the month, occasionally oscillating between 9 and 11 daily new cards. Eventually, my reviews got really comfy, so I've been trying to increase my daily new cards to 14, making my daily total reviews about 120 (about 50 minutes a day).",[60,109,110],{},[111,112],"img",{"alt":113,"src":114},"Anki Screenshot of Reviews Stats","content\u002Fanki-screenshot-1.png",[60,116,117],{},"Above you can see a clear picture of how all my totals grew throughout the month. Funnily enough, my daily time spent actually resembles more of a bell curve. As I got more comfortable reviewing old cards, I started taking drastically less time to review the same number of cards every day.",[60,119,120],{},[111,121],{"alt":122,"src":123},"Anki Screenshot of Cards Stats","content\u002Fanki-screenshot-2.png",[60,125,126],{},"In this breakdown, you can see my total cards learned amounts to 335! Not too bad in my opinion. At this point, I still struggle to understand even the most basic audio and text fragments of Japanese. However, I can now noticeably intuit the general structures of sentences, and once in a while (when I'm lucky enough), I hear a sentence containing mostly familiar vocabulary, allowing me to understand it fully. Moreover, I really enjoyed learning straight away with kanji. Having picked up hiragana and katakana shortly before starting Anki, I now pick up kanji radicals here and there, making learning new words slightly easier.",[81,128,130],{"id":129},"future-goals-aspirations","Future Goals & Aspirations",[60,132,133],{},"If my projections are correct and I can keep up this pace, I will finish this core deck in late October. Until then, I'll supplement my grammar study with my copy of the Genki I textbook and immersion whenever possible. I'm very eager to try sentence mining; however, I'll have to be patient until I have a stronger comprehension base before such an approach will be effective. I'll definitely try to drop another article if and when I finish the entire Kaishi 1.5k deck!",{"title":135,"searchDepth":136,"depth":136,"links":137},"",2,[138,139,140,141],{"id":83,"depth":136,"text":84},{"id":90,"depth":136,"text":91},{"id":97,"depth":136,"text":98},{"id":129,"depth":136,"text":130},"2026-07-17","After knowing about Anki and SRS for a while I decided to give it a try for my study of Japanese. 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