[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-article-local-best-chinese-anki-decks":3,"$fHZsWYl_LcdVZ5GxKwtR-ZqvCZbbUdo2_Fi6R_GQKiQM":1138,"blog-article-cms-best-chinese-anki-decks":1140,"article-hreflang-best-chinese-anki-decks":1141,"blog-article-related-best-chinese-anki-decks":1829},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":1118,"extension":1119,"meta":1120,"navigation":1131,"path":1132,"rawbody":1133,"seo":1134,"stem":1135,"__hash__":1136,"timestampUnix":1121,"slug":1122,"h1":1123,"image":1124,"tags":1129,"timestamp":1137,"locale":-1},"content\u002Farticle\u002Fchinese\u002Fmandarin-anki.md","6 Anki Decks That Will Actually Help You Learn Chinese | Best Mandarin Chinese Anki Decks",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":1085},"minimark",[9,24,27,37,40,43,48,51,57,62,65,79,87,91,99,122,131,134,138,146,149,156,159,164,167,173,176,179,182,186,189,204,207,253,260,265,272,275,278,282,285,288,293,296,324,327,329,333,336,342,345,348,351,354,364,368,377,380,386,389,404,407,419,422,444,448,451,455,468,474,477,485,490,506,510,523,528,531,540,544,553,560,563,569,578,584,591,594,599,602,605,614,618,637,640,645,648,662,665,679,694,697,712,716,719,726,729,732,736,739,745,748,754,757,761,765,768,773,776,779,783,790,804,807,812,822,825,834,838,841,847,852,855,858,862,865,881,887,891,894,902,906,913,949,958,962,965,969,972,977,986,995,999,1002,1010,1015,1018,1025,1034,1038,1041,1065,1068,1071,1082],[10,11,12,13,18,19,23],"p",{},"Been wanting to ",[14,15,17],"a",{"href":16},"\u002Flearn-chinese","learn Chinese"," but discovered that means learning 3,000 unique characters and decided ",[20,21,22],"em",{},"this is a job for flashcards","?",[10,25,26],{},"Welcome to the team 🫡",[10,28,29,30,36],{},"To make this post, I went through ",[14,31,35],{"href":32,"rel":33},"https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Fdecks?search=chinese",[34],"nofollow","nearly 1,000 free Chinese Anki decks",", picked the best ones, and then introduced them.",[38,39],"toc",{},[41,42],"hr",{},[44,45,47],"h2",{"id":46},"setup-what-is-anki-how-to-install-the-flashcard-app-and-how-to-download-chinese-decks","[Setup] What is Anki, how to install the flashcard app, and how to download Chinese decks",[10,49,50],{},"On the off chance that you're new to Anki, here's a rundown of the absolute basics you need to know to get it set up.",[52,53,54],"blockquote",{},[10,55,56],{},"If you already know what Anki is, go ahead and jump straight to [Soapbox].",[58,59,61],"h3",{"id":60},"how-anki-flashcards-and-spaced-repetition-make-your-life-easier","How Anki flashcards and spaced repetition make your life easier",[10,63,64],{},"Anki is an digital flashcard application. It's pretty much exactly what you're thinking of when you think of flashcards, with two notable exceptions:",[66,67,68,76],"ol",{},[69,70,71,72,75],"li",{},"It's ",[20,73,74],{},"super"," customizable. With some programming knowledge and elbow grease, you can do some pretty incredible things with it. It's also open source, so you can benefit from the elbow grease put in by people with programming knowledge, even if you don't have any.",[69,77,78],{},"It's powered by a spaced-repetition algorithm. Anki keeps track of what you get right and wrong, then periodically nudges you to review flashcards when it thinks you're about to forget. If something goes into an Anki deck, it'll eventually work its way into your brain, too.",[10,80,81,82,86],{},"We've actually got an accessible introduction to ",[14,83,85],{"href":84},"\u002Fblog\u002Flanguage-fun\u002Fspaced-repetition-language-learning","spaced repetition and how your memory works",". If this is your first time hearing of Anki, it's worth taking a ten-minute detour to read.",[58,88,90],{"id":89},"how-to-install-anki","How to install Anki",[10,92,93,94,98],{},"For more detailed instructions, ",[14,95,97],{"href":96},"\u002Fblog\u002Flanguage-fun\u002Fhow-to-use-anki#how-to-install-anki","see this longer post",". Otherwise:",[66,100,101,110],{},[69,102,103,104,109],{},"Click ",[14,105,108],{"href":106,"rel":107},"https:\u002F\u002Fapps.ankiweb.net\u002F",[34],"here"," to download Anki on desktop",[69,111,103,112,116,117,121],{},[14,113,108],{"href":114,"rel":115},"https:\u002F\u002Fapps.apple.com\u002Fus\u002Fapp\u002Fankimobile-flashcards\u002Fid373493387",[34]," to download Anki for iOS ($24.99 and the honor of supporting an open-source project) or ",[14,118,108],{"href":119,"rel":120},"https:\u002F\u002Fplay.google.com\u002Fstore\u002Fapps\u002Fdetails?id=com.ichi2.anki&hl=en",[34]," to download Anki for Android (free)",[10,123,124,125,130],{},"You'll also want to ",[14,126,129],{"href":127,"rel":128},"https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Faccount\u002Fsignup",[34],"sign up for an account on Anki's website",".",[10,132,133],{},"And now for the fun stuff!",[58,135,137],{"id":136},"how-to-install-mandarin-anki-decks-from-ankiweb","How to install Mandarin Anki Decks from Ankiweb",[10,139,140,141,145],{},"Once you're logged into your Anki account, navigate to ",[14,142,144],{"href":32,"rel":143},[34],"Anki's \"Shared Decks\" page",". This is a repository of all the decks of Chinese flashcards that people have made and decided to share publicly. Feel free to look around!",[10,147,148],{},"Once you find a deck that looks promising, click the blue \"Download\" button.",[150,151],"img",{"src":152,"width":153,"height":154,"alt":155},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-setup.jpeg",2880,1668,"A screenshot of the landing page for one of Anki's Chinese decks",[10,157,158],{},"Now open Anki. Click \"Import File\", find the deck you downloaded (it will end in .apkg), and then click \"Open\":",[150,160],{"src":161,"width":153,"height":162,"alt":163},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-setup2.jpeg",1800,"A screenshot showing how to import your Mandarin flashcards into Anki",[10,165,166],{},"Anki will automatically handle the setup, and the deck will become available in your Anki Desktop program momentarily. To get access to the deck on