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Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by atahanacar »

SamPatt wrote: post #70

One tip for working with Anki: you will likely learn better - and review cards more regularly - if you write the cards yourself instead of using a preexisting deck. Going through a course / textbook -> taking notes on paper -> adding key concepts as Anki flashcards -> reviewing them daily: extremely effective Preexisting decks can work - I used one to successfully study for my Amateur Radio License - but that assumes…

>if you write the cards yourself instead of using a preexisting deck

I disagree with this. Anki's power comes from spaced repetition. Spending your time creating cards instead of actually reviewing the material is very inefficient. If high quality decks exist for the topic you're learning, use them instead. I've learned this the hard way.

Fields like medicine and language learning (you will still need to create your own deck for sentence mining but that's different as it's not a time sink) have great decks. For actual "niche" topics though, creating your own decks is your only choice.

For people who are going to create their own decks: check the Anking deck to see how to create "great" cards.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by ikesau »

mderazon wrote: post #186

I have weekly Portuguese classes in Skype. During the lesson, when there's a word I don't know, the teacher explains and writes it in the chat. After each class, I take these words and put them in Anki. However, I feel that this is not a great system, a lot of times I need the context of the conversation, the word needs to be in a sentence or sometimes I would prefer the reverse card (English and Portuguese on the ba…

Cloze cards also work well for this sort of thing, I think. Though they're easy to mass produce and create an overwhelming amount of revision, so be careful.

You may not have noticed, but there's also a reverse card type that only requires one note but adds two cards to your deck.

There are lots of people who have a similar intuition on the ChatGPT thing but none that I've seen create cards as good as the ones you could make yourself. Using ChatGPT as a dynamic pen pal is probably the better way to incorporate it into your language learning.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by BeetleB »

kazinator wrote: post #183
sivers wrote: post #18

My boy is 11 now. We've used Anki with him every day since he was about 5. Examples of things he's memorized, for fun: * every country, recognized by unlabeled shape on the map * spelling * many body parts, names of bones and organs, from illustration * chemical elements, by symbol (Na, Fe, Zn, etc) * unix filesystem commands * numeracy references (km from here to Japan, earth to sun, meters from home to school) * re…

Most of these things don't require Anki. It's a tedious waste of time. > every country, recognized by unlabeled shape on the map That's a stupid thing to memorize, not to mention constantly churning due to political instability. You really need to gatekeep what you stuff into your noggin. Most educated people could recognize certain countries by shape, like Italy, Africa, USA. But every country? Come on ...

> You really need to gatekeep what you stuff into your noggin.

Pointless self imposed limitations don't help.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by atahanacar »

dotnet00 wrote: post #117
jan_Inkepa wrote: post #3

Every few years I use Anki heavily for language stuff (German, more recently Latin and Classical Chinese), up to 90 minutes a day, but I can never keep the workload under control, or my habits change, and give it up. I still benefit from a year of training, but it seems the long-tail of spaced repetition doesn't work for me at all. But so long as I get to the point where I can read or watch TV, the considerable effor…

Yeah I've had a similar issue with the Anki-like system Wanikani uses for learning Japanese Kanji. I can keep up for some time, but as soon as I get busy with something else, I get overwhelmed by the piling up reviews. It has been very effective for the ones I learned when I was able to keep up though. Recently a friend got me into Duolingo with him, I've been managing to maintain a streak on it because if I'm too bu…

Are you using Duolingo for Japanese? If so, please stop. There are better and more efficient ways, as you've probably noticed. Anki (with a Core3k or similar deck, 10-50 new cards a day depending on your daily life) + reading is the way to go in my opinion. You can use jpdb to see your progress relative to the material you want to read.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by BeetleB »

sivers wrote: post #18

My boy is 11 now. We've used Anki with him every day since he was about 5. Examples of things he's memorized, for fun: * every country, recognized by unlabeled shape on the map * spelling * many body parts, names of bones and organs, from illustration * chemical elements, by symbol (Na, Fe, Zn, etc) * unix filesystem commands * numeracy references (km from here to Japan, earth to sun, meters from home to school) * re…

Curious: How many cards are in his deck(s)? Do you do it with him daily? I was wondering when to start with my kid. Any writeup would be great.

