So I was doing Core6k and I was loving it, but things happened and I stopped doing it like 5 months ago. So now I have all ~4400 cards I learned that time waiting for review. And if I just start reviewing again, the ones I know I will never see again in my life because they get 6months or 1y as their next review; on the other hand, the ones I don’t know I could reset them to 0… but I don’t know, it doesn’t feel like I’m doing the right thing. Answering “hard”kinda solves it but not really.
So yeah, has anyone restarted their study of a particular deck? Also, how do you go about reviewing words that you already know? I was not lacking for those 5 months, so I do know a lot of the words. Do I just eliminate those cards?
Edit: I’ll add some context on why I want to restart the deck. It’s true that immersion is much better now, so I’m prioritizing that and mining words from context is my best bet at the moment. I could ditch the Core6k altogether in favor of this, but there IS a reason why I want to go back to it. And that is, to prepare better for the N2/N1 JLPT. The thing is, my immersion is entirely driven by my interests, and as such, certain vocabulary will pretty much not appear at all. Vocabulary that is still very useful to pass the JLPT, as I could verify myself this past Dec 1st. It’s true, if those words don’t appear in my immersion I’ll always struggle with them, but even then, I can remember them for a test.
Thanks everyone for your responses.
by eduzatis
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Yeah , I restarted twice by skipping every card(hitting good button for every card) it messes up algorithm I guess, but fsrs5 is good enough to fix it over time
In your shoes I might consider just giving up on Anki. I’d focus on vocab from immersion, reading and watching japanese content. And maybe I’d make an anki deck for new words I came across, or words I came across and felt like I knew but would want to review again.
If you still remember the words after 5 months, you will likely still remember them in a year. You don’t need to repeat them if you remember them. And no, answering “hard” doesn’t solve your problem, it’ll simply show you the cards again in 5 months or so and you will either still remember them or still not remember them.
Just do it little by little. No more than 200 reviews per day (set a limit to reviews) and take your time to relearn them if necessary. And of course, no more new cards until you’ve worked through your pile. You’ll still get a better result than by starting over and get back on track after a month or so.
For words that I “already know” in the sense that I have already committed them to long-term memory before I see them in the deck, I’ll hit the “easy” button until the review delay gets over 1 months or so, at which point I will have forgotten that the card was even in the deck and then I’ll just treat it like any other card.
Remember anki is just a tool…there’s no need to “restart it”….just keep on going as I can guarantee you by the end of the deck, even if you were consistent with it, you won’t know all the words…immersion and exposure to the language will solidify the words and meanings for you
you can choose to ‘forget’ the cards in anki which should reset them to original I think.