4,000 Reviews

Bunpro
#1

So… What does adding most of the N1 and N2 vocab deck, then burn out and have it all pile back up look like?

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The reality is I’m using the reading mode to get some immersion. Around 2,000 items are Adept 2 or Adept 3, then the rest are Seasoned or Expert.

I’m reviewing using Ascending SRS Level, so one day I will have pushed all of the items to Adept 3. Currently review items come back too quickly for the total review count to come down, but it is getting pushed down.

Once I reach Adept 3 I’ll probably do random order again, with most reviews being 14-28 days before they reappear. This should be a large enough distance for the numbers to start going down again.

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#2

In the meantime I’m refreshing my conjugation and grammar with the Cloze reviews, adding 5 grammar points a day. So I’ve got my work cut out for me, but it’s a small step each day.

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#3

I’m curious about why you’re using Ascending SRS Level! Is it just to prioritize having everything above Beginner level? Doesn’t that bite you back in the future?

I was burnt out once for several months after last summer (life happening and reviews piling up), and trying to get it down when there were so many things I couldn’t remember was exhausting.

What helped to motivate me was setting reviews to Descending SRS Level. That way I could get down very quickly a lot of items that I was very familiar with and that I could review very fast. I’ve kept that setting since then and it motivates me more since now even if I have a ton of reviews, by the time I start to struggle I’ll only have to push myself for a few remaining reviews.

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#4

I don’t really understand what you’re doing or why you would do it— but hey, if it works for you 頑張って。

#5

Ascending mode means that the words I forget come up again. It does mean that there’ll be several words I’ll have known in Seasoned+, I’ll have forgotten and will get them wrong. This would be quite bad if I was learning kanji or vocab without reading mode.

The aim of reading mode is partly to learn new vocab, but ultimately for me it is to build my comprehension. Oftentimes the meaning of the word is heavily supported by the context of the sentence and kanji it uses so it’s less likely I’ll forget the word. I have already learned approx 10k words so a lot more vocab I can see it once or twice and get the meaning right. The hard words are the ones which have a deceptive meaning and I want to drill them. So I don’t think it’s backfiring for those reasons.

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#6

I’m using the reading mode to learn new vocab. If I get the reading of all the kanji correct, and understand the meaning of the sentence, I mark it as correct. Often there will be new vocab I do not recognise, so my success rate hovers around 70%. I like this because Bunpro’s example sentences:
a) Cover a range of grammar points.
b) Cover a holistic range of contexts and meanings of the word that are hard to learn just from the dictionary.
c) Cover topics in a holistic way. For example the word 尉 (じょう) covers a lot of topics around 能楽 (のうがく).

This is a really effective way to combine the benefits of immersion (seeing and learning words in context) with SRS (seeing the same word over and over again so you don’t forget it). It’s essentially sentence mining, but each vocab point has 8 pre-written sentences that are holistic in their use-cases.

I happen to have a lot of reviews piled up, but because the reading mode isn’t SRS in the strictest sense (you can infer the meaning from the sentence/kanji) I find that this isn’t as huge an issue as it may seem.

#7

You should pile it up to 9000 to give it even more meme potential! /j

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#8

damn good luck (i have issues with only 300 reviews :’))

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#9

Ok, I get it. I guess that for people that work with huge piles of pending reviews this makes sense, otherwise you’d end in a loop.

In my case I like to clean all the pending reviews every single day, so the ordering doesn’t matter that much in a functional way. I keep the Descending SRS order for the purely psychological effect of being able to get to a low number of pending reviews quickly and not get overwhelmed.

But I see why the reverse works for your way of study, thanks for sharing :slight_smile:

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#10

My burnout was with only 1300 pending reviews, and I cry when I see in the forecast that I’ll end up getting near 200 reviews ^^’

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#11

Once I get the number of reviews down I’ll go back to random order. I don’t like having my judgement of if I got something correct prejudiced by knowing if it’s a high level item or not.

I agree that clearing out all reviews is the best way to do. I don’t recommend anyone let’s reviews pile up like I have. I think it would be more optimal for me to reset a number of reviews.

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#12

forgot to set to vacation mode and didn’t touch my reviews for like a week, so begins the arduous task of clearing 1000+ reviews (team descending order)

i normally keep it on random so i cant use remembering which words i learned together as a hint, but for clearing a huge backlog descending feels like an absolute necessity

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