Hi, everyone.


I am absolutely new to Anki… So may I kindly ask 2 noob questions seen in this light?

1. I am currently creating a small deck, around 60 words perhaps. How do I add example sentences (like the ones one finds on tangorin) ?

2. This whole rating system kinda bothers me… (e.g. “difficult” “easy”and all that… ) How can one disable this?


Thank you very much!

PS: I apologize for the second question, it is indeed technical and thus not appropriate. It is however the first one that is of predominant value to me right now...

2. The rating system is important for the cards to be scheduled correctly. Anki is not just a flash card program, but a flash card program that implements a spaced repetition system.

I think there is a plug-in that generates sentences based on what vocabulary you have, inside your deck. I usual just manual input sentences though(from native material)

You can't disable the rating system, but if you can't be bothered with it, hit the first button for 'fail' and the third button for 'pass' every time and you'll be fine.

(Actually, I'm lying, you won't be fine. Some cards will take too long to come around and you'll forget them and others will bother you with their frequent reappearance, and before you know it, you'll be hitting buttons 2 and 4 to fix these problems and then you'll understand... )

SomeCallMeChris Wrote:You can't disable the rating system, but if you can't be bothered with it, hit the first button for 'fail' and the third button for 'pass' every time and you'll be fine.

(Actually, I'm lying, you won't be fine. Some cards will take too long to come around and you'll forget them and others will bother you with their frequent reappearance, and before you know it, you'll be hitting buttons 2 and 4 to fix these problems and then you'll understand... )

This was almost exactly what I was going to say; at first I nearly always hit 1 and 3, and now I'm much more likely to use all four.

My problem with the 'easy' 'difficult' and so on is that I'm noticing that I have a different memory curve to the Anki standard. When I first learn something, I need somewhat more early reps than the standard RTK includes. I then go through a period of about three-four weeks when a newly learned word seems dead easy. And then at some point, perhaps when a word has a rep time of about 5-7 weeks, I nearly always forget it. Once I've got the repetition up beyond three months, I pretty reliably remember it thereafter. Obviously it all evens out after a bit, but you'd think Anki could spot 'hey, you're much more likely to forget a word if it's in this band of maturity, so we'll shorten all the timings there a tad...'

BohemianCoast Wrote:

SomeCallMeChris Wrote:You can't disable the rating system, but if you can't be bothered with it, hit the first button for 'fail' and the third button for 'pass' every time and you'll be fine.

(Actually, I'm lying, you won't be fine. Some cards will take too long to come around and you'll forget them and others will bother you with their frequent reappearance, and before you know it, you'll be hitting buttons 2 and 4 to fix these problems and then you'll understand... )

This was almost exactly what I was going to say; at first I nearly always hit 1 and 3, and now I'm much more likely to use all four.

My problem with the 'easy' 'difficult' and so on is that I'm noticing that I have a different memory curve to the Anki standard. When I first learn something, I need somewhat more early reps than the standard RTK includes. I then go through a period of about three-four weeks when a newly learned word seems dead easy. And then at some point, perhaps when a word has a rep time of about 5-7 weeks, I nearly always forget it. Once I've got the repetition up beyond three months, I pretty reliably remember it thereafter. Obviously it all evens out after a bit, but you'd think Anki could spot 'hey, you're much more likely to forget a word if it's in this band of maturity, so we'll shorten all the timings there a tad...'

With the new Anki version, it will be possible to review or study cards a couple of times, before they go into the regular review cycle. This is one of the reasons I am looking forward to the release.

Thank you everyone!

I somehow did not even notice this pulg-in section. It's really neat.

BohemianCoast Wrote:Obviously it all evens out after a bit, but you'd think Anki could spot 'hey, you're much more likely to forget a word if it's in this band of maturity, so we'll shorten all the timings there a tad...'

Yeah... if I notice that a card is about to jump to 1.5-1.8 months, I'll often rate it 'Hard' if I have any concerns at all.

I don't really understand all the Anki timing options, but I wonder if you can set a negative 'mature bonus' and if that would help hold back cards that are just becoming mature... but then it might make it hard to push out cards that really don't need much review. Oh well. The new-improved Anki will probably have better timing options anyway.

Shinichirou Wrote:Hi, everyone.
I am absolutely new to Anki… So may I kindly ask 2 noob questions seen in this light?

1. I am currently creating a small deck, around 60 words perhaps. How do I add example sentences (like the ones one finds on tangorin) ?

Press the big + button in Anki and add each sentence manually.

If you use subs2srs, you can copy/paste small sentences, or break down larger sentences and copy/paste to your sentence deck. Another method is to look up a word at http://jisho.org/ and then copy/paste the definition and an example sentence or two to your sentence deck. For example:

http://jisho.org/sentences?jap=%E5%A5%BD%E3%81%8D
好き すき liking; fondness; love
僕の事好き？ Do you love me?


These are also ideal sentences, very short and to the point. You can also download "My first sentence pack" which was make by Katz at AJATT. It's a pay deck that somebody uploaded, so if you download it you should send him $5. It's a very good 500 sentence deck that will show you how it sentences should be done and it will also save you a fair amount of time, so it's easily worth it.