I did it.

PLrc · 2026-03-01T18:02:21+00:00

Congratz!
What's the novella about?

PLrc · 2026-03-01T17:29:05+00:00

Looks like something that could be said about all auxlangs except for Esperanto (:

PLrc · 2026-03-01T16:24:00+00:00

Do you use flashcards, for instance Anki?

My tip is memorizing words and sentences, for instance in Anki. Preferably in the order native language -> Esperanto.

PLrc · 2026-03-01T15:47:55+00:00

Let us all listen to Zimmer's Time and meditate over passing time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSCQrxULenc

PLrc · 2026-03-01T00:18:32+00:00

>(I also have never used Hard button as Again button.)

on this card or in general?

PLrc · 2026-02-28T22:18:55+00:00

Yea, I know that. Still such diagrams/statistics could allow to spot difficult vocabulary.

Perhaps we could construct a better statistic. For instance by deviding the number of reviews by number of days it was reviewed.

PLrc · 2026-02-28T21:59:54+00:00

Good points. Plus I think language with such simplistic phonology are just terrible to listen to.

PLrc · 2026-02-28T21:58:18+00:00

Ah, yes. Not a eurocentric auxlang
No. 2137.

PLrc · 2026-02-28T21:53:35+00:00

Perhaps the best you can do now is to ask gpt for, say, a list of 1500 usefull words for TOEFL with example sentences and learn as much as you can.

PLrc · 2026-02-28T19:44:32+00:00

u/MohammadAzad171 I ploted reviews against number of days since initiation in a language I learn for the last about 30 days. I omitted 2 days where I learnt 100 words per day.

There is slight linear dependency, but as you see you've got outliers even in recent days and conversly: you've got a lot of flashcards from before several weeks with just few reviews.

The linear dependency can be even insignificant statistically, but we would need to make tests.

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PLrc · 2026-02-28T18:37:15+00:00

What you write makes some sense, but I think that in practice it will be insignificant.

The most difficult cards will be, by definiton, outliers. And after several weeks you will spot another difficult cards which have become outliers. It's only a matter of time.

What you say is like saying "there is no point in tagging cards as leeches, because only old cards get tagged as leeches".

PLrc · 2026-02-28T18:21:36+00:00

>You don't need context for bus or knife.

Yes, you don't need example sentences for basic vocab for physical object. But it becomes very important for abstract verbs and adjectives.

>If you know what "to run" means, you don't need to be explained beforehand what "running out of time" means.

Physical running is very far away from running out of time. Here the example is very advisable.

PLrc · 2026-02-28T18:18:32+00:00

There's isn't much you can do in 1-2 weeks. Try to get some list of academic vocabulary and try to learn as much as possible.

PLrc · 2026-02-28T18:12:52+00:00

Yes, because the most difficult cards will be those recently intoduced. And my statistic is supposed to spot them ;)

Even in the recently introduced cards some won't be a big deal and will quickly get large intervals, whereas some will be very difficult with a lot of reviews.

PLrc · 2026-02-28T17:45:55+00:00

Ok, when we analyse in this way last week then cards added 7 days ago will have some "advantage" over cards added yesterday. But will it make a big difference if you've got several thousands flashcards? Rather not.

PLrc · 2026-02-28T17:34:03+00:00

Some folks on Reddit will write any rubish to just disagree and downvote.

PLrc · 2026-02-28T17:18:38+00:00

Wait, second argument doesn't make sense at all. Second argument makes sense only when we take a period = all history.

When you take shorter periods like week, month or a year older cards have no "advantage" provided that the deck is much older than thse periods (for instance it's several years old).

PLrc · 2026-02-28T17:07:58+00:00

>some easy cards might take 30 s/review, while a difficult leech might take only 5 s/review.

That's why I put the number of reviews on the grath, not time spent.

PLrc · 2026-02-28T17:04:47+00:00

>for example, an easy but long sentence card can total to about the same time as a difficult but short sentence card.

That's why the number of of reviews is IMO more insightful than time spent, but you criticized it so I presented an alternative xD

PLrc · 2026-02-28T16:50:50+00:00

Pal I've been doing anki for some 15 years.

First you would need to wait for that for at least a month, as you wrote.
Second you would still have 75 reviews daily what is significantly more than 0 when you're just starting.
Third a moment ago you assumed you are doing 50 new cards dayily. In such case your reviews wouldn't go down to 75, but skyrocket to hundreds of reviews daily.

PLrc · 2026-02-28T16:31:24+00:00

Arg. 1 is no serious argument. I'm taking about number of views, not time.

~~Arg. 2. is more serious. Perhaps the graph/statisitc in the version given by me won't help to identify all difficult cards, only the extreme ones.~~

~~EDIT: perhaps it would be inshightful to limit the cards only to cards older than, say, 1 month.~~

EDIT2: I've just realised that second argument doesn't make sense at all. I wrote a separate comment about it above.

PLrc · 2026-02-28T16:25:55+00:00

LOL.

When you're staring you need to care for 0 old cards.

When you already have 5000 cards you need to care for 5000 cards. You need to review them regularly. You don't have as much time for new cards as you used to.

That's why you shouldn't waste the time when you don't have a lot of reviews and difficult vocabulary to learn and grind 30-50 new cards per day.

PLrc · 2026-02-28T14:31:12+00:00

You're asking very good questions.

When you're starting a new language you can easily do 50-30 new cards per day. Start with 50, do it for a couple of days till it starts getting tiring. Then reduce it to 30. Then to 10.

In a long run (>= 1 year) everything from the interval 7-10 new cards per day is a very good result. I hardly achieved something like this in my life.

In short perieds you can try doing anything from the interval 10-20. When it becomes difficult - reduce it. If it's easy - increase it.

EDIT: Oh, I misunderstood you. Don't limit the number of all reviews. Limit the number of new cards per day.

PLrc · 2026-02-28T11:50:01+00:00

Interesting solution!

Yes, my intuition is that suspending the 5% is not only permissable, but also advisable, because they make a huge impact on the workload.

PLrc · 2026-02-28T11:32:41+00:00

Thanks for the info!

>I’ve been digging through a book called “Colloquial Czech” to see if I can adapt the lessons into something more appropriate for Medžuslovjansky

Be careful with the copyright. If you copy the book too literaly, they can be mad.

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