your phone, click the \"sync\" button in the top-right corner of your desktop program. You'll need to be logged in to do this. Next, log into Anki on your phone, click \"synchronize\" there, and voila!",[150,168],{"src":169,"width":170,"height":171,"alt":172},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-setup3.jpeg",1880,1230,"A screenshot how to sync your flashcards between desktop Anki and mobile Anki",[10,174,175],{},"What \"syncing\" means is that Anki uploads the deck and its media your account on the AnkiWeb server, then downloads that same content from the web to your mobile device. Depending on the size of the deck you've downloaded, this could take a fair bit of time.",[10,177,178],{},"Once it's done, you'll be ready to get started.",[10,180,181],{},"Which leads me to...",[44,183,185],{"id":184},"soapbox-the-best-flashcard-deck-for-chinese-learners-shall-meet-these-6-conditions","[Soapbox] The best flashcard deck for Chinese learners shall meet these 6 conditions",[10,187,188],{},"I'm going to be blunt here for a moment:",[52,190,191],{},[10,192,193,194,197,199,200],{},"There are nearly 1,000 Chinese decks shared publicly on AnkiWeb. To make this post, I skimmed through the entire list and examined about 100 that looked promising.",[195,196],"br",{},[195,198],{}," ",[201,202,203],"strong",{},"Most of the decks sucked.",[10,205,206],{},"When I say that, I mean that, ideally, a \"good\" deck should meet six important criteria:",[66,208,209,215,221,227,233,247],{},[69,210,211,214],{},[201,212,213],{},"Frequency"," — It teaches you vocabulary in order of how common they are",[69,216,217,220],{},[201,218,219],{},"Appropriate example sentences"," — Those vocab words are taught in the context of accessible example sentences; if you're learning a common word like \"person\", ideally the rest of the words in the sentence are also things that someone learning \"person\" would be ready to learn",[69,222,223,226],{},[201,224,225],{},"Atomic"," — Each new flashcard should introduce only one new piece of information",[69,228,229,232],{},[201,230,231],{},"Audio"," — You don't have perfect Chinese pronunciation (yet 💪), so you want to hear these sentences being narrated by a native speaker",[69,234,235,238,239,242,243,246],{},[201,236,237],{},"Chinese first"," — While beyond the scope of this post (see ",[14,240,241],{"href":84},"our post about memory","), you'll see ",[20,244,245],{},"much"," quicker progress if your flashcards have Chinese on the front and English on the back",[69,248,249,252],{},[201,250,251],{},"Notes"," — It'd be nice to have some grammar notes explaining what's going on in a sentence",[10,254,255,256,259],{},"I ",[20,257,258],{},"really"," wanted to find a deck of flashcards that met all those criteria so I could present it as the best Chinese Anki deck and finish this post in an hour or so.",[10,261,262],{},[201,263,264],{},"I didn't find a single deck that met all of the above criteria.",[10,266,267,268,271],{},"I'm going to share the best decks I found—and I did find some cool ones—but, on the off chance you find a deck that meets the above six criteria, ignore my recommendations and download that deck. ",[20,269,270],{},"That's"," an awesome deck.",[10,273,274],{},"Anyway, that's my soapbox.",[10,276,277],{},"There are a few bits of hygiene we should cover, then we'll get into the post.",[58,279,281],{"id":280},"three-things-you-should-know-to-use-anki-effectively","Three things you should know to use Anki effectively",[10,283,284],{},"Anki is cool. You're probably excited. You should be. Everybody is.",[10,286,287],{},"Now I'm going to tell you something very important:",[52,289,290],{},[10,291,292],{},"Anki is a weapon. It's powerful, but if you use it incorrectly, you might hurt yourself.",[10,294,295],{},"There are three main ways that beginners go wrong. Alas, ye shall:",[66,297,298,308,314],{},[69,299,300,303,304,307],{},[201,301,302],{},"Don't make a flashcard out of everything."," We talk about this in more detail ",[14,305,108],{"href":306},"\u002Fblog\u002Fjapanese\u002Fhow-to-learn-japanese-vocabulary",", but not all words are equally useful. The purpose of memorizing words in Anki is so that you know what they mean when you encounter them, reducing the amount of times you have to put your content down to look something up. If you memorize supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, that's cool, but it's not going to help you watch anything but Mary Poppins.",[69,309,310,313],{},[201,311,312],{},"Don't memorize individual words."," Instead, learn words via sentences. The context provided by the sentence will make it easier to remember the word and give you important information about how the word is used.",[69,315,316,319,320,323],{},[201,317,318],{},"Remember that Anki is a means to an end."," You're going to learn a bunch of words, and that's cool, but there's presumably something you want to ",[20,321,322],{},"do"," in Mandarin. Anki is only as valuable as the assistance it provides in pursuit of that goal. Do Anki, but also spend time interacting with Mandarin!",[10,325,326],{},"With that out of the way, let's get into it:",[41,328],{},[44,330,332],{"id":331},"_1-a-solid-chinese-deck-for-absolute-beginners","1. A solid Chinese deck for absolute beginners",[10,334,335],{},"Let's start with a good one.",[150,337],{"src":338,"width":339,"height":340,"alt":341},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-mandarin-anki-beginner.jpeg",1518,1232,"A deck of Chinese flashcards that's quite suitable for beginners",[10,343,344],{},"This is a pretty awesome deck.",[10,346,347],{},"To be honest, the only thing I don't like about it is its length: it teaches you all the vocabulary you need to know for the HSK 1, and that works out to 150 words. That's a great start, but it's not quite enough to do much in Mandarin yet.",[10,349,350],{},"The front of each flashcard is a word and level-appropriate example sentence; the back of each card has pinyin and zhuyin (Taiwanese pinyin), a definition, and an image. If you tweak the settings a