Reinforcement/Rest Day
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If Saturday is the engine and Monday–Friday is the grind, then Sunday is the glue.
Sunday is not about adding new cards or mining. It’s about consolidating the last week, resetting Anki, and reinforcing everything you’ve already learned. Think of it as your weekly checkpoint: you rewatch the mined episode raw, you hear your progress, and you get ready for Monday’s fresh batch.
🌅 Morning (~30 min): Reviews Only
- Open Anki and clear your reviews.
- No new cards today.
- Each Sunday, manually set new cards = 0 (reset back to 20/day on Monday).
👉 This keeps the day light and lets your brain consolidate.
🌙 Evening (~1 hr): Rewatch + Bonus
1. Rewatch last week’s mined episode raw (30 min)
- No pausing. No dictionary.
- Just watch it straight through.
- The words you studied all week will now start to pop out.
This is the psychology at work: by repeatedly recalling words in Anki and hearing them passively, your brain has primed those patterns. Rewatching shows you the results — the language that once felt invisible suddenly stands out.
2. Bonus raw episode (30 min)
- Watch something else raw — anime, drama, variety, anything you like.
- This adds variety and keeps listening practice fun.
🎥 Streams & VODs
I do not stream the Sunday raw sessions due to copyright laws but I will still be doing the morning review streams!
🧠 Why Sunday Works
- Confidence: You see real proof of progress. Words that were “just flashcards” now ring out in natural speech.
- Consolidation: Sunday ties together the entire week before you move forward.
- Closure: Each episode gets a complete cycle: mined → studied → reviewed → rewatched raw → listened passively.
- Reset: Monday begins fresh with a new batch, and Sunday ensures the old batch sticks.
This reinforcement loop is powerful because it combines active recall (Anki), varied input (raw + passive listening), and repetition across multiple contexts. Psychology research shows this kind of spaced, varied review cements language in long-term memory.
Sunday is the glue. It closes out one week, reinforces what you’ve learned, and prepares you for the next.
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