Just as the post title says, is there anyone using Anki here? Would there be enough interest in making a separate Language Learning Anki community?
It’s not what you’re asking but I figured to offer my thoughts on Anki to make the community more active.
I think Anki is a tool that can be effective but is not an absolute necessity. Personally, I find Anki reviews to be torturous and has always been the worst part of my routine, to the point of putting me off learning entirely. I’ve replaced Anki and all other forms of vocab review with extensive reading for a few years now, and am having a much more enjoyable time and don’t find my progress to be hindered. Anki is probably good to drill in the first couple hundred words, but don’t fall into the trap of using it religiously and making language learning a chore.
Personally, I find Anki reviews to be torturous and has always been the worst part of my routine, to the point of putting me off learning entirely.
I do agree that it is not for everyone, and is, frankly, an acquired taste. In my own experience, however, once you’ve made it a habit, it becomes a lot lighter, eventually becoming routine.
What I use it for is a bit different though: I don’t use it for drilling. I find that learning stuff through Anki to be terrible, even though it is certainly possible. Rather, once I’ve already learned stuff, Anki would then come in to keep that information fresh, and refresh it if I happen to forget it. It doesn’t mean that I won’t forget what’s in my cards–that’s up to me to make sure that I do my reviews honestly, and even that’s no guarantee. However, I think that with all that, I’d be able to retain most of what I’ve learned.
Anyways, yeah~ Thanks!
Sincere question; Why make a separate community and not just use this one?
Yeah, that’s also an option–and that’s what I’m going to do by default. This thread is just me trying to ask around if anyone’s interested.
Reddit has /r/Anki and /r/medicalschoolanki, the former of which has more general questions, and the latter is more specific to those who use Anki for their medical studies. I was thinking of at least replicating /r/Anki here but I’d love it for there to be a community here for those who use Anki for language-learning purposes. That community would form as a means to exchange information about best practices on how to use Anki for the purposes of language learning, sharing decks, etc.
That makes sense! Thanks for the explanation!
No problem. I’m also glad I am able to clear that up.
Yes. Anki is the best for everything!
I, for one, have been using Anki for a handful of years now. I’ve been using Anki mostly as a tool to memorize vocabulary words, as well as memorize grammatical concepts using Anki’s cloze deletion functionality.
No, too complex for me. I use Memorion instead on Android which has a lot of features including importing cards from Anki
I mean, I won’t be disputing that. It took me a while to get a hang of Anki, but after that learning curve, I just found it very useful.
I haven’t heard of Memorion though. Is this it? http://memorionsoft.blogspot.com/
Yes this is it
