questions on using Mnemosyne for preliminary learning

[mason]

Hello, I am new to this program. Thanks for the help.

I am concerned the way I am using this program for initially learning foreign vocabulary may cause mistakes in the algorithm and cause undue repetitions.

I am using an accelerated German literacy text: German for Reading by Sandberg and Wendel (1973). As an accelerated text, there are large demands on quickly learning vocabulary. A chapter is composed of a lesson and exercises, repeated several times. Before beginning the exercises, all vocabulary in the preceding lesson should be memorized.

I have been entering the new vocabulary the first time I am seeing these words. That means I am scoring them 0 and 1 for 3-8 repetitions, before scoring them a 2 through 4. Then I am doing the exercises in the text, before coming back and repeating the whole thing over again. I am worried that scoring them a card "0" eight times before I commit it to memory will cause a lot of repetitions in the short term that may not be necessary.

When going through a new group of cards...should I use the "cramming" plugin, or use another plugin? Or is the algorithm built for this type of use?

Thanks for the assistance.

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

Don't worry too much :-) How many times you grade 0 has no effect on the later stages.

Good luck!

Peter

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[mason...@gmail.com]

Ok--three months in and everything's great! Huge help in cementing Spanish and German vocabulary so far. Helps cement the vocabulary of literary fiction, which is fairly diverse and I can go dozens of pages before seeing a particular word again.

Thanks for the answer--certainly assuaged my fear that I might be causing a large amount of work.