More interleaving?

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Hey Phil and Kevin, curious if you guys have thought incorporating even more interleaving into the sequencing of review items?

You guys are obviously familiar because the app already does this between the content types of sounds, components, characters, and words. For anyone not familiar, here are a couple of videos that I think provide some good explanation and support for the idea:

You only need to watch about 50 seconds of this TED Talk video. From 12:07 to about 12:55. It should start right at 12:07.

From a ‘getting everything right’ point of view, I do like that as soon as I get a pronunciation card the very next one is the meaning, and I do think it might be more beneficial and make the knowledge stickier if things didn’t always immediately follow each other. Just more of that idea that as you make your brain expend more effort to recall, the stronger the memory will end up being for usage.

I can also see an argument against doing this from the point of view of the thing or bit of knowledge you’re trying to make sticky is both parts, the meaning and the pronunciation, and so you always want those two to go together.

Just curious if that’s anything that’s come up before. Searching the forum, I didn’t get any results for variations on interleaving.

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I think you can already maximize the interleaving on here. You can have option to split pronunciation meaning, and then you can also randomize the order in which items are presented for review.

So, I wonder what more could be done, or what you had in mind? Genuine question because I think I lack imagination in this aspect.

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I think this is a case of me not being familiar with the features available to me. :sweat_smile:

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Happens to me too! I stumble upon another feature every few weeks or so

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Yeah I think the “Select questions randomly” option mentioned above is exactly what you are looking for! This is how HanziHero was by default for a long time. There is definitely pros/cons to either approach.

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True enough. And I love that you guys built that flexibility in there for users. Chef’s kiss UX.

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