(edit) I had an issue where I couldn't see anything on the cards. IT'S BECAUSE OF DARK THEME. The Dark theme changes some of the display colors, and for me this translated into very clear text on very clear flashcards. Turned it back to Light theme, and now I can use the deck no issue. It had my head scratching for a while. Bianca please feel free to pin this for reference! And thank you for the fantastic deck!!
Can do!!! There are tons of tutorials already so I can direct you to one of those! If they’re still confusing I can make one targeted to your specific questions! Also, thank you so much for the lovely comment about the video and website! I spent a ton of time trying to make it was informative and useful as possible (while still fun heh). I’ll be posting more resources or thoughts on there fairly regularly, so check back whenever you want!
i'm SO SORRY I accidentally deleted your followup comment!! I read through it though :) i'm glad you were able to find the answer to your anki questions!!! I also hope that your chinese journey is great :) it's gonna be a long road ahead, but it's so rewarding!! i'm almost a year out and it's so cool being able to be somewhat functional in the language HAHA I still have a long way to go, but it keeps getting more enjoyable the better I get! ~
Thank you sincerely, Bianca. I'm not sure you understand how much we appreciate your sharing this anki deck that you painstakingly disassembled/reassembled/compiled/consolidated... for free. Thank you for the 3 礼物 lĭwù!
I’m so glad that it’s helpful!! More than happy to help out others based on my own experiences, especially for things I wished that I had when I first started out! I’ll be releasing an HSK5 deck once I finish that book too!
Es alentador ver personas como tu, haciendo un gran trabajo compartiendo estos recursos para que personas como yo podamos aprender desde cualquier parte del mundo y tan solo con una computadora e internet :) thank you from Mexico
You're absolutely amazing! Im going to start my mandarin journey now in 2022 and this will for sure help me a lot. Thank you so much for the hard work you've put into it, it's outstanding!
I don't know how to explain my feeling. I really appreciate your deck and thank you so much for the video. This is a lot of work. I have created anki deck before but it was only the flash card with picture. Your flashcard deck is much more work and time consuming. Thank you so much!!😍
I’m sooo glad it was helpful!! HSK5 will probs be released mid to end next year! Got a little excited to start sentence mining but I’ll get back into my HSK5 studying in the new year :)
Thanks a lot for the deck! Its a game changer for me. It was a struggle for me to add cards and create a deck myself step by step. Really appreciate your help bianca!
Wow, that's pretty incredible. Well done. I just started learning chinese for work and my first week has been a rollercoaster of emotions. Your videos are great.
@@bianca.phdinprogress Hey since I made that comment I actually already started preparing for HSK5 and this deck helped me a lot getting acquainted with the HSK4 vocab, so thank you again!
Saw a couple of your tips in the comments for adding audio, and I've used your template to create my own anki vocab cards and I'm super happy with how you showed we could customise things. So helpful!
Bianca I just stumbled onto your channel and just wanted to share enormous gratitude for your effort in creating this deck, and your willingness to share it to the language learning public. I can only imagine the months of time, effort and energy you have taken to create this comprehensive deck, we all owe you much gratitude, and best continued luck in your language learning journey!
I am in awe! what a great job, i cant even imagine the time you put into it! And thank you so much for making it available, this is extremely generous of you.
Thanks a lot bianca! just started over a a month ago with clases that go through the HSK books serie, and i was manually adding tags along the way on a huge HSK anki set in combination with the hanping dictionary. guess you have done the work already! :)
Hi Bianca, New sub here. Thank you so much for sharing this deck with us. I appreciate you so much. Making Anki decks can be very hard, time consuming and can be so frustrating and to imagine that out of the goodness of your heart you shared it to us for free. This is just amazing. Thank you ! Thank you ! Thank you! You are the best! xoxo
This deck is a gold mine! Thank you for the botttom of my heart for going trhough all the trouble to make it perfect and sharing it with us! Do you have any plans to release decks for the following levels? Once again, thank you so much for this!
I stopped using HSK so I won't be making decks for the higher levels, but hopefully by that point your level will be high enough to make decks of your own from content you love!
SORRY?? UHM? YOU DROPPED THIS: 👑 It’s my first time on your channel but girl, I was about to cry when I saw all the stuff you created and made it available for everyone for free??? Like- You need a gold statue girl 😭❤️ I have no clue how to thank you enough… this video was amazing and helped so much, I can’t wait to start studying with your deck, it’s incredible Thank you for everything, really… it’s wow… thank you 😭😭😭✨
Thanks a lot for sharing, just moved back to Beijing after 4 years and aiming at HSK4 as I did HSK3 like 7 years ago. Definitely gonna try Anki! Great inspiration 🌏😊 Hope it will enable me to travel more too!
If y’all give me the textbooks to replicate, I could theoretically do it! Just need someone else to QC cuz I kno nothing about Japanese besides recognizing kanji that I’ve learned in Chinese HAHAH.
