Hashiriya
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From: Georgia
Registered: 2008-04-14
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i was just wondering if any of you guys have used anki with any other languages besides Japanese... i was thinking of starting a deck of Spanish cards for my Spanish class... what do you guys think about it?
playadom
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Registered: 2007-06-29
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Hashiriya wrote:
do any of you guys happen to have any Spanish anki decks you can give me? i'ld appreciate it!! my e-mail is insomniacgamer@hotmail.com
[firstly, it's probably not a good idea to give out your email like this on a public forum]
Anyways, I find that it's much better to make your own deck than use someone else's. Different people learn differently, and different people know different things. If I gave you my anki deck, it would be like putting in a pair of $1000 in-ear earphones that are custom fitted to my ear canal -- it wouldn't fit you very well.
There are probably a lot of differing opinions on what to do with your deck.
You mentioned that you were in a Spanish class. You could probably add your vocab lists into anki. Perhaps some useful phrases too. Also thethe example sentences and maybe interesting sentences from the dialogues. And of course, if anywhere you see something interesting in Spanish, add it to your deck! One advantage of this is that you won't have to review for the final exam -- anki will keep it all in your head!
playadom
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nac_est wrote:
How do you set up the cards? My girlfriend wants to improve her English and I'm making her use Anki, but to me, without kanji/kana and compounds, it seems too easy to just look at the sentence. Do you guys write the foreign sentences down? I'm interested in suggestions.
I do production cards for important grammar points -- like -- i put in 'exercise sentences' into anki, and then do those whenever they come up. I do both production and recognition for vocabulary. I do production cards where the translation is extremely straightforward. Mostly when I'm adding a bunch of sentences on a new grammar point -- they all fit rather simple patterns, and I'm basically just adding a new vocab word to a card with a fresh grammar point here. I also have a bunch of recognition cards. I do this with random useful sentences that I see in books, the dictionary, and pretty much everywhere.
I also thought it was 'too easy' to just look at the sentence. Surprisingly, recognition cards are quite effective. Try to to a small 'analysis' of the sentence: don't just grasp the meaning. Try thinking things like "ahh he uses this grammar here...oh i see how the sentence links together...ohhh so it's HER that's doing XXX to YYY with a ZZZ...aha, i know these vocabulary words....interesting, i didn't know you could say xxx [grammar] zzz...etc."
Hashiriya
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From: Georgia
Registered: 2008-04-14
Posts: 1072
well, i don't see how all this is making me a "better person", but if you say so, i already have a technical degree in nursing (LPN) and i don't feel like i became a "better person" because of that (unless of course you mean becoming better as in being able to afford the bills) ... and the reason i am going for my bachelor's degree at a university is because that is pretty much the standard requirement for an american to get a decent job in japan...and because i'ld like to get good enough to become a translator one day...
Last edited by Hashiriya (2008 November 05, 2:09 pm)
kazelee
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Registered: 2008-06-18
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Math is not worthless. History and political science give people something to talk about so I guess they do have some form or value.
University, Army, clubs, etc don't make people into better persons, though. I person decides to become "better" through his/her own volition.
Last edited by kazelee (2008 November 05, 2:45 pm)
but oh well, Anki is the next best thing 
