A few months ago I started using Anki to fill the massive hole in my knowledge of German vocabulary. I've since studied more than 1600 flashcards and it's helped me immensely. Anki will automatically space out repetitions of the cards for you depending how difficult or easy you found them. This is called spaced repetition and is an evidence based way to remember things in the long term. Just make sure to force yourself to do it every day.
https://apps.ankiweb.net/ It's free and open source
For German learners, here is the deck that's helped me the most: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/653061995
4000 words may seem like a lot but it's worth it. Every word has an example sentence, audio sample, as well as plural forms if a noun and for the verbs some conjugated forms and simple past and past participle.
also it's good for remembering other shit too. med students use it religiously
Hey thanks for the tip! I'm gonna use this to see if it helps me get out of the rut I've been in when it comes to trying to learn Russian :fidel-salute:
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Good luck. I actually just download an Anki deck of the Russian alphabet because I wanted to be able to read Russian Cyrillic instead of it just looking like nonsense. It ain't easy.
I've got the alphabet down, I'm just nowhere near conversational yet. Got a bit stuck on all the goddamn tenses, then i saw a bit of advice to just ignore that until you build up a decent vocabulary so that was my next step. Been kinda unmotivated tho, hoping this shakes that
Heres the youtube videos i was using to help with the aphabet btw https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx1Hrg5Bg3xrnm30dNPZ5q2R9J6Zz2vUq
BASED
ten times better than all the apps like Duolingo and it's open sourceAnything that doesn't constantly bombard you with ads...
I used HelloChinese for a while, and it was a least less obnoxious.
I'm using it to learn the congugations of a bunch of irregular verbs in Spanish.
Super useful, basically your silly not to be using it if you're learning a language
Oh hell yeah I love flashcards. Also the app is free and open source
I've been steadily going through a 2K Japanese deck. I'm at 1k words now and I can definitely recognize words here and there in Japanese media. It's such an easy way to memorize and learn vocabulary. I'll use it to learn Russian vocabulary, next.
I've just about finished on called Español con Fotos.
It's pretty good, some of the vocab it includes seem a little obscure to me but whatever.
Idk why but I’ve never really been able to use it in the past when I tried. Maybe I’ll try it again.
I agree, but you can get really technical with the spacing and that frightened me, so I stopped using it :(
I've been using anki for various things for almost 10 years now, and that's the thing that bothers me still. You have to remember not to keep chasing the "best" spaced repetition algorithm, which anki does not use anyway. There are other algorithms which are supposed to help you remember better, but te difference between not using anything and using anki is much larger than the small gains you get by choosing whatever ideal algorithm there is.
This is all to say, if you can learn how to make cards, or if you want to just use other's decks, go for it! You need to know absolutely nothing about the technical stuff to make anki useful for you.
the difference between not using anything and using anki is much larger than the small gains you get by choosing whatever ideal algorithm there is.
Yeah, totally. Another reason I stopped is because I have a nasty tendency to drop something if I'm not sure it's working; I do it with physical exercise and guitar practice routines too. After the initial quick gains I become dissillusioned, and I get anxious thinking about my end game, and how I can develop the exercise to make it harder or more effective, and I give it up- sometimes without doing anything in its place!
A really good piece of advice I heard from the weight lifting world is to "trust the process". Even if you're not sure it's working, keep on doing it; odds are you're still progressing, just slower.
I'll get back into Anki now, anyway. Thanks for the motivation!
Anki is definitely useful, I did it for French for a while. My only problem is it got really clogged with words for a while and it made it harder to learn. I think I might have been using it wrong though, like it would ask me how many days I wanted it to be before it showed me the card again, or if I wanted to see it again the same day and I was never sure what was the best choice, I am not qualified to make that decision lol.
On mine i turned off the showing the days. So it just says, don't know, hard, good, and easy.
Makes it simple for me to just answer honestly how i felt about each card and not worry about the days
Is there a way to look through the shared libraries? I don't see a directory anywhere.
