Anki flashcards and the proliferation of AI images. #111Words #LanguageLearning #Vocabulary #Flashcards #Anki #Spanish #AI #Images #Photographs #Paintings #Drawings https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/07/anki-flashcards-and-proliferation-of-ai.html

#TeamPE #ERUN #CPnum #LaForgeEdu
Pour générer des #FlashCards : "Joucard" une #RessNum proposée par @arnaudchampollion interface simple et pratique
édition, entrainement, test
trois saisies (assistée, manuelle ou avec #IA )
en ligne ou imprimable
Lien : https://educajou.forge.apps.education.fr/joucard/

Bonus #Joke 1:
I saw my math teacher with a piece of graph paper yesterday. I think he must be plotting something.

Bonus #Joke 2:
Did you hear about the over-educated circle?
It had 360°!

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

I'm currently cutting the corners of the premade flashcards. They come grouped by theme, and they recommend learning the cards of each category in the provided order.

I'm definitely going to shuffle all the cards first, though. Like, the main benefit of flashcards over a word list is that you can easily change the order of the words, yet I don't think they suggest that anywhere.

So yeah, I want to avoid going 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (everybody in the car so come on let's ride ) over and over again from the start

The premade flashcards I ordered are quite a bit smaller than the A8 index cards that are common in Germany, and the included étui is a bit too small for the A8 cards. That means that I won't really be able to mix them with my cards, but that's fine - I'll use them in parallel, or find some other way that works

They're definitely getting the corner-cutting treatment, though!

(They also sell blank cards in that size, but they're a bit more expensive and not as sturdy as the index cards)

My physical flashcards system is starting to take shape, and I think I might actually stick to it for longer

I'm using a form of the Leitner system for the reviews in the morning, with just reviewing a bunch of cards from each section that is almost full, instead of some elaborate away of counting days or whatever.

Also, against everyone's better judgement, I'm mixing three languages (German, Spanish, and Arabic) to keep my brain on its toes

(I could really use a blog to describe the whole process. Feel free to reply if you want to know more )

I'm cutting corners today.

As in, using a corner-rounding punch on a stack of index cards, to be turned into flashcards. Cutting a few square millimetres¹ off doesn't sound like much, but it makes the cards a lot more pleasant to handle

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¹ 7.7257 mm² per card, to be precise

I decided to improve my Spanish, yes.

But I'm doing it on Hard Mode.

The custom flashcards that I create are English-Spanish. Oftentimes, it would be so much easier to have them be French-Spanish.

Those who know French and Spanish will tell you that the two are much closer together than English is to either of them.

Hi, I’m very pleased to tell you I’ve finished working on two decks in my new Anki deck ‘factory’, which is a Git monorepo where the work on all of my new decks is done. Feel free to check it out here

- One deck is for Gitmoji, a more-or-less standardised emoji guide for commit messages.
- The other one is a deck for structures and idioms involving prepositional phrases in Welsh. If you learn Welsh it might be quite useful for you; otherwise I guess it might… not.
- In addition, my Tatoeba decks are also linked there. They are quite old (2019); there are languages which have many new sentences with audio since then. Sometime I will redo them all (although the process is automatic to a large degree, it’s still quite time consuming).

What’s next?

- A deck based on Thorne’s A Comprehensive Welsh grammar (Gramadeg Cymraeg cynhwysfawr). Tons of (Literary) Welsh sentences, many of which are taken from real native texts, with grammatical explanations. This is quite a massive project.
- Updating and sharing some decks I’ve worked on in the past (some are finished, some are not). This includes decks for Breton, Welsh, French, Old Norse, Sámi languages, toki pona and Middle Welsh.

What’s not?

- Any ‘AI’ nonsense

Everything will appear in the table in the above repository, and I will occasionally post announcements about new decks here

#Anki #anki_deck #anki_decks #ankideck #flashcards #Git #hg #SCM #Gitmoji #emoji #Cymraeg #Welsh #Welsh_language #prepositions #prepositionsareweird #Breton #French #Old_Norse #OldNorse #Sami #Saami #Sami_languages #Saami_languages #tokipona #toki_pona #Middle_Welsh #MiddleWelsh #Radicle

What's a good free/open tool for making #FlashCards? My default solution is to make a quiz in #canvas but I'm sure there are simpler and more accessible solutions.

Need to be able to include imagery, as the immediate use case will be identifying microphones from photos.

…but it's such a nice round number, wouldn't it be a shame to ruin it?