#Anki spanish software#

This is how you can easily have over 1000 cards in Anki but still only spend about 15 or 20 minutes a day reviewing them (you’ll only review a tiny fraction of that 1000 every day) and you’ll never forget a single one of them, this is how you can perfectly memorize thousands of vocabulary words and expressions and grammar rules, review them just often enough to keep from forgetting them, and not spend very much time per day doing it. The more you review the card and indicate that you know it the less often you will see it. Now, the number of days until it will be reviewed again if you knew the card will become greater and greater the more often you review the card as long as you continue to indicate that you knew it (by clicking ‘hard’, ‘good’, or ‘easy’): for example, I’ve got cards in my various Spanish decks now that only come due for review once every seven months or so. If you say “hard” during your very first review of this card, then the card will be ‘due’ for review tomorrow, if you say “good” it will be ‘due’ in four days, and if you say “easy” it will be ‘due’ again in eight days. If you did know the card then you’ve got three options for indicating how well you knew it: “hard”, “good”, or “easy”.

So, for example, initially you would be shown a card for the first time in Anki and if you don’t know it then Anki will show you that same card during that particular session again later (and if you don’t get it right then, it will be shown over and over again during that same session until you do get it right-the session doesn’t end until you’ve gotten each card right). That is, cards that you frequently get wrong will be reviewed more frequently than cards that you usually get right. The best SRSes tailor the spaced repetition to the individual learner based on that learner’s personal progress and performance with each individual card. If you’re interested you can read more about these phenomena on Wikipedia: Spaced Repetition and The Spacing Effect. Although spaced repetition can be used to learn almost anything, it’s especially good for the memorization of large numbers of small individual items that must be retained in memory indefinitely, therefore making it particularly effective for learning foreign language vocabulary, grammar, and syntax. The spacing effect is a phenomenon where people more easily learn items in a list when they are studied a few times over a long period of time, instead of repeatedly in a short period. Spaced repetition is a learning technique that incorporates increasing intervals of time between subsequent review of previously learned material in order to exploit the psychological ‘spacing effect’. The concept behind these systems is that carefully spaced review of material is the most effective way possible to review it and an extraordinarily effective memory technique-and it is, believe me.

#Anki spanish software#

They’re the software version of flashcards, in fact they’re frequently known as “electronic flashcards” or “flashcard software”. Spaced Repetition Systems (or Spaced Repetition Software as it’s sometimes called since just about all modern permutations of Spaced Repetition Systems are in the form of computer programs) are systems of reviewing information that allow you to learn it with as little effort as possible over time. How long it has been since you last reviewed that card.How well you told Anki you remembered it, if you got it correct (you normally have the option of “Again”, meaning you got it wrong, “Hard”, “Good”, and “Easy”)–the easier you say it was, the longer Anki will wait before showing it to you again.you got it right 17 out of 19 times, meaning that the card has come up 19 times for review and out of those 19 times you were shown the card, you correctly answered it 17 times. This is coupled with the previous number, that is to say how many times you got it right out of the total number of attempts, e.g. How many times you have correctly reviewed the card (that is, “got the card right”, that is correctly remembered what was on the answer side prior to being shown it).How many times you have already reviewed the card.It determines this based on the following criteria: stored in Anki and Anki’s algorithm, its formula for determining when cards need to be reviewed so to speak, will be able to determine precisely when those cards need to come up for review. That is to say: you can have thousands of words, grammar rules, expressions and idioms, etc.