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| Sandy Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5628 days ago 37 posts - 61 votes  | Message 25 of 36 01 September 2012 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Don't waste your money trying to get your anki decks back. There are almost certainly better decks in your languages that you can download from the anki site. You will have to start again but as you know a lot of the words anyway you will soon have mature decks. Edited by Sandy on 01 September 2012 at 11:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Saim Pentaglot Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5083 days ago 124 posts - 215 votes Speaks: Serbo-Croatian, English*, Catalan, Spanish, Polish Studies: Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Occitan, Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic (Maghribi), French, Modern Hebrew, Ukrainian, Slovenian | Message 26 of 36 02 September 2012 at 12:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Am I the only one who makes Anki decks, uses them maybe three times, and then doesn't
touch them ever again? I feel like although Anki can help with memorization the main effort should be actual natural language use. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4703 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 27 of 36 02 September 2012 at 1:14am | IP Logged | ||
No. I don't use Anki at all. (Iversen wordlists work better for me.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tennisfan Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5360 days ago 130 posts - 247 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: German | Message 28 of 36 02 September 2012 at 5:21am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I didn't use my Anki stacks only as a drill device---though of course that was a major part of it.
Let's take Croatian for example. Basically from the very beginning, when I first started learning the language, I started putting in every new word I learned. So I had the Croatian word, then on the back I had the English definition, and usually one or two examples sentences. Then I tagged it based on where I came up with it. I did this manually, without using anyone else's word lists, on my own. Every time I read a book, I highlighted words I didn't know, looked them up, and put them into Anki using the above procedure. I tagged each and every word based on the book, or whatever source it was. By the time my computer crashed I had almost 8,000 words, that I had manually put in over several years. And I could pick a tag, from, say, a book I read last year, and see all the words I learned from that book. So that stack was basically like a map of everywhere I have "been" with Croatian. So in addition to being useful, it also has a lot of sentimental value, because I spent years compiling that list, one by one. I don't know, I'm not saying that alone is worth more than $500... but it is just to show that it is something very important to me. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Wulfgar Senior Member United States Joined 4671 days ago 404 posts - 791 votes Speaks: English* | Message 29 of 36 02 September 2012 at 6:23am | IP Logged | ||
I'm trying to understand this. Do you create a really small deck, do the reps for 3 days, then delete it? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4533 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 30 of 36 02 September 2012 at 6:29pm | IP Logged | ||
My Anki deck is not so mature, but I am basically using it in the same way. It's a language notebook for me too. I would spend the $500 and get it back. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| freakyaye Senior Member Australia Joined 4838 days ago 107 posts - 152 votes | Message 31 of 36 04 September 2012 at 2:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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If your HDD has failed and you want the best chance of recover, DO NOT connect it to a PC
and play around with it AT ALL. Depending on the type of failure you've had, that could destroy all your chances. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 32 of 36 05 September 2012 at 12:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't use Anki cards, and when I make text copies and wordlists I review them once or twice and then I put them in an unorganized pile. Once in a while I run through an old list (copying the words I know and transferring some of the words I have forgotten to new wordlists), but I could just as well make new lists instead. So the concept of a deck containing all the words you know in a language is foreign for me, and it would not be a disaster if my old copies and lists disappeared. But I would have a problem if my browser favorites disappeared, and it would be a nightmare if the databases plus interface of my photo collection or music collection disappeared.
Actually an old computer died unto me earlier this year, and I bought a new one. My biggest problem then was that my photo and music database systems were based on an old DOS program (DSI), which couldn't run under Windows 7 without some special tinkering. So I exported the data from my backup using an old computer at my job and reprogrammed the whole thing in Excel and VB Basic - it took time to build this new system, but I lost very little data. On the other hand: if my flat burned then I would loose my grammars and dictionaries (and paintings and musical compositions and photo albums and mental equilibrium), and it would be very difficult to replace those. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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