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Most people leave Anki because making cards is work, not because the scheduling is wrong. Here is which alternatives actually remove that work, which only move it somewhere nicer, and when staying on Anki is the better call.
You acquire a language by understanding a large amount of it, again and again, over months. Adults were never bad at this. They just could never get enough material they could actually understand. That part has changed.
On its own, no. But quitting is usually the wrong move. What Duolingo does well, where its evidence stops, and what to add at each level, free options first.
Every new word you start learning schedules a tail of future reviews. The sustainable daily number comes from your review capacity, not your ambition. Here is the math.
Use Learning for words you want highlighted, translated, and easy to revisit. Use Learned for words you have met enough times that the green highlight should remind you they are already part of your known vocabulary.
Language learning is not mainly about collecting translations. It is about building a connected matrix of sounds, meanings, grammar, context, and use until the new language starts making sense on its own.
Comprehensible input is language you can mostly understand, and it is the raw material of language acquisition. What the research actually says, and a practical way to get enough of it at your level.
Not sure whether to learn Latin American Spanish or Spanish from Spain? Learn the key differences and how beginners should choose without overthinking.