day 1 immersion, no sentence mining?

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<@&1248039856404431062> day 1 immersion, no sentence mining?

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Well immersion is where the learning happens.

Let's differentiate between the two.

Immersion - exposing yourself to the language. This is where you're exposed to words and grammar and how they're used. Immersion is the main driver for learning because you learn how things are used. You learn words by seeing them repeatedly through your immersion.

Sentence Mining - Taking those words and putting them into your anki deck. Sentence mining literally lets you remember words from the content in which you're immersing yourself.

Sentence Mining is used for memorising/priming words into your mind, but you can learn to memorise words through immersion alone by seeing them repeatedly. Immersion lets you memorise these words and it lets you see how these words and grammar points are used in natural contexts.

There's no harm putting words into anki from day 1 but the reason why sentence mining is not recommended from day 1 is because Refold recommends following something called the 1T model. This means that you have a sentence where you know every single word except for 1 word, the word you'd like to mine. By knowing this word, the sentence makes sense and you put this word into anki with the sentence surrounding the unknown word as an example sentence.

This requires knowing some preliminary vocabulary so it is recommended to learn words using a premade deck (say 1-2k words) before sentence mining.

You can just put words into anki but if the sentences have other unknown words, it becomes an annoying recursive look-up fest.