2009/7/1 Meishu <[email protected]>: > > > I I may repeat what was said by "Supermemo"'s people, they emphasize > the following: reviewing is not learning. > > Even if one accumulates 1000 cards to be reviewd, not just 200, and > they have truly learned them first, the reviewing procedure wouldn't > be that long nor would it be painful. I somehow suspect that newbies > to the program abandon it not because of the large amount of cards to > review, but rather due to the large amount AND the fact that they > don't remember anything. This is more due to misuse of the core > requirements of SRS and not so much due to the quantity. If you > follow the core requirement than the quantity is only secondary and > quite personal.
I think you're underestimating how much variation there is in the difficulty in learning and remembering the information in each card, between different subjects. When I studied German briefly before going on a short holiday, I was able to cover about 80 new cards a day in about 45 minutes, without feeling burdened - my reviews took about 3-5 seconds per card and were very easy. However, to learn Chinese characters/words/grammar takes me ~17 seconds per card, because I speak the word and write the character before checking the answer. There is an atomic, indivisible amount of work required for cards of various topics which cannot be broken down much further, which impacts the difficulty of learning _and_ reviewing cards in an unavoidable way. Granted, I could separate the pronounciation from the written form, but that wouldn't have any real benefit (the speaking part takes two or three seconds - writing the characters is the bottleneck). However, I certainly agree with you in the presumption that a lot of newbies to SRS systems make mistakes in how they learn the material (e.g. assuming that the brain is a perfectly functioning lossless database where true learning and comprehension will automatically happen just by reviewing cards - we see this attitude when people ask for pre-built decks to download... it's wishful thinking that we could almost upload knowledge into our brains like in the Matrix), and how they construct their cards (e.g. one card for every conjugation of a verb in a particular tense, when it would be much better to break it into single conjugations per card). Oisín --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