@@bianca.phdinprogress No need to. ^^ If one wants to find good Japanese Anki decks, one just has to look for them. My recommendation are the Tango decks, starting with the "JLPT Tango N5 MIA Omega Deck". There are more good decks out there but since I'm focusing on Chinese I don't know too many of them. Great video again btw! :D
Thanks for the comment!! I’m sure it’ll help out our Japanese learning friends :) are those decks also structured as sentence cards? I noticed that most of the decks I found for chinese (especially if following a textbook) mostly had vocab cards, not sentence cards. If the card just has a word and definition on it, it’s not the most helpful for long term retention!
This is GOLD!! Thanks a million for building this deck and making it available to everyone for free 〒▽〒 I'm sure it took you so so much effort, energy, and time :') Really appreciate it.
This is honestly incredibly helpful ! Thank you so much for helping out !! I might make a video review of your Anki deck someday after using it for a while ! It's been super helpful ! :D
omg I would love that!!! I would love to get feedback on what is useful and what could be improved upon for future decks!! I’m making HSK5 right now too!
I stumbled onto your youtube video and was so happy that I did. I love your deck. If possible, can you do tutorial on how to create a flashcard for mandarin (include pinyin and pronunciation). I'm also interested in making flashcard for cantonese (include yale phonetic and pronunciation). Thank you.
Hi Bianca, thank you so much for you magnanimous endeavours. You mention a link to a pdf version of the HSK textbooks which will be really useful but I could not spot it.
Hi Bianca, Thank you very much for creating and sharing this amazing deck! I would like to learn how you created it. This must be quite a process. Can you please share your card creation in Anki process in next videos? Thank you!
Thanks for the comment! I’m not sure if that would be an interesting video since I literally just typed down all of the sentences in the textbooks into an excel document, batch imported the pinyin, classified the chapter and card type as a tag, and uploaded them into anki as a CSV file. Then I went in an added all of the audio using the AwesomeTTS add on to every single card. While adding the character and sentence audio, I also double checked that all the imported fields of the card was correct. After all the content of the cards was done, I made the card layout and formatting depending on their focus type! Overall it was a really tedious and repetitive process HAHHA. I would not recommend making so many cards in as quick of a time as I did across 4 textbooks XD
I’ll be doing book reviews in a few videos (got a few others in the pipeline first). But I did review all of the available books on my website! Currently it’s a review of book series, but I’ll be doing an in-depth HSK1 review in a week on there! biancalearns.wordpress.com/
Thank you for this deck! I have a little issue though, the default setting is that it adds cards in the order of when they were added so now I only get all the „listening“ cards and not the others…
thank you so much!!! There's an amazing Anki add-on called AwesomeTTS. It'll add audio to whatever Chinese you have (or other languages) and you can select what voice you want! If you pay for a small subscription they have higher quality audio, but you can also just use the free version!
So yes you spoke about this in the video. The fact we only get a translation for the vocab and not the full sentence. I’m just having a hard time knowing if I’m right or wrong. Because In the context of the specific words I think it’s saying something but then google/dict says something completely different. So I just wish there was a cheat sheet just to know If I’m right or wrong.
So that’s why studying where the sentences from an anki deck come from is super important. A sentence is great, but sometimes, you need the context of the paragraph or the story it was in to help fill in those gaps. For example, if you saw this sentence in an anki deck, it may be a bit confusing: “And then I hopped on a train and passed out”. You can look up every work and get the gist of what’s happening, but it would be easier to understand it in context of a larger story. “I got off work late today and couldn’t wait to go home. I was just so tired! So I walked towards the train station. And then I hopped on a train and passed out. Luckily, I woke up right before my stop!” So if you can, learn sentences in context of larger stories. If you do that, when you see that sentence in anki, oftentimes you’ll remember what story it came from and can use those clues to fill in the gaps!!! :)
Dear Bianca, your created deck is awesome. Thank you for sharing it with us. Although I'm too confused with putting in the stroke order and Chinese audio! Can you please explain how to create a card that has both stroke order and audio?
what type of deck would you like to see me make? creating a deck is actually really simple with Anki. You just add content to the front of a card and the back of the card. it get's more complicated when you're looking to add personalized features. I would recommend to look at other decks that are available and see what they put into each card so you can decide for yourself what is the best information to put into your own deck!
@@bianca.phdinprogress I just like create my own Chinese deck for communication at work. But I don't know how to add instructions on how to write kanji, add pronunciation for vocabulary and example sentences in each card like you
Hello Bianca! Thank you so much :) This surely the best HSK deck in the internet! Just a quick question though: did you first work through the chapters (say, HSK 1 chapter 1) and then do the flashcards? Or did you learn directly with the deck? If anyone else is reading this and has tried it, what would you recommend?
From her explanations, she first goes through the chapter in the textbook, then enables the relevant cards for review (she explains how to do it in this clip). She doesn't think Anki is a good tool for learning, only for reviewing learned content.
@MyOrangeString is correct! I would recommend working through the chapter first and maybe even going through it a few times until you feel fairly comfortable with the characters. Then you can add them to your Anki deck by unsuspending that chapter. If you do it this way, it removes a huge burden off the Anki system where you don't need to learn the words out of context, and can actually recall the word/sentence from the dialogue for easier retention!
