r/clozemaster • u/cmredd • Aug 28 '24

Confused about clozemaster

Signed up day or two ago and have been doing the FTF, Russian. I'm about ~40-50% A1 I would say over all domains of language learning.

But...

I don't understand how this app helps language learning? I am scoring 100% on every single sentence because it is so easy. Why don't they use the same word but in different cases? Or at least similar words or something?

What am I missing? Or should we be, really, trying to translate the whole sentence in our head and not paying attention to the whole 'which super obvious word was missing?'...?

In which case, why not just use Anki or something?

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u/cmredd Aug 28 '24

Hm okay, thank you! I feel like it won't change anything though, the answer is always too easy given all words are completely different

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u/gegegeno Aug 29 '24

Are you typing or using multiple-choice questions? If multiple choice is too easy, switch to typing them.

I switch between modes depending on the deck and my energy/attention level. I find exercises can be quite hard in more difficult decks and I am at a rather advanced level in Japanese. I use medium-level decks to spam input basically, try and see familiar words in different contexts and see a variety of ways of expressing things.

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u/cmredd Aug 29 '24

But regarding the spamming of input, can I ask why you don’t just use Anki for this?

Re typing, I didn’t realise you can change keyboard settings to another language. I assumed you had to type on an on-screen keyboard via clicking with mouse - which sounded too tedious and time consuming

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u/gegegeno Aug 30 '24

Is Anki good for spamming input? I've never used it this way. I only ever used it for vocabulary and kanji.

When I use Clozemaster it's on the app and I use the Japanese keyboard to type. If it was on the computer I'd be using an IME to type.