I'm not trying to derail this thread, but a GitHub user named custommonkey added Mecab support to the MCD plugin for Anki 1.  This should make it easier and faster to make these things.

Bugs still go to me.

I tried MCDs as my first Anki-based study method. I would not recommend them. I'm sure they have their uses, but for me they were incredibly inefficient. They also seem to go against a lot of AJATT's general philosophy (do recognition, not production - production will come later). Production is ******* hard for freshly learnt vocabulary, and I found that I was forgetting the same cards continuously without improving - and not just a few cards. Some things stuck, sure, but it was frustrating and inefficient.

Anyway, I ditched them for recognition-based subs2srs decks, which are so much less painful.

Aikynaro, do you mean you're solely using subs2srs imports? How are you dividing it? Do you import everything into one massive-assed deck, or have different decks for each show? Do you use 日本語字幕 alone, or English subtitles as well?

Just curious. I usually just pull subs2srs material into my vocab deck. However, I started fooling around today with drilling a single show (GTO) via subs2srs import, to see if drilling one suck deck every day helps with my audio recognition. So I'm open to ideas.

One deck - with tags (from the show name/episode number) I don't see why you would need multiple decks. You can just use the cram function if you want to just work on one show.
I have the English subtitle imported, but not on the card. If I want to see it, I look at the edit screen. Good for double checking, but don't want to rely on it too much.

And yeah - solely using subs2srs. No sense in doing work myself if I have a nice program that can do it all for me.

howtwosavealif3 wrote:

lol I alrady do this. I was wondering what that crap was.
I personally like this a lot... it's like more active yet sometimes it's more passive (more fun and easier) than the normal deck.

so according to anki I made it 1.5 years ago
I have 539 cards right now

So i'm gonna post my example...
1. I do monolingual because I'm at that level.... I've  been monolingual for 3/4 years
2. sometimes I don't "really" do my reviews in the normal one where you have the vocab card or the sentence card.. .I just read it but I don't really engage in it so I don't know it but for some reason I keep pressing 2 or 3 on some of them lol.

Lately I've been taking cards that I've been ignoring/"not really know but want to know" in my normal deck into this deck.

by this i mean that no matter how many times i see it in my deck i don't remember the word or the defintion ie i run into it in native media and look it up again and then realize heyz the definition sounds familiar. sometimes it's because the word has many syllables  (so I just skim it? I don't really engage in reading each syllable) or the sounds of the word throws me off. So I kill syllables or put the word and the definition in the front and blank out parts of the definition.

Last edited by howtwosavealif3 (2013 April 01, 10:45 am)

jordan3311 wrote:

Has anyone every heard of MCD.

Yup. Money Currently Dry. Personally, I don't take advice from people who don't bathe.