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Missing Smart.fm – But … found something SWEET out about Anki

Ryan — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:30:47 +0000

So I was screwing around with the ひらがな　

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Ryan — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:38:13 +0000

Son of a motherless goat …. arg. I hit the ‘Submit’ button by accident.

The one thing I didn’t like about Anki compared to Smart.FM is that you didn’t have the option to type an answer. I learn by typing and can retain better when I do type. So this was a huge blow. but you can turn this feature on per deck in Anki.

Sorry if this was covered before, but meh, its neato. I will also say be careful messing around with the deck, you can really screw something up if you aren’t careful. This walk through is true for /any/ Anki deck not just TextFugu decks.

1. Open the deck in question
2. Click Settings >> Deck Properties
3. Click “blah [###] facts” and click “Edit”
4. Select the option that has the larger number of facts (Should display ‘Forward’ and ‘Reverse’
– In this case Hiragana has 104 facts so I select that)
5. Click ‘Card Layout’
6. Locate the third option from the bottom, it should be set to ‘Don’t ask me to type the answer’.
7. Change this option to “Compare with field ‘Back’”
8. Close all of the windows and dance

I found it is much easier for me to be honest with myself if I have a huge red mark glaring in my face :)

Enjoy!

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Kaona — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:24:07 +0000

Woah, that’s super sweet.

Thanks for telling us!

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Mars — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:50:06 +0000

This is awesome.

Honestly, I felt like I wasn’t learning as well as I could be with Anki, and this pretty much solved it.

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MisterM2402 [Michael] — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:25:47 +0000

I don’t think this feature would really help me cause it’s almost like it’s training me to think in roumaji (by typing it). I’m honest enough with myself, so I don’t think it would make a difference, and it would just take a lot longer too. Also, I don’t think it would work with the verbs cards I have in my main vocab deck: I have one card for “masu form” and one for “dictionary form” for each word, and sometimes I answer with the wrong form – just because I’m not 100% focussed or going too fast – but I still would have known the correct answer. That would fail me on the card when I shouldn’t really have. A better idea would be to just write out your answers instead: gets writing practice, makes you think in real Japanese (not roumaji) and allows for slight mess-ups that Anki wouldn’t forgive (like I just mentioned).

However, I thought everyone knew about that feature… Am I the only one who messes about in the settings/preferences of most programs to find stuff like this? Must be.

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Mars — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:30:12 +0000

@MisterM

If you’re using Koichi’s Anki decks, the answers are in hiragana, so I thought I had to type it that way. That’s what I’ve been doing and it works fine.

I’m guessing it would work on the ones with kanji in the same way.

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MisterM2402 [Michael] — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:11:32 +0000

@Mars: What I meant is that you have to type roumaji on the keyboard, unless you are fancy-shmancy enough to have a real Japanese keyboard haha (goddamnit lottery, hurry up and win yourself for me so I can go and import one!). That’s the annoying thing about typing Japanese with an English keyboard, though I guess it’s not so bad if you don’t have to look at your fingers.

Doesn’t this just look so awesome?! http://webbeat.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/japanese-keyboard.jpg
(yeah, I know most Japanese keyboards have English letters on them too, but this is a customisable OLED one that can change colour and everything :3)

HOLY JEBUS, Amazon.co.uk are selling Japanese keyboards for just over £20 – http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000LD3AKS/ref=asc_df_B000LD3AKS3862138?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&tag=googlecouk06-21&linkCode=asn&creative=22206&creativeASIN=B000LD3AKS *0*

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budonoseito — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:57:23 +0000

Online japanese keyboard. Kanji and hiragana versions
http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/japanese.php#