Do you know how people of your target language do things differently in casual text messages/on the internet?
A good example: russians often drop the double dot from smiling face )))) vs. :)))) or how in some middle-eastern languages they write hhhhhhh instead of the “hahaha”.
I’ve been obsessed with building the perfect Anki deck from big frequency dictionaries, corpora, and model exams. It’s probably a waste of time lol
I started to go down this rabbit hole with templating/media but recognized it was getting a little out of control. It’s funny how I stuck with an obsolete SRS program for years because I didn’t want to deal with how complicated Anki seemed, I coincidentally take a refresher course on HTML/CSS/JS last year and now I’m ready to go digging into card code. 🤦🏻♀️
Still a little interested in attaching images though…
I know the feel. I’ve tried to build up a deck of words that cover each common reading of characters, and only a couple hundred charcters in it’s already taken a lot of time. Usually I’m just using other people’s decks, much respect to the people that build the high quality ones.
In one sense it’s probably not a very productive use of time, but I think it can be a great motivator. No resource (deck, video, app, class, etc) is going to make things easy or instant, but if you find or build one that gets you fired up to learn, that counts for a lot.
Learning and related tasks are never a waste of time :) that sounds awesome. I mean as long as it’s fun of course.
Well. It’s what you might call productive procrastination. Instead of studying my 5K list I’m building a 23K list and still feeling like it’s not enough so I go and search a 1M word corpus and before I know it I’m writing code to parse these pdfs and tokenize and all this mess.
I haven’t even mentioned the few days I spent going down the rabbit hole of trying to procedurally generate a crossword puzzle out of my anki deck. Would be really cool but it’s a catch 22. To find a good solution you need many words, but to make it easy enough for me to solve you need few.
That is starting to sound like a serious hobby wow. Cool as long as you don’t burn yourself out.
If you do create a crossword puzzle out of an anki deck please let us know! That would be kinda useful lol.