I Used Physical Flashcards For 30 Days Instead Of Anki

what's up everybody welcome to another video we're gonna go back down the travels of sibo classic style we're just going to be talking today today wanted to talk about kind of my thoughts after doing this for month of making my own homemade or homemade at home non-digital flash cards and in the last video kind of talked about the process of what the colors mean and stuff can briefly touch on that but just want to talk about what feel and how it makes me feel and if like it better than digital versus Anki and things like that now if you're looking for video that's going to have some sort of scientific evidence as to whether or not these are more effective than that of say Anki this is not the video for you this is just my thoughts know that there can be some scientific data and stuff out there to represent different things but I'm also firm believer of if it's something that you're interested in versus something you're not you're gonna have better results with the thing that you're interested in even if it's not as good method that's always been what I've said so anyway these are just my thoughts on paper flash cards making my own flash cards and the reason that started this is because getting into hanza and noticed that as was reading Chinese could read some but was still having trouble with it and then of course couldn't produce the language that much as well like can and can do some conversations but can't produce it as much as want to and so decided that was going to do flash cards so I'm just going to pull out like some of the ones that made today and will show you so what did is is decided was going to do flash cards and was going to double flash cards there's over 300 flash cards in this box I've made 160 made 164 flash cards have it right here I'm keeping keep tab every time do it and of course I'll also put on the back of the card the number like yeah this is number 153 158 there's 164 right there so anyway and don't count the the duplicates just count the the main one so what do is just brief recap on the color system in case you didn't see my last video any of the neon colors have the English on the front and then have the hanzu and pronunciation on the back as well as the meaning so goachu which means to go over goachu fourth tone fourth tone also meaning the past and as you can see it's not numbered because this is duplicate card of something that have already so that's what the neon cards are and then the plain white index cards are hanza on the front and then I've got on the back the pronunciation what it is and I've got my little mnemonic there as to how I've got that going so what will say is this is something that is really really refreshing that is not Anki know Anki has love hate real error it is love-hate relationship with lot of people and fully understand that don't know there there is learning curve but honestly it just felt like you're just putting stuff into an empty void now if you love Anki continue to use it highly recommend that because again whatever you're good at is what you're going to be good at and stick with so do that but the thing that love about this the most is Anki is great seeing numbers is great having all the advanced statistics is incredible but sometimes man this this is physical representation of the progress that have made do my Lightner box have my Lightner schedule every day this is the first thing that do do my cards some of them are starting to pile up which is what happens they get thicker near the end because so as you can see this right here this is all six this is all lightener box number six this is all right here this is all number five and then you go to the next one don't even have any in four don't even know how that happens and then this is three it's real weird following the schedule it's kind of weird sometimes but what'll probably happen is I'll do threes and they'll move up and twos and they'll move up and it'll all even out it's just the way that I'm on the schedule right now but this is representation of stuff that know and especially cards back here at six these right here mean these are all cards that can pretty much recall with no issues at all being able to write correct pronunciation because they're all the way in the back so I've done these to the times where it's right at the form of my memory it's about to be in my long term memory that's what the whole point of the lightener box is and so it is yeah let's see see if can go through some of these what that's four that's Shia which is underneath which is like just little bit DN which is electricity which is thank you This is Gonna Be Ma which is or ma fifth tone which is going to be question marker not funny enough this is my horse which is third tone this is gonna be minion which is next year it's yeah Joe which is to call it it's just being able to recall that stuff don't know it's just really really awesome and then to be able to continue to move it forward now don't think there's anything wrong with Anki think like said if it's program that works for you continue to do what you need to do and make that work just seeing representation of what I've accomplished is really really rewarding to me now am going to continue to do this forever don't know I'm not sure how long I'll stick with this right now it's working and that's the main thing think once get little bit further up maybe not but as of right now it's helping vocab stick one of the big things that I've noticed especially over Anki because Anki if you fail the card and it's back in your inventory