Hi there,

It ages since I posted for the last time partially due to time constraint.
As I am currently seeking for developing learning friendly tools I would like to know whether you'll find an interest in what I am working on.

Undoubtlessly, several people here use SRS and each one does prone its own method.
However, something I regularly come accross while reading is my lack of specific vocabulary on specific themes.
Here's my idea :

-Putting online a website which provides specific separated decks :
example: (Accounting vocabulary, Coding vocabulary, Market finance, Mathematics, Marketing,...)
-Everything will be made from scratch and will be downloadable for FREE.
-People will be able to make request.
-Hopefully more people will join and help in the future.

That will be a great occasion to acquire new vocabulary and provide help to those who do not have extended times but to review.
The potential users will be able to get access to depth vocabulary related to their needs without investing too much research times to get straight to the point.

Sounds interesting, and I like the idea, however niggling in the back of my mind is someone saying "well, if they are interested in specific terminology, it will come across specifically enough reading up on their related interest".

An idea could be to find virtual copies (ebooks, whatever) of a select few popular/famous books/papers on the specific topics and run it through some program which will extract individual words and check those against a database of, say, the 6000 most commonly occurring words, and marking those terms which do not appear in said list.

There are probably members within this site who have a better handle on what I'm talking about, as I don't know the technical aspects involved. I'd imagine manually searching for field specific or unique terms may be more accurate than an automated process, but it would take a very long time, I would assume.

I think this is a very good idea. On the one hand, one does remember cards one makes better than cards made by others, but on the other, a large categorised database of decks could save a LOT of time and effort for many people. At the moment all my decks are general, but I'd consider making some themed decks in the future.

You can generally find specific types of vocabulary on various websites quite easily. Not necessarily in an anki deck format, but its usually not a big deal to copy it over.
For example, a google search for 'japanese accounting vocabulary' got me this: http://nihongoichiban.com/2011/05/29/jap...-glossary/
'japanese programming vocabulary' gets you this: http://www.squidoo.com/japanese-for-programmers
And so on.

Thank you all for your comments and advices.

uisukii Wrote:An idea could be to find virtual copies (ebooks, whatever) of a select few popular/famous books/papers on the specific topics and run it through some program which will extract individual words and check those against a database of, say, the 6000 most commonly occurring words, and marking those terms which do not appear in said list.

Actually, there is already a plugin/soft available (maybe sub2srs) with the exact same purpose. That could be surely useful for further decks. But your idea of matching vocabulary sounds nice.

lovelyweatherforducks Wrote:I think this is a very good idea. On the one hand, one does remember cards one makes better than cards made by others, but on the other, a large categorised database of decks could save a LOT of time and effort for many people. At the moment all my decks are general, but I'd consider making some themed decks in the future.

As you stated, several people will probably rely more on their own decks and that's understandable in my opinion. But if some of them are interested in glancing/sharing a few decks that would be great !

Zarxrax Wrote:You can generally find specific types of vocabulary on various websites quite easily. Not necessarily in an anki deck format, but its usually not a big deal to copy it over.

You got the point, I did obtain similar lists of vocabulary while digging through google. That's a great source IMO, uncomplete but a nice starting point.
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-There is also a possibility to create decks with answers entirely built in images.

I will attempt progressing further through it and put the first few decks so that feedbacks could be done.

Thank you everyone, I am taking into consideration every single comment so feel free to post any further ideas