Thank you so much. However I experienced the audio was cut short at the beginning. They are always missing the first 1-2 words of the sentence. Any suggestion to fix this issue?
This is amazing, thank you so much. I just have a question, would you recommend starting with reading and then listening? Im starting at HSK 1 and want to know if thats an ok order. Additionally is it good to immerse yourself in chinese shows if youre still beginner
I would say, do whatever keeps you learning. if you want to immerse and watch tv shows as a beginner, then go for it! but I would definitely recommend reading and listening at the same time. listening will be one of the harder skills to pick up, so the earlier you familiarize yourself with the tones, the easier it'll be to get better at it!
Thanks, but the stroke order is not working on ankidroid. Ans, why are listening reading and writing cards not in the separate sub decks? That would make it easy to control what type of cards you wat to study/review...
Hi Bianca! first of, THANKS A MILLION ! How to add pls“type in answer “ field on the whole cards of the deck at once without impacting the note type, because I tried to change the note type through “ change the note type “ to basic type in answer/writing. But I find it changes completely the deck and some fields were deleted Ps: is that possible? without changing it on every each card Thanks in advance!
I just figured it out, and it's sooo SIMPLE. for those who want to practice TYPING in chinese with pinyin: 1 change your keybord language to simplified chinese 2 click "Browse" on Anki 3 look for HSK 1-4 deck then choose randomly a card that has "Writing note tag" 4 click on "Cards..." situated in the middle of "Fields..." and "Preview" 5 on the front template of the card copy/paste {{type:Sentence}} below {{hint:English Definition}} when you click on Save, the 'type in answer' will be automatically done on all the cards with " writing tags" only TADAA
Thank you so much, Bianca; your deck is amazing. I have one question... In your deck, in the first three chapters, you added the word "book" and "this." Why did you add these ones if they weren't mentioned in the dialogues?
there's a tutorial on how to edit these cards and make cards in the middle of the video, but I also have another video about an Anki card demo that you can watch for a more detailed explanation about generating Anki cards! If you want another video about that let me know and I can make one!
Hey Bianca, I think you attended a language program I worked at as a bilingual assistant. Glad to see you are continuing your language journies. I was wondering if you could give further direction on where to find the correct code to add the hanzi animation on Anki. I went to the site and tried one of the codes, but I think it needs to be adjusted. I see they have a quiz code that lets you draw the character with your finger without an outline. Your help will be greatly appreciated! On a side note, I am currently studying at a Chinese school in China. It has been quite a struggle to keep up with the course but also take the time needed to test out and create effective study habits. My program kind of just totally skipped Hanzi so the Western folks have been on their own. :/ I am trying to switch things up now to catch up. Also ....redoing all of your cards :O I am sure it has helped a lot of people.
Hi robert!!! I got my specific code from the hanzi writer website and didn't do any adjustments to it (just copy pasted into anki). the specific code I used can be found in the cards all the way at the end so you can cross-reference there! if you're trying to use the code that gives you a written quiz, that would be something you should ask the developers of the original code about! what I did for my cards was basically just plug and chug various chunks of code until I got the result I wanted. there may need to be a bit of finagling to get the quiz you want, but all of the code components should be available on the developer's website listed below! here's their website explaining the usage of different parts of the code: hanziwriter.org/docs.html the code for integrating the quizzes is copy pasted below (formatting may be an issue but its also in the link I shared earlier): var writer = HanziWriter.create('character-target-div', '码', { width: 150, height: 150, showCharacter: false, padding: 5 }); writer.quiz({ onMistake: function(strokeData) { console.log('Oh no! you made a mistake on stroke ' + strokeData.strokeNum); console.log("You've made " + strokeData.mistakesOnStroke + " mistakes on this stroke so far"); console.log("You've made " + strokeData.totalMistakes + " total mistakes on this quiz"); console.log("There are " + strokeData.strokesRemaining + " strokes remaining in this character"); }, onCorrectStroke: function(strokeData) { console.log('Yes!!! You got stroke ' + strokeData.strokeNum + ' correct!'); console.log('You made ' + strokeData.mistakesOnStroke + ' mistakes on this stroke'); console.log("You've made " + strokeData.totalMistakes + ' total mistakes on this quiz'); console.log('There are ' + strokeData.strokesRemaining + ' strokes remaining in this character'); }, onComplete: function(summaryData) { console.log('You did it! You finished drawing ' + summaryData.character); console.log('You made ' + summaryData.totalMistakes + ' total mistakes on this quiz'); } });
Your decks are very impressive :'), thank you so much for sharing🥰. Could you spend a littile more time to show everyone how to put in the stroke order and the chinese audio. This would mean the world to me because I'm struggling with that :((. Thank you for reading. Sorry if I make any mistakes, I'm bad at English :((
@@bianca.phdinprogress After watching carefully videos and download your amazing decks, I now can create a card that has both audio and stroke order. Thanks a million, you have saved me this semester ❤️
Thanx again for all your efforts helping us newbies get good systems for starting out. My biggest problem has been to know where to start and what books/apps to use on a daily basis. Your videos are u s e f u l and v a l u a b l e for this purpose. Go!
thank you!!!! I’ll be doing book and app reviews in the future, but it’ll definitely take time to review each available book and app (also don’t want my channel to just be a review channel). I would recommend checking my website for all the resources that I found when I started out up until now with reviews and other explanations!! It’s meant to be a one stop shop for anything “how to learn a language” (especially Chinese because that’s what I’m learning right now!). I’ll be updating with new posts regularly! Got app, textbook, graded reader, podcasts, and website reviews for Chinese! And some posts about how to go about learning any language, and one specifically for Chinese! biancalearns.wordpress.com/
(edit) I had an issue where I couldn't see anything on the cards.
