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GigaSC

Making an Anki Deck

I wanted to make an Anki deck for the GoBilly Books' (I know a memrise course exists, I have been using it). I wanted to know how anyone who has previously done this chose to set-up their cards and what's most been most effective for people?

Native (front) -> Korean (Back)?

Korean (front) -> Native (Back)?

Korean (front) -> Image (Back)?

Also how do you split words up when they have multiple meanings? i.e. 배 / 위

If possible a picture of the card creation page would be extra helpful, Thanks.

Posted Jul 25, 2016, 1:12 AM UTC

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pop88•

Hi! I always set the card type as "Basic (and reversed card)", and put the front as Korean and the back as native (it doesn't make a difference if you switch the two though). What that does is that it creates 2 cards, with the front and back switched between the two cards, so when you study you will come across both sides.

For words with multiple meanings, just create separate cards for the separate entries and put some kind of hint? Like 배 (body) and 배 (vehicle).

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GigaSCOP•

Doesn't it get cumbersome to have to do multiple reviews of the same content if you use a basic (reversed card)? When the cards come around to be reviewed as well, wouldn't it slow down the overall learning speed of the vocab?

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Adacore•

I find it useful to have to think about it both ways. It's actually quite different, and there are some words in my deck where English->Korean is easy for me, but Korean->English is really hard, or vice versa. I think it increases my learning speed, rather than slowing it, but I don't have any objective evidence for that.

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Gobluebro•

Interesting. I heard that when you use your native language to learn it makes stuff in your brain connect from Korean to native making it slower and so images would be a better way of doing that. But it's not easy to make an image for everything. Although in OP's case it may be beneficial in more ways since you could see which 배/위 it was

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pop88•

For me, because I want to test both Korean -> Native and Native -> Korean, so I create the basic (reversed card).
If I only put the Korean -> Native, sometimes I would have difficulty getting Korean from Native. It's like reading will be easy but writing won't.
For example, it might be easy to translate the meaning of 시계를 차다 but harder to translate "to wear a watch".

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robobob9000•

Not really, generally reversed cards reinforce each other and push each other deeper into memory. If you just used one card you might need to review it 20 times to push it into long term memory, but if you use two cards then you might only need to review each individual card 10 times. Or maybe you'll need to review the L1 > L2 15 times, and the L2 > L1 5 times. Or vice versa.

Personally I've found that abstract words are easy to go from L1 > L2, but they're more difficult to go from L2 > L1. And concrete words are easy to go from L2 > L1, but are slightly more difficult to go from L1 > L2.

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t3amkill3r•

I wouldn't make cards for single words. Try sentences instead, so you can see how the word is used in context.

Also, try to put sentences where only one word or grammar concept is new to you and only put the translation of the new word on the back. After a while you can tansition to putting the Korean definition on the back.

Here is how my cards for Chinese look like:

front

back

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GigaSCOP•

I plan to make grammar decks seperate in a different format using cloze deletion, it was more so for just individual vocabulary pieces I can use.

I'm going from GoBilly's books like I said and understanding concepts well, just I felt as if I had no way to use what I was learning so I wanted to learn the vocab hence I used the memrise course someone made for his first book.

However that would fall short after the first book so I'm planning ahead and finding out the best way to make an anki deck now. I'll include sample sentences on the answer side for sure however.

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robobob9000•

Vocabulary:

Korean (front) -> 2 Images + Native (Back). Only make one card for words with multiple meanings.

2 Images (front) -> Korean (back). Make a new card for each meaning.

I like using 2 contrasting images on one card instead of just one because some words are really tough to visually represent. But you can create a story with 2 very different images to trigger recall of abstract vocabulary.

Grammar:

Korean (front) > Korean+English (back). Use cloze deletion on the front side of the cards.

Don't waste any time with Native (front) cards. If you want to save more time in the card creation process it's okay to remove the English from the back of cards. But personally I like putting English on the back as a reference, especially for words with multiple meanings.

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