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Exporting Chinesepod Dialogues to Anki?

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#1

I would like to export dialogues and import the individual sentences into Anki along with the audio. Is this possible?

#2

I brought up the topic sometime ago. Having the ability to have individual sentences on flashcards would be invaluable. Listening to random sentences would really improve someone’s level and listening power.

Is it possible to export the sentences to a flash card type setting?

#3

What I’ve done is downloaded the free Anki deck spoonfed Chinese. I use their format for a new deck and then copy and paste all the fields into the deck-Engish, pinyin, and 汉子. Then I download the individual sentences from the ChinesePod website and save them in folders. What I’ve found to work well especially for rearranging or messing with my cards is to save the audio file with the 汉子. So I’ll copy an entire sentence in 汉子 and then call my audio file that. That way when I’m making a deck it’s really easy to check that I have the right audio for the right sentence.

#4

Here is what I do: I take the expansion sentences, because they tend to be shorter and thus more workable for flashcard testing, also you can ave three sentences for each word. I choose useful vocab, record my own audio of the English translation, then download the Chinese audio and insert it as the backside, along with Hanzi and Pinyin. Review is: I prompt myself with my own English audio and then try for say the phrase in Chinese.

Advantage:

  1. This is the most awesome way of drilling active vocab use, grammar, sentence structure
  2. As it is fully audio based, I can do it while walking and while driving my car to work

Disadvantage:

  1. A lot of work
  2. Who doesn’t hate to hear his own voice on a record?

I have raised the subject of providing anki flashcards based on the expansion audio here in the forum multiple times, but so far Chinesepod does not seem to like the idea… So, anyone interested in working with audio flashcards will probably need to create them own his/her own.

I can only recommend it. Have been doing it for a few months after ten years of studying Chinese and for me personnally, this has been a total game changer.

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