IT'S BECAUSE OF DARK THEME.
The Dark theme changes some of the display colors, and for me this translated into very clear text on very clear flashcards.
Turned it back to Light theme, and now I can use the deck no issue.
It had my head scratching for a while. Bianca please feel free to pin this for reference! And thank you for the fantastic deck!!
ahhh thats such a good point! change the colors and you can probably use the dark settings without an issue!
@@bianca.phdinprogress Better yet you can keep the dark theme: Click on "Edit" -> "Cards" -> "Front/Back" and replace in both tabs the first line with
Hi Bianca , could pls how i can use or dow load this anki deck? Appreciate it
Please dear lord make a video on how to use Anki - I'm still struggling like crazy. Thank you for what you do - You're brilliant!
Also, AHHHH this is great and your website is great too. Fangirling over here...
Can do!!! There are tons of tutorials already so I can direct you to one of those! If they’re still confusing I can make one targeted to your specific questions!
Also, thank you so much for the lovely comment about the video and website! I spent a ton of time trying to make it was informative and useful as possible (while still fun heh). I’ll be posting more resources or thoughts on there fairly regularly, so check back whenever you want!
i'm SO SORRY I accidentally deleted your followup comment!! I read through it though :) i'm glad you were able to find the answer to your anki questions!!! I also hope that your chinese journey is great :) it's gonna be a long road ahead, but it's so rewarding!! i'm almost a year out and it's so cool being able to be somewhat functional in the language HAHA I still have a long way to go, but it keeps getting more enjoyable the better I get! ~
Thank you sincerely, Bianca. I'm not sure you understand how much we appreciate your sharing this anki deck that you painstakingly disassembled/reassembled/compiled/consolidated... for free. Thank you for the 3 礼物 lĭwù!
I’m so glad that it’s helpful!! More than happy to help out others based on my own experiences, especially for things I wished that I had when I first started out! I’ll be releasing an HSK5 deck once I finish that book too!
Es alentador ver personas como tu, haciendo un gran trabajo compartiendo estos recursos para que personas como yo podamos aprender desde cualquier parte del mundo y tan solo con una computadora e internet :) thank you from Mexico
You're absolutely amazing! Im going to start my mandarin journey now in 2022 and this will for sure help me a lot. Thank you so much for the hard work you've put into it, it's outstanding!
Thank you soooo much!! Really appreciate it :) good luck with your studies! You’re gonna kill it!!
Fantastic job! Can't imagine the effort, time and energy, you put on doing this deck. Thank you very much!
you're very welcome!!! The HSK5 deck will be out in a month!
I don't know how to explain my feeling. I really appreciate your deck and thank you so much for the video. This is a lot of work. I have created anki deck before but it was only the flash card with picture. Your flashcard deck is much more work and time consuming. Thank you so much!!😍
Aww thank you!! Really appreciate the kind words :) hope it’s helpful!!
why are you so awesomeee and kindddddd!!! I am so grateful 😭
I hope it's helpful :))
So very kind of you to create this beautiful and comprehensive deck for public use. Really appreciate your efforts. You have gained a fan today.
thank you so much!!! I'll be releasing the HSK5 deck at the end of February!
Wow. Epic production quality on this video. Thanks for taking the time to create these resources as well.
thank you sooo much!! i'll be releasing the HSK5 deck in a little under 2 months :)
these were amazing to use!!!! can't wait for hsk 5!! thankyou from the bottom of my heart 辛苦您了!
I’m sooo glad it was helpful!! HSK5 will probs be released mid to end next year! Got a little excited to start sentence mining but I’ll get back into my HSK5 studying in the new year :)
Thanks a lot for the deck! Its a game changer for me. It was a struggle for me to add cards and create a deck myself step by step. Really appreciate your help bianca!
So glad it’s helpful!!! :) HSK5 will be coming out in a little over a month!
Wow!!! This seems like a lot of work. I mean, thank you very much for sharing it with us! ☺️
No problem!! Hope it was helpful!!
You are a goddess I cannot emphasize how thankful I am
L O L idk about that XD but keep an eye out for HSK5 soon! Glad you like the deck :)
Omg you're really pretty and your personality is really lovely.
Thank you so much, you've helped so much with this deck!
Thank youu, you’re so sweet! No problem!! Happy to help :))
Hey Bianca! I know this is a couple years old but I'm learning Chinese at university right now and this is a huge, huge help, 谢谢 ! :D
Wow, that's pretty incredible. Well done. I just started learning chinese for work and my first week has been a rollercoaster of emotions. Your videos are great.
hopefully it's been an enjoyable journey for you!
