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Anki isn't enough: why the deck doesn't teach speaking

Anki isn't enough. It's a good filing cabinet. It is not a conversation.

You can review りんご every day and still freeze when you want water. The card taught a noun. It didn't teach みずを ください or where sits. Particles live in sentences, not in isolated glosses.

If you love Anki, keep it small. Cap new cards. Spend the extra four minutes on one blank-fill sentence. That sentence is the missing half.

Practice this in five minutes, not another Anki deck.

Nori is a beginner Japanese app with tiny grammar quizzes and a waitlist before launch.

Graveyard decks happen when adding feels like progress. Progress is using yesterday's word in a new line.

You're not failing Anki. Anki was never the whole method. Pair it with grammar bites or you'll keep a beautiful archive of words you can't say.

TL;DR

Anki isn't enough. A 2,000-card deck can still leave you silent at the register. Pair reviews with tiny sentence quizzes or the words never leave the card.

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