New #blog post! I collected together a bunch of resources and techniques that I used to study #Japanese! If you've ever wanted to start learning on your own, here are some recs!
https://renkotsuban.com/posts/2025-08-12-Japanese-self-study-resources.html
Ich erstelle Karteikarten mit deutschen Sätzen, um mir neue Wörter im Kontext zu merken!
I caught up on my Anki reviews!! It has taken me my Saturday morning, but with 36C outside, there’s not much to do anyway.
Might go out tonight, when the sun is down.
I had 300 reviews to catch up on, and today I’m down to 100.. phew… I can’t do anymore today, but I think I’ll be able to completely catch up this weekend, and then next week I’ll start adding new cards.
And I have a new young streak of three days! 
My Anki reviews for the first half of the year have been chaotic, but I can explain! First I broke my elbow and didn’t feel like doing Anki, then I kind of got back on track, but motivation kept going up and down. Then I was sick last week, and dropped Anki again.
I did study today though! I have 300 cards to review and went through 100 of them which is not bad. I’ll try to catch up this week, and hopefully it’ll be the beginning of a new streak!
#Anki #LanguageLearning
#Fedimed #Mastomed #EternalStudent
Si vous vous demandez ce que ça fait, un ex-informaticien qui reprend des études de médecine, ben ça fait ça :
- crée une base de donnée des 4871 objectifs d'apprentissage liés aux 367 items de connaissance sur lesquels nous sommes évalués en 6ème année
- écrit un script #python qui, depuis la BDD, génère un CSV compatible avec #Anki, logiciel de mémorisation par répétition
- bataille avec JS dans Anki pour que les "flash cards" soient fonctionnelles
- s'amuse avec CSS pour que les flash cards soient jolies
Plus tard, je vous dirai ce que fait un ex-traiteur d'image médicale qui reprend ces études-là. Il y a du python aussi, mais du blender en plus.
I'm not gonna lie, this mnemonic stuff was never my cup of tea but these ones are pretty good, LOL.
Here we have mnemonics for the #Japanese characters associated with the words tribute, pierce, smash, and cape, underlined words represent components of those characters. All these are in my personal #Anki deck but I'm not the author of them.
Anyone else using #anki flashcards as a learning aid? What an incredible tool! I am building a #sanskrit learning program based off the देववाणीप्रवेशिका. I think what I like most is it has limits (that you can change of course) and engineering such that you learn a lot without banging your head against hours and hours of labour. This makes the process actually pleasant. As a longtime #autodidactic #unschooler, I believe if learning is a drag most students will drop the subject matter.
2025, 18 mai
#anki #ankidroid
J'ai entrepris de créer un jeu de cartes d'après Kanji & Kana - Manuel et Lexique des 2141 Caractères Officiels de l'Écriture Japonaise - Éditions Maisonneuve, 2021. Au bout de quelques notes, je me suis rendue compte que la disposition habituelle, verticale, ne convenait pas ; je voulais quelque chose qui ressemble au livre : le kanji à gauche et les détails à droite. Après en avoir discuté ici et là, j'ai fini par opter pour la création d'un tableau en HTML. Ça a été beaucoup plus simple que j'imaginais ; je croyais devoir y passer le weekend mais finalement une heure a suffi.
Le détail du code :
Front :
/*Application du CSS styling*/
<recto>{{Kanji}}</recto>/*Code HTML du tableau*/
<html>
<style>
td {
border: 2px solid #00273e;
border-radius: 10px;
}
</style>
<body>
<table style="width:100%">
<tr>
<td style ="width:34%">{{FrontSide}}</td>
<td rowspan="3">
<cat>Traits :</cat><br>{{Traits}}<br><br><hr>
<cat>On'yomi :</cat><onyomi lang="ja">{{On'yomi}}</onyomi><br><br><hr>
<cat>Kun'yomi :</cat><onyomi lang="ja">{{Kun'yomi}}</onyomi><br><br></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
/*Fin du code HTML du tableau*/
/*Application du CSS styling*/
{{#Sens}}
<hr size=4px color=#00273e>
<cat>Sens</cat><br>
<fr_blockquote lang="fr">{{Sens}}</fr_blockquote>
<br>
{{/Sens}}
/*Code pour activer et désactiver*/
/*les furigana*/
<input type="checkbox" id="check"/>
<label for="check">
/*Application du CSS styling*/
{{#Exemples}}
<hr size=3px color=#00273e>
<cat>Exemples</cat>
<ex_blockquote lang="ja">
{{furigana:Exemples}}</ex_blockquote>
<br>
{{/Exemples}}.card {
font-family: "";
text-align: center;
font-size: 12px;
color: #140405;
background-color: #f8e9d9;
}
@font-face {
font-family: NotoSerifLight;
src: url("_NotoSerifJP-Light.ttf");
}
@font-face {
font-family: NotoSerifMedium;
src: url("_NotoSerifJP-Medium.ttf");
}
@font-face {
font-family: NotoSans;
src: url("_NotoSansJP-Medium.ttf");
}
@font-face {
font-family: SourceSans3;
src: url("_SourceSans3-Medium.ttf");
}
:lang(ja) {
font-family: NotoSerifMedium;
}
:lang(fr) {
font-family: SourceSans3;
}
recto {
font-family: NotoSerifLight;
font-size: 64px;
color: darkmagenta;
}
onyomi {
font-size: 24px;
color: #AD6044;
}
kunyomi {
font-size: 23px;
color: #AD6044;
}
fr_blockquote {
display: block;
font-family: SourceSans3;
font-size: 19px;
margin-left: 15px;
margin-right: 15px;
color: #004953;
}
cat {
display: block;
text-align: left;
font-size: 12px;
font-style: italic;
}
ex_blockquote {
display: block;
font-size: 22px;
margin-left: 35px;;
margin-right: 0px;
text-align: left;
color: darkmagenta;
}
français {
font-size: 19px;
color: #004953;
}
/*===========*/
/*start furigana*/
/*===========*/
/* hide the checkbox */
#check{
display:none;
}
/* when checkbox is active, show for furigana */
#check:checked + label
ruby rt {
font-family: NotoSans;
color: black;
visibility: visible;
}
/* furigana hidden by default*/
ruby rt {
visibility: hidden;
}
/*==========*/
/*end furigana*/
/*==========*/
I finally caught up with Anki! It took me a week to go through all the 700+ reviews that had piled up during my month of inactivity.