I am about to cry. I've been using this deck for 5 minutes and it's so easy to learn with omg
awww im so happy to hear that!!! the Chinese decks available at the time were just so bad so I had to make something that actually helped me l o l
@@bianca.phdinprogress Hey since I made that comment I actually already started preparing for HSK5 and this deck helped me a lot getting acquainted with the HSK4 vocab, so thank you again!
Saw a couple of your tips in the comments for adding audio, and I've used your template to create my own anki vocab cards and I'm super happy with how you showed we could customise things. So helpful!
so glad it was helpful!! even if pre made decks are useful, ultimately the best decks are the ones you make yourself!!
Bianca I just stumbled onto your channel and just wanted to share enormous gratitude for your effort in creating this deck, and your willingness to share it to the language learning public. I can only imagine the months of time, effort and energy you have taken to create this comprehensive deck, we all owe you much gratitude, and best continued luck in your language learning journey!
thanks for the comment and for watching!! really appreciate it :) glad it's helpful! it did take me an ungodly amount of time to make hahah
I am in awe! what a great job, i cant even imagine the time you put into it! And thank you so much for making it available, this is extremely generous of you.
so glad it's helpful!!
What an amazing resource! I’m not even studying Mandarin and I’m thoroughly impressed. 🤩 I hope you get 1 Million views 🙌🏾 ⚡️
Aww thank you! Appreciate it!
This is incredible. I've been looking for something like this since I started learning chinese. Thank you!
so glad that it was helpful!! i'll be releasing HSK5 within the next few months!
I'm importing the deck now. I never had a deck this large 😀
I'm looking forward to using it!
hopefully it's helpful!!!
@@bianca.phdinprogress It is! Thank you for making it 😊
No problem!!!
I'm just gonna say Ily so muchhh🥺🥺 thnx for your effort, you're saving me a lot of time
I hope it's useful for you!!
Thanks a lot bianca! just started over a a month ago with clases that go through the HSK books serie, and i was manually adding tags along the way on a huge HSK anki set in combination with the hanping dictionary. guess you have done the work already! :)
hopefully it's helpful for you!!!
Hi Bianca, New sub here. Thank you so much for sharing this deck with us. I appreciate you so much. Making Anki decks can be very hard, time consuming and can be so frustrating and to imagine that out of the goodness of your heart you shared it to us for free. This is just amazing. Thank you ! Thank you ! Thank you! You are the best! xoxo
glad that it's useful for other learners!!!
This deck is a gold mine! Thank you for the botttom of my heart for going trhough all the trouble to make it perfect and sharing it with us!
Do you have any plans to release decks for the following levels?
Once again, thank you so much for this!
I stopped using HSK so I won't be making decks for the higher levels, but hopefully by that point your level will be high enough to make decks of your own from content you love!
I remember downloading the Deck, however it was so confusing, i deleted that. However I came across this video and now it all make sense!
so sorry it was confusing at first!! hopefully it's helpful now :)
SORRY?? UHM? YOU DROPPED THIS: 👑
It’s my first time on your channel but girl, I was about to cry when I saw all the stuff you created and made it available for everyone for free??? Like-
You need a gold statue girl 😭❤️
I have no clue how to thank you enough… this video was amazing and helped so much, I can’t wait to start studying with your deck, it’s incredible
Thank you for everything, really… it’s wow… thank you 😭😭😭✨
I can't I just can't thank you enough as well as admire all that hard work that went to make this golden Naruto anki cards 💛 thank you
you're welcome!!! so glad it's been helpful for people :))
Thanks a lot for sharing, just moved back to Beijing after 4 years and aiming at HSK4 as I did HSK3 like 7 years ago. Definitely gonna try Anki! Great inspiration 🌏😊 Hope it will enable me to travel more too!
I hope so too!!! good luck on your chinese journey :)
You're a lifesaver. Thanks for the deck!
glad that it's useful!! :) happy studying!
WHY CANT YOU HAVE THIS FOR JAPANESE 😭😭 glad you’re back!
I were thinking the same thing!! =)
There are a lot of good Japanese Anki Decks.
If y’all give me the textbooks to replicate, I could theoretically do it! Just need someone else to QC cuz I kno nothing about Japanese besides recognizing kanji that I’ve learned in Chinese HAHAH.
@@bianca.phdinprogress No need to. ^^ If one wants to find good Japanese Anki decks, one just has to look for them. My recommendation are the Tango decks, starting with the "JLPT Tango N5 MIA Omega Deck". There are more good decks out there but since I'm focusing on Chinese I don't know too many of them. Great video again btw! :D
Thanks for the comment!! I’m sure it’ll help out our Japanese learning friends :) are those decks also structured as sentence cards? I noticed that most of the decks I found for chinese (especially if following a textbook) mostly had vocab cards, not sentence cards. If the card just has a word and definition on it, it’s not the most helpful for long term retention!
Wow, that`s quite a job. Thank you for your passion on helping other people in learning chinese
just trying to help people overcome the aspects of Chinese that were annoying and frustrating for me! hopefully it's working!!
