Comment by wodenokoto

I think it’s important to note that the original SRS algorithms are not for learning. They or for remembering or “not forgetting”.

The system assumes you have already learned the fact (for some unclear to me definition of learned)

Most users inserts new words in the hope that repeating them in anki will help them learn. It does to some extend, but it is not quite the right tool.

So for example, in Japanese, simply remembering how to read a word out loud is a task in and of itself. If you put words in context (which in language learning makes sense) the learner will quickly start to recall the meaning of the word based on the look of a sentence.

For a learning system this open up a lot of issues to solve. The best attempt I’ve seen was a web app that gave you full sentences and you clicked the characters word you didn’t understand and based on that it would give you different sentences.

There are two problems with that website: I don’t remember what it was called and it used google translate from 10 years ago. The second could be improved by expanding the corpus and use LLM to form sentences for the learner.