I will answer people in stages as to not make this post too long.
Not really. There can be potentially a lot of embedded inefficiencies in the code.
Even the moving time between screens when answering questions and the waiting time before starting a new session can waste in accumulative a lot of time.
I actually found today something to elevate just that with a the Memrise+ script.
Here is another cool feature of Anki to increase efficiency which doesn’t really exist here: Dealing with tricky vocabulary: Killing leeches | Hacking Chinese
It similar to the idea of the difficult words section here but not quite.
Also consider that Anki is self-evaluation, so even if you accidentally mistype something you can still mark it as good and continue as if nothing had happened.
There are a lot of settings in Anki so you can really custom fit it to your needs.
It might worth the extra time it takes to learn how to use it, as the savings and the increased efficiency can be great since we do it every day and for many hours.
Here it is more a one solution fits all kind of thing, so ,understandably, it will not be optimized, if someone is really looking to boost efficiency the best he can.
Yes, I’m familiar with it, but I’ve never considered to use it in that manner.
It can be hard to know when is the correct time. You might think you know it well enough, but only to be mistaken shortly after. It might require some experimentation to see if you can lower it first to 5 and then 4, without an adverse effect on retention. it’s an interesting suggestion.
On the other hand, it might also be a bad idea to trick the algorithm like that…
Since no one really tested it it’s hard to know if it’s really working or not.
How does the introductory phase work at Anki exactly? I’ve never really used it yet.
I too didn’t really like it too much from first glance (which is why I’m here and not there), but maybe it’s just a matter of getting used to it? I’ve spent here more than 2 months at Memrise and I’m still learning new things every day, so one must really spend a lot of time with an app to really know it and get used to it.
The community is excellent. Much better than what is going on with duolingo, I would say.
But does the points really that much matter to you? We’re here to learn not to collect points. If it’s really that much more effiecnt why not move to it? You might shave off years at the end…
Anki is not community created courses? How is it different? There are shared decks too.
Why won’t you guys actually test it with 2 different courses on the 2 platforms, and see what gives you better results after a 1 month period? That is what I’m considering doing in Oktober.
Anki is a big name in the industry, which a lot of people use and like very much, so giving it a real shot is a given for me. That is what I believe.
For the accidental user, who just want to learn a language or two, I guess it does not make that much of a difference at the end, but I’m shooting for an overload position and that is a lot of words and work ahead of me. I’m not sure Memrise is really suited to handle such big quantities.
