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I was wondering if there were any Anki savvy people out there who could help me solve this issue I’m having in Anki.
I’m taking Japanese courses, and we’re using Genki; so for every chapter there is a set amount of kanji you must least. In class, the teacher only has us copy the kanji chart to study and it takes forever, and doesn’t really help me learn the kanji at all. I’ve really liked the textfugu cards for kanji though, and I think it has worked well so far so I want to make sets the same way for Genki kanji.
I tried looking at the fields for the cards in his decks, and instead of a default front and back, he has a “kanji field” for the front and two other fields “meaning” and “reading”. At first I guessed that Anki was awesome enough that if you put multiple fields like that, you make the card once and it would duplicate the card, giving the meaning as the back of one and the reading as the back on the second time. Unfortunately I was wrong and it only gave the card once, and doesn’t show the reading at all, only the meaning as the answer. Looking at the actual individual cards in the textfugu kanji decks, I see that there are two of each card, I can’t see a single difference with them though, so then I assumed that if you make duplicate cards, it will default the next one to the unused field (which would be the “reading” field for me). Unfortunately that didn’t work and I ended up with two duplicate cards that showed the meaning only. I would appreciate it if anyone could lend me a hand here. Thank you.
I’ll get back to you on this one. Don’t have time at the moment, but will have a read through soon.
Thanks for the reply, and I look forward to any words of wisdom you may provide. I haven’t learned any of the kanji, and just been answering the assignments straight from my notes (taking the class online) and I’m realizing that I really need to learn these, just the kanji chart is terrible though.
P.S. read your thread about Anki 2 while looking for any threads with my answer before I posted, and though it didn’t have the answer to my question it was very helpful, so thank you for that.
I’m still coming back to this I promise. If I knew the answers exactly, I would have responded by now, but I only know parts, so I need to look up a few things first.
This type of thing is what I was going to cover in the next part of my Anki guide, just haven’t had the chance to do the research for it yet.
I’m actually fairly a beginner with Anki 2 myself, so I write up the guide as I research things and learn more about it.
So I will get back to this soon as I want to know this stuff as well. ^_^
In anki 2 you create notes.
The notes can have any number of fields.
The fields can be arranged into any number of cards.Example:
A note for studying kanji could have the fields “Kanji”, “Meaning”, and “Reading”.
From this note you could generate a cards with “Kanji” on the front and “Meaning” on the back and another card with “Kanji on the front and “Reading” on the back.Click through here and see if it helps.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8fdP2HirgM-a0JueGkzRUJVamc&usp=sharingEdit: I just realized that G-Drive sorts numbers stupidly. Go in order, 1.png, 2.png, ….
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This reply was modified 10 years, 10 months ago by
thisiskyle.
Thanks for the guide thisiskyle, saved me a bit of time.
A question though. When I create two card types, one for reading and one for meaning, I fill out the fields and click Add, it puts two copies of the reading card in the deck.
When I complete both of those it says, some related or buried cards were delayed until a later session, click unbury to show them now.
When I click that it brings up two copies of the Meaning card.
So first question why is it creating two copies of each card?
Second question why is it burying the second card?
I found that when I turn off the option to bury related cards it works properly. Only creating one of each card. I still don’t know why it would create two when the option is selected though…
It doesn’t create two copies. When you study a brand new card in Anki it shows it to you twice. The first time is the “learning” stage or something, then the second is review. If you have a bunch of cards due, the second (review) time it comes up will be after all your other cards. That is to say, you will see the new card once to learn it, then see it again at the end of your session. If you only have one new card (and no reviews due for that deck), then this means you will see the same card twice back to back.
I forgot about burying related cards….That’s a feature built into Anki to keep you from over-studying a particular fact. If you have a bunch of cards that you are reviewing, it keeps you from seeing two related cards back to back (which is supposedly bad since you haven’t had time to ‘forget’ at all). If you only have two cards in a deck and they are related, that means that the program won’t show you both cards in a session; it will delay the second card to the next study session.
Both of these problems go away as the number of cards in a deck gets above about 10.
Weird. I don’t know how I wouldn’t have noticed that before.
Thanks for that. ^_^
@Admiral Awesome – Has this answered your questions?
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