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I spent 4 days making an Anki deck (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world to c/languagelearning@sopuli.xyz

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Let's hope I actually use it now lol.

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[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I ended up with a similar method. Images are the next step for me. I already tried them with Japan's prefectures, and I think it really helped what's kind of a tough slog.

A couple notes on his process:

You don't have to pay the premium for an Anki TTS addon. It's easy to set up an account with Azure's API and they have a free tier that is more than enough for this purpose. Requires a credit card on file, but it can always be locked with your bank (or a service like privacy.com).

AI phrase/sentence generation is an alternative to a Google Translate hook. I've got a running AI thread that knows my language level and knows I want silly/goofy/interesting sentences to make them memorable. And if you're doing i+1 learning, you don't have to worry about AI hallucination. You can verify the output since the generation is at a comprehensible level for you. I then have it convert it all into a CSV format right there in-thread for the Anki import.