whatever it is you know you you do it but for some reason this like I'll go through all my cards anything that fell put at the front don't immediately redo it that day as one like in my first with my new cards I'll wait and I'll put it at the front like in front of the one and then once finished all my reviews I'll then put it in one to review tomorrow and seeing my cards there knowing that have to do that and and get better don't know there's just something about seeing it in person helps helps my memory what's my cat doing it helps my brain be able to say okay need to remember that and again it's another part of like just this physical thing of being able to check it off and say okay actually got it actually did really really well and moved it forward so I'm really really enjoying this system I'm really enjoying the handwritten cards do think that there's stuff and you can probably look this up I'm not going to get into it because I'm I'm not scientist or anything but at least to me and I'm sure there's something online that you can see but to me writing it there is connection between hand to the brain making that connection because when fell that card for example and any card that fell and moved to the front when write it another couple of times it helps it stick in my brain versus just on Anki being like skip skip pass fell fell whatever it is like just seeing it over and over it's just the repetition of the writing is going well so I've added another full page into my into my notebook of writing which is great actually wrote let me see if can find it wrote sentence today granted it was only three words it wouldn't be on this it would be on foreign which is gonna be fourth tone and then Dong Dong fourth tone Yun dong anyway found that interesting but being able to do that and that's of course for memory and being able to do that is all part of this program now writing isn't for everybody and understand that and understand that some people don't like it and there's lot of debate especially within emerging communities and stuff like you don't need to write that's stupid because this guy says so and that's what I'm going with but listen dude if you enjoy doing it do it this is hobby man people take it way too serious if it's something you like doing do it enjoy writing like writing these characters I'm gonna do it and honestly I'm advancing faster now than when was not writing so don't don't know if this would equate to you know languages that use your same alphabet like don't know if doing that in Spanish would necessarily help but mean maybe it would but think anything with different alphabet is great getting that character in your brain because if you can recall it you know it it's in your passive if it's in your passive it's in your don't know it's it's just thing so like to ramble think that's what this video ended up being but that's my thoughts so far in month of flash cards enjoy it love doing physical flashcards it's just something different something to keep the language learning spicy so that's what we'll say keeping it spicy so to speak keeping it new refreshing interesting and it's and it's helping lot encourage anybody if you're struggling in language learning right now maybe anki's just not doing it try doing couple of handwritten cards you don't have to use the exact same system that do if you if you don't really have any interest on doing being able to recall them from memory then just do the cards like this and just recognize them just try something different to see if it kind of Sparks anything with language learning so know it's helped me you know spend at least an hour day but more than an hour day in language learning every single day and it's just getting more because as I've learned more instead of this huge concentrated effort on immersion where I'm just immersing and like just kind of like brute force spearheading myself into stuff I'm spending lot of time learning and then complimenting it with immersion and as learn more can spend more time immersing because I've learned stuff it's cool cycle that have going on here so but anyway do encourage you to check it out if it's something you're interested in like said if it's not don't do it that's the magic and beauty of language learning you can do what makes you happy and will always be firm believer in method that's not as good will get you further if you can stick with it than the best method out there that you hate if it's something you like doing do it do think Duolingo is going to take you to fluency don't know probably not it's great supplement sometimes but if it's something you love do it so that's where we're at love my flash cards love my paper flash cards think they're great and it's great break from Anki one of the downfalls of course is cannot with Anki it's always there this is like when went to St Louis or when went to Missouri was in three different cities in three different nights but didn't take this with me it's just this is little bit of hassle to travel with so you do have to kind of weigh out that so it is what it is but I'd say you know whatever spent day basically just paused my Lightner thing and then just picked up that following day haven't noticed any kind of ill or irreversible side effects or anything from it everything still seems to be going smooth so anyway with that being said before make this video 30 minutes long am going to wrap it up thank you guys so much for watching hope you enjoyed if there's anything that you'd like to see me talk about let me know in the comments below and other than that will see you in the next video