I love anki but it’s hard to find a quality deck imo, mainly because the search is bad. What are your favorite decks, and for which language?
Thanks!
I really like the 9k Most Common Russian Words deck. But for me, I think the best way is to make my own from vocabulary that I am encountering in whatever courses I’m taking or whatever context I’m learning in. I also like to add an example sentence and pronunciation audio, along with stress marks.
I don’t have much use for learning words out of context because I find them incredibly difficult to remember. I bolded that because I think it’s important, especially if you are still finding ways to make Anki effective for you.
For example, I (like a lot of people) started with Duolingo and Busuu and I learned about 700 words from that; I exported those word lists to Anki and am continuing to add words that I encounter in other courses and also from Russian native speakers on YouTube to the same deck. I still do Duolingo most days but it’s not very good at explaining things.
I can read cyrillic (learning ukrainian) but the pronounciation is weird imo, i like it tho
Personally my biggest problem is inflections, most anki decks just teach vocab so i have to use wiktionary or something to understand the inflection of the word x)
I think the best way to learn vocabulary using anki is to make your own decks.
But for basic Korean vocabulary I have started using TTMIK’s First 500 Korean Words by Retro. My only complaint so far is that it only teaches words in the Korean -> English direction, not both ways.
Probably true, but it would take a hell of a long time (or so i’d imagine) to create an entire deck potentially stuffed with hundreds, or even a thousand words.
Thanks for the recommendation, too
Probably true, but it would take a hell of a long time (or so i’d imagine) to create an entire deck potentially stuffed with hundreds, or even a thousand words.
I’ve had a routine back when I was more actively doing language learning: set aside one day of the week to create cards, just a couple to a handful or so (which for cloze cards with an average of five items, would already be a good number). Little by little that deck would grow.
In particular, I’ve had a French grammar and a Japanese vocabulary deck I grew that way. The Japanese deck contained vocabulary words from the textbooks I used (mostly Genki I and II) and at the moment has 1.97k cards The French grammar deck had snippets from a grammar reference book and at the moment has 603 cards. Not much, but I tend not to add more cards until I really need to (pending reviews down to almost zero).
I’ve long resigned to the fact that doing Anki is a very long game, and there’s no use creating hundreds of cards in a weekend if I can get away with creating a handful every now and then.
Good tip, thank you.
That’s what I have enjoyed. For example, I wanted a learn a little Catalan, so I made cards to learn enough to have a 5 minute conversation about topics we were both interested in.
Because the cards were personalized, it helped me to stay motivated.
For Japanese, the core 2k/6k deck I have is really good. Has examples sentences, audio (for both word and sentence), and pretty well formatted furigana. I believe it’s the one linked here: https://djtguide.neocities.org/anki
And not quite Anki, but I’ve been trying JPDB and it seems pretty cool. Combines Kanji/Kanji parts learning with vocabulary, and includes pre-made decks with vocab from various media. But the cool part is the decks combine - so once you’ve learned a word as part of one deck, you don’t review the same card in a different deck (at least I think that’s the idea? Still trying it.)
Thanks for the recommendation :)
I tried several deck but the one I completed was the Refold Deck for French, Now I am going through a “5000 most frequently used French words” mainly just to test myself. Other than that I mostly sentence mine from books I am reading.