Two things that helped me were 1- add a lot of hints on cards (like for example, this card for “fish and chips”.). It’s mostly to clarify characters that have different pronunciations or different meanings. And because I love customising Anki, I chose a ghost icon from the Font Awesome library as hint button.
2- I had TTS autoplaying on reveal, but I changed it to autoplay on the front. It’s a bit cheating, because it does give the pronunciation, but to be fair, I don’t always get the tone right anyway. It was a pain to make it so that Anki does not autoplay on the back as well.
And now I’m also working on changing the colours, to mark a fresh start! I’m so glad I didn’t give up on this deck!! 
#Anki
2025, 4 mai
J'ai toujours trouvé l'apprentissage des kanji trop intimidant pour m'y mettre sérieusement et puis un jour, il n'y a pas longtemps, j'ai décidé de donner un sérieux coup d'œil à ce livre que j'avais acheté.
Bien m'en a pris, la couverture est hideuse mais le contenu la rachète amplement. Je ne sais pas comment les autres livres sont faits mais c'est la première fois que je vois les on et kun'yomi immédiatement accompagnés de leur sens : GETSU, tsuki - lune, mois ; GATSU - mois. D'habitude, on nous jette des listes à la figure et débrouille toi avec ça !
De l'argent bien dépensé ! 
Et il va falloir que je modifie mes cartes Anki ... 
#langues #japonais #kanji #kanjistudy #anki #ankidroid
Nimm doch was mit #opensource
Z.B #Anki
Dafür gibt es Lernkarten von #Arzt bis Zytologieassistent
Die Karten sind teilweise mit Bildern, Video oder Sprachausgabe.
Einfach mal danach suchen
Z.B.
So. Wie angekündigt:
Ein #Anki-Deck im #50Ohm-Design zum Lernen der Fragen und Antworten für die #Amateurfunk-Prüfung in Deutschland.
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1342505562
Es hat ein paar besondere Features:
• Unter jeder Karte gibt es Links zu der entsprechenden Lektion in den Kursen auf https://www.50ohm.de und, sofern existent, den Videos von @dl2ymr
• Es ist krass durchgetaggt und erlaubt Filtern nach allen Klassen, allen Aufbaukursen und sogar deinem Lernstand in den 50Ohm-Kursen.
Teaser: Ich hab die letzten zwei Tage damit verbracht, ein hübsches, aktuelles, vollständiges und gut filterbares #Anki-Deck für die deutsche #Amateurfunk-Prüfung zu bauen.
Es lässt unter anderem filtern nach Klasse, Themengebiet und #50Ohm-Lektion. Und es gibt zu jeder Frage Links zu den entsprechenden Lektionen auf https://www.50ohm.de, damit man falls nötig das Thema nochmal nachlesen kann.
Muss noch ein paar Dinge testen und dokumentieren, dann gibt's ein Release.
I've written a new blog post summarising my te reo learning progress in the past month, and shared my small goals for the next month.
> "The main problem I’ve had this month was consistency in doing listening and reading immersion. Even though I find them enjoyable, other things take up my free time and I didn’t spend as much time as I want to."
https://skivling.codeberg.page/te-reo-feb/
#TeReoMāori #LearningTeReo #Māori #TeReo #Refold #LanguageLearning @languagelovers #ComprehensibleInput #Anki
100 days ago, I made a commitment to learn te reo Māori. Now, I've published a blog post to explain my approach and progress so far.
Learning te reo Māori
A mix of grammar study, digital flashcards and 'Comprehensible Input'.
https://skivling.codeberg.page/learning-te-reo/
#TeReoMāori #LearningTeReo #Māori #TeReo #Refold #LanguageLearning @languagelovers #ComprehensibleInput #Anki
Q: What about pre-made Anki decks?
A: Those are fine! I like making my own decks and cards because I study everything with pen+paper first and only then input into #Anki. I don't do well with the firehose approach of reviewing everything and anything (I try to stick with words that give me trouble and/or I encounter frequently, I don't need to review おいしい = delicious etc) but making your own cards does take a lot of time that a lot of folks don't have, so pre-made is perfectly fine!
Your goal when setting up eg your #Anki decks should not be beautiful pristine lovingly organized cards, it should be using it as a tool to LEARN JAPANESE. Again: learn from my mistakes!! Don't spend days redoing your entire collection because you thought of some better, more efficient way to organize your cards!! I could have been using that time to learn Japanese instead LOL 
ALSO, if you are doing the RTK method but want to do it all on your phone without having to grab your notebook, I HIGHLY recommend this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mindtwisted.kanjistudy&hl=en-US&pli=1
It's not free and the add-ons are kind of pricey (tho imo the only ones really worth it are the Self-Study Upgrade and Guided Study add-on) but highly recommend. This also exports out to #Anki droid!
