Kelamir · HackerTrans

hace 3 añosdiscuss

As a novice at self-hosting, I previously attempted to use it, but got stuck as I didn't understand MySQL, and learning it just for Gitea was too much. However, I've had some progress with with another database recently, so I would like to give Gitea another try soon.

Kelamir

hace 3 añosdiscuss

Etymology of Anki is the Japanese word which means memorization :)

Kelamir

hace 3 añosdiscuss

As the other responder said, don't use Anki for memorization, only for reviewing what you already remember. I recommend using mnemonics for memorizing words. For katakana hiragana, refer to https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/

Kelamir

hace 3 añosdiscuss

As an example, if you're learning a langauge and studying vocab, you could discard any cards that have over 90 days interval. After all, you're going to meet that word while reading a book or watching something in the target language in the next 90 days, and if not - you shouldn't have memorized that word anyway.

Kelamir

hace 3 añosdiscuss

Could you explain why that might not be a good thing to do, siva7?

Kelamir

hace 3 añosdiscuss

In what way is Anki less developer friendly? They participated in Google Summer of Code last year!

Kelamir

hace 3 añosdiscuss

People could stop using it, because as opposed to Anki, Duolingo is far from real language learning. At least I tried it a couple of years ago and that was my experience.

Kelamir

hace 3 añosdiscuss

Let's be honest, Duolingo is a joke in comparison to anything serious like Anki. I agree that Anki alone doesn't cover it. One has to immerse in the target language to make progress. Anki is only there to speed up the process.

Kelamir

hace 3 añosdiscuss

But does it have as many addons and decks? https://ankiweb.net/shared/addons/ https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/german

There's a number of Anki alternatives such as https://mnemosyne-proj.org/, but Anki has an active collaborative community, as opposed to most of alternatives, as far as I know.

Kelamir

hace 3 añosdiscuss

> I guess difficult part would be to detect the fact which is worth to be added as a card.

The time to memorize something is supposed to outweight the time you'd need to look it up. Say the target is five minutes - in that case, it's important to follow the Pareto rule as well, and to discard any cards that take you more than that to memorize in total, including the time you recall them. In practice, it means discarding over 20% of cards if possible, to learn 80% that are easy to remember.

Kelamir

hace 4 añosdiscuss

Sorry to hear about that. Valve has customer support though. On a request I had a few months ago I got responses promptly.

Kelamir

hace 5 añosdiscuss

You could also press on the timestamp of the message, which will present you with an option to add it to the list of your favorites, which you'll be able to access from your profile.

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