Just as the post title says, is there anyone using Anki here? Would there be enough interest in making a separate Language Learning Anki community?

  • ferne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s not what you’re asking but I figured to offer my thoughts on Anki to make the community more active.

    I think Anki is a tool that can be effective but is not an absolute necessity. Personally, I find Anki reviews to be torturous and has always been the worst part of my routine, to the point of putting me off learning entirely. I’ve replaced Anki and all other forms of vocab review with extensive reading for a few years now, and am having a much more enjoyable time and don’t find my progress to be hindered. Anki is probably good to drill in the first couple hundred words, but don’t fall into the trap of using it religiously and making language learning a chore.

    • megane-kun@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Personally, I find Anki reviews to be torturous and has always been the worst part of my routine, to the point of putting me off learning entirely.

      I do agree that it is not for everyone, and is, frankly, an acquired taste. In my own experience, however, once you’ve made it a habit, it becomes a lot lighter, eventually becoming routine.

      What I use it for is a bit different though: I don’t use it for drilling. I find that learning stuff through Anki to be terrible, even though it is certainly possible. Rather, once I’ve already learned stuff, Anki would then come in to keep that information fresh, and refresh it if I happen to forget it. It doesn’t mean that I won’t forget what’s in my cards–that’s up to me to make sure that I do my reviews honestly, and even that’s no guarantee. However, I think that with all that, I’d be able to retain most of what I’ve learned.

      Anyways, yeah~ Thanks!

    • megane-kun@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, that’s also an option–and that’s what I’m going to do by default. This thread is just me trying to ask around if anyone’s interested.

      Reddit has /r/Anki and /r/medicalschoolanki, the former of which has more general questions, and the latter is more specific to those who use Anki for their medical studies. I was thinking of at least replicating /r/Anki here but I’d love it for there to be a community here for those who use Anki for language-learning purposes. That community would form as a means to exchange information about best practices on how to use Anki for the purposes of language learning, sharing decks, etc.

  • dexuruargaya@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    I find it to be a great app, especially for beginning to acquire vocabulary!! It also has a lot of flexibility, and the app being open source is awesome! I don’t use it as much for my German anymore, because I admittedly find it a bit boring. Ultimately, it’s a GREAT ressource for beginners and smaller languages, but for the bigger languages at intermediate/high level, I personally recommend focusing on comprehensible imput.

    • megane-kun@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      18 days ago

      I agree. I find it really useful for drilling vocabulary, but I struggle it suitable for learning grammar. Conjugation (and declension), sure, it helps a lot, but that’s basically just memorizing facts.

      Basically, yeah, it’s great at memorizing bits of information. This makes it great for beginner language learners, as well as those who need to memorize lots of facts (medical students). Otherwise, once you have enough to have a go at your target language, you’re indeed better off doing that instead.

      However I still think it’s fine to keep it on the side if you need to keep your vocab fresh–especially for those you rarely encounter in your target language. (Though if that’s the case, do you really need to keep that word in your memory?)

  • small44@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    No, too complex for me. I use Memorion instead on Android which has a lot of features including importing cards from Anki