Advanced Anki Deck for Vocabulary Building

[CrashTestDummy]

Greetings,

 

I'm seeking a pre-made Anki deck to help my wife with her Thai. She spent her childhood in Thailand, but moved to the US in her teens. She speaks Thai very naturally (at least pronunciation) but her vocabulary is basically still that of a child. She can read Thai, but I think she'd struggle to understand any technical book or really anything not intended for a child or teenager. I'm use Anki everyday, but my deck is too basic for her. 

 

She really needs to expand her vocabulary beyond the basics. Does anyone have or can point me in the direction of an Anki deck with advanced vocabulary? 

 

Thanks,
-CTD
 

[CaptHaddock]

You can find shared Anki decks here:

https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/thai reading vocabulary

 

A search on "Thai" will turn up various Thai decks.  I shared my own deck as "Thai reading vocabulary" with 12000+ notes.  You can download and import any of them.

 

However, cold memorization of lists of words is not a practical way to increase one's vocabulary.  Students should read, watch videos and movies, and generally try to use the language.  Anki decks help us remember what we have encountered, but without the original context memorizing would be very hard indeed and is just going to be a waste of time.

[tgeezer]

I wanted to say the same Capt Haddock but couldn't comment because I didn't know what Anki meant, I suspected it was a memorizing tool. If one can already read then memorising words wont do, especially if they are English "equivalent" words which, unless they are nouns, don't fit any of the Thai.


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[CrashTestDummy]

On 12/2/2016 at 7:00 AM, CaptHaddock said:

You can find shared Anki decks here:

https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/thai reading vocabulary

 

A search on "Thai" will turn up various Thai decks.  I shared my own deck as "Thai reading vocabulary" with 12000+ notes.  You can download and import any of them.

 

However, cold memorization of lists of words is not a practical way to increase one's vocabulary.  Students should read, watch videos and movies, and generally try to use the language.  Anki decks help us remember what we have encountered, but without the original context memorizing would be very hard indeed and is just going to be a waste of time.

I agree that cold memorization isn't great. She's also working on her own personal Anki deck too, but we wanted some material to start with. Anki certainly isn't her only approach to reading Thai at this time. 

 

I'll take a look at your Anki deck. Thanks for sharing. 

[CaptHaddock]

41 minutes ago, CrashTestDummy said:

I agree that cold memorization isn't great. She's also working on her own personal Anki deck too, but we wanted some material to start with. Anki certainly isn't her only approach to reading Thai at this time. 

 

I'll take a look at your Anki deck. Thanks for sharing. 

 

By the way, are you aware of the Anki feature that, if turned on, will prompt for a typed Thai response to the English prompt instead of just calling out the word?  This feature has several advantages: it will flag spelling mistakes helping the student to master Thai spelling which is a little difficult and, if you know how to touch-type English and meticulously use the correct finger for each key, the student will learn to touch-type Thai without having to use a special typing program.  Typing is a more important skill than writing longhand in the modern word.

 

This feature is turned on in the deck that I shared.

 

Good luck to your wife.  It's uphill to learn a language remotely.

[CrashTestDummy]

On 12/3/2016 at 10:18 AM, CaptHaddock said:

 

By the way, are you aware of the Anki feature that, if turned on, will prompt for a typed Thai response to the English prompt instead of just calling out the word?  This feature has several advantages: it will flag spelling mistakes helping the student to master Thai spelling which is a little difficult and, if you know how to touch-type English and meticulously use the correct finger for each key, the student will learn to touch-type Thai without having to use a special typing program.  Typing is a more important skill than writing longhand in the modern word.

 

This feature is turned on in the deck that I shared.

 

Good luck to your wife.  It's uphill to learn a language remotely.

I've used other decks that have this feature, but never created a deck myself that does this. I'd certainly be worth looking into. Any idea what this feature is called? It'd be easier to figure out how to do this if I knew what to search for. Thanks!

[CaptHaddock]

1 hour ago, CrashTestDummy said:

I've used other decks that have this feature, but never created a deck myself that does this. I'd certainly be worth looking into. Any idea what this feature is called? It'd be easier to figure out how to do this if I knew what to search for. Thanks!

 

It's part of the card template.  I think it is this bit from the Front Template:

 

<div style=.font-family: Waree; font-size:39px;.>{{type:Back}}</div>

 

You can find more by googling Anki tutorials.  Anki syntax is a little obscure.