bit, you can also choose whether you see simplified or traditional characters.",[10,352,353],{},"I'm going to get picky as we go on, but I've honestly got no complaints here. If you're just beginning to study Mandarin, and you're not sure if you want to pay for a dedicated resource, start with this deck.",[52,355,356],{},[10,357,358,359],{},"Download it here: ",[14,360,363],{"href":361,"rel":362},"https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F1081958254",[34],"Chinese HSK 1 - Simpl., Trad., Pinyin, Zhuyin, Audio, Images",[44,365,367],{"id":366},"_2-a-massive-deck-to-learn-chinese-grammar","2. A massive deck to learn Chinese grammar",[10,369,370,371,376],{},"So, AllSetResources has published ",[14,372,375],{"href":373,"rel":374},"https:\u002F\u002Fresources.allsetlearning.com\u002Fchinese\u002Fgrammar\u002F",[34],"a dictionary of Chinese grammar online for free",". It's an awesome resource... and people turned it into an Anki deck.",[10,378,379],{},"It's cool.",[150,381],{"src":382,"width":383,"height":384,"alt":385},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-grammar.jpeg",1504,1238,"A screenshot of a deck of Chinese grammar, created from AllSetResources",[10,387,388],{},"What's good about the deck:",[390,391,392,395,398,401],"ul",{},[69,393,394],{},"It covers grammar points from HSK1 – HSK6",[69,396,397],{},"Each flashcard contains a link directing to the full entry, so you can read about the grammar point if the card itself isn't enough",[69,399,400],{},"There is audio—it's text-to-speech, but that's better than nothing",[69,402,403],{},"Having to think about things leads to stronger memories, even if you fail to remember, so the \"unjumble the sentence\" feature may be appreciated by some",[10,405,406],{},"What's not so good:",[390,408,409,416],{},[69,410,411,412,415],{},"Even the very first card of the HSK1 level contains like nine words, so this isn't really accessible to ",[20,413,414],{},"total"," beginners—start it after learning 500 words or so",[69,417,418],{},"There's no grammatical notes on the card themselves, so you'll have to add them yourselves or click the link and read",[10,420,421],{},"All the same, those are pretty minor concerns. This is a pretty solid deck that you can chip away at well into your Chinese studies—you just might need a bit of a running headstart before you're ready to get started with it.",[52,423,424],{},[10,425,358,426,199,431,433,199,435],{},[14,427,430],{"href":428,"rel":429},"https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F797518833",[34],"Chinese Grammar (汉语 语法) HSK1 - HSK 6",[195,432],{},[195,434],{},[20,436,437,438,443],{},"(or, ",[14,439,442],{"href":440,"rel":441},"https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F782551504",[34],"here's"," an older version of the same deck. It has some grammar notes, it doesn't have the tiles\u002Fclickable bubbles, and it also doesn't have audio.)",[44,445,447],{"id":446},"_3-a-few-decks-to-practice-chinese-pronunciation-and-tones","3. A few decks to practice Chinese pronunciation and tones ",[10,449,450],{},"So, I've actually got a few decks to share here. I'm pretty happy with what I found.",[58,452,454],{"id":453},"a-deck-to-learn-pinyin","A deck to learn Pinyin",[10,456,457,458,467],{},"First, here's a two-part Pinyin deck. ",[20,459,460,461,466],{},"(",[14,462,465],{"href":463,"rel":464},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FPinyin",[34],"Pinyin is used to write the pronunciation of Chinese characters",")."," The first deck teaches Pinyin initials (the first half of a Pinyin syllable) and the second deck teaches Pinyin finals (the second half of a Pinyin syllable). If you're planning to use Pinyin, you'll want to do both.",[150,469],{"src":470,"width":471,"height":472,"alt":473},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-pinyin.jpeg",1514,1224,"A screenshot of a deck of Anki flashcards for learning Pinyin",[10,475,476],{},"You can't really see it in the picture, but the deck works like this:",[66,478,479,482],{},[69,480,481],{},"On the front of each card, you'll hear several recordings of different Mandarin speakers saying a Pinyin initial; you can type in what you heard",[69,483,484],{},"On the back of the card, the Pinyin syllable you heard is spelled out",[10,486,255,487,489],{},[20,488,258],{}," like this approach because it lets you learn the Pinyin with your ears instead of your eyes. There are a lot of basic pronunciation mistakes beginners end up making because they see a Pinyin letter and think it should sound a certain way because it looks a certain way and makes a certain sound in English. Going the other direction helps minimize this issue: hear a sound, think about what you hear, then learn how to represent that sound in writing.",[52,491,492],{},[10,493,494,495,500,501],{},"Download them here: ",[14,496,499],{"href":497,"rel":498},"https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F2069190049",[34],"Pinyin initials"," & ",[14,502,505],{"href":503,"rel":504},"https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F509132394",[34],"Pinyin finals",[58,507,509],{"id":508},"a-deck-to-learn-zhuyin-bopomofo-taiwanese-pinyin","A deck to learn Zhuyin \u002F Bopomofo (Taiwanese Pinyin)",[10,511,512,513,522],{},"If you're interested in Mandarin as is spoken in Taiwan, you'll instead (or also) want to know ",[14,514,517,518,521],{"href":515,"rel":516},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FBopomofo",[34],"Zhuyin (also called ",[20,519,520],{},"bopomofo",")",", which is Taiwan's version of Zhuyin.",[150,524],{"src":525,"width":526,"height":340,"alt":527},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-zhuyin.jpeg",1520,"A screenshot of an Anki deck that helps Chinese students learn Zhuyin",[10,529,530],{},"This deck is more straightforward: you see a Zhuyin symbol on the front of a card, then you hear how it sounds on the back of the card. The back of the card also provides a bit of extra information about the symbol's formation and the equivalent Pinyin