One thing that has been bothering me recently is the amount of new words I am learning every day.
I had set the setting in Anki to 20 but I only seemed to be getting about 5 or 6 each day that were new words.
I couldn’t work it out.
In fact I was convinced I would run out of words because I had only loaded the hopper up enough for a couple of days.
And by my reckoning I had gone past that if I was truly getting 20 words a day.
But then it hit me.
The setting tells me how many cards I am going to get, not how many words I am going to get.
And then I realised and had a huge Ahhh! Moment.
Anki was providing me with 20 new cards a day.
However, when the picture image cards are created, three cards are made for each word – one with the word, one with the picture and one with the spelling.
So if Anki presents only 20 cards, that will cover just 5-6 new words a day.
No wonder I felt that was slow!!!!!
So If I am to get 20 new words a day then I need 3×20 = 60 new cards a day.
That’s more like it.
Likewise if I want to learn 30 new words a day then I need to add 90 cards a day.
So from tomorrow, that is what I am going to do – add 90 cards a day.
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