Comments on: Migration To Anki

By: edwin

edwin — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:56:26 +0000

Gary,
Sure I can send you my deck. But then I am thinking perhaps I should post it up somewhere in my blog in case others ask for it too. Give me a few days.

But then honestly, I don’t think learning from other people’s decks is as efficient as building up your own. I will have a post to talk about this. Stay tuned.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:30:21 +0000

Sorry to bother you Edwin, I’m a new Anki user and looking for a French deck to start using (native English speaker wanting to learn French). In this post I saw you mentioned building your own French deck. Is there any chance you could email me a copy? I know there is benefit in building my own one (and I intend to do that eventually) but it would be great to have a starting point rather than a blank screen. Thanks in advance Gary (P.S if for any reason you can’t help out – no problem – enjoyed stopping by anyway)

By: Edwin

Edwin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:29:42 +0000

Hi Hooper,
I have never thought of categorizing them into chapters. Perhaps this is a good idea. But what if a common word appears in more than on chapters? In this case, you need to use tags. Anki supports tags.

Thanks.

By: Hooper

Hooper — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:02:33 +0000

Additionally…

Anki, while it looks quite nice, only seems to have the option of having one big deck for a given set of flash cards. I don’t care for that at all. I have well over 3000 French flash cards. If I couldn’t organize them by chapters (or whatever) within a single set of cards, it would drive me nuts.

By: Hooper

Hooper — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:54:18 +0000

What are you talking about?
You don’t have to do all of the lower level cards first in Jmemorize.
You can do any category that you choose withing a given Jmemorize file. For instance, I’m studying French. I organize my flash cards by chapters and sub-chapter sections. So, I can drill whichever chapter or section thereof that I want.

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By: Edwin

Edwin — Sun, 25 May 2008 20:48:37 +0000

Hi Philip,
I can give away my decks, but I am not sure if it is beneficial to you to study them out of context. It is just like studying the dictionaries. I have mine for last year posted up in my ‘projects’ session. Take a like and let me know if you still want them.

By: Philip H

Philip H — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:16:25 +0000

Hi, Edwin,

I’ve been searching high and low and have had a hard time finding Anki study decks for French and Spanish vocabulary and verbs. I can piece them together myself but that is very time consuming.

Would you be willing to post your decks or alternately an importable text file or Excel spreadsheet?

Best regards,
Philip

By: Edwin

Edwin — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:20:56 +0000

Yes, Ramses. For sure I will talk about my Spanish progress, especially my ‘RR’ progress.

One thing I found out immediately was that there are tons of Spanish learning bloggers out there, compared to almost none for French. This is quite encouraging.

By: Ramses

Ramses — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:12:26 +0000

I love SRS and Anki in particular. As I have a flat fee mobile internet plan I use it while commuting, which just rocks. As for the grading system; you’ll get used to it after a while. At first I hated it, now I love it.

Great thing that you picked up Spanish. Please share your progress on this blog.