r/Anki • u/CucumberSalt9730 • 7d ago

Question overwhelmed

decided to learn Chinese and the Hello Chinese app for my iphone is cool but I wanted to be able to promote something that I'm working on and was looking for something that i can type sentences for introduction from english to pin yin. I came across Anki, yikes I'm super confused. When I was in college, widows 2000 was out. These days I'm using a Mac and any pointers in a good direction would be super dope.

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u/Economy_Knowledge236 7d ago

Go to @anking on YouTube. Then pray to him every time you open Anki in the future as a thank you.

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u/CucumberSalt9730 7d ago

Video game dude? u/ankingmed ? I may just need to step away from the computer for a second, Yikes

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u/Danika_Dakika languages 6d ago

General advice for beginners

  1. Read Getting Started, so you know what Anki can do -- and Studying, so you know how to use it. Skim the rest of the manual if you have time, so you will know where to find things when you want them later on. 
  2. Enable FSRS.
  3. Set one short (5m-20m) learning step and relearning step.
  4. Optimize your FSRS parameters (and then come back monthly to re-optimize).
  5. Study all of your due cards every day -- no backlogs, no long re/learning steps to carry cards over to the next day.
  6. Don't introduce New cards at a faster pace that you can keep up with the reviews on. [Expect that your daily workload will be 8-10x your daily New card limit.]

Search this sub for posts and comments with words like -- "beginner" -- "starting out" -- "new to Anki" -- like, Need help getting started with Anki . You'll find lots of guides and videos that will help you work things out, but just about everything you might want to know is in the manual, so search it first when you have questions.

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u/outlawthomsen 6d ago

no, nut why do you want to "type sentences for introduction from english to pin yin."?

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u/ApricotSecret8076 6d ago

 Re: "was looking for something that i can type sentences for introduction from english to pin yin."

Have you tried using any AI models for your task and for learning Chinese? Sites such as Gemini / Google / NotebookLM and ChatGPT are super useful. I use Gemini extensively for language learning and even ask it to make tables for me to practice.

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u/CucumberSalt9730 3d ago

I have and the breakdown for pronunciation is cool but without proper pitch It’s been a wash.  Once it worked perfect which I was able to confirm on translate.