How exactly is PhrasePump meant to be used?

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Hello! I subscribed to Language Reactor a few days ago, added a bunch of words from YT videos, and I’ve been using PhrasePump to study the words in Quiz mode.

However, despite seeing the same word presumably dozens of times over the few days, it doesn’t seem to get marked as Learnt? The words that I’ve marked ‘OK’ show up like 4-5 times within the same day.

What am I missing here? There’s no documentation for PhrasePump either, so I can’t follow it.

I’ve spent hours going over the same words so many times now that I can recite some of the context sentences by memory, lol. I can’t help but feel like I’ve wasted a lot of time and effort.

The whole cloze deletion thing with PhrasePump is the very reason I subscribed, but I’m quite confused now about what I’m doing.

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Try to set the following configurations.

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Ah, thank you for your reply!

I already use PhrasePump with Session Size and New Items at max. :frowning: I still end up seeing the same card several times in the same day.

I think I’ll manually mark the very familiar words as ‘Known’ and get on that way.

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Just letting everyone know that I’ve come to terms with PhrasePump by manually marking words as ‘Known’ once I’m fairly confident about them. I quite like it now, and expect to keep using it long-term. :slight_smile:

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That’s pretty much the same conclusion I’ve come to, and honestly its quite refreshing.

I’ve used Anki for years, and while its a little less thinking, as its algorithm tries to determine if you’ve learned a word…for me, often the algorithm is just wrong. I wrote custom scripts to retire words using its built in FSRS custom scheduling, but even then, its an algorithm that is trying to guess if you know something.

With PhrasePump, I try my best to recall the Cloze target word.

Once I feel like I’ve mastered it (I try not to rep it so much that I memorize the sentence), I will mark it as learned and move on. Sometimes I’ll Star the sentence and practice listening if I find some value in it.

If I fail a word too many times, or I’ve memorized the sentence, I just delete it and wait for another instance of it to show up in immersion and try to learn it in a new context.

With PhrasePump, I know when I’ve learned a word within a given context, because I’m literally the judge lol

I went back and tried Migaku’s Study (basically a standard SRS like Anki), but it felt dated and overly complicated—I had zero motivation to review the cards I’d saved there.

Funny enough, I used to HATE PhrasePump. Now I think its probably the best way for me to learn vocabulary combined with immersion.

Here is my breakdown of PhrasePump if you’re interested: I Changed My Mind on PhrasePump - Its Amazing

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