Indiana

That's something you absolutely must do for language learning online.

But it takes a lot of energy.

I have to be turned like on to do it.

It takes a lot of brain computational power.

So like, you know, I have that designated time, maybe like once a week or something like that.

But day to day, I try to study a little bit every day when I can.

And something I wanted to talk about today was I love to use Anki flashcards.

So that's A-N-K-I.

And this is an application that's free on desktop and Android might be paid for iPhone.

But it's a really, really cool app that you can use to review flashcards, you can make your own decks or download other people's decks.

And you can customize them with lots of example sentences or add audio files and image files.

Something that sets this flashcard application apart from other ones is that it's a SRS system, which stands for spaced repetition system.

So this basically means that when you review words and you see a word, oh, I know that word right away.

No problem.

You mark it as easy so that it doesn't come up again for like a week or a month.

You don't have to review it because that's a waste of time.

You know this word.

But if you mark a word as okay or hard or didn't get it right, it uses those categories to decide how frequently this should be showing up in your review session.

So you have to keep encountering the difficult words.

which is really helpful and maybe a little bit better than regular analog flashcards.