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I have been pondering if it makes more sense to use Quizlet for drilling (since it makes quick cards with audio and has multiple mini games). By drilling I mean such things as learning to conjugate verbs for instance, whereas creating one for each conjugation in Anki seems a daunting task just by immagination. Anki on the other side makes more sense for vocabulary, context, general rules etc.... What are other peoples' findings?
Quizlet and Anki for each their purpose
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Re: Quizlet and Anki for each their purpose
I couldn't figure out quizlet, but https://www.linguno.com/ is useful for conjugations exercises and they have some rather fun crosswords.
But I've been creating anki cards for my french conjugations and that's working for me; since I whip through cards much faster than is possible with a next-and-click online routine. I like to think the act of creating the cards acts as study time; it takes less time to make the cards than to study them. https://conjugator.reverso.net/ gives me all the tables I could ask for, but it's faster for me generally to type.
That said, it does end up being a lot of cards (passe compose was not an issue, but present in french is kind of a free-for-all, and I'm starting on imperfect and simple past)... I'm just now getting to where I have to actively manage that. Once I've learned them pretty well, for maintenance and spot checks I think I'll need to toss the anki and go to linguno. Also a couple of times I've made mistakes in typing - I catch the nous endings on vous pretty quickly, but another case I typed in a random consonant between stem and ending and since french also does that randomly, I only found out when I got something wrong on quiziq. So that's a potential problem.
But I've been creating anki cards for my french conjugations and that's working for me; since I whip through cards much faster than is possible with a next-and-click online routine. I like to think the act of creating the cards acts as study time; it takes less time to make the cards than to study them. https://conjugator.reverso.net/ gives me all the tables I could ask for, but it's faster for me generally to type.
That said, it does end up being a lot of cards (passe compose was not an issue, but present in french is kind of a free-for-all, and I'm starting on imperfect and simple past)... I'm just now getting to where I have to actively manage that. Once I've learned them pretty well, for maintenance and spot checks I think I'll need to toss the anki and go to linguno. Also a couple of times I've made mistakes in typing - I catch the nous endings on vous pretty quickly, but another case I typed in a random consonant between stem and ending and since french also does that randomly, I only found out when I got something wrong on quiziq. So that's a potential problem.
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Re: Quizlet and Anki for each their purpose
If you have any experience with Python it may not be hard to cobble together a script to quiz yourself on a list of verbs that you know or are learning. For Italian I found an existing script for conjugating a verb called ItalianVerbConjugator and I use that, along with a list of verbs I typed in, to quiz myself. I use pyttsx3 to create spoken output using the voices built into Microsoft Windows.
I didn't find Anki useful for the kind of drills I want since if you mark a card as good it will keep increasing the interval. I wanted a random selection of verbs and tense as if I was plucking a card out of a deck of index cards.
I didn't find Anki useful for the kind of drills I want since if you mark a card as good it will keep increasing the interval. I wanted a random selection of verbs and tense as if I was plucking a card out of a deck of index cards.
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Re: Quizlet and Anki for each their purpose
Linguno says they're customisable conjugations but still lock you behind specific languages. A shame because it sounds like something that would make a good language independent tool.
Though I do use Quizlet myself, I prefer it to Anki. But I've only used it for vocab so far because I tend to practice things like conjugation by writing sentences with them in
But I think it principle it could work if you're looking for something quick fire with spaced repetition. And I guess Quizlet is good in that it can create quizzes for you to assess your answers.
Though I do use Quizlet myself, I prefer it to Anki. But I've only used it for vocab so far because I tend to practice things like conjugation by writing sentences with them in
But I think it principle it could work if you're looking for something quick fire with spaced repetition. And I guess Quizlet is good in that it can create quizzes for you to assess your answers.
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Re: Quizlet and Anki for each their purpose
Thank you for your input! I Ithink I'll give it a go. Earlier I was weighing pros and cons of quizlet and Anki against each other, but I think in this way they can supplement each other quite well.
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