letter.",[52,532,533],{},[10,534,358,535],{},[14,536,539],{"href":537,"rel":538},"https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F736801862",[34],"Zhuyin \u002F bopomofo",[58,541,543],{"id":542},"two-decks-to-test-your-ears","Two decks to test your ears",[10,545,546,547,552],{},"This first deck comes from the same person that made the Pinyin decks above. It contains four subdecks—one for Pinyin initials, one for Pinyin finals, one for ",[14,548,551],{"href":549,"rel":550},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FMinimal_pair",[34],"minimal pairs",", and one for tones recognition practice.",[10,554,555,556,559],{},"The minimal pair subdeck in particular (shown below) is really beautiful. When the front of the card loads, you hear a recording. You'll see two possible Pinyin\u002FZhuyin representing sounds you ",[20,557,558],{},"could"," have heard, and you have to pick the right one. The back of the card contains the answer, plus useful diagrams showing how each sound is made.",[10,561,562],{},"If you're struggling to differentiate certain Chinese sounds, it's worth spending some time with this deck.",[150,564],{"src":565,"width":566,"height":567,"alt":568},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-minimal-pairs.jpeg",1524,1236,"A deck of Anki flashcards for Chinese pronunciation practice",[52,570,571],{},[10,572,358,573],{},[14,574,577],{"href":575,"rel":576},"https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F854183352",[34],"Mandarin ear training with IPA\u002FPinyin\u002FZhuyin for Beginners",[10,579,580,581,130],{},"The next deck is short and sweet, but definitely worth spending time with. It's for practicing what are called ",[20,582,583],{},"tone pairs",[10,585,586,590],{},[14,587,589],{"href":588},"\u002Fblog\u002Fchinese\u002Fchinese-language-tones","Mandarin has 4 tones (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th)",", plus a neutral tone, and every single Chinese word is some sort of combination of those four tones. In other words, it's not only important to be able to hear tones in isolation, but also to know what it sounds like to hear a 4th tone (falling tone) transitioning into a 2nd tone (rising tone), and so forth.",[10,592,593],{},"This deck will help get your ears into shape so you can do that.",[150,595],{"src":596,"width":471,"height":597,"alt":598},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-tone-pairs.jpeg",1222,"A deck of Anki flashcards for practicing Chinese tones",[10,600,601],{},"The front of the each flashcard contains an audio recording. The back of the card contains a picture showing the Pinyin of the word that was said, plus its tones.",[10,603,604],{},"If you learn to reliably hear each tone pair, it'll help you out with listening comprehension later on.",[52,606,607],{},[10,608,358,609],{},[14,610,613],{"href":611,"rel":612},"https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F2124722609",[34],"Chinese Tone Pairs - ALL Chinese TONES in all combinations",[44,615,617],{"id":616},"_4-a-deck-of-chinese-vocab-sentences-organized-by-frequency","4. A deck of Chinese vocab \u002F sentences organized by frequency",[10,619,620,621,624,625,630,631,636],{},"This next deck I have mixed feelings about. It's the one ",[20,622,623],{},"I"," personally used to learn vocabulary when I began studying Chinese, and I went on to pass ",[14,626,629],{"href":627,"rel":628},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FTest_of_Chinese_as_a_Foreign_Language",[34],"the TOCFL 5"," (Taiwan's Mandarin proficiency test, roughly ",[14,632,635],{"href":633,"rel":634},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FHanyu_Shuiping_Kaoshi",[34],"~HSK8"," in difficulty).",[10,638,639],{},"The deck contains roughly 5,000 flashcards—pretty much everything you need from HSK1 to HSK6—and they're organized in terms of how commonly they occur in real Chinese media.",[150,641],{"src":642,"width":643,"height":171,"alt":644},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-vocab.jpeg",1522,"A deck of Anki flashcards for studying Chinese vocabulary",[10,646,647],{},"What's great about the deck:",[390,649,650,653,656,659],{},[69,651,652],{},"A lot of vocabulary words organized by how common they are",[69,654,655],{},"Each word has an example sentence",[69,657,658],{},"Native audio recordings for each word and sentence",[69,660,661],{},"The option to display words\u002Fsentences in simplified and\u002For traditional characters",[10,663,664],{},"The Achilles' heel of this deck is that the example sentences often aren't learner friendly. There are many instances of things like this:",[390,666,667,673],{},[69,668,669,670],{},"Word: ",[20,671,672],{},"Truth",[69,674,675,676],{},"Sentence: ",[20,677,678],{},"It's a timeless truth that the planet Earth revolves around the sun.",[10,680,681,682,685,686,689,690,693],{},"The issue is that the sort of person who is learning a word like ",[20,683,684],{},"truth"," probably isn't ready to learn ",[20,687,688],{},"timeless"," or ",[20,691,692],{},"revolve",". That's not necessarily a deal breaker (like I said, it's what I used, way back in 2018!) but it's definitely a kick in the shins.",[10,695,696],{},"Even so, this is still the best Chinese vocabulary deck you'll find for free.",[52,698,699],{},[10,700,358,701,706,707],{},[14,702,705],{"href":703,"rel":704},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.reddit.com\u002Fr\u002FChineseLanguage\u002Fcomments\u002F7mjmjc\u002Fbest_anki_deck_for_hsk_ive_come_across\u002F",[34],"Reddit post"," \u002F ",[14,708,711],{"href":709,"rel":710},"https:\u002F\u002Fdrive.google.com\u002Ffile\u002Fd\u002F123pXHfElVObijk_6YUwmzMtaqAb9kWmM\u002Fview",[34],"Direct link",[44,713,715],{"id":714},"_5-a-streamlined-course-from-zero-to-advanced","5. A streamlined course from zero to advanced",[10,717,718],{},"I've shared several pretty nice decks, and I've got a few more to share below.",[10,720,721,722,725],{},"Consistently, though, I've been saying: \"This is a cool deck, ",[20,723,724],{},"but","...