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Thank you so much for your advice. I have done all of the above before and it never worked.
But you make a point about renaming the files…I had the deck under a different name and maybe wires got crossed somewhere. This time it works. I made sure all the files kept their original names and that before I started using the decks on my android I made sure to “download missing media” and it worked by some miricle. I’m not sure what did it but it works and I have installed three decks with sound!!! Words do not express how happy this makes me. I am a little anal and that the sound wasn’t working was bugging me!
Thanks to all you folks for your help. I really appreciate it.
*megadigitalhugs*
I think I agree with this in the context of normal flashcards. If you have a set and you use them one week to cram for an exam they are only effective for your short term memory.
What Anki does and what I think hasn’t been taken into account is showing you cards that you haven’t seen in a long time. This is to help put the cards into your long term memory and for me I feel that this works.
Also as Narcoleptic LTD so eloquently said – Anki is just the pin. You need to use the words in context to re-enforce what Anki has done. This will also help you in actual situation recall. For me those words that aren’t staying put I start making sentences with. Thinking about further associations than just the English word for example with the noun いぬ I pictured my pet dog. The more attachments the stickier it is.
oh and in the beginning I noticed that I was learning the words in the order that they appeared ie I knew what was coming next and that is not a functional attachment. So hit the shuffle button to prevent that.
This would be me http://twitter.com/#!/Corrblimey729
I hardly ever use twitter as there are plants that have more interesting days than me but maybe with more of a community I could be encouraged.
Thanks for the junk email warning. I was wondering why my account didn’t realise that I was a full member.
Its funny as I was walking around Tsutaya yesterday I saw the poster for “My Mean Senpai” Its a little victory every time I understand something that is in natural Japanese around me, even if it was pre-learned. I have a feeling that I’m going to enjoy studying with Gakuu.
I did follow that guide. That’s how I got the flashcards to work. I’ve been to scared to ask how to make it work on the anki forums as all people seem to get back is technobabble and although I’m not computer illiterate technobabble intimidates me.
I checked the cards on AnkiWeb and they play the sound there. also when I synced the cards on AnkiDroid I got a message that said “downloading media 0/43″ or of a similar ilk. It never seemed to go up through the numbers as it would if it was downloading however there is no error message. Is it possible that my SD card isn’t high enough capacity or something??
Sorry for sucking at AnkiDroid
Ashleigh
Really appreciate the advice but no joy. Do you have any other suggestions??
I tried what you suggested to no avail. However this morning I had a brain wave and I loaded the deck into my computer ANKI and then did a few cards before loading it onto my iPod. Talk about feeling like an idiot.
This opens the cards with just the pictures. It won’t load the audio sadly. However this better than nothing.
Hatt0ri I studied Biomedical Science and am currently working as an English teacher in Japan. There are many companies such as Interac etc and then there is the holy grail (in my opinion) of teaching English in Japan and that is the JET Programme. If you do some research on both of these you will be able to see the requirements.
I work for the JET programme and I only had a quick grammar check and was asked how I would describe the difference between two sentences to a student in simple English. As Rachel said they do prefer to hire native speakers of English but I have met an ALT who’s second language is English. He was a native level speaker however and his pronunciation was great.
Anyway there is a lot of information out there if you look and I’m happy to point you in the right direction if you get a little lost.
Thank you for the advice. I was the TextFugu decks that didn’t and it was like midnight here when I typed that message and it’d been a long day. Although living in Japan you think I’d have caught on.
Thank you again and I’ll let you know if removing and reinstalling Ankimobile from my device works
