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Hi folks,
I’m studying with both Anki and WaniKani right now – I like WaniKani but I’m not sure I’ll be able to afford it in the future. (Studying abroad sadly means being dirt poor.)
Anyway, I’m also trying to keep a personal deck where I put cards of kanji/vocab that haven’t appeared in WaniKani yet and such, just words I pick up here and there and would like to learn already. However, I’m having trouble setting up the cards.
What I would like:
- kanji shown, one card asks for meaning, another for reading (a bit like WaniKani)
- meaning shown, card asks for reading and kanjiIs there any way to set up this kind of layout? So far I haven’t really been successful but maybe other people have some tricks up their sleeves?
Cheers
KjestaIt seems like what you are asking is pretty basic, if you have figured out how to make new cards already, so forgive me if maybe I am misinterpreting what you are asking for.
Here’s how I would do it (and just did it to test it out):
1) Create a new deck by clicking “Create Deck.”
2) Open the deck (or skip step 1 and open an existing deck).
3) Click “Add” from the top menu.
4) In the new window choose “Basic” for the “Type” field at the top left corner.
You now need to create 3 cards. For this example I will use: 本
For the first card do the following:
1) Add 本 to the space in the “Front” field.
2) Add “Book” to the “Back” field.
3) Click the “Add” button at the bottom left of the window.
For the second:
1) Add 本 to the space in the “Front” field.
2) Add ほん to the “Back” field.
3) Click the “Add” button at the bottom left of the window.
For the third:
1) Add “Book” to the “Front” field.
2) Add ほん, then hit enter, and add 本 to the “Back” field.
3) Click the “Add” button at the bottom left of the window.
This should give you three cards that do what you want.
Let me know if this isn’t what you mean.
Thanks for the explanation! I got this far already, but I thought there might be a faster (semi-automatic, without having to create three cards manually) way to do it. I found this online:
http://eastasiastudent.net/study/anki-structure
Sadly, things seem to have changed in Anki 2, so the same process doesn’t apply anymore. Right now I’m using the Tofugu vocab cards as a template, that way I enter the kanji, reading and meaning and it generates two cards (kanji -> reading, kanji -> meaning) for me without extra work. Now if only I could make the (meaning -> kanji & reading) pop up by itself too!
I appreciate the explanation, though :-)
EDIT: I actually figured it out by re-reading that article and examining Tofugu’s card set-up more closely. I edited my template so it had three fields (kanji, meaning, reading) and created three card set-ups (in the “Cards” option) from it, each with a different combination of the fields. Now I just enter the right data and I get my three cards to study with. Yay! Haven’t tried it on more than a practice card yet, but here’s hoping it’ll work.
EDIT2: Meh, the new card (kanji -> reading & meaning) doesn’t show up after all. Weird! So, open for suggestions again.
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Kjesta.
What do you mean it doesn’t show up? As in you make the card and it doesn’t use that card?
Does it show the other two versions?
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