Increasing The Number Of Cards Anki Shows You
One thing that has been bothering me recently is the amount of new words I am learning every day. I had set the setting in Anki to 20 but I only seemed to be getting about 5 or 6 each day that were new words. I couldn’t work it out. In fact I was convinced…
How I Quickly And Easily Memorise Spanish Vocabulary Flashcards
I love using Anki to create the flash cards and then use them to easily memorise Spanish Vocabulary. They are really helping me learn loads of words extremely quickly. It is very powerful to experience recalling the meaning of a word. Equally, it is just as powerful seeing a picture on a flashcard, and then…
Learning The Spanish Alphabet
It hit me yesterday when I was going through my Anki cards and doing the recall. The system has been set up in a way that asks me to spell some of the words. Up until now I have been saying the letters in “English”. That means I can rattle off the spelling of a…
Bits And Pieces And A Sense That I Am Not Doing Enough
As usual yesterday I got through creating more Anki Cards. I am getting through them quite quickly at the moment with it taking about 23 minutes to do a session of 20 or so words. So having finished 25 cards yesterday I suddenly had a heart stopping moment. Well more like a loud “F%*&” moment. I…
Watching Spanish Yoga Videos On YouTube… It’s For Language Learning (Honestly!)
Yesterday I decided I would explore the joys of yoga in Spanish. I am already a regular practitioner of yoga having been introduced to it nearly 30 years ago as an extension of the stretching I was doing for my martial arts training at that time. I have dabbled over the years using it to…
Weak Memory Links And Creating A Routine
Reading The News Does Help As usual this morning I listened to RTVE radio whilst I had my breakfast and explored the Noticias pages. Once again I was able to make sense of what was going on in a couple of stories. I did this just by piecing together clues coupled with words I knew…
It Pays To Notice And Grammar Can Be Fun?
Every morning I put on the Spanish language radio station and have that in the background to help tune my brain. I think I wrote about how words have started to jump out at me yesterday. Slowly I expect the meaning to emerge too with a corresponding increase in understanding as well. It has been a…
Fitting It In and I Think It’s Coming Together
Yesterday I had a marathon session adding new cards to Anki. I am already doing the minimal pairs training and the pronunciation training. So the addition of the extra vocabulary cards has increased the workload. And yesterday because I was so busy, I left the review and recall of the cards to the end of…
Using My New Flash Cards To Learn New Words
Most of yesterday was spent creating new cards for learning the first 50 or so of the 625 most common words. Today was about using them to learn what I had captured. I sat down at 8:45pm and started working through the decks. As well as my new vocabulary cards I also included the Spanish…
More Thoughts On Generating (And Remembering) Flash Cards
When generating flash cards for learning Spanish Vocabulary, the thing that takes the longest time is the choice of the picture. For example, how do you pick a picture that represents winter? Of course you will have your own concept of what winter looks like and that might be a tree covered with snow. But what is…
