dicentra8 wrote:Aside from practising vocabulary, the one thing I also enjoyed doing with Anki is "audio decks" to practise listening. I used this mostly when I was doing Minna no Nihongo because there was a lot of audio. My cards for that were mostly small sentences where I had trouble picking certain strings of sounds at the front, the back would be the transcript just to check.
Arnav wrote: I have anki set up to play the audio (if there) and after the audio times flip and then after 5 seconds it auto passes the card as "good". I treat it sort of like Glossika (but not outrageously expensive) GSR system for the workin' man
. Right now I am doing Chinese and Norwegian this way (with only sentence input). .
I am doing this as well for listening practice. I set up the front card to repeat a sentence five times and the written sentence on the back. The back also repeats the sentence ten times if I want to chorus that sentence or if the sentence has a really difficult part that needs relistening to.
It's sort of like Glossika but glossika repeats only twice and you are supposed to shadow. For me, it was impossible to settle into a rhythm in shadowing so I setup anki to do something similar with more reps (i can always stop the sound early if I feel comfortable with the sound).
I can feel quite a lot of improvement in listening skills as my cards are of native speakers who don't speak that clearly - slur or miss words.
I have two future strategies with anki (hope I can get there) for different skills
1 - translation L1>L2. create cards for L1>L2 - add in hints like give easy parts of the sentence in L2 and I fill in the blanks.
2 - Active recall of vocab. create cards with a single vocabulary - then work with a language partner who has access to the deck. I can't see the card. They keep asking me questions to make me try to speak that vocab in a sentence.
I think the good thing about Anki is you can adapt it to practice different skills. The bugger is the time learning how to set up the Notes and cards.
