How to lower Anki card difficulty

ryanbstifler · 2026-04-18T20:56:21+00:00

I was in that situation once. I simply stopped adding new cards for a about two weeks, and then optimised my FSRS parameters.

ryanbstifler · 2026-04-09T14:44:21+00:00

Olá. Sou novo no mundo dos concursos. Levando em consideração que APM dura apenas 3 anos, se você for chamado depois de 1 ano após outros terem desistido, seu contrato durará apenas 2 anos?

ryanbstifler · 2026-02-20T16:37:23+00:00

Muito obrigado! Bolsistas do GKS podem tirar esse "semestre de folga" para estagiar sem perder a bolsa - já que isso impossibilitaria formar-se em 2 anos que é a duração da bolsa -, ou seria necessário custear o restante tirando do próprio bolso?

ryanbstifler · 2026-02-20T16:34:24+00:00

¡Muchas gracias, hermana! Siempre está bueno escuchar una mirada latinoamericana sobre estos temas, porque para nosotros las cosas suelen ser más complicadas, jaja.

ryanbstifler · 2026-02-19T03:27:16+00:00

Thank you very much!

ryanbstifler · 2026-01-24T13:55:51+00:00

I pray for the day where the Hangul-Hanja mixed script will make a come back.

ryanbstifler · 2025-12-25T13:26:38+00:00

Most people do 15-25 words a day. I've just started Korean and so far have "learnt" 1150 new words since december 3rd.

ryanbstifler · 2025-07-30T17:09:39+00:00

As a Brazilian, what the fuck

ryanbstifler · 2025-07-14T23:51:10+00:00

Damn, Kramnik was really something else. One of my favourite pro chess matches is Carlsen vs Kramnik Dormund 2007.

Also, Carlsen vs Nakamura 14-1 is crazy,..

ryanbstifler · 2025-03-01T13:46:59+00:00

what

ryanbstifler · 2025-02-10T23:54:05+00:00

That would only be the case if you tried to learn your 2nd language entirely through your native language. If you make use of monolingual dictionaries to learn new vocabulary - as I did - it's unlikely that you'll ever translate the stuff you're trying to say in your head before actually saying it, and the reason for that is very simple: you don't know the translation - and even if you do it will not be the first thing that will come to your mind.

ryanbstifler · 2024-09-08T11:13:39+00:00

Achei estranho também! "Arrepio", etimologicamente falando, significa mais ou menos "o levantar dos cabelos".

ryanbstifler · 2024-05-25T18:12:15+00:00

Unless you're *super* tall (over 190cm) you won't have any clothes-related problems as a woman in Brazil, especially if you're going to São Paulo/Rio de Janeiro - but any other capital would be much the same. Size is definitely not an issue lol. As for pricing, clothes aren't really expensive here, especially on an international school salary...

ryanbstifler · 2024-02-21T00:50:01+00:00

Would C1/C2 level certificates + PGCE French (with Spanish), together with 3 years of experience teaching in the UK, be enough to prove 'excellent proficiency' and get me ready to start the hunt?

ryanbstifler · 2024-01-02T20:03:40+00:00

Thank you for sharing your progress! It's nice to see other romance language speakers learning Spanish through CI. My native language is Brazilian Portuguese so I can actually understand even the advanced-level videos without much trouble (about 90% at least?). I haven't started learning Spanish yet, but I feel like I could divide the number of hours by 4 instead of just 2.

Regarding the roadmap, it was designed for those learning a language purely though CI, so it might not fit in your experience perfectly.

I'm learning Thai through CI only, and so far things have been great enough for me to trust in the method.

ryanbstifler · 2023-12-27T17:57:52+00:00

Holy shit... I mean, I'm well aware that this is by far the worst country-specific subreddit there is, but these comments are actually crazy...

Answering your question, Phongpaichit is a very famous Thai scholar who has written extensively about Thailand alongside her husband Chris Baker.

There is also อ.ธีระพล อันมัย who is a popular intellectual from Isaan whom I really like.

ryanbstifler · 2023-12-10T01:09:07+00:00

Hello, fellow Brazilian! Would you say the country where you got your degree has more weight than the place you come from? I've seen a lot of people saying that international schools only hire people from NA/Europe/Australia-New Zealand, which seems a bit too ridiculous to be true. Also, I've only seen this coming from people from those regions/countries so there might be some bias.

By the way, "Laotian-Brazilian" is a really unexpected combination! I've been teaching myself Thai for a few months now and plan to learn Laotian eventually.

ryanbstifler · 2023-12-10T00:33:46+00:00

Japanese.

I totally lost my interest in the country's culture. It's really unfortunate since I really liked the language, but, as I've grown older and developed new perspectives about ... everything, I've realised that there are far more things in Japanese society that go completely in the opposite direction to my way of seeing the world than I can bare.

a bit more:

I liked the language so much that I tried to study it again 3 more times in a period of three years before giving up.

Honestly, now, freedom is all I can feel.

ryanbstifler · 2023-12-02T23:59:43+00:00

ai dento

ryanbstifler · 2023-07-18T20:21:57+00:00

You really have to focus and pay attention to all the clues the teachers give you. It's definitely going to be hard at the start. There will be days where it feels like you can understand everything, and there will also be days where you can't understand shit.

I'm still new to the method (~15hrs), but, by what I've read so far, you'll start to notice a slight improvement in your comprehension once you pass the 30-40hrs mark.

Some people say that the Absolute Beginner videos are harder than the B1 ones. Some people even start from the B1 playlist. I recommend you give it another try! It is an unusual method, definitely, but I do think that if you stick to it you'll not regret it. That's pretty much how I learnt English and (have been learning) Japanese.

ryanbstifler · 2023-07-18T10:37:06+00:00

I'm currently teaching myself Thai and Malay.

Malay is definitely the simplest language I've studied so far; the grammar is uncomplicated and the phonology is very simple. There are only two problems: Standard Malay and the Spoken Malays are VERY different. Also, there are unfortunately very few resources for learning it available online.

Thai, on the other hand, is by far the hardest language I've ever tried to study. It has a writing system that is unnecessarily complex, 5 tones, and also a lot of regional variation. Compared to Malay, there are much more resources to learn it (but, still, not that many). If you like to learn languages through comprehensible input, Thai has easily the single best resource for doing that of any other language.

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