Hello everyone!
I’ve been trying to learn a deck of over 10,000 cards on Anki for a while now and to tell you the truth, it’s too long and slow and I’d like to know if you have a method to learn 10,000 flash cards in the same day.
but do you have a method to learn them massively? I’ve heard that medical students use Anki a lot and learn a lot of flash cards a day.
Can you break up the 10k flash cards into smaller units. What about 100 cards? It should be easier to learn.
When you use the word ‘learn’ what do you mean by that? You use the word medical students ,so for me you invoke the idea that you might want to learn something for long term memory. You cannot learn 10k or even 100 flash cards in one day for long term memory. Perhaps there are some that will be able to do that but they would be in the minority.
Yes after it’s sure that it will be precise that I will make less cards than expected in an hour, but I may have a solution my goal is that I must learn 100 cards in 5 minutes so that means that in one minute I will learn 20 in one minute so I will use the spaced learning every 5 to 10 seconds and or I learn directly 100 cards and I make a spaced learning of 10 seconds each time I put memorize some cards
These are vocabulary flash cards
If you know 9,500 of the flashcards already, then yes, it might be possible to learn the other 500 cards in one day, for a total of 10,000. For example, I knew that the Spanish word “taxi” meant “taxi” in English before I ever studied Spanish, as it’s the same.
How long do you want your “learning” to remain? If you just want to recall them at some point during a 10-hour study session, you can do really a lot! But you won’t remember most of them at the end of the day, and you definitely won’t have learned the information (vocabulary, as you said) enough to use them a while later.
When learning a language, you don’t need to know 10,000 vocabulary items. You should learn the first few hundred, then build fluency in the language. You can pick up other vocabulary items as you go along.
I’d say up your current pace if you’re moving too slowly, but you shouldn’t try to majorly cram something if you’re actually trying to learn it. It won’t work out.
I also recommend having a look at your sleeping, water drinking, exercising, and eating habits if you want to spend less time attempting to learn all around. The better you take care of your brain, the better it can work for you.
If you have the time to spare, I suggest looking up “Learning How to Learn”. There’s a free Coursera course that goes by that name that I think may be up your alley if you’re trying to figure out the biggest bang for your time-buck. One of the instructors, Dr. Barbara Oakley, also has some new books that have come out over the last few years about learning. I know one was aimed at adult students and another was aimed at helping teachers better teach their students. The book with the same name as the course is aimed at kids and teens, as a heads up.
Your post made me look into Anki and how medical students use it. It is something that I wanted to do for mnemonics. It is very interesting and definitely very powerful. Using Anki is not like mnemonics where there is a memory system that you learn so that you can store the information. Medical students don’t use Anki just for pure memorization. The focus is on understanding and not just memory. By providing more context for the information, this helps storing the information in memory. The more connections that can be made the easier it is for the information to be understood and memorized. Obviously they are also trusting the spaced repetition for memorization. What is refreshing about this is that the whole obsession about finding the right mnemonic system is not an issue. The whole focus is just the information. You can trust the algorithm to bring up the flash cards that you have not memorized at the right time. I see students keep on adding flash cards to their current deck without regard for the structure of the filing system. I think the basic advice still stands. You cannot eat an elephant in one day, you have to take it one bite at a time. Thank you for your question it really helped me.
I found a solution to learn a lot of flash cards in the same day just use an application like Anki or other and clone it with an application like App Cloner Premium and clone the application as many times as you need depending on the number of cards you want to learn
and learn for example 50 cards on each app and so on after you choose when to take your break
Another way of achieving almost the same is to index duplicates of each card into the same system.
E.g. if I’m learning Portuguese, I might add:
I can put these in different “categories” e.g. “Portuguese”, “Portuguese copy 1”, etc. and activate/deactivate them whenever I want to introduce a fresh copy.