Wow what a help you are appreciate it. One of the best most helpful and informative vids ive ever seen
You're an absolute legend, this deck is fantastic, love having the stroke order on there too! Thank you so much for sharing this for free :)
glad it's useful :)) happy studying!!!
Its good to see you again😄 with unexpected gift. So within these 2 months i have leveled up to HSK 4✌.
Yassss we love seeing progress!! Soon you’ll be at HSK5!
This is GOLD!! Thanks a million for building this deck and making it available to everyone for free 〒▽〒 I'm sure it took you so so much effort, energy, and time :') Really appreciate it.
glad that it's useful c: happy studying!!!
THANK U SO MUCH BIANCA. It was really helpful
I’m so glad!!! I’ll be updating with HSK5 once I finish!
I’m so glad I found your channel. Thank you for being awesome. ^_^
thank you for watching!!!
Thank you so much for this bianca!
you're welcome!! hopefully it's helpful for you :)
This is simply awesome! Thank You! I hope you're doing great!
You’re welcome!!! I hope it’s helpful and I hope you’re doing great too :)
Subscribed. Thank you for taking us with you in this journey.
Thank you for the subscribe and the comment! It really helps me keep making hopefully useful content!
thank you so much, we have a pretty similar study method so this is just perfect
hopefully you see a lot of great progress!!
@@bianca.phdinprogress I have indeed!! Still basic Chinese tho
Even if it’s basic Chinese you should be proud of it and not minimize your accomplishments!!
Bianca this is excellent work. Thank you so very much.
You’re welcome!! I’ll be making more decks pertaining to specific tv shows on my patreon if you’re interested in that! :)
OMG this is very helpful !!! Thank you soooo much❤️ :))))
glad that it's helpful :))
This is brilliant! Yikes, a scary amount of work. Thank you so much for your generosity ♥️
No problem!!! Working on HSK5 right now but got a bit sidetracked 🥲🙃
Thank you very much for all your hard work 😮
glad that the deck is being used :)) happy studying and good luck!!
This is honestly incredibly helpful ! Thank you so much for helping out !!
I might make a video review of your Anki deck someday after using it for a while !
It's been super helpful ! :D
omg I would love that!!! I would love to get feedback on what is useful and what could be improved upon for future decks!! I’m making HSK5 right now too!
Thank you so much! I've been looking for good Anki decks as a beginner
hopefully it's helpful!!
high respects to your work, wow. And big thanks!
Thanks so much! love this, just downloaded it, amazing hard work :-)
You’re welcome!!! I hope it’s helpful :) good luck studying!!
I stumbled onto your youtube video and was so happy that I did. I love your deck. If possible, can you do tutorial on how to create a flashcard for mandarin (include pinyin and pronunciation). I'm also interested in making flashcard for cantonese (include yale phonetic and pronunciation). Thank you.
Hi Bianca, thank you so much for you magnanimous endeavours. You mention a link to a pdf version of the HSK textbooks which will be really useful but I could not spot it.
glad it's helpful!! I added a link, but I think it got removed unfortunately .-.
Hi Bianca, Thank you very much for creating and sharing this amazing deck! I would like to learn how you created it. This must be quite a process. Can you please share your card creation in Anki process in next videos? Thank you!
Thanks for the comment! I’m not sure if that would be an interesting video since I literally just typed down all of the sentences in the textbooks into an excel document, batch imported the pinyin, classified the chapter and card type as a tag, and uploaded them into anki as a CSV file. Then I went in an added all of the audio using the AwesomeTTS add on to every single card. While adding the character and sentence audio, I also double checked that all the imported fields of the card was correct. After all the content of the cards was done, I made the card layout and formatting depending on their focus type!
Overall it was a really tedious and repetitive process HAHHA. I would not recommend making so many cards in as quick of a time as I did across 4 textbooks XD
Wow thank you so much for your effort!!! Much appreciated!!!🤩🤩🤩
you're welcome!!
Thank you so much for your hard work!
thank you for watching!!!
Your channel is simply perfect. :)
aww thank you so much!!! I hope you enjoy all the future content I put on there :) got some really fun stuff coming up!!
Thanks so much, I got it!
no problem!!!
thank you so much for sharing this deck :) my goal is to get to hsk 4 next year so this will be very useful
You’re welcome!!! Hopefully it is helpful for you :)
You're awesome!!! Thank you!!
thank you for watching!! really appreciate it!!
thank you very much its very very good deck
I'm glad it's helpful!!!
Dedication, thanks so much
you're welcomee
你好 I'm soo glad you're back!! please do the HSK 1 book review next😅
I’ll be doing book reviews in a few videos (got a few others in the pipeline first). But I did review all of the available books on my website!
Currently it’s a review of book series, but I’ll be doing an in-depth HSK1 review in a week on there!
biancalearns.wordpress.com/
Thank you so much this is fantastic.
hopefully it's helpful!!
