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).

https://preview.redd.it/h99bt7d5vdbh1.png?width=1778&format=png&auto=webp&s=55408460c097a02065ea17f5416ea92de6324dc5

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 :))

Hey everyone,

I downloaded Anki last week, and I'm already feeling like it's an amazing app that I'll be using for the rest of my life.

However, I have to admit I'm not using it for many things yet since I'm still learning the ropes. To test the app out, the first things I did were downloading the Review Heatmap add-on, AnkiConnect (though I'm not using it just yet), and a world flags deck.

I've actually known about Anki for about two years, but I only felt motivated to finally use it after reading a few chapters of Scott Young's book, Ultralearning. Honestly, I regret not starting sooner because this app is the exact solution to a problem I've always hated having: not being able to retain and recall the content I study.

Naturally, my very first custom deck is about the principles and tactics presented in the book. But since it's my first time making cards, I feel like they are pretty rudimentary.

So, I wanted to ask for some tips: if you also use Anki to memorize specific concepts from books, how do you structure/create your flashcards for that? Any advice would be awesome!

Hey guys , i did make few decks on Anki , idk how else can start learning more words , do i need to make deck for each word i learn during the day and learn it next day, can someone who used it for language learning can tell me how to use it properly to learn more vocabs.

And sorry, if this question has been asked many times

Been using anki for a while now and honestly it genuinely works, the spaced repetition side of things is solid and i stopped forgetting stuff the way i used to

but my one issue for the longest time was card quality. i'd make cards too broad, too wordy, or just poorly structured and they wouldn't stick the way they should. i'd review them and still feel like i didn't actually understand the concept, just recognized the words

what helped me fix it was changing how i approach the material before i even open anki. instead of going straight to making cards after reading something, i started testing myself on the concept first using brain dump, it generates flashcards from whatever u paste and has a teach back feature that checks understanding before i even start making anki cards

if i couldn't explain it simply i knew my understanding wasn't solid enough to make good cards yet. going back to the material with that gap identified made the cards i made after way more targeted and effective

the review sessions started feeling different after that. instead of just recognizing answers i was actually recalling and understanding them

wonder if anyone else had issues with card quality early on and what changed it for you

I googled it and tried to follow the instructions on the FAQ but it's not working and I don't know what I'm doing wrong please can someone help

I study several languages, and I have a 10 new words limit for one, and I would like to have 15 new words limit for a different deck. how do I set this up? Whenever I change the daily limit on one, it changes for all the decks.

I have this issue. I have recently switched to studying all topics together instead of separate. I have 3 subdecks in my general knowledge deck:

- General knowledge - paper (for answers I need to write down. Formula's, tricky spelling, etc.)

- General knowledge - pc (tiny little programming exercises)

- General knowledge - nothing (classic Anki cards)

Now, I still need to study them separately. I'd like to do my anki cards on the couch, or in the train. But for the pc questions I will have to be behind my desk. So there is value on studying these separately.

But on the other hand, I like to limit my total reviews to a certain number, and only add new cards if the total amount of reviews is under this certain number.

So some days I might have 20% paper, 60% nothing and 20% pc. Other days maybe 50% paper, 50% pc and 0 nothing, depending on the review load in the subdecks.

As far as I can tell, there is no way to do this in Anki, but I though I'd ask just in case I'd missed something.

I'd also appreciate other comments on how to solve this issue in another way, or a philosophical change of mind etc.

Until now, I only used it for basic vocabulary training. Word in the front card and the explanation in the back card. There seems to be a lot tools that I can use. What are your advices on language -particularly vocabulary- learning via Anki?

Of course Id do the maze and submaze, but id like to check who studies daily snd who doesnt.

So normally I do my anki cards everyday but I've been bombarded with homework and have been slacking. Sometimes what I do to cram for tests is to do custom study, study by card state or tag, then click all cards in random order (don't reschedule). What I like about this is that when I get a card wrong, it shows the card again in like 1 minute which I know is not great for long-term memorization but it helps me for cramming. I want it to reschedule my cards in my deck rather than not rescheduling my cards. Does anyone know how I can do that?

Hi everyone,

I have been using Anki to learn a language for about a month. Initially, my note type only generated 1 card (Card 1: English → TL text input). I have about 800 notes in my deck which I already learnt. Today, I decided to add two new card templates to the same note type: Card 2 (Reading) and Card 3 (Listening/Dictation).

As expected, this instantly generated ~1,600 new sibling cards for my existing database. To avoid a massive backlog, I spent over two hours today clearing thousands of cards, hammering "Easy" on about 90% of them since I already knew the core vocabulary.

