Automatic German Anki Card Generator From Word List using Wiktionary Look-Up
Hey guys. Guy trying to learn German here. One of my greatest annoyances with learning German (or any language I guess) has been actually creating the cards, finding all the tenses etc. I'm currently taking a German course, and I find it annoying to create cards from our lectures. So, I vibe-coded this simple script to automatically retrieve translations as well as tenses etc. from Wiktionary. Hopefully it could be useful for some of you :))
Disclaimer: This project was vibe-coded using Claude, though I am a programmer by profession and have tried to make sure it's not all slop. Also, it requires you to run the script with Python, meaning it takes a little bit of technical know-how (running stuff in the terminal etc). If someone is interested in the card generator and would like me to make it into a more polished program, I could consider doing that.
Check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/jarlsondre/german-anki-card-generator/tree/main
For example, if you enter the word "laufen", it finds sample sentences, the various tenses and formats it nicely (imo).
You can also write words in bulk, stored in a .txt file, which is what I've mostly done for my German course. The script generates a .apkg file that you can import directly into your Anki. If this is interesting to you, feel free to check it out on Github. If you're not a technical person, you might still be able to figure out how to use it if you paste the GitHub link into ChatGPT or Claude.
More information on how to use the scripts can be seen in the GitHub repository. I hope this could be useful to some people. Let me know if it already exists :))