\"",[10,727,728],{},"And that \"but\" annoyed us at Migaku enough that we ended up making our own decks from scratch to meet the 6 Golden Rules of Flashcards mentioned up at the top of this article.",[10,730,731],{},"Here they are, in brief:",[58,733,735],{"id":734},"migaku-chinese-fundamentals-learn-to-read-and-pronounce-the-pinyin","Migaku Chinese Fundamentals: Learn to read and pronounce the pinyin",[10,737,738],{},"Our Mandarin Fundamentals course teaches you how to read and correctly pronounce Pinyin. You'll get a detailed but accessible explanation of how each Pinyin final and Pinyin initial works, then learn how they sound by doing flashcards in which a native speaker pronounces syllables including that particular Pinyin.",[150,740],{"src":741,"width":742,"height":743,"alt":744},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-fundamentals-pinyin.jpeg",1762,1240,"A screenshot of Migaku's Mandarin Fundamentals course, showing how we teach Pinyin",[10,746,747],{},"Once you finish learning Pinyin, you'll move on to learn about the tones and how they fit together, doing a similar sort of tone-training as discussed at the end of section 3.",[150,749],{"src":750,"width":751,"height":752,"alt":753},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-fundamentals-tones.jpeg",1830,1284,"A screenshot of Migaku's Mandarin Fundamentals course, showing how we teach Chinese tones",[10,755,756],{},"It'll take about 2 weeks to finish the deck, and by the time you finish, you'll be able to confidently pronounce any Pinyin word you see. Or, if you do 13 flashcards per day, you can actually finish the entire Fundamentals course during Migaku's 10-day free trial:",[758,759],"prose-button",{"href":16,"text":760},"Try Migaku, Learn Pinyin",[58,762,764],{"id":763},"migaku-chinese-academy-learn-the-most-common-1500-words-and-300-grammar-points","Migaku Chinese Academy: Learn the most common ~1,500 words and ~300 grammar points",[10,766,767],{},"The Migaku Chinese Academy is a much cooler deck: it teaches you the 1,500 words (and 330 grammar points) you need to make sense of 80% of the sentences you encounter in Chinese media.",[150,769],{"src":770,"width":771,"height":472,"alt":772},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-discord-chinese-academy.jpeg",1750,"A screenshot of Migaku's Mandarin Academy, showing how we teach Chinese vocab and Chinese grammar ",[10,774,775],{},"As you progress through the deck, you'll read a lesson introducing a grammar point and then learn several flashcards which utilize that grammar point. What's special is that all of the flashcards have been carefully curated so that each one introduces precisely one new vocabulary word—the result is that you're always learning something new, but are never overwhelmed.",[10,777,778],{},"This deck will take about 6 months to finish if you learn 10 words per day, and by the time you finish, Chinese will have gone from foreign to familiar. You won't be fluent, but you'll have built the foundation you need to begin exploring real Chinese media.",[58,780,782],{"id":781},"migaku-app-extension-learn-mandarin-by-sentence-mining","Migaku App & Extension: Learn Mandarin by sentence mining",[10,784,785,786,789],{},"So, we've got an entire blog post that talks about ",[14,787,788],{"href":306},"how to learn vocabulary",". It contains two major takeaways:",[66,791,792,798],{},[69,793,794,797],{},[201,795,796],{},"The good news",": Not all words occur equally often: while a typical native speaker knows ~30,000 words, you only need ~1,500 to recognize 80% of the words you encounter in any random sentence. As a beginner, you want to focus on these high-frequency words.",[69,799,800,803],{},[201,801,802],{},"The bad news",": The downside of \"1,500 words = 80% value!\" is \"28,500 words = 20% value\". Put differently, it takes ~10,000 words to build a vocabulary that gives you ~98% text coverage, so those last 20,000 words get used less than 2% of the time. That's stark!",[10,805,806],{},"And this leads us to a really, really important point:",[52,808,809],{},[10,810,811],{},"The same word can be super important in one context but useless in another.",[10,813,814,815,818,819,821],{},"With this in mind, the most \"optimal\" way to learn is to make your own flashcards out of vocabulary words you encounter while consuming Chinese media. This ensures that every single word you learn is something that will actually help ",[20,816,817],{},"you"," do the things ",[20,820,817],{}," are interested in doing.",[10,823,824],{},"Migaku was actually built for precisely this purpose. We work with pretty much anything that has text—websites, YouTube, Netflix, etc—and enable you to click on words to see definitions of what they mean.",[10,826,827,828,833],{},"For example, here I'm watching ",[14,829,832],{"href":830,"rel":831},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=B-87R84vbk4",[34],"a video essay about the Taiwanese drama The World Between Us",". I encountered the word 酬勞 (chou2lao2), and I don't know what it means, so I just clicked on it:",[150,835],{"src":836,"width":153,"height":162,"alt":837},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-popup-dict.jpeg","A screenshot of Migaku's Chrome browser extension, showing how it makes YouTube subtitles interactive",[10,839,840],{},"That word seems useful, given my current level, so I clicked the orange-button in the top-right corner of the pop-up dictionary. As a result, Migaku automatically created the below flashcard using the YouTube video, its audio, and its subtitles:",[150,842],{"src":843,"width":844,"height":845,"alt":846},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-mining.jpeg",1530,"12#4","A screenshot of Migaku, showing a flashcard that was created from a YouTube video essay",[52,848,849],{},[10,850,851],{},"Basically—to learn Chinese with Migaku, all you have to do is consume Chinese media that you enjoy.",[10,853,854],{},"As you do so, you can use Migaku to turn any useful words you find into flashcards. The result is that you'll improve in Mandarin as a byproduct of entertaining yourself. Pretty cool!",[758,856],{"href":16,"text":857},"Learn