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Anki
Aug 18, 2014 11:19:15 GMT
Post by Jembru on Aug 18, 2014 11:19:15 GMT
Does anyone know how I can make the font larger on anki? control+ doesn't work.. it does something, but I'm not sure what and it's not making the font larger. On this PC, the font is tiny. I started a deck for writing kanji after all. It isn't as good as the one Demonhead found, because it doesn't have the stroke order, but you know me, I like to be able to control the words I add to my decks so they reflect what I'm studying outside of anki. The problem is, I have to use my tablet for this because I can't see the kanji well enough on the desk top version. The same goes for the core vocabulary decks, because of the reading cards.
I've looked around the controls but can't seem to find anything that affects font size..
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Post by chocopie on Aug 18, 2014 15:36:54 GMT
You need to edit the cards themselves. Open a deck, go to Edit in the bottom left, click Cards and then in the Styling box change the font size.
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Anki
Aug 18, 2014 17:19:02 GMT
Post by Jembru on Aug 18, 2014 17:19:02 GMT
You need to edit the cards themselves. Open a deck, go to Edit in the bottom left, click Cards and then in the Styling box change the font size. Thank you so much! I would never have thought to look there. I assumed it 'edit' would only affect the current card. I've made it nice and big now so I'll be able to see every last stroke!
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Post by Jembru on Sept 22, 2014 6:20:10 GMT
I fixed something on anki myself! I thought I'd share anyway though in case it ever affects others..
I'm alternating my focus between improving my hand-written Japanese, and improving my reading to help me study in Japanese only from January. I started a deck on anki for compounds that use kanji I've so far studied the writing of. This is quite time consuming, though, so I don't want to use my core vocabulary decks during this time. I use the core decks mainly for reading practice, so it doesn't matter if I don't keep up with the reviews. I needed a way to suspend these decks, so I don't keep seeing an extra 500+ reviews waiting for me.
Then it hit me.. what if I go into settings, add a group so my changes only affect these decks, and change 'maximum reviews per day', and 'new cards' to zero? It worked! Now they leave me alone now!
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Anki
Oct 14, 2014 23:49:41 GMT
Post by Jembru on Oct 14, 2014 23:49:41 GMT
If I get a card wrong that was previously on something like 4 month increments, does anki recognise that I previously knew the card well and increase the increments faster than it would for a card I only added a few days ago and got wrong?
I ask because recently I've been mainly adding new words only to my writing practice deck, so my main deck throws up fewer words each day. I've forgotten (or confused) words in that deck that had previously had large review times. I'm not sure, but I think they seem to return more slowly. I'm only noticing because there are so few reviews coming up in that deck. Maybe I'm imagining the effect though?
Also, does anyone wonder about what their best words say about them? I realise that the order they were added plays some part, but still, I wonder about my top 3 best known words being 方向音痴, 徹夜 and 梯子... (the latter in the context of pub crawling) too revealing. Until recently 便秘 had the number one slot.. I mean, what? I'm a vegetarian, we can't even imagine this condition...
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Anki
Oct 17, 2014 4:43:36 GMT
Post by Bokusenou on Oct 17, 2014 4:43:36 GMT
Jembru Hmm, I'm not sure, but Anki has a support forum you could try: anki.tenderapp.com/They're usually pretty helpful with answering questions. Ooh, where do you see which are your best known words? I admit I haven't looked around in my Anki statistics much... My best known words are probably words I hear or read a lot.
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Anki
Oct 17, 2014 5:05:12 GMT
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Post by Jembru on Oct 17, 2014 5:05:12 GMT
I just sorta guessed from the time between reviews. Most cards are 5 months or less, but I have a small handful, like those I mentioned, that popped up recently and are saying 7 months or more. I think these must have been added soon after I started using anki, and just never had a fail. They actually are connected... They were all on a list of words picked up on nights out. Maybe I need to start studying under the influence. ^^
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Anki
Nov 11, 2014 21:33:52 GMT
Post by Jembru on Nov 11, 2014 21:33:52 GMT
Does anyone else use the whiteboard?
Anki crashed recently on my tablet and stopped letting me sync. Whenever I asked it to it just closed and I got the 'anki droid has stopped working' message. So I deleted it and re-installed it.
Turns out I must have been using a really old version (I started using anki a year ago last May and never updated). It's surprisingly different and taking me a little while to get used to it. I can't seem to flip the cards any more, so that the front becomes the back. That used to be a simple button on the edit page, but seems to be gone now.
I was telling Rin about upgrading and she mentioned the whiteboard. I THINK the old version had some kind of 'write the answers' option, but I'd never used it and it wasn't called the whiteboard. I really wish I'd discovered this feature 2 weeks ago. It is a much quicker way to practice writing kanji.
My original plan was to move any English to kanji cards (ie, new words I was studying while practicing writing) to my main deck and delete the rest of the writing practice deck. Now though, I've just changed the settings to 'zero reviews' like I did for the core decks while I wasn't using them. I've moved out new words as planned, and deleted easier cards, but left words with some trickier kanji in the deck. So it's there if I decide I fancy some writing practice. I wouldn't have bothered if it hadn't been for discovering the whiteboard. Thank you Bokusenou, you're the best!
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Anki
Nov 12, 2014 2:31:36 GMT
Post by Bokusenou on Nov 12, 2014 2:31:36 GMT
Glad it helped! I've been using it regularly since I first got a smartphone a year or so ago. It some older versions it had to be enabled in the settings, but I guess they figured out that it was too useful a feature to be hidden in the settings. It's really useful in situations where carrying paper around would be a hassle. It's too bad it looks like the iOS version doesn't have it, so iphone users can't also enjoy it...
