The gold-standard flashcard app for serious Chinese learners who want to retain thousands of characters and vocabulary. The community treats it as non-negotiable once you move past beginner level.
Anki is the unsexy but undeniably effective backbone of advanced Chinese study. Every serious learner in the community uses it — set it up right and it will carry you further than any app alone.
“Use Anki to learn individual words, and full sentences. Setup your cards so you have English text, pinyin and Chinese Audio fields (just use one of the TTS addons to get Audio).”
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“anki, downloaded a corpus of Chinese sentences presented naturally from digital sources, performed analytical statistics on the data and formulated anki cards based on the frequency of characters and phrasings. Very useful for uncommon proverbs”
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“started with the owl, upgraded to pleco and anki. reading with du chinese, then added weekly speaking sessions”
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“I practice with anki and use pleco.”
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