Chinese with Migaku",[44,859,861],{"id":860},"_6-an-anki-deck-for-learning-chinese-characters","6. An Anki deck for learning Chinese characters",[10,863,864],{},"So, I debated about including these decks here. While I think it makes sense to intentionally learn the most common ~1,000 Hanzi, I'm not quite sure that this sort of deck is the way to do that. Three big reasons for this:",[66,866,867,875,878],{},[69,868,869,874],{},[14,870,873],{"href":871,"rel":872},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.amazon.com\u002FRemembering-Simplified-Hanzi-Meaning-Characters\u002Fdp\u002F0824833236",[34],"Remembering the Hanzi"," was super OP back in the 80s, but it has faults. One of them is not being organized in terms of frequency. You learn some pretty rare characters pretty early.",[69,876,877],{},"It covers ~3,000 Chinese characters, meaning you'll end up learning a bunch of Hanzi you might never see.",[69,879,880],{},"For most learners, I think you'd be better off just consuming Chinese media and learning to recognize the characters gradually as they appear in vocabulary words you learn.",[10,882,883,886],{},[20,884,885],{},"Anyway","—I ultimately decided that it isn't my place to make that decision for you. As such, if you'd like to learn the Chinese characters with Anki, here are the decks I'd use to do that:",[58,888,890],{"id":889},"an-anki-deck-to-learn-simplified-chinese-characters","An Anki deck to learn simplified Chinese characters",[10,892,893],{},"This deck is pretty straightforward:",[390,895,896,899],{},[69,897,898],{},"The front of each card contains a simplified Hanzi character",[69,900,901],{},"The back of each card contains that character's meaning, an animation showing how to write it, and a story that connects the character's parts to its meaning",[150,903],{"src":904,"width":526,"height":171,"alt":905},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-simplfiied-characters.jpeg","A screenshot of a Chinese Anki deck that you can use to learn simplified hanzi",[10,907,908,909,912],{},"This deck ",[20,910,911],{},"won't"," teach you any Chinese words. It's purely a way to get a rough idea of what particular Chinese characters mean.",[914,915,917,920,927,932,935,939,942,946],"accordion",{"heading":916},"[Fix] This deck is slightly broken...",[10,918,919],{},"It looks like the styling on this deck is a bit broken: whereas I've shown it with a black background in my screenshot, the deck by default comes with a white background... which conveniently makes it impossible to see which character is written on the front of the card.",[10,921,922,923,926],{},"To fix this, open the deck (to do reviews) and click E on your computer keyboard. This will open the ",[20,924,925],{},"card editor",". Click the button labeled \"cards\" in the top-left corner of this screen.",[150,928],{"src":929,"width":930,"height":162,"alt":931},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-fix1.jpeg",2800,"A screenshot showing Anki's card creator, part 1",[10,933,934],{},"Now, click \"styling\" (shown below next to 1) and then highlight the value located next to \"background-color: #?????;\" (shown below next to 2).",[150,936],{"src":937,"width":930,"height":162,"alt":938},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-fix2.jpeg","A screenshot showing Anki's card creator, part 2",[10,940,941],{},"You can change this value to anything you wish, but I've personally changed it to \"aaaaas\", which is a dark grey color that matches my Anki background.",[150,943],{"src":944,"width":930,"height":162,"alt":945},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-fix3.jpeg","A screenshot showing Anki's card creator, part 3",[10,947,948],{},"What you've just edited is a \"customized style sheet\", or CSS for short.",[52,950,951],{},[10,952,358,953],{},[14,954,957],{"href":955,"rel":956},"https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F1672301233",[34],"Heisig Method Remembering Simplified Hanzi 1 (RSH 1) Deck",[58,959,961],{"id":960},"an-anki-deck-to-learn-traditional-chinese-characters","An Anki deck to learn traditional Chinese characters",[10,963,964],{},"I unfortunately didn't find a deck I feel comfortable recommending to learn traditional Chinese characters 🙁 I will update this section if\u002Fwhen I do.",[58,966,968],{"id":967},"an-anki-deck-for-learning-the-radicals","An Anki deck for learning the radicals",[10,970,971],{},"If you like the idea of learning Hanzi by making stories out of their component parts, but don't want to wade through a deck of 3,000 characters, you can sort of DIY that process by instead learning the 214 Kangxi Radicals.",[150,973],{"src":974,"width":975,"height":171,"alt":976},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-radicals.jpeg",1512,"A screenshot of an Chinese Anki deck used for learning the Hanzi Radicals",[10,978,979,980,985],{},"How Hanzi and radicals work is beyond the scope of this post (",[14,981,984],{"href":982,"rel":983},"https:\u002F\u002Fmigaku.com\u002Fblog\u002Fjapanese\u002Fhow-to-learn-kanji#how-japanese-kanji-work",[34],"see this blog post for that","), but the basic idea is that they are recurrent parts that occur across multiple characters. It's not what they were originally intended for, but if you know your radicals, you can condense a character with 10+ strokes into just 2–3 components, which makes the character easier to remember.",[52,987,988],{},[10,989,358,990],{},[14,991,994],{"href":992,"rel":993},"https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F1732259414",[34],"Chinese Radicals Deck+",[44,996,998],{"id":997},"_7-a-deck-to-practice-chinese-listening-comprehension","7. A deck to practice Chinese listening comprehension ",[10,1000,1001],{},"The last deck I'd like to share is sort of an extension of the pronunciation decks introduced in section three. The idea is that:",[390,1003,1004,1007],{},[69,1005,1006],{},"On the front of the card, you hear an audio sample (and can optionally type in what you hear)",[69,1008,1009],{},"On the back of the card, you see the