Over 200 Ghosts for the first time

Japanese
#1

I’ve sat on my PC all day today. This is what my Grammar stats look like. Usually the first round of reviews now takes over an hour, so it’s a little bit of a stinger to do 240 reviews, split in two sessions, spent the time on the first half and then find you have more than half remaining, since you end up doing the new hour reviews. I ended up having a break down the other day because I broke through that barrier that you go through when challenging yourself, that barrier being when your brain is burntout and then the real learning happens.

Any tips people have used to speed up memorisation apart from clicking through the cards until the same one appears twice?

What do people do hear when they make a mistake, other than check the answer, make an attempt to memorise it and then just ‘next question’?

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#2

You got way too many in beginner and ghosts are set to start at the default beginner 3? Perhaps consider having less of both and studying those points cleanly

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#3

Bro you have more Ghosts than items learned?
You have to stop and redo your lessons.
It is clearly not sticking.
Set a limit: max 30 ghosts and than you stop adding new things, till the ghosts go down.
I would advise to keep the Adept level items under 40 (max 50). Beginner under 10. Not more than 3 new items per day.
You can´t brute force learning a language. If you try, you will fail and stop. There are more than enough threads on all of the various Japanese learning forums, where people wanted to speed run and just flew to close to the sun and burned out.
Speedruns never work

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#4

Had no idea you could set limits on Bunpro. That would have helped a lot. Is there anywhere you can set it?
I suppose if you are born and raised in Japan, you have no choice and you are somewhat forced to learn the language. That’s my take on it. Let’s not start on the speedrunners, such a nasty corner of language learning that’s been created.

#5

You can see ghost options under settings → reviews → advanced and then play with the minimum SRS part. But yeah as the others said, there is probably something to fix regarding how you’re using Bunpro. Maybe stop adding new items until your ghosts are back under a manageable threshold ? Assuming you’re going with daily x new items in your queue and not manually adding anything, taking a few days off new material won’t be an issue

#6

Did you learn speaking in a day or two? It took years. Japanese kids learn the 常用漢字 in NINE years!

#7

Hi there !

at this point I would suggest you to reset everything if possible and set a limit for ghosts.

having 200 ghosts is really counterproductive…

I understand you want to speak the language quickly but this can’t be the best way for your brain to assimilate all that data.

#8

For me, it’s not about my brain assimilating the Japanese, my brain must conform to the Japanese, it’s not going to do that until I break it. I have to go over that boundary.

There is no inbuilt tool to limit ghosts, so I have to do the work to keep on top of it and reseting and thus losing all my work would be the easy way out.