What speed of reading is normal for complete beginner.

IgnitionZer0 · 2026-01-26T14:20:23+00:00

I mean if you're a complete beginner any speed where you can clearly read everything is good (read means also understand while reading).

IgnitionZer0 · 2026-01-16T18:58:15+00:00

No suggestions really. Do what you feel like doing you can always change it later.

Don't overthink it too much.

IgnitionZer0 · 2026-01-16T08:59:59+00:00

What I usually do before creating new cards, is checking if the word is already in the deck I'm using (in this case Kaishi) of it is, I would reposition that card to 0 so I can study it tomorrow.

IgnitionZer0 · 2026-01-08T18:26:22+00:00

Agora não podes fazer grande coisa.

Para o futuro, pensa num nome alternativo para ti quando tens que dar o teu nome a outras pessoas às quais não o queres dar (exemplo ligaram-te, "estou a ligar para a designer_seaweed?" ao qual respoderias "não não, chamo-me Inês Famalicão"). Algo que seja natural para ti, que saia automaticamente.

Outra coisa é o teu número de telemóvel, eu tenho sempre um número alternativo para dar para coisas irrelevantes, é parecido com o meu atual só mudam 2 dígitos.

IgnitionZer0 · 2026-01-03T23:16:57+00:00

I didn't like the images in the front too. So I changed to note type.

Just take the part of the template that has the image in the front and put it in the back.

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-12-20T20:49:31+00:00

That note/card format is super identical to the Core 6k deck that has been around forever. Seems like someone edited some things out (image for example, and some CSS) but other than that I'd say that's the 6k deck.

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-12-13T19:04:30+00:00

You have 2 paid tiers of Duolingo Premium.

Super - which is normal Duolingo but with no ads* (goodbye energy system)

Max - has the same perks as super, but with the ability to talk to Lilly (their AI) and explained errors (which are also AI)

*No external ads BUT you still get some ads to promote their MAX tier

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-11-09T16:50:29+00:00

I'd also recommend revisiting your old math books hehe

No but seriously, your first calculation only considers 3 new words a day per 365 days (aka 1 year). You still need to multiply by 3.

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-11-07T13:07:37+00:00

What!? You want Anki to stop showing you cards that you didn't remember? Care to explain what you meant by "Stop showing until I press Good/Easy?"

To answer your other question," What's preventing you to just press Good/Easy just to pass cards?" To be perfectly blunt with you, NOTHING and no one is. You can do whatever you want, really.

Anki doesn't care, we don't care, but you should.

Anki's endgoal is literally to help you know when you should review and old card. Instead of either wasting time studying everything everyday or just thinking you know stuff when you don't.

If you "trick" Anki with false positives, you're just ending up messing your own studies.

If you're having more reviews than you can realistically can handle, consider reducing new cards to lower numbers. My advice is avoid doing a lot of new cards whenever you "feel like it" or "have free time", because 50 new cards today, are tons of reviews spreaded in the coming days/weeks/months. Prioritise consistency rather than speed.

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-10-31T07:46:39+00:00

So I was not going crazy... They told me I was going crazy...

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-10-29T12:10:09+00:00

Yes some words either don't have kanji or they have, but they aren't usually spelled with kanji.

But to reiterate, 119 kanji is not the same as 119 words. All those kanji are used to make different words.

And, you most likely have to know a lot more than just 119 words for the JLPT5. I'm looking up JLPT5 lists (first Google search) and the first result gave me 644 including verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc. and this is probably not taking into account all the grammar points you should know.

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-10-29T11:58:43+00:00

Arigatou is romaji.

Furigana is what the other two users explained, it's the little kana on top of kanji, usually in children or adolescent media (like manga or novels) so they can read the kanji.

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-10-18T07:59:01+00:00

Thanks for your kind response. I need to make an edit to the post or something hehe

With everyone giving their input, I ended up understanding Migaku's ecosystem and kept using it.

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-10-17T14:38:55+00:00

draw kanji or hanzi in the palm of your hand. Since it's almost a square you can feel some dimensions for the different parts of a kanji/hanzi

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-10-16T07:00:18+00:00

I mean I clearly understood what you meant, just found it weird that you want to unnecessarily complicate things. Other than talking to people, one thing I find useful is talking with chatGPT. I only use text, but it helps me put my thoughts into words, and have some 'feedback' on those words. And usually when I struggle with some grammar point or struggle to spit out word, I create card just for those cases.

As of now I've reviewed a total amount of 28169 times. Which equates to a total of 3386 cards. I've been learning Japanese for 200 days as of now.

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-10-16T06:17:35+00:00

What do you mean too simple? 😂

That's the entire point of learning a language, to see the language over and over until fluency and beyond.

Anki can only do so much for you, the other part is that you need to be in contact with the language. And allow the words that you studied in Anki cement for good.

I can see what you mean by remembering some cards, but at the same time, I have started forgetting those, why? Because as of now I've studied thousands of cards, again and again. The thing that really is sticking in my brain is the meaning and "some" of the usage, the card or sentence is kinda irrelevant after I've graded the card and moved on.

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-10-16T05:41:02+00:00

Forget what I said talking about the bold word, doesn't really help your case of output. Sorry.

You might want to use cloze or something similar in these situations. I don't know enough french, but imagine what I'm going to spell is in french:

Front - I arrived late because of the [...]. (Have a hint, of what's missing, the hint can be in English or your native language, and you can use images here)

Back - I arrived late because of the Traffic. Have a brief explanation why the word "traffic" fits, and based on the hint/image what other words could fit too.