answer",[150,1011],{"src":1012,"width":526,"height":1013,"alt":1014},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-transcription.jpeg",1228,"A Chinese Anki deck that lets you practice listening comprehension by doing shadowing",[10,1016,1017],{},"If you're newer to Chinese, you can focus purely on the Pinyin to see if you're picking out the correct letters and tones. If you're more experienced with Mandarin, you can focus on the characters themselves.",[10,1019,1020,1021,1024],{},"I don't think anyone should do this ",[20,1022,1023],{},"entire"," deck—you're better off building your listening comprehension skills naturally over time, by consuming Chinese media you enjoy—but if you're really feeling stuck, go ahead and do a few hundred cards. The deck will force you to rely on your ears, rather than your eyes, and the skills you build will feed right back into your YouTube binging.",[52,1026,1027],{},[10,1028,358,1029],{},[14,1030,1033],{"href":1031,"rel":1032},"https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F1964251300",[34],"Test your listening: Mandarin Chinese sentences from Tatoeba",[44,1035,1037],{"id":1036},"anywayif-youre-here-because-you-want-to-learn-chinese","Anyway—if you're here because you want to learn Chinese...",[10,1039,1040],{},"Wrapping up, I'd like to present you with one final Golden Rule of Flashcards:",[52,1042,1043,1063],{},[1044,1045,1046,1047,1049,1050,1053,1054,1056,1058,1059,1062],"centered-text",{},"\n \n",[195,1048],{},"\n✨✨✨Thy flashcards shalt \n",[20,1051,1052],{},"complement","\n your interactions with Chinese, \n",[195,1055],{},[195,1057],{},"\n not \n",[20,1060,1061],{},"replace","\n them.✨✨✨\n",[195,1064],{},[10,1066,1067],{},"It takes time to learn a language—especially one as difficult as Chinese.",[10,1069,1070],{},"The good news is that the vast majority of that time commitment will be enjoyable. It takes a bit of time to get your feet under you, but a lot of fluency is really just a byproduct of having spent a lot of time doing things you personally find enjoyable in Mandarin.",[10,1072,1073,1074,1077,1078,1081],{},"In other words: you ",[20,1075,1076],{},"don't"," need to get fluent before you can start doing cool things in Mandarin. On the contrary, you become fluent in Mandarin ",[20,1079,1080],{},"by"," doing cool things in Mandarin.",[10,1083,1084],{},"Grind those flashcards and make your gains—but remember to spend time with real Mandarin content, too!",{"title":1086,"searchDepth":1087,"depth":1087,"links":1088},"",2,[1089,1095,1098,1099,1100,1105,1106,1111,1116,1117],{"id":46,"depth":1087,"text":47,"children":1090},[1091,1093,1094],{"id":60,"depth":1092,"text":61},3,{"id":89,"depth":1092,"text":90},{"id":136,"depth":1092,"text":137},{"id":184,"depth":1087,"text":185,"children":1096},[1097],{"id":280,"depth":1092,"text":281},{"id":331,"depth":1087,"text":332},{"id":366,"depth":1087,"text":367},{"id":446,"depth":1087,"text":447,"children":1101},[1102,1103,1104],{"id":453,"depth":1092,"text":454},{"id":508,"depth":1092,"text":509},{"id":542,"depth":1092,"text":543},{"id":616,"depth":1087,"text":617},{"id":714,"depth":1087,"text":715,"children":1107},[1108,1109,1110],{"id":734,"depth":1092,"text":735},{"id":763,"depth":1092,"text":764},{"id":781,"depth":1092,"text":782},{"id":860,"depth":1087,"text":861,"children":1112},[1113,1114,1115],{"id":889,"depth":1092,"text":890},{"id":960,"depth":1092,"text":961},{"id":967,"depth":1092,"text":968},{"id":997,"depth":1087,"text":998},{"id":1036,"depth":1087,"text":1037},"Anki is a digital flashcard app. In this post we go over Anki decks that will help you learn Mandarin Chinese: Chinese words, sentences, pronunciation, and more.","md",{"timestampUnix":1121,"slug":1122,"h1":1123,"image":1124,"tags":1129},1742285748000,"best-chinese-anki-decks","Learn Chinese With These 6 Hand-selected Mandarin Anki Decks",{"src":1125,"width":1126,"height":1127,"alt":1128},"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki.webp",2108,1313,"A photo of the Anki icon and the flag of China, as this is  a blog post about Mandarin Chinese Anki decks!",[1130],"discussion",true,"\u002Farticle\u002Fchinese\u002Fmandarin-anki","---\ntitle: '6 Anki Decks That Will Actually Help You Learn Chinese | Best Mandarin Chinese Anki Decks'\ndescription: 'Anki is a digital flashcard app. In this post we go over Anki decks that will help you learn Mandarin Chinese: Chinese words, sentences, pronunciation, and more.'\ntimestampUnix: 1742285748000\nslug: 'best-chinese-anki-decks'\nh1: 'Learn Chinese With These 6 Hand-selected Mandarin Anki Decks'\nimage:\n  src: '\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki.webp'\n  width: 2108\n  height: 1313\n  alt: 'A photo of the Anki icon and the flag of China, as this is  a blog post about Mandarin Chinese Anki decks!'\ntags:\n  - discussion\n---\n\nBeen wanting to [learn Chinese](\u002Flearn-chinese) but discovered that means learning 3,000 unique characters and decided _this is a job for flashcards_?\n\nWelcome to the team 🫡\n\nTo make this post, I went through [nearly 1,000 free Chinese Anki decks](https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Fdecks?search=chinese), picked the best ones, and then introduced them.\n\n\u003Ctoc>\u003C\u002Ftoc>\n\n---\n\n## \\[Setup] What is Anki, how to install the flashcard app, and how to download Chinese decks\n\nOn the off chance that you're new to Anki, here's a rundown of the absolute basics you need to know to get it set up.\n\n> If you already know what Anki is, go ahead and jump straight to \\[Soapbox].\n\n### How Anki flashcards and spaced repetition make your life easier\n\nAnki is an digital flashcard application. It's pretty much exactly what you're thinking of when you think of flashcards, with two notable exceptions:\n\n1.  It's _super_ customizable. With some programming knowledge and elbow grease, you can do some pretty incredible things with it. It's also open source, so you can benefit from the elbow grease put in by people with programming knowledge, even if you don't have any.\n\n2.  