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Anki online7/9/2023 Nowadays I write down words from books/movies/etc that I don't know in my journal, and every once in a while I collect those into a personal anki deck. I tried this a bit with a Japanese 2k deck but I think with logographic language it doesn't really work as well as slowly inputting words that you know the context/definition for. I eventually burned out and got tired of the lack of context in the cards, but that helped me learn a lot of day-to-day vocabulary. Also, switching to using the native definitions once you can instead of the english translations helps immensely.įor me, I -hated- how long it took to input words into Anki, so for ~7 months I used Evita's Korean Deck which has about 5.5k words. Making a good template for cards changes everything, particularly with adding context / usage sentences on the back of the card. I've also written a bit about Anki and updating some of the default settings for better retention. Native speakers look over your work for free, and in return you just take a few minutes to read over their stuff in English). As for writing, check out a website called Lang-8. They can practice their English with you, and you can practice your new language with them. Find local "conversation classes", where you meet up with native speakers. (As for grammar, I never relied on Anki for that. If you're not studying a language with logographic characters like Chinese or Japanese, then great, you only need to worry about vocab! The great thing about Ankidroid is the whiteboard feature. For me, I just felt it helped when writing out the kanji to see how it looks handwritten. One in the standard kanji font on your computer, but another in HonyaJi, a "hand-written" kanji font. For Kanji, I'd actually have representations in two different fonts. For vocab, I'd always include example sentences. It gives you control, and makes you feel more invested in the process. I think it's important to create the decks yourself. When that semester was over, and we started the next textbook in the new semester, I'd create two new decks. Every week when new kanji or vocab was introduced, I'd add those to the deck, and become familiar with them over the next week (while at the same time, reviewing existing vocab/kanji). These decks were only for this single textbook. I created two decks - a kanji deck, and a vocab deck. It might be Genki Vol 1, or Nihongo So Matome 1, etc. Usually when you start a language, you start with a textbook. I attribute a lot of that to Anki/Ankidroid. I studied Japanese, and went from 0 to JLPT N2 in 4 years.
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