Hello! I am very new to this so bear with me in case I make any mistakes with my terms here or anything. This is also kind of a question specific to Renshuu but the methods of appropriately quizzing myself could possibly apply to other tools.
I’ve been learning Japanese primarily with Renshuu for the past two or so weeks and in that time I have worked through the hiragana and katakana but I still have them in my mastery schedules for review. One change I made with those schedules was to require an answer by writing the kana instead of the multiple choice answers, since I thought that would be a more effective way to actually memorize them. That’s gone perfectly well for me so far.
At this point I’ve continued on to the Words for Japanese Basics vocab schedule in conjunction with the Japanese Basics schedule. Something I’m finding trouble with though is that I struggle a lot more if I’m trying to answer by actually writing the words out with hiragana/katakana. Looking at the words to answer in the multiple choice questions feels much more surmountable to me because I can read them and have that auditory association in my head, but I’m worried it’s less effective to learn by picking from the four answers instead of forcing myself to be able to write them in. Especially if I’m just making an educated guess because I know the other potential answers already.
I guess my question is this: am I forming bad habits by using multiple choice questions to try and learn vocab? I’d prefer to not spend too much time with question formats that aren’t helping me all that much or have Renshuu think that I’m better at the vocab than I realistically am.
Thank you!
by adeepkick