I’ve been supplementing my vocabulary using Anki for the last year or so after having done Wanikani for the year prior. Initially the decks I used would include the reading and autoplay it on the front of the card, which I went with for ~4 months. I was able to quickly recognize even fairly new vocab when listening to comprehensible input, which was awesome! But even though I tried to take note of the Kanji used, my ability to recognize these terms in reading was quite poor. So I opted to remove the written reading and the autoplay audio from the front but had it remain on the back. There was a good amount of relearning I had to do, but eventually everything caught back up. Fast forward ~6 months later, and my ability to recognize these terms when reading has drastically improved, and maybe expectedly in return, my ability to recognize them when listening has fallen a lot.
My question is, has anyone hit this kind of issue and found a way to balance this? Or maybe have avoided such a wall entirely via some method?
I’ve considered duplicating all the cards in the deck and essentially removing most of the written information from the front of the card and just having it play the audio and maybe show the reading itself. But this also seems like it would essentially halve the rate at which I can take in new cards, unless I’d want to double my review load. Don’t want to take too much time away from reading/listening input. Also would need to keep homophones in mind. I’m still leaning on trying this option atm, but wanted to gauge other’s experiences first.