Thank you for this deck! I have a little issue though, the default setting is that it adds cards in the order of when they were added so now I only get all the „listening“ cards and not the others…
You can fix the character audio without moving the html tag by adding "defer" (without the quotes) after
Thank you thank you so much!!!
you're welcome :)
Thanks for your card
This is awesome!! thank you so much😭
I’m glad you enjoyed it!! :)
I really love this deck. I’m using it for my hsk 1 & 2 characters now that I have started hsk 3. How did you add the audio if I may ask
thank you so much!!! There's an amazing Anki add-on called AwesomeTTS. It'll add audio to whatever Chinese you have (or other languages) and you can select what voice you want! If you pay for a small subscription they have higher quality audio, but you can also just use the free version!
So yes you spoke about this in the video. The fact we only get a translation for the vocab and not the full sentence. I’m just having a hard time knowing if I’m right or wrong. Because In the context of the specific words I think it’s saying something but then google/dict says something completely different. So I just wish there was a cheat sheet just to know If I’m right or wrong.
So that’s why studying where the sentences from an anki deck come from is super important. A sentence is great, but sometimes, you need the context of the paragraph or the story it was in to help fill in those gaps.
For example, if you saw this sentence in an anki deck, it may be a bit confusing:
“And then I hopped on a train and passed out”.
You can look up every work and get the gist of what’s happening, but it would be easier to understand it in context of a larger story.
“I got off work late today and couldn’t wait to go home. I was just so tired! So I walked towards the train station. And then I hopped on a train and passed out. Luckily, I woke up right before my stop!”
So if you can, learn sentences in context of larger stories. If you do that, when you see that sentence in anki, oftentimes you’ll remember what story it came from and can use those clues to fill in the gaps!!! :)
Dear Bianca, your created deck is awesome. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Although I'm too confused with putting in the stroke order and Chinese audio!
Can you please explain how to create a card that has both stroke order and audio?
hi! thank u so so much for all the work you’ve put into creating these flashcards
YOURE AMAZING
aww thank you!!! appreciate it hehehe :)
This is really awesome, thank you so much!
You’re welcome!!! Glad it was helpful!
my god you are a angel
glad it's helpful :))
I would like to create my own Chinese deck. Please make a video with this content. Thanks
what type of deck would you like to see me make? creating a deck is actually really simple with Anki. You just add content to the front of a card and the back of the card. it get's more complicated when you're looking to add personalized features. I would recommend to look at other decks that are available and see what they put into each card so you can decide for yourself what is the best information to put into your own deck!
@@bianca.phdinprogress I just like create my own Chinese deck for communication at work. But I don't know how to add instructions on how to write kanji, add pronunciation for vocabulary and example sentences in each card like you
you're a genius!
Aww you’re too kind!
Gracias Bianca :D
thank you for watching!!!
Hello Bianca! Thank you so much :) This surely the best HSK deck in the internet! Just a quick question though: did you first work through the chapters (say, HSK 1 chapter 1) and then do the flashcards? Or did you learn directly with the deck? If anyone else is reading this and has tried it, what would you recommend?
From her explanations, she first goes through the chapter in the textbook, then enables the relevant cards for review (she explains how to do it in this clip). She doesn't think Anki is a good tool for learning, only for reviewing learned content.
@MyOrangeString is correct! I would recommend working through the chapter first and maybe even going through it a few times until you feel fairly comfortable with the characters. Then you can add them to your Anki deck by unsuspending that chapter. If you do it this way, it removes a huge burden off the Anki system where you don't need to learn the words out of context, and can actually recall the word/sentence from the dialogue for easier retention!
Thank you so much. However I experienced the audio was cut short at the beginning. They are always missing the first 1-2 words of the sentence. Any suggestion to fix this issue?
Thanks for this video and the Anki deck! Absolutely incredible. I am wondering where I can find the link for the free PDF version?
you can find the pdf of the HSK textbooks on google!
非常感谢，这太棒了！
Thank you so much
no problem :) hope it's helpful!!
This is amazing, thank you so much. I just have a question, would you recommend starting with reading and then listening? Im starting at HSK 1 and want to know if thats an ok order. Additionally is it good to immerse yourself in chinese shows if youre still beginner
I would say, do whatever keeps you learning. if you want to immerse and watch tv shows as a beginner, then go for it! but I would definitely recommend reading and listening at the same time. listening will be one of the harder skills to pick up, so the earlier you familiarize yourself with the tones, the easier it'll be to get better at it!
such great videos
Thank you so much :)
Thanks, but the stroke order is not working on ankidroid. Ans, why are listening reading and writing cards not in the separate sub decks? That would make it easy to control what type of cards you wat to study/review...
Hi Bianca! first of, THANKS A MILLION !
How to add pls“type in answer “ field on the whole cards of the deck at once without impacting the note type, because I tried to change the note type through “ change the note type “ to basic type in answer/writing. But I find it changes completely the deck and some fields were deleted
Ps: is that possible? without changing it on every each card
Thanks in advance!
