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>>21774050
They'll also never appear on sad panda.

>>21731877
I wouldn't go as far as saying that Anki is useless. Unless you're unironically autistic, or just learn better when you have a structured schedule, you may get better results out of it.
I do believe that for most people dealing with stuff made by natives is more engaging than rote learning. The worst thing is learning a language on textbooks, and then speaking like one, because you never picked up on the nuances native speakers use in language.

The downside to my proposed method is that you need an experienced language partner to give you guidance and correct translations, ideally a native speaker. There's plenty on language exchange apps, but Japanese people are busy as fuck, and there's the issue of timezones too. Studying with Anki is something that you can do on your own.

>they didn't get trapped reviewing old stuff they already know
As a newbie, what held me back was:
1) Presenting readings out of context: telling me that 四 can be read as both よん and し is neat, but when do I use which?
2) The stuff that wouldn't stick, but I would still be forced to sludge through every time.

One of the first thing Anki threw at me was ordinal numbers (first, second, third...), and I was just having a hard time remembering them. I eventually had to make a text file, and would re-read that before a session, but it felt like a chore, and that I wasn't actually "learning a language", but just "memorizing words". See the picture in >>21729276 to get what I mean.
I'd say the fact that I had to write down words and revise them so I wouldn't waste time getting them wrong over and over during a session, proves that Anki isn't as good for learning, as it is for testing your existing knowledge once you have some confidence in your knowledge.
>inb4 someone will tell me there's something you can do about this, but Anki's options are daunting and make me feel like a brainlet.

What if people who shill Anki as something that's indispensable are the ones who spent too much time using it to give up, and feel the need to defend their poor choices?