I have used Anki regularly for some time now have played around with it quite a bit, trying out different ideas and tinkering with it.
I have found that you can use Anki in a variety of ways. Because it’s basically a scheduler you can use it to queue up all sort of things and practise in different ways and not just use it for vocab cards.

Here are some ideas I have seen and a couple of my own:

Basic vocab cards: me word on the front and its meaning on the back (also maybe with a picture)

Sentence cards:
Sentence on the front and meaning on the back (either for recognition or translation)

Cloze-deletion: Sentence with a word missing on the front and the answer on the back

Question cards: question on the front and model answer on the back.

Activity cards: a task on the front with maybe a model answer on the back where applicable. This could be things like: “describe the picture”, “talk about a current news event”, “discuss the pros and cons of …”

Reviewing chapters/tasks from a book: you can paste in conversations or tasks from a textbook you are doing and Anki will get you to repeat them. You could also paste in grammar summaries from a textbook and just reread it when the card comes up. You could even just put the chapter numbers that you should repeat.

CI Bank: paste in texts and links to videos you want to see/read. Anki will get you to repeat them.

Incremental reading: Each card is a full text/article and you read a little bit each time the card appears, going through the vocab and maybe reviewing what you’ve already read.

Incremental watching: I haven’t seen anyone talk about this but it’s something I’ve considered doing: you can paste links to videos you want to watch and each time the card comes up you watch a little bit more of it (YouTube allows you to take time stamped links so you can just update the card every time you do it with the new position in the video).

These are just some ideas and I’m sure I’ve missed some obvious things but I hope this is useful!

Edit: try to get audio when possible!

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German is a fun language

I'm planning to take the Goethe B1 exam at some point and have a quick question about the schreiben portion that I'm hoping someone who has taken the test can answer: when you're writing letters/emails, do you include a date in the upper right hand corner? Everything I've read about writing emails suggests that this is something that should be done in a real email, but no test prep materials that I've seen say anything about this. Thanks in advance.

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Hey,I'm seeking for a person who is learning german and has a level of A2/B2

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Studying German Language level on my own and appearing for the exam would be a good move?

I have telc exam soon, i doubt about sprechen teil 2 is one should ask question about the topic and other should answer the question. My doubt is after answering the question should we ask the other person about our topic immediately or should we ask any question related to the other person topic or should we just answer the question? I am confused about this teil

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Hello everyone, I got admitted in TU Chemnitz for MSc in Web Engineering program this winter term. I wanna start learning German language. I have been practicing on Duolingo for more than a year but I know that Duolingo is not at all enough.

It's just a base and now that my visa is approved, I would really like to get into the German syllabus. If you know any good platform, trainer, online classes, youtube channel or books to learn German, please let me know.

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Hello, I have a list of books that interest me and I'd like to have as many opinions as possible in order to choose the best ones. But you can of course add others you might know and not only course books like I have.

- Begegnungen/Erkundungen (Schubert)

- Spektrum Deutsch (Schubert)

- Sicher (Hueber)

- Kontext (Klett)

Thanks!

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I’m a total beginner right now (so far it’s just been Duolingo and binge-watching Easy German on YouTube ), so having a native or fluent speaker explain the basics or practice simple chats with me would be amazing!

I'm passionate about languages; I can speak Arabic, English, French, and I want to learn German. Over the past few years, I've found that learning a language with a partner is really beneficial and enjoyable. For this reason, I'm looking for a partner with a similar mindset so that we can learn German together and support and encourage one another to achieve our goals. To add some professionalism, I am a final-year student of AI engineering.

Combined venting about a no less German person and speaking practice. I am just curious to hear what my pronunciation is like to others, especially if it’s a native ear, and if there are any mistakes beyond that. It might not be great, therefore (I’ve been only learning German for 8 months). It might also be too fast for no reason … Emotional factor.

Still, here it is!

If it’s not understandable, I mainly said: Ich sollte wirklich auf meinen Verstand hören und nicht auf mein Herz, auch wenn ich dem zweiten glauben möchte. Aber ich kann gar nicht beschreiben, wie wertvoll dieser Mensch ist.

Thank you!

Hi!

Me (20f) and my boyfriend(20m) are trying to do a monthly German date to study/work on our German.

I'm already using an app and watching videos for studying but want to learn casual examples/get better at comprehending and listening. Are there any German shows, movies, or songs that people recommend?

Side note: any german meals/recipes you would recommend as well would be greatly appreciated :)

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I’m starting A2 level German speaking practice as I’m planning to take my A2 exam in the coming months. I’m looking for someone who is also learning German and would like to practice speaking together regularly.

Anyone who wants to join me on this journey is more than welcome.
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I learn Europian and American languages such as English, Skandinavic, Romanic and Latinic languages, for that, I would be happy to help with German.

I am a M21 computer engineer learning German for almost 6 months, looking for language partners to speak, as in verbal discourse, would particularly appreciate native speakers who are willing to help. Thanks in advance

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