Thiago Preischadt

using todoist again, I dig the new google calendar integration

I set up a new corner for my setup, made my house 100% more spacious

however there's still some shit I have nowhere to put 😭

I added a new template to my Anki card generation, because I wasn't practicing enough reading in Mandarin

Now I have 700+ new cards 💀

these images look so cool

#langsky #chinese #mandarin

deepseek is off so today I decided to optimize my 4o prompt for cost

so deepseek's API is *coincidentally* out one day after it broken US stock market... sure

I'm definitely gonna cook with R1. Tested it for an hour yesterday and it's really good.

I think of variations of sentences I know

huh, options makes cheesing very easy. Anki you can always "lie to yourself" but then it's up to you to determine what "Good" and "Again" mean

if you are interested in testing this I can set up a host for you. It's still early phase but would be good to have an intermediate Chinese speaker test it.

Interesting. Maybe it's good that you are exposed to more stuff instead of reaching "local minima" (for ex. one of the first words I learned was park: 公园 and now I have 35 cards with that word)

However introducing random Mandarin mixed in can be daunting as it's almost impossible to deduce meaning

Migaku looks fantastic. I'm definitely trying it out after a month or two.

I saw it but I really like Anki's algorithm and also how customizable it is (for example the images are also generated)

Also I wanted something more tailored for me where words/sentenced are generated using my mature cards (Krashen's i -> i+1 principle)

LLMs are an amazing tool for language learning though. I think most Anki power users advocate against it but we are reaching a point where they make so few new mistakes when it comes to producing language

Reason being that many words aren't supporting words for learning other things and you simply need more exposure to those words in other settings

I think this works specially well with #chinese because Chinese is overall a language where you rely mostly on learning vocabulary for acquisition, grammar is simple

However one thing I've noticed is that using Cloze cards doesn't enforce my reading skills

I'm learning Mandarin using auto generated flashcards

It's been about 3 months and I have about 700 ish cards? I haven't really got too deep into reading or listening to native content as I want to build more vocabulary but this has been very effective for me

#langsky #duolingo #mandarin

HelloChinese better in general

hello bluesky