My settings:

• Daily new card limit: 25
• Sibling burying: All 3 options checked (Bury new/review/interday siblings)

My goal: I want to learn exactly 25 new words (notes) per day, but I also want to keep using all 3 card types for better retention.

My technical question:

When I study Card 1 of a new note today, Cards 2 and 3 get buried. When they unbury tomorrow, will they consume part of my 25 "New cards/day" limit?

If so, my pace will drop to ~8 new words per day (25/3), which breaks my textbook pace.

What I need to know:

How can I configure Anki (or adjust my workflow) to guarantee I introduce exactly 25 new notes daily, while ensuring that Cards 2 and 3 eventually show up without stealing the new-card slots from brand-new words?

If I messed up, sorry to myself. I'm just trying to be effective here, and having the three types of card seemed to be a great idea, but it didn't turn out as expected.

Thanks!

Hi, I'm so sorry if this question is ridiculously simple but I'm brand new to Anki for language learning and don't know if this question has been answered yet haha

I want to create notes (I think that's the right word?) for verbs with 3 fields -- english, german, root german conjugated (this third field will be used for irregular verbs only). And then I want to make 4 cards for each verb note: english <-> german, german <-> root german conjugated (perhaps the german<->root german conjugated will go into a different deck than the english <-> german, so that I know when the german verb prompt is asking for conjugation vs english translation... if that makes sense.)

However, I of course have no idea how to achieve this, which is why im here lol. someone please help.

OR, if you have a more intuitive method for studying irregular verb translations and conjugations, please let me know and share how to do it on anki!.

Thanks :D

I've been using Anki Mac on and off for a while for trivia memorization. I use my computer periodically, so I won't touch Anki for weeks sometimes. I'd like to know more about the iOS Anki app before jumping in, the 25$ price tag is a hurdle, especially because I'm totally unfamiliar with the AnkiWeb system: if the app is a one time purchase, how are they paying for the long term server use? How is the app UI in general, are there hiccups to using it I might not expect from desktop use?

What I do is get rid of the new cards per day and only do all the reviews in the morning before class

Then throughout the day i do 3-5 new cards when I have some time, like waiting in line, commuting, or just idle time. I usually get about 20-30 new cards per day doing this

I use the custom study feature to increase the daily new card by 3-5

Since new cards have a learning step of 10m, with so little cards(5), it takes me less than 10 minutes to complete all of them, so none of the cards even get to wait 10 minutes, is this okay?

I'm using Anki for learning German.

Cards/Notes

I have these note types:

• verbs
• nouns
• adjectives
• prepositions
• other (adverbs and phrases)

All of them, besides the specialized fields, have examples, notes, and images.

verbs has these cards branching from it:

• translate-forward (English -> German)
• translate-backward
• past (präteritum form)
• perfect (perfekt form)

nouns cards:

• translate-forward
• translate-backward
• plural
• article (Though I think it would be better to remove this and include the article in translate-forward instead)

adjectives and other

• translate-forward
• translate-backward

adjectives also initially had adjective forms (comparative and superlative), but they follow the same pattern 99% of the time, so I removed them.

prepositions

• translate-forward
• translate-backward
• case (Nominativ/Akkusativ/Dativ/Genitiv)

Decks

All of these used to be in a single deck, but with so many card types I had to spend an extra second during a study to figure out what each card is asking. This was unnecessarily distracting. The deck override feature helped with that: it lets you sort the cards into different decks automatically as you add them. In combination with subdecks, I got this:

my-german/
├── translate-forward
├── translate-backward
├── verb-past
├── verb-perfect
└── other/
    ├── noun-article
    ├── noun-plural
    └── prepositions-case

Additionally, this lets me optimize the algorithm to each card type individually. Some of these card types are much easier than others, so a single deck was probably doing some sort of averaging, which probably resulted in easy cards being shown too often and hard cards too rarely.

Experience so far

• I don't think having multiple decks hurts the learning, contrary to what [the manual says](https://docs.ankiweb.net/editing#using-decks-appropriately). I think that's because I split them in a different way than what it argues against there.

• I wish I could pick which cards not to create when I'm adding a note. Sometimes, for example, I'm adding a separable verb (prefix + base word), where I'm already very familiar with the base word. In this case I don't want the präteritum/perfekt cards to be created. Currently I suspend those from the card browser, which takes a bit too many clicks.

• I went a bit too far when I made a separate card type for noun articles. I think my brain would form stronger connections if I had to remember the article together with the word. Changing it now would mess up the scheduling though, so I'm not sure what to do.

• This took quite a lot of time in the beginning, but I haven't touched it much since.

Essentially I am reviewing metabolic pathways, but it gets confusing when the cards are out of order. Is there a way to do card 1 then card 2 then back to card 1 if I mess up card 3? I hope that makes sense. Thanks!