The gold standard for memorizing Chinese vocabulary and characters through spaced repetition. Serious learners across the community consistently pair it with every other resource they use.
Anki isn't glamorous, but it's the engine behind most successful Chinese learners. The community recommends it constantly — it's the one tool that scales with you from beginner to advanced.
“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).”
r/ChineseLanguage user (ankdain) · read thread →
“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.”
r/ChineseLanguage user (Diligent-Stretch-769) · read thread →
“I practice with anki and use pleco.”
r/ChineseLanguage user (Vast-Newspaper-5020) · read thread →
