[pferde]

I have the exact opposite experience with Anki. I use it to memorize vocabulary of a language I'm learning, a language completely different to other languages I know, and my retention before and after I started using Anki is night and day. Frankly, I was floored once I realized how much faster I was learning, and how easily I can recall even words I last practiced or used months ago.

I make and maintain my own cards/notes, which I think is part of why it works so well - it's tailored to my learning, not to someone else's.

[cwnyth]

Well, I should have qualified my statement: Anki is inefficient compared to better methods, but more efficient than haphazardly trying to memorize things. Yes, it's better than nothing, but there are better SRS implementations, including most readers.

I saw a lot of this from personal experience. I had to learn not only Latin and Greek, but also French and German just for my doctorate, and I learned Russian, Thai, and Swedish separately. And then I taught Latin and Greek for years, inquiring often how my students were learning. Anki (vel sim.) is fine, but there are better ways (and none of those ways start with the letter D and end with the letters lingo).

[pferde]

I guess my (badly conveyed) point was that Anki is already so efficient for me that I don't feel the need anything more.

Well, not for vocabulary, anyway. There is more to learning a language than vocabulary. :)

[cwnyth]

Hey, fair enough. To each their own. If Anki is fine for you, great! Do what works.

[socalgal2]

> including most readers.

Can you be more specific? Do you have any recommendations?

[StefanBatory]

> but there are better ways

What are those?