From the Speedreading Book by Tony Buzan, the faster you finish off a book (with the correct technique) will give you a better understanding and a stronger memory recall compared to reading slowly. There might be some connection.

That's a pretty interesting idea, I will skip school for a little in order to study very important things. Can you imagine not being a language learning diehard, couldn't be me.

Screw it, I'm pentriplaling down and doing 1000 new cards per day for a deck that has 1100 new cards available.

Really interesting method, and I think it makes sense, it's like cramming at the beginning so you have a basis for what's to come in your immersion and then you see stuff again both in your immersion and recurring in your anki. I've already finished the 1.5K Kaishi deck and now I'm auto-mining--so I think if I end up getting a large enough backlog of new cards, I would definitely be interested in attempting this technique. I actually did this before when I was starting the 1.5K deck because I had already known most of the words--I did like 500 cards in a week and the reviews dropped as the weeks went on.

I might try this until I finish the core 2K. I'm doing 15 new cards a day and at the rate I'm going, it's going to take me months to get myself out of beginner levels. So I might try this to a lesser extent (50 words) but also focus heavily on reading and anime immersion.

I've been theorizing about something akin to this, where basically, you do 100 - 125 cards on a day when you can, push your way through it, as to make it less of a constant dread and makes you feel much more accomplished than when you do your 70 reviews with your 10 new cards every day, which get really boring, I think that doing a small sprint with the rest of the week being easier is a fair trade, granted I don't do it consistently more or less if I really have a particular zeal for it, there have been times where I did go a couple times in a row with this where I do the initial card amount and then do it again on typically Saturday is when I will think about doing this, it also helps me if I want to watch about a new topic.

i liked the video, bc i did something similar back in 2020 when i was just starting to learn english, and it worked really smoothly in the sense that after the first two weeks , inmersing felt easier bc i already had vocabulary working in my brain, i just needed to connect the dots(sentences).

Fuck it, let's do it

200 cards a day! I wish! I've got a full-time job to attend to. I work 7 days a week.

It's been 6 months since this proposal

Do you remember all the JP1K vocabulary?
So in other words, was the method effective?

to be honest i see your point, it seems like a decent way to do things. especially if you hate anki, then you can just do the 1000 cards immediately and then barely do anki while you just immerse (which personally, i love immersion and hate anki). only thing is, that i might hate anki a bit too much that i would burn out in the beginning, so this path isn't meant for me. it could definitely be viable, especially once you show your mature retention rates, but until then we'll have to see. i've been doing 25 new cards a day but even that had too many reviews for me so i brought the new words per day down to 5 just to get the reviews under control before i bring it back up to around 10 new words per day probably.

what about 40  a day. 200 sounds tough. ill try it tho

This works

Very interesting approach, will try it. Thank you!

bruh i couldn't finish my cards that accumulated during my review 😂

Wow, I never thought of front loading the new card reviews on Anki - I always thought that slow and steady would lead to more retention but the point you made about immersing and actually seeing the Kanji "in the wild"  will help it stick as it will be somewhat familiar vs if you haven't seen it all. Really interesting stuff.  I want try this, but here's my question - I'm already midstream through my reviews.  I'm about 1000 cards in and got about 1200 more to go.   Will this approach be feasible?  Or is this better if you're starting from scratch?  For reference, I got about 250 reviews on average per day.

8:30 it is difficult, I guess. A beginner who never used Anki before is learning how Anki works while studying new cards, getting used with the language.

I think this method could work for many languages but less for japanese. if the words are written in kanji, at some point they all look too alike. so you burn yourself out easily. maybe if you know solid basics such as 52 most important radicals that might help a lot. I tried in the beginning the so common method 10 new cards a day and after every couple days I forgot half again and the number raised and never stopped. A better approach would be with maybe the 100 most common words or fundamental kanji and then another level upwards and so on. Also learning whole sentences starting easy and raise the level helps a lot to make it stick to the  memory.

This is genius I'm going to try it. Will update.

I started learning Japanese two months ago, but I’m learning in uni and we’ve gone at a very slow pace. For context, by the end of the semester (August-December), we’re expected to have learned 72 kanji, and we’ll have completed Genki I. On top of that, I’ve been doing next to zero immersion. I want to increase the rate at which my Japanese is improving, so something like this sounds extremely enticing. If I understand correctly, the idea is that you’re learning 1k cards in the course of a few days, grinding the reviews over that short period of time, so that in the long run you’ll be spending less time on reviews and more time immersing, which will help you cement what you learned in Anki. Additionally, by increasing your familiarity with so many Kanji early on, even if you don’t get them right all the time, you’ll significantly increase the pool of available comprehensible input. Pretty busy this week, but I’m confident that this is the route I’ll take. Only concern of mine is retention as a beginner. I’m pretty good at coming up with mnemonics fairly quickly, but doing it for 200 cards/day does sound kind of difficult.