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Re:Becoming an Amateur Polyglot by __experiment__ on Sunday May 12, 2024 @04:55PM (#40337519)
i have learned many language (german, english, french, japanese, korean).

i have used Anki, Supermemo, Flashcards, Watched Series, Read Books and the only thing that seems to work is:

- Spaced Repetition - Something you actually enjoy(learning should be fun) - Comprehensible Input

anything else has not worked for me.

Re:Becoming an Amateur Polyglot by ix101 on Sunday May 12, 2024 @05:39PM (#40337806)
The limitation with flashcards is that you get the entire answer, not sure if there are flashcard apps with a hint function? I experimented with vocab training where you can peek the first two letters which helps jog the memory.
Re:Becoming an Amateur Polyglot by barrell on Sunday May 12, 2024 @08:02PM (#40338504)
There’s a hint function on phrasing.app :) we’re launching the public beta this week sometime
Re:Becoming an Amateur Polyglot by jeofken on Sunday May 12, 2024 @07:32PM (#40338386)
In Anki, select the “Cloze” card type, and add hints with this syntax

    {{c1::answer::hint}} 
Try encoding the same information in multiple cards to train your brain to understand the concept rather than recognise the card. Good luck!
Re:Becoming an Amateur Polyglot by mtalantikite on Sunday May 12, 2024 @07:00PM (#40338222)
Clozemaster has something like that where you can get the first letter as a hint. I tried Anki for a few languages and would always burn out making cards. Clozemaster is nice because it puts the word in the context of a sentence and then has an “explain” function that uses ChatGPT to explain the grammar. And they group words by sets of frequency (100 most common, 500 most common, etc)
Re:Becoming an Amateur Polyglot by kebsup on Sunday May 12, 2024 @06:51PM (#40338175)
I've created a flashcard app with a hint function. I mention it in another comment.
Re:Becoming an Amateur Polyglot by david_allison on Sunday May 12, 2024 @09:09PM (#40338893)
Anki has two types of hint fields (and the CSS/JavaScript in Note Types is editable, so you can add your own functionality if this is insufficient)

* https://docs.ankiweb.net/templates/fields.html#hint-fields

* https://docs.ankiweb.net/editing.html#cloze-deletion:~:text=...

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