/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Why exactly aren't you suppose to use anki? I use to be an anki drone for a year, then I did a 180 and only read for 2 months without any anki. I can confidently say that anki is good to use.
In anki I could learn 20 new words a day, and I'm sure I'm near the bottom of the spectrum and most people could learn more than that. With reading, I might see 20 new words a day but I don't learn them. Reading has been said to teach you more words, just more slowly, so they add up over time but you don't see such quick results as with anki. It's also said that reading teaches you how to actually use the words with context, as well as obviously teaching you grammar.
This is all true, but the facts remain: In a month I could learn several hundred words in anki, in 2 months of only reading I've seen 1300 new words but only learned 40.
I think the people who say to read and use anki are the ones in the right. How you use anki is up to you, you can either import the words you see in texts or learn a JLPT or core deck separately (when you see them in context it'll just click).

I see literally nothing wrong with using anki as long as it's not your only resource.