Get the Anki appįortunately, Anki has a mobile app, and although it is a little bit on the pricey side for iPhone users ( free on Android), I would still recommend getting it.

If you want to add more than 20 cards a day, check section 4 on how to do this. Try and limit yourself to 25-50 new cards a day and always complete your reviews before studying any new cards. If you have the time to do this and want to then by all means go for it, however, I’d recommend starting off slow first and building yourself up. I went through phases of adding 250 cards a day and then I ended up having to do 1000 reviews a day, which took several hours to complete. The reason for this is simple, the more cards you add and study the more reviews you will get per day, and if you add a lot of cards every day then the number of cards you will have to review per day will soon get into the hundreds and if you’re not careful, the thousands. While I do recommend adding a lot of sentence flashcards to Anki, for use as a sentence bank of example sentences, it’s highly recommended that you prioritize reviewing over studying new cards. It can be quite easy, especially with some of the tools I will introduce a bit later, to add tonnes of cards to your decks.

There are a few language add-ons on the Anki add-ons page which I will link below, however, there may be others too so be sure to check out the add-ons page yourself. For example, the Japanese Support Add-on allows you to add Furigana readings above Japanese text. Install language-specific add-onsĭepending on which language you are studying, you may want to add some functionality to Anki to make it easier for you. Making good use of these keybindings will speed up review times considerably, allowing you to study and review more cards in less time. Ctrl+1-7: Marks a card a certain color, useful for organizing certain cards during review to come back to in the browser.Shift+1 or !: Suspend or unsuspend a card (removes it from reviews and marks it yellow in the card browser).– or =: Bury a card for a day (skips it for the current review session).R: Replay any audio that’s on the card.B: Open the Anki browser to see your card collection.A: Opens the add a new flashcard window.E: Opens the edit a flashcard window during reviewing.1,2,3,4: Mark your understanding of a card during review (1:again, 2:hard, 3:good, 4:easy).Space: Reveal the back of a flashcard during reviewing.For ease of use though I have gathered the most useful ones in a list below as a reference: Most of these can be figured out by using the menus within Anki as they have their shortcuts written on each menu item. Learn Anki’s shortcuts for faster review timesĪnki has a variety of useful shortcuts that can help with speeding up study and review time.

If you have a note type that creates 2 flashcards for displaying “Front” and “Back” then you can go to the Anki browser, sort by card type, and then select the cards that show the “Back” of the card first, and suspend or delete them.Ģ. This is to ensure that we are learning how to read the language, and not translate between it and your native language which can cause issues with output in the future. The simplest and most effective layout you can use for language flashcards is to have the target language on the front of the card and any readings, explanations, definitions, or translations on the back of the card. However, if you are just getting into Anki and aren’t really too sure on how to best use it yet then my biggest piece of advice would be to keep things as simple as you can for now.īy all means, explore different shared decks and add-ons but for now, you’ll want to keep your flashcards simple and with an easy-to-read layout. There are a variety of different additions you can make to Anki, and we will get into those further down this post. I’ve gathered most of my best tips here in this post so that you can streamline your Anki experience and make it easier to learn whatever language it is you’re trying to learn. Over the years I have spent hundreds of hours with Anki and have seen many different tools and tricks to improve the learning experience for language learners.

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