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Can we get a copy of your deck?
Seconded! At least the countries please.
There is a shared Anki deck about this https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2109889812
Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
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#432(Shameless plug at the end) During my Erasmus in Germany, I've tried almost all of the top language learning apps (Duolingo, Babel, Seedlang, Anki...) and none of them have really worked me. What I wanted was: * Learning in context --> A lot of German words do not have direct English/Czech translation, so learning the 1:1 word translation did not work well * Having audio for each card * Intensive pace --> Going throu…
Nice, it would be useful to have this in other languages.
I'll add more, once I figure out how to do at least one language well, but will do in a few months.
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#433Used it recently to create a neuropsychology cram set. I liked it overall.
Some things need work.
The import function is very fickle. Took me a long time to find a format that worked.
By default it will update existing cards when you import a new card with the same front-side text, even when they are in different sets. I feel the default there should be just creating the new card and leave the existing untouched, or else promt for an explicit disambiguating contextualization on both cards.
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#434Does good memory actually helps you advance in life? Or does it only make life more fun/interesting. I feel like remmbering things has never been an obstacle to my professional growth.
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#435Does good memory actually helps you advance in life? Or does it only make life more fun/interesting. I feel like remmbering things has never been an obstacle to my professional growth.
Interesting question. Good memory seems certainly beneficial. To me an even more interesting question is "memory of what?". What things are worth remembering? Is it worth to remember all 300 local plant species?
Maybe biology had good reasons to not evolve us with perfect memory. I found that over time I only remember the big picture and forget the details that make it up. And mostly that's fine! Usually, I only need the big picture. Like a math theorem, where once you understood it it's fine to forget the details of the proof since going forward you'll only need the big picture of the theorem.
Of course, sometimes life is not a simple straight line and might circle back to ask again for previous details. But then, how many details, how often does it happen? Maybe it's fine to forget and look it up again in those few cases?
Personally, I found little need for active memorization in real life. If something is worth remembering, it usually comes up multiple times, and after looking it up repeatedly, it tends to get remembered automatically.
Sure, sometimes real life poses constraints in time or exposure that hinder natural memorization (e.g. educational exams, remembering names, etc.) in which case active memorization may be useful. But these occasions seem to happen rather rarely over the whole course of a life.
For these reasons, I don't use Anki personally. Instead, I try to accept having to look things up again when it happens, if necessary repeatedly. No, it's not easy to not be disappointed at myself that I forgot again. But we can't avoid the pain - it's always there in some form. Either in the forgetting, or in the work to not forget.
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#436Everyone should be aware that someone hijacked the Anki name, so there is the genuine anki project and some copycat SaaS anki service with mobile apps in the app stores using the same name
This is confusing to me. The GitHub repo[1] links to the AnkiWeb website[2] which offers the $25 iOS app as one of the download options. In what way was Anki hijacked here?
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#437One 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…
I definitely agree that to absolutely maximize learning you should write the cards yourself but I think it really depends on the value of the content, say it may be 2x as effective for learning but take 5x the amount of effort. For some things where you want to learn but don't want to/have time to put in full effort premade cards are better than nothing. For example, I ended up learning German to B1 level from Duolin…
Wow, your tool is amazing. I have been searching for something like this for quite some time and even thought of writing such tool myself.
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I definitely agree that to absolutely maximize learning you should write the cards yourself but I think it really depends on the value of the content, say it may be 2x as effective for learning but take 5x the amount of effort. For some things where you want to learn but don't want to/have time to put in full effort premade cards are better than nothing. For example, I ended up learning German to B1 level from Duolin…
Is duolingo actually good for learning languages? i tested it briefly and it seemed more like a minigame of constructing sentences
600 days of German on Duolingo and I can kinda read it and guess the words I don’t know yet.
I can speak phrases and maybe understand a bit of spoken German depending on the speaker