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Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube

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Re: Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube

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Post by piffey »

sasjaws wrote: post #75
piffey wrote: post #19

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Just kicked off my third language after reaching B2/C1ish in my second (~5 years in), we'll see what the C1 test determines this fall, and Anki has been the consistent thing that stayed through all the other learning experiments. It's amazing just investing in Anki right out the bat how much quicker I'm moving on the new language. Especially considering it's way harder as it's not like any language I know (rich decle…

I'm building a service that generates audio streams about subjects and vocab of your choosing, currently notebookLM based. If you have intermediate listening skills its pretty useful for deepening regular vocab and acquiring specialized jargon. I dumped my 400 hardest recurring anki words in it and listen to the stream whenever doing chores or driving. Then sync with my deck again after a while. Can you help me out a…

I'll give this a go. My second TL is Lithuanian which is very difficult to find content in outside of state TV stuff.

Re: Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube

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Post by borroka »

piva00 wrote: post #10
codyb wrote: post #9

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There's a large number of prebuilt Anki decks available here as well if this is useful for anyone exploring the space - https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks?search

As far as I know about decks for language learning, you should be building your own. Pre-built decks don't work so well exactly because you don't spend the time to create the links that work for you personally, I know a few people who tried to shortcut it by using pre-built decks but gave up after noticing it wasn't working well. It sucks though, it's also the one thing that makes me constantly not be consistent usin…

It's not true that “you should build your own,” especially in the beginning. There's no need for complex customizations when the student knows little or nothing about the language. Start with excellent, generic decks already created by others and thank them. You can suspend cards, delete some, add new ones. Especially in the beginning, it is necessary to eliminate any friction, any reason that could stop the work on the skill (“it's so boring to create my own cards”). After you know, say, 1k or 2k words, you can think about the next steps.

Re: Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube

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Post by sasjaws »

piffey wrote: post #91
sasjaws wrote: post #75

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I'm building a service that generates audio streams about subjects and vocab of your choosing, currently notebookLM based. If you have intermediate listening skills its pretty useful for deepening regular vocab and acquiring specialized jargon. I dumped my 400 hardest recurring anki words in it and listen to the stream whenever doing chores or driving. Then sync with my deck again after a while. Can you help me out a…

I'll give this a go. My second TL is Lithuanian which is very difficult to find content in outside of state TV stuff.

I've added support for Lithuanian and created a stream about version control for you to try it out. Just 'select language' -> Lithuanian -> Play

If you find it useful, you can register for free and create new streams on any subject. Send me a mail on alex@longyan.io if you'd like more stream/content quota or if you want to try the Anki thing, I'll gladly set it up for you.

Re: Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube

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Post by maininformer »

bsnnkv wrote: post #50
maininformer wrote: post #48

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I speak Farsi and I am really curious about some of these blunders if you could share

Using the word pistan instead of sina when talking about "chicken breast" (the cut of meat)

Hahaha, well fwiw, my sister and I call chicken breast "pestoone morgh" jokingly. So if anything it could show your mastery of the language
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