My other question: For me a lot of this is trivia (No judgement! That's fine!) Has he found it useful for education (i.e. school), and for anything that he applies on a semi-frequent basis (I suppose UNIX commands could be a good example).?

I personally have used SRS since late 2018, and it's been quite useful - as if releasing a latent superpower. But I haven't applied it for regular schooling.

Thanks!

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by zilti »

SamPatt wrote: post #70

One tip for working with Anki: you will likely learn better - and review cards more regularly - if you write the cards yourself instead of using a preexisting deck. Going through a course / textbook -> taking notes on paper -> adding key concepts as Anki flashcards -> reviewing them daily: extremely effective Preexisting decks can work - I used one to successfully study for my Amateur Radio License - but that assumes…

Even for learning in general. We even had teachers who told us we're allowed to make tiny cheat sheets - about 6x3cm or something - because the mere process of creating the sheet is a good learning strategy, and to fit all you don't know on such a small sheet means you already know almost everything.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by tempaccount1234 »

mderazon wrote: post #186

I have weekly Portuguese classes in Skype. During the lesson, when there's a word I don't know, the teacher explains and writes it in the chat. After each class, I take these words and put them in Anki. However, I feel that this is not a great system, a lot of times I need the context of the conversation, the word needs to be in a sentence or sometimes I would prefer the reverse card (English and Portuguese on the ba…

My prompt to ChatGPT is to give me the 50 most common words for a given topic with translation and an example sentence (plus translation) in CSV format. Which quickly gives me a handful of usable flash cards.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by sevg »

kazinator wrote: post #183
sivers wrote: post #18

My boy is 11 now. We've used Anki with him every day since he was about 5. Examples of things he's memorized, for fun: * every country, recognized by unlabeled shape on the map * spelling * many body parts, names of bones and organs, from illustration * chemical elements, by symbol (Na, Fe, Zn, etc) * unix filesystem commands * numeracy references (km from here to Japan, earth to sun, meters from home to school) * re…

Most of these things don't require Anki. It's a tedious waste of time. > every country, recognized by unlabeled shape on the map That's a stupid thing to memorize, not to mention constantly churning due to political instability. You really need to gatekeep what you stuff into your noggin. Most educated people could recognize certain countries by shape, like Italy, Africa, USA. But every country? Come on ...

A parent is sharing their joy(!) of using Anki to help their child develop curiosity, feel a sense of accomplishment, and learn about the world.

And your response at someone else's joy is to swat it down and call it tedious and stupid?

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by realusername »

david_allison wrote: post #103
realusername wrote: post #11

I'm using a competitor on Android since both Anki apps (AnkiMobile and AnkiDroid) really aren't good enough for my language learning activity. They aren't as good as the desktop Anki app. I'm actually thinking of building my own app for a while since the all the flashcard apps on mobile don't really work for me. Not sure I'll find the motivation to do it though, I'm just using the least bad option I've found. Specifi…

Hi, I've recently integrated TTS into the AnkiDroid alpha series, could you give it a whirl when you have time? TTS instructions: https://docs.ankiweb.net/templates/fields.html#text-to-speec... Installing the alpha alongside stable: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pQZT9jNF6MU

Thanks, I'll give it a go again!

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by mderazon »

marvel_boy wrote: post #189
mderazon wrote: post #186

I have weekly Portuguese classes in Skype. During the lesson, when there's a word I don't know, the teacher explains and writes it in the chat. After each class, I take these words and put them in Anki. However, I feel that this is not a great system, a lot of times I need the context of the conversation, the word needs to be in a sentence or sometimes I would prefer the reverse card (English and Portuguese on the ba…

Yes, just writing down the word-translation pair is not useful at all. To add a little context helps, for example use app , like Linguee or similar ,that adds phrases when then context makes sense.

Nice site, I will try and see if I can integrate it into my flow somehow and give it words and get back sentences to put in Anki
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