Comments by "Alex Artamonov" (@alexartamonov2010) on "Loïs Talagrand" channel.

  1. 10000 most frequent words is just overkill. Why so many? It should be 10 times less. Then it should mostly be acquiring vocabulary through a natural input - reading/listening.
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  2.  @loistalagrand  thanks for the reply. I totally agree that the input and flash cards should complement each other - which I in fact do. But I just can't imagine the deck of 10K of words. When I was studying English, flash cards only existed in "hard copies". So it was obviously unmanageable. Now I'm learning Spanish. I'm making my own deck, it's just over a 1500 cards - but it's not individual words but sentences. Well, about 99%. When I noticed a side effect of Anki - which is I could easily retrieve the "answer" while doing Anki but struggled to do it in the natural environment - I started making several cards for the same word - in different sentences. It seem to have solved the issue. So it's hard to say how many lexical units I have in my deck. I've finished B1 level and read unadapted books. So I use Anki to drill my active vocabulary.
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