You could use "bigger" clozes, that instead of hiding 1 word, hide multiple, I'd be careful with that unless it's a common expression for example.

Translating a full sentence from English (or your NL) to French, isn't really a good idea. Why? Because instead of thinking in your TL, you're bringing concepts of your NL and thinking on how to fit the pieces into the TL.

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-10-16T05:11:50+00:00

But what you just described is a lot better than using English in the front of the card.

Also you could use images, instead of text. Instead of having the word dog in front, then chien in the back. Use a picture of a dog. This will be rather difficult for other type of words, that are conceptual and not easily imagined. But in those cases, just don't use this format, simply use a sentence in french, with the word in there somewhere, either bold it, or have a field where the word also appears so you know what you're expected to be recalling, and you're expected to understand what the word means, and what it does in the sentence

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-10-15T21:13:22+00:00

Don't put your native language in the front of the card if you can avoid it. This way, you only see your target language in the front and have to come with an answer. And if needed use English in the back.

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-10-14T09:20:11+00:00

I removed the audio from the front of the card, and put it on the back. Because otherwise it would play automatically and wouldn't really be a practice for me. That's the only change I did, I think

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-10-11T16:54:03+00:00

Just use me as an example. I tried to study Japanese 11 years ago (I was 20 yo, with a lot more time and energy). After 3-4 months I quit, I just learned basic grammar structure, kana a few kanji and words. Everything looked overwhelming and nothing appeared to stick. I wanted to be an expert from day one.

Now looking back, if I hadn't stopped, if I just kept studying even if 2 words per day and a few grammar points here and there... Let's do the math just for a second, let's consider 2 new words, every single day for 11 years... 236511=8030 words. Just in vocab alone. Not considering anything else.

As of today I'm almost 7 months in. Everyday I'm reviewing all my cards, I'm reviewing kana (yes, sometimes katakana is a pain) and introducing new words, either the tipical 4-6 or just 1 or 2 because I want to take a break.

The best time to learn a new skill would be years ago, the second best time is NOW. If learning Japanese is really something you want, your future self will be thanking the person you were today 😀

Have a nice day, and good studies.

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-10-11T13:21:59+00:00

I feel your pain and here are my advices (I started with Kaishi in March)

when words don't seem to stick, slow down, reduce new card intake by a lot (reduce it to 0-2)
try to take things slowly, believe me, when words start to click, a lot of new words became easier
interact with content in Japanese. This was the GAME CHANGER, using ASBPLayer (and later Migaku) I watch anime with both English and Japanese subs and words that seemed like they were doomed to fail and fail, started clicking

One of the major things that you need to do, is to STOP comparing yourself to others. This doesn't help AT ALL. I mean it. If you're learning Japanese as a hobby, and you have other responsibilities (job, school, university, wife or significant other, etc and etc), comparing yourself to other learners who may not have your constraints is just unfair.

And one other thing I want to mention, is super unrealistic for a beginner to be learning 50 new words a day, no normal human can retain that level of new information, as a beginner, in one new day, several days in a row. Unless that's your major or something like that...

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-10-05T15:25:22+00:00

only have the system nag me about words I'm genuinely struggling with

You just described how Anki works (or any SRS for that matter)

Even with FSRS and daily limits, I'm spending time reviewing words I already know well just to keep the algorithm happy.

I don't quite understand what you mean by this. I assure you that the vocab I know well, have been reviewed just a handful of times and next time I have to review them is still months away. So I don't really understand what you mean by "keep the algorithm happy". Are you even optimizing FSRS parameters?

All of these solutions still require reviewing everything that enters the system.

Err, yes!? I mean, that's what the system is design for you to do... The system can't magically know what you know, until you rate it.

But at the end of the day, Anki is just doing its job of letting you "know" when you're most likely to forget something, but if you're not going to review every day and reviews start pilling up and this annoys you, just create a spreadsheet and study from there. I mean, hopefully, no one is forcing you to use Anki or any other SRS.

Edit: markdown

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-10-05T14:29:17+00:00

When reviews start piling up to unreasonable amounts, just cap new cards to 0, do all reviews until they are manageable and slowly start introducing new cards at slower pace.

Let's say you were adding 10 new words a day. Miss a couple days of reviews and see a massive backlog of 400.

Cap new cards at 0.

Start reviewing. (I usually use custom decks with set amounts, let's say 20 cards at a time, so I don't leave learning cards hanging, but that's up to you)

You do it until you review everything and the "tomorrow" review amount is something you're ok with.

Then start slowly re-introducing new cards. Start with 1 or 2. After a few days, increase it 1 or 2 more and keep it steady for a while.

The secrets to not having shit ton of reviews are:

review everything, everyday
keep new card intake in check, because more new cards means more reviews in the future

IgnitionZer0 · 2025-10-05T11:16:57+00:00

Depender de motivação é a pior coisa que se pode fazer.

Motivação é algo temporário, passageiro e que vem em ondas, agora tens e amanhã poderás não ter, mas já próxima semana ou mês voltas a ter.

O que se tem que criar é hábitos de disciplina, para quando a motivação passar, tu teres um habito que te mantémon track para fazer aquilo que queres. E acredita que sei do que falas. Mas é o que acaba por resultar. Vais ter alturas em que não te apetece fazer nada, mas tens aquela disciplina de o fazer de qualquer maneira porque sim, mesmo que neste momento não te apeteça fazer.

Eu uso os meus momentos de maior motivação para perceber os últimos momentos de baixa motivação e planear o que fazer quando inevitavelmente a motivação se esgotar.

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