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 tried several deck but the one I completed was the Refold Deck for French. It is a paid deck.
Now I am going through a “5000 most frequently used French words” mainly just to test myself. It is super easy since I am now about A2 level but I still encounter new words. This deck has a speak section which I will be practicing with soon.
Other than that I mostly sentence mine from books I am reading to create new sentence cards.
For words/structure that I have difficulty with, I search them on Reverso Context and grab even more sentences from there.
To add, If you are going to use Refold Deck, note that It does not have super high frequency words like “I, you , he, she, they, am” . Reason being, you would acquire them just from other learning method, grammar, graded books, apps and etc.
For cards that I create myself, I use **Ankimorph/Freqman **add-on to sort my cards according to frequency. Freqman is easier to setup but I like Ankimoprh various options. I use HyperTTS to create the Audio.
I also use the** FSRS Helper** add-on, which helps me with postponing cards, reschedule cards, and flatten future due cards.
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 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.
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.
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.
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)