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Post by 魔 on Nov 13, 2014 1:26:29 GMT
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Post by 魔 on Nov 20, 2014 1:41:49 GMT
魔: So what on earth is this Yomichan meant to do? It's not what I had thought it was for. I installed it, thinking it meant that when I come across words and phrases while browsing online, I could just click a mouse button and they'd be magically added to anki. I just found a site that does something like that. Doesn't use anki, it's its own sort of thing. www.lingua.ly
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Anki
Feb 2, 2015 9:33:42 GMT
Post by Jembru on Feb 2, 2015 9:33:42 GMT
Has anyone else noticed that sometimes words you know well and always get right on anki, just won't come to you while speaking? I used to think it was just me but I've since spoken to a few others who mentioned the same thing. It's as though once you start speaking, different cognitive processes take centre stage and the 'memorise and recall' process that serves you so well when writing or using anki, suddenly just hangs their in the background shrugging its shoulders at you saying, 'eh, sorry mate.. yer on yer own'.
After realising this, I started to relax how I use anki. I've put restrictions on how many reviews appear each day and I only do 3 decks every day: Kanji, tricky vocabulary and passive vocabulary (the latter is where I put new cards. They're moved to my main deck once I feel confident with them). After that, the other decks are optional, and limited to 100 reviews max (although I sometimes choose to do all reviews if the mood takes me).
I figured that at this stage anki is actually holding me back. My time would be far better spent listening to podcasts and using Japanese. Now that my studies are more immersive, once new words have started to stick, I should be able to review them simply by encountering them in use, rather than in the 'removed from context' format of anki. Although I DO add example sentences on anki, it's not quite the same as just listening to someone speak and having that 'aha, there's the word I learnt the other day', or even better, 'ah, I forgot that word even existed!' moment!
I started relaxing my use of anki mid-December, and while I started gradually introducing more immersive study methods around that time, I only started studying monolingually in January, so it's a bit soon to say whether or not it's improving my recall while speaking. However, I want to say very tentatively that I do feel I'm fishing for words a bit less often.
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Anki
Feb 3, 2015 8:42:38 GMT
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Post by chocopie on Feb 3, 2015 8:42:38 GMT
Has anyone else noticed that sometimes words you know well and always get right on anki, just won't come to you while speaking? I find it depends on the word. Words that I particularly like/think are useful, I'm likely to remember in conversation. Other words I'm more likely to recognise in conversation.
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Anki
Feb 3, 2015 15:38:14 GMT
Post by Jembru on Feb 3, 2015 15:38:14 GMT
I find it depends on the word. Words that I particularly like/think are useful, I'm likely to remember in conversation. Other words I'm more likely to recognise in conversation. This surely has a big part to play in it, yeah. Although I suppose it would apply however you chose to remember words. For me, I don't always see the connection. For example, one word that I had trouble with for quite a long time was 環境. I could recall it just fine on anki, but when I came to need it when speaking it wouldn't come. I did environmental science at 6th form, and then zoology at university. I'm a bit of a hippy too, so the environment is something I feel genuine affection towards. So it seems odd that it just wouldn't stick. Then one day I was listening to a lesson on Jpod101 and they were talking about a language immersion study program. In this the expression '英語環境' came up. It was the first time I'd encountered the word being used to mean environment in that context. It was a real 'aha' moment, and I immediately started using it in my video journals when talking about the difficulties of studying Japanese outside of Japan, or talking about how important it is to me to study in a tidy area surrounded by beautiful things. Thus the word just clicked. Then there are words that not only stick right away, but they actually haunt me. Maybe others have this too? Words will just pop into your head and you can't stop thinking of them all day? For me the words, ブランコ、便秘、風呂敷 and for some reason ダンボール are common culprits. As a vegetarian who eats a lot of fruit and veg I assure you 便秘 has little relevance to me. It was just a word that came up on a night out once, and much giggling ensued... and has haunted me ever since. You could argue that we tend to remember naughty words more easily, and I do agree with this, but when I say I eat a lot of fruit, this includes having the tendency to eat entire 400g cartons of cherry tomatoes in one sitting. The word 下痢 is therefore a little more relevant to me. Yet this is another example of a word that I can't recall (although also often miss on anki too so maybe doesn't count). In any case, I don't want to stop using anki out-right. I think it is a tremendously effective way to memorise words. I just think that for me personally, it is better to spend more time speaking, writing and listening to real Japanese, and keep the monotonous drilling of vocabulary to a minimum.
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Anki
Feb 3, 2015 15:53:05 GMT
Post by chocopie on Feb 3, 2015 15:53:05 GMT
Then there are words that not only stick right away, but they actually haunt me. Maybe others have this too? Words will just pop into your head and you can't stop thinking of them all day? For me the words, ブランコ、便秘、風呂敷 and for some reason ダンボール are common culprits. 赤いブランコ!I could never forget 便秘 after I had a friend unexpectedly tell me about her struggles with her すごく頑固な便秘. Thanks friend. As for 風呂敷, I usually try and read about something in context out loud when I can't remember it. The out loud part is important because otherwise I kind of gloss over the words and convince myself that I've read it. So I suppose read some articles on the history/culture of 風呂敷?e.g. 風呂敷 comes up 78 times on this page!
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