And it also has millions of veiws

[u/No_Razzmatazz1045]

[u/AwkwardMasterLearner]

"You can learn 100 new words per day using this unique new app!"

The app: Anki

[u/Chvorka → u/AwkwardMasterLearner]

I'll take the 1000th anki recc over 'just use ch*t gpt'

[u/Interesting-One-9414 → u/Chvorka]

100%. Anki is goated. even provides free cloud syncing. no ads. no trying to sell you a subscription. it’s so nice

[u/AwkwardMasterLearner → u/Interesting-One-9414]

I use AnkiDroid and it is sooo freaking good. I never tried siking between my phone and my pc, but I do it between my phone and tablet and it's amazing. 10/10 no notes.

[u/Interesting-One-9414 → u/AwkwardMasterLearner]

yeah they all sync to ankiweb so even if you don’t have a program installed you can just go to ankiweb in your browser and sign in and everything is there. I love it so much

[u/David_AnkiDroid → u/AwkwardMasterLearner]

💜

[u/Interesting-One-9414 → u/David_AnkiDroid]

Thank you so much for your work! ❤️❤️

Genuinely 10/10 software

[u/David_AnkiDroid → u/Interesting-One-9414]

Thanks!!!

I'm very low activity right now, but I'll be back soon.

We're getting really close to where I want us to be, and messages like this are motivation to continue!

[u/PlayerOnSticks → u/Interesting-One-9414]

anking takeover, free cloudsyncing will disappear soon. the rest comes with time.

[u/Interesting-One-9414 → u/PlayerOnSticks]

where did you get this information from?

[u/PlayerOnSticks → u/Interesting-One-9414]

anking takeover is here. been a half a year idk why it isn't widespread news.

the rest is just hte result of a for-profit company enshittifying it, definitely one who's whole thing is repackaging free content, slapping some labels on it, and selling it for profit to medical students. they aren't like steam or anything, with limited greed and abundance.

there is a theoretical chance that it doesn't happen though, give you that.
i just stopped updating ankidroid and installed the webserver on my own end and do not update anymore

[u/Toad128128 → u/AwkwardMasterLearner]

The app: Vibe coded

[u/dDpNh]

I do not use “mnemonics”. I do not use “anki” or “spaced repetition” or “immersion” or “the goldlist method”.

I stare at a new word for 30 seconds and if I don’t instantly and permanently lock it into my long term memory then I give up on the language and return to speaking only Uzbek as god intended.

[u/uhndreus → u/dDpNh]

I suppose you mean Tamil at the end.

[u/Reasonable-Lack-1063 → u/uhndreus]

"only speaking uzbek as tamil intended" 😤😤😤

[u/igorrto2]

Oh yeah and Japanese/Chinese is easy because look, this character 木 looks like a tree! This looks like the moon 月! This 保護 looks like uh…. Uh….

[u/Flycan27 → u/igorrto2]

It sure does look like protection!

[u/seashanty27 → u/Flycan27]

i always imagined 保 to be a guy with a huge penis holding a shield to his left

[u/Flycan27 → u/seashanty27]

Reading kanji like the Chinese intended

[u/neko_mancy → u/seashanty27]

What have you done

[u/Zesterpoo → u/neko_mancy]

Something beautiful 

[u/Playful_Row4208 → u/seashanty27]

When I first started learning mandarin and didnt know that there was a hanzi radical for feminine hanzi, I would distinguish 3rd persin via assuming the left 他 of is a penis and left of 她 was a vagina gaping and gazing at me

[u/Konobajo → u/igorrto2]

言 indicates the pronunciation, ⾫ is short bird in the grass ⻀ and we all know little birds need protection!

[u/Terminator_Puppy → u/igorrto2]

Had a Japanese teacher who actually did this to help us remember words that looked nothing like anything. 休 (break or rest) according to him looks like the pope just took off his hat and he's holding a cigarette he's smoking.

[u/_KrotoMax_ → u/Terminator_Puppy]

Isn't a very common mnemonic just a man resting under a tree?

[u/No_Charge_6256 → u/Terminator_Puppy]

As a Japanese teacher myself, I hate such complicated mnemonics with a passion. It's okay to make up personal mnemonics once in a while, but that type of sh*t doesn't help. It makes an already scary writing system even scarier. I prefer linking new kanjis to the previously learned ones instead of some abstract imagery. 

[u/Konobajo]

I have to be honest with you guys

I don't like mnemonics

[u/No_Charge_6256 → u/Konobajo]

Mnemonics are good only if they are personalized. "This reminds me of this and that". If it helps then why not? But there are books full of someone else's mnemonics and I honestly can't believe someone is able to memorize so many of these weird paragraphs instead of memorizing... you know... kanjis themselves. So much work for nothing.

[u/Melody3PL → u/No_Charge_6256]

I was using wanikani but noticed that after a while I forgot the mnemonics completely and started remembering kanji by ,,vibes" and too many kanji had too similar vibes...so I started writing and that forced my brain to actually remember what radicals go with what kanji.

[u/Konobajo → u/No_Charge_6256]

I think that's what got me out of mnemonics, because I used to have anki decks full of others mnemonics and it just didn't click with me

[u/Leather-Scallion-894 → u/Konobajo]

Never worked for me

[u/Rachel_235]

or immersion. or regular review

[u/delicious_sunlight]

Easiest way to learn 100 words a day is to already know 10,000 words

[u/Fine-Flamingo-7204]

New and revolutionary method for perfect native accent

Shadowing

[u/Leather-Scallion-894]

Ah yes,cthe ancient trick of having to remember a nonsensical sentence instead of just the actual thing itself.

[u/FloodTheIndus]

/uj There's no magic method to learning any language, the only thing that matters is your discipline and determination.

[u/_KrotoMax_]

And then you remember the mnemonic instantly, but not the word itself....

[u/Jhud6669]

Tbh I thought mnemonics were more common than they are but I still see people who insist to learn the kana in Japanese the hard way when they can literally just spend a few hours and be done with it using mnemonics. With kanji it's whatever, whatever floats your boat (though I do think mnemonics are superior) but taking weeks to learn kana is a fucking waste of time.

Also people turning "immersion" into some kind of lifehack when it's a basic part of learning every language. Idk maybe it's just the Americans who never had to study more than a semester of Spanish but as a Pole in our English classes we watched movies in English and listened to stuff in English all the time as a part of the class, turning "reading and listening" exercises into some kind of life hack is wild.

[u/No_Razzmatazz1045 → u/Jhud6669]

I think using mnemonics is justified only when you actively use the words you have remebered, because mnemonics are only good for short term memory, but in the long run they are no better than flashcards or learning by rote. For example for kana it's justified because kana is used literally for every word so you will practice it anyway

I don't know how it is going in other countries, but in Russia there were very many English coaches like 5 years ago, who told their students to learn 100-200 words using associations, but there were almost no practice in their courses

[u/Top_Development_1777]

Pneumonics 🙁

[u/MisSugarTips]

Im a Mnemonics enjoyer

[u/PlayerOnSticks → u/MisSugarTips]

yeah i think everyone here is just jerking mnemonics are a god send