Hello,
Asking for help here regarding setting up my flashcards.
For years I have been using self-graded + simple mode.
It prompts me the chinese, and tapping on the keys reveals the pinyin + translation. Simple.
That works beautifully specially when my focus is reading books, because I read the Chinese characters.
Recently I want to focus more on talking, and for that I feel that it would be better if my flashcards were alternating instead. Because very often, I would know the Chinese if I saw it written, but when I want to say it, I can't remember. So I want to also do flashcards from English to Chinese.
1. I can't do it somehow. Selecting Alternating always gives me the Chinese first (self-graded + alternating + test reading checked only).
My setting for "configure subject" may be incorrect? I want to show "chars only" OR "definition only" at first, and when tapping on the commands below I want the other one to display.
2. General question: If what I'm asking is doable, I am bothered that SRS will be affected. For a given word W, it determines that it needs 10 days to remember. But if after 10 days, it is the English that comes up, isn't this quite different in term of memory? I don't like so much the idea of a random alternating of Chinese>English and English>Chinese, but I can feel that my English>Chinese direction is really not good due to years of not doing flashcards in that direction.
Thanks
Asking for help here regarding setting up my flashcards.
For years I have been using self-graded + simple mode.
It prompts me the chinese, and tapping on the keys reveals the pinyin + translation. Simple.
That works beautifully specially when my focus is reading books, because I read the Chinese characters.
Recently I want to focus more on talking, and for that I feel that it would be better if my flashcards were alternating instead. Because very often, I would know the Chinese if I saw it written, but when I want to say it, I can't remember. So I want to also do flashcards from English to Chinese.
1. I can't do it somehow. Selecting Alternating always gives me the Chinese first (self-graded + alternating + test reading checked only).
My setting for "configure subject" may be incorrect? I want to show "chars only" OR "definition only" at first, and when tapping on the commands below I want the other one to display.
2. General question: If what I'm asking is doable, I am bothered that SRS will be affected. For a given word W, it determines that it needs 10 days to remember. But if after 10 days, it is the English that comes up, isn't this quite different in term of memory? I don't like so much the idea of a random alternating of Chinese>English and English>Chinese, but I can feel that my English>Chinese direction is really not good due to years of not doing flashcards in that direction.
Thanks