Kindle SRS: what is the most effective Anki format?
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 3:11 pm
Much of my language learning time is spent reading stuff on the Kindle (preferably while listening to the spoken version) . And while the Kindle popup dictionaries are very useful, I find it hard to make the low-frequency words stick without reviewing them. Thus, I've just done something I've been meaning to do for a long time: write a piece of software that takes all the words I've looked up in a specific Kindle e-book and turn them into Anki flashcards.
Here is the information I got to work with (in addition to some not too relevant metadata):
To begin with, I've been experimenting with generating L2 -> L1 flashcards, to try to recall the meaning of the L2 word in context. The nice thing about the context sentence, is that I get the opportunity to revisit fun snippets of texts I've read earlier, and hopefully get to be personally invested in the cards.
However, there seems to be many ways to create these cards: L1 -> L2 cards, cloze cards etc. Since I have both the looked up word and the corresponding stem, there's a possibility for creating conjugation exercise cards. What are your experiences with flashcards for vocabulary acquisition. What has been the most effective for you?
Here's an example of the current format I'm dealing with, from a Radio Ambulante episode.
Here is the information I got to work with (in addition to some not too relevant metadata):
- Name of the e-book
- The word that was looked up
- Corresponding word stem
- Context sentence
- Dictionary entry
To begin with, I've been experimenting with generating L2 -> L1 flashcards, to try to recall the meaning of the L2 word in context. The nice thing about the context sentence, is that I get the opportunity to revisit fun snippets of texts I've read earlier, and hopefully get to be personally invested in the cards.
However, there seems to be many ways to create these cards: L1 -> L2 cards, cloze cards etc. Since I have both the looked up word and the corresponding stem, there's a possibility for creating conjugation exercise cards. What are your experiences with flashcards for vocabulary acquisition. What has been the most effective for you?
Here's an example of the current format I'm dealing with, from a Radio Ambulante episode.