Zero review milestone

#1

Finally reached the elusive milestone of zero sentence to review!

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After a year-long pause, I resumed last september with 13K sentences to review. It was around February that I really started to target review sentences while continuing to do 50 new sentences a day to keep the progress going as the many review sentences felt too easy by the time I came back to CM.

I took the advice of setting difficult clozes, i.e., those I can’t think of, at 0% which made it tougher to reduce the number of reivews as there are some very persistent ones for me that I keep having to do over and over. That kept this milestone more elusive, but as many have pointed out on this forum, the goal is to learn a language and everything else (zero review milestone, leaderboards etc) is just tools and guidelines to keep me on track.

I don’t know how long I can keep up with the review loads, but I am so excited to be able to focus more on new sentences. I am about half way through new FT (level 6) and about 30% into legacy FT. I plan to progress more on the legacy FFT before continuing the new FFT, and I can’t decide whether I want to mix in the MC collection. (I stopped at about half way through 2000 MC collection because it was taking too long)

I also started incorporating Cloze-reading, and that’s been fun.

I can’t remember what made me drop CM for a year, but I really hope to keep it going and maybe I will even finish both FFT collections. The forum has been so helpful along the way, and I appreciate all the responses to my questions. :pray: :pray: :pray:

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#2

Ottimo lavoro Paris2020, well done indeedy! For a change I too am keeping an eye on my Reviews, not sure for how long but a change in challenge is always good. Happy days!

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#3

I am trying to clear it every week but last week, I didn’t manage. I attacked the reviews so aggressively that for a while, it will be hard to clear them every week, but eventually it will become sustainable.

I just reached 100 days streak. It’s definitely become part of may daily routine, so I am more hopeful that I can keep it going and going and going :muscle:

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#4

Ottimo lavoro, 100 days!

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#5

Awesome! Congratulations!

Consider activating this setting:

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The intention behind the fight against the decline of memory retention (forgetting curve) is not to review a sentence every x days (fixed interval) but always just before you’d have forgotten it.

If reviewing your sentences is unsustainable because you see a lot of sentences that haven’t yet reached that point of almost forgetting them, you can increase the interval and thus make your workloads more sustainable.

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#6

Thank you for the suggestion. I am starting to come across the 100% mastered titles, so this is a very helpful and timely suggestion! I want to read up on it a little bit to understand how it works so that I use them correctly, but the concept and reasing behind it makes sense to me.