I just figured it out, and it's sooo SIMPLE.
for those who want to practice TYPING in chinese with pinyin:
1 change your keybord language to simplified chinese
2 click "Browse" on Anki
3 look for HSK 1-4 deck then choose randomly a card that has "Writing note tag"
4 click on "Cards..." situated in the middle of "Fields..." and "Preview"
5 on the front template of the card copy/paste {{type:Sentence}} below {{hint:English Definition}}
when you click on Save, the 'type in answer' will be automatically done on all the cards with " writing tags" only TADAA
Thanks for figuring that out!!!!
Thank you so much, Bianca; your deck is amazing.
I have one question...
In your deck, in the first three chapters, you added the word "book" and "this."
Why did you add these ones if they weren't mentioned in the dialogues?
Am I just blind, or? I can't find the PDFs mentioned at 4:10
i love your video
thank you!!! I really appreciate it!!! :)
can you make a detailed video how you made these cards, i also want to make cards
there's a tutorial on how to edit these cards and make cards in the middle of the video, but I also have another video about an Anki card demo that you can watch for a more detailed explanation about generating Anki cards! If you want another video about that let me know and I can make one!
@@bianca.phdinprogress ok
Hey Im new to anki and just started learning chinese. is there a way to only get the vocab from hsk1?
Where can I download Ms? I visit your blog but I couldn't find the link there. Please help.
Hey Bianca, I think you attended a language program I worked at as a bilingual assistant. Glad to see you are continuing your language journies. I was wondering if you could give further direction on where to find the correct code to add the hanzi animation on Anki. I went to the site and tried one of the codes, but I think it needs to be adjusted. I see they have a quiz code that lets you draw the character with your finger without an outline. Your help will be greatly appreciated! On a side note, I am currently studying at a Chinese school in China. It has been quite a struggle to keep up with the course but also take the time needed to test out and create effective study habits. My program kind of just totally skipped Hanzi so the Western folks have been on their own. :/ I am trying to switch things up now to catch up. Also ....redoing all of your cards :O I am sure it has helped a lot of people.
Hi robert!!! I got my specific code from the hanzi writer website and didn't do any adjustments to it (just copy pasted into anki). the specific code I used can be found in the cards all the way at the end so you can cross-reference there! if you're trying to use the code that gives you a written quiz, that would be something you should ask the developers of the original code about! what I did for my cards was basically just plug and chug various chunks of code until I got the result I wanted. there may need to be a bit of finagling to get the quiz you want, but all of the code components should be available on the developer's website listed below!
here's their website explaining the usage of different parts of the code: hanziwriter.org/docs.html
the code for integrating the quizzes is copy pasted below (formatting may be an issue but its also in the link I shared earlier):
var writer = HanziWriter.create('character-target-div', '码', {
width: 150,
height: 150,
showCharacter: false,
padding: 5
});
writer.quiz({
onMistake: function(strokeData) {
console.log('Oh no! you made a mistake on stroke ' + strokeData.strokeNum);
console.log("You've made " + strokeData.mistakesOnStroke + " mistakes on this stroke so far");
console.log("You've made " + strokeData.totalMistakes + " total mistakes on this quiz");
console.log("There are " + strokeData.strokesRemaining + " strokes remaining in this character");
},
onCorrectStroke: function(strokeData) {
console.log('Yes!!! You got stroke ' + strokeData.strokeNum + ' correct!');
console.log('You made ' + strokeData.mistakesOnStroke + ' mistakes on this stroke');
console.log("You've made " + strokeData.totalMistakes + ' total mistakes on this quiz');
console.log('There are ' + strokeData.strokesRemaining + ' strokes remaining in this character');
},
onComplete: function(summaryData) {
console.log('You did it! You finished drawing ' + summaryData.character);
console.log('You made ' + summaryData.totalMistakes + ' total mistakes on this quiz');
}
});
@@bianca.phdinprogress great! Thank you so much!!
No problem!! Glad I could help :)
Your decks are very impressive :'), thank you so much for sharing🥰. Could you spend a littile more time to show everyone how to put in the stroke order and the chinese audio. This would mean the world to me because I'm struggling with that :((. Thank you for reading. Sorry if I make any mistakes, I'm bad at English :((
i'll be making a video dedicated to making anki decks and including that as a section!! hopefully in the next few weeks :)
@@bianca.phdinprogress After watching carefully videos and download your amazing decks, I now can create a card that has both audio and stroke order. Thanks a million, you have saved me this semester ❤️
somehow it does not work...just have the over 4000 cards and cannot choose what I want to do. Maybe I'm using the wrong app.
Thanx again for all your efforts helping us newbies get good systems for starting out. My biggest problem has been to know where to start and what books/apps to use on a daily basis. Your videos are u s e f u l and v a l u a b l e for this purpose. Go!
thank you!!!!
I’ll be doing book and app reviews in the future, but it’ll definitely take time to review each available book and app (also don’t want my channel to just be a review channel).
I would recommend checking my website for all the resources that I found when I started out up until now with reviews and other explanations!! It’s meant to be a one stop shop for anything “how to learn a language” (especially Chinese because that’s what I’m learning right now!). I’ll be updating with new posts regularly!
Got app, textbook, graded reader, podcasts, and website reviews for Chinese! And some posts about how to go about learning any language, and one specifically for Chinese!
biancalearns.wordpress.com/