My deck has two cards for every noun, adjective, adverb, and pronoun. However, I have two cards for every present-tense conjugation of every verb. This means that each verb has 12 cards. It’s a great way to learn the verbs and their conjugations, but it means that my practice sessions are mostly verbs.
I’m trying to figure out how to balance things out a bit more. Can anyone suggest a solution? I’m thinking that maybe I need to put the verbs in their own subdeck separate from the other parts of speech and then set the options for that subdeck so new cards and reviews happen less frequently than they do now.
I think your another-subdeck idea would probably work fine. Those cards can be spaced out more because they reinforce each other more.
Another option is not making 12 cards for every verb. I don’t know what language you’re studying, but for regular verbs, isn’t it generally better to learn the patterns so that you can apply them to any verb? Irregular verbs (if you have them) will need more attention. To me, the difference between them is that for irregular verbs it’s more about learning vocabulary, for regular verbs, it’s about learning a grammar rule so well that it becomes immediately recognizable.
I am not sure that you really have a problem here. If you are mastering a language, where there are few or no cases for nouns and adjectives, then you will end up with more cards for verbs. That merely reflects the reality of the language that you are learning.
One way I manage this aspect of verbs is to create a single Note with cloze options for all forms of a given verb tense and mood. That ends up giving over a dozen cards in some languages.
But as stated before, do not let the apparent over-representation of verb cards confuse you. If a language has a complex verb system, then you will need all those cards.