It's powered by a spaced-repetition algorithm. Anki keeps track of what you get right and wrong, then periodically nudges you to review flashcards when it thinks you're about to forget. If something goes into an Anki deck, it'll eventually work its way into your brain, too.\n\nWe've actually got an accessible introduction to [spaced repetition and how your memory works](\u002Fblog\u002Flanguage-fun\u002Fspaced-repetition-language-learning). If this is your first time hearing of Anki, it's worth taking a ten-minute detour to read.\n\n### How to install Anki\n\nFor more detailed instructions, [see this longer post](\u002Fblog\u002Flanguage-fun\u002Fhow-to-use-anki#how-to-install-anki). Otherwise:\n\n1. Click [here](https:\u002F\u002Fapps.ankiweb.net\u002F) to download Anki on desktop\n2. Click [here](https:\u002F\u002Fapps.apple.com\u002Fus\u002Fapp\u002Fankimobile-flashcards\u002Fid373493387) to download Anki for iOS ($24.99 and the honor of supporting an open-source project) or [here](https:\u002F\u002Fplay.google.com\u002Fstore\u002Fapps\u002Fdetails?id=com.ichi2.anki&hl=en) to download Anki for Android (free)\n\nYou'll also want to [sign up for an account on Anki's website](https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Faccount\u002Fsignup).\n\nAnd now for the fun stuff!\n\n### How to install Mandarin Anki Decks from Ankiweb\n\nOnce you're logged into your Anki account, navigate to [Anki's \"Shared Decks\" page](https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Fdecks?search=chinese). This is a repository of all the decks of Chinese flashcards that people have made and decided to share publicly. Feel free to look around!\n\nOnce you find a deck that looks promising, click the blue \"Download\" button.\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-setup.jpeg\" width=\"2880\" height=\"1668\" alt=\"A screenshot of the landing page for one of Anki's Chinese decks\" \u002F>\n\nNow open Anki. Click \"Import File\", find the deck you downloaded (it will end in .apkg), and then click \"Open\":\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-setup2.jpeg\" width=\"2880\" height=\"1800\" alt=\"A screenshot showing how to import your Mandarin flashcards into Anki\" \u002F>\n\nAnki will automatically handle the setup, and the deck will become available in your Anki Desktop program momentarily. To get access to the deck on your phone, click the \"sync\" button in the top-right corner of your desktop program. You'll need to be logged in to do this. Next, log into Anki on your phone, click \"synchronize\" there, and voila!\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-setup3.jpeg\" width=\"1880\" height=\"1230\" alt=\"A screenshot how to sync your flashcards between desktop Anki and mobile Anki\" \u002F>\n\nWhat \"syncing\" means is that Anki uploads the deck and its media your account on the AnkiWeb server, then downloads that same content from the web to your mobile device. Depending on the size of the deck you've downloaded, this could take a fair bit of time.\n\nOnce it's done, you'll be ready to get started.\n\nWhich leads me to...\n\n## \\[Soapbox] The best flashcard deck for Chinese learners shall meet these 6 conditions\n\nI'm going to be blunt here for a moment:\n\n> There are nearly 1,000 Chinese decks shared publicly on AnkiWeb. To make this post, I skimmed through the entire list and examined about 100 that looked promising.\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr> **Most of the decks sucked.**\n\nWhen I say that, I mean that, ideally, a \"good\" deck should meet six important criteria:\n\n1. **Frequency** — It teaches you vocabulary in order of how common they are\n2. **Appropriate example sentences** — Those vocab words are taught in the context of accessible example sentences; if you're learning a common word like \"person\", ideally the rest of the words in the sentence are also things that someone learning \"person\" would be ready to learn\n3. **Atomic** — Each new flashcard should introduce only one new piece of information\n4. **Audio** — You don't have perfect Chinese pronunciation (yet 💪), so you want to hear these sentences being narrated by a native speaker\n5. **Chinese first** — While beyond the scope of this post (see [our post about memory](\u002Fblog\u002Flanguage-fun\u002Fspaced-repetition-language-learning)), you'll see _much_ quicker progress if your flashcards have Chinese on the front and English on the back\n6. **Notes** — It'd be nice to have some grammar notes explaining what's going on in a sentence\n\nI _really_ wanted to find a deck of flashcards that met all those criteria so I could present it as the best Chinese Anki deck and finish this post in an hour or so.\n\n**I didn't find a single deck that met all of the above criteria.**\n\nI'm going to share the best decks I found—and I did find some cool ones—but, on the off chance you find a deck that meets the above six criteria, ignore my recommendations and download that deck. _That's_ an awesome deck.\n\nAnyway, that's my soapbox.\n\nThere are a few bits of hygiene we should cover, then we'll get into the post.\n\n### Three things you should know to use Anki effectively\n\nAnki is cool. You're probably excited. You should be. Everybody is.\n\nNow I'm going to tell you something very important:\n\n> Anki is a weapon. It's powerful, but if you use it incorrectly, you might hurt yourself.\n\nThere are three main ways that beginners go wrong. Alas, ye shall:\n\n1. **Don't make a flashcard out of everything.** We talk about this in more detail [here](\u002Fblog\u002Fjapanese\u002Fhow-to-learn-japanese-vocabulary), but not all words are equally useful. The purpose of memorizing words in Anki is so that you know what they mean when you encounter them, reducing the amount of times you have to put your content down to look something up. If you memorize supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, that's cool, but it's not going to help you watch anything but Mary Poppins.\n2. **Don't memorize individual words.** Instead, learn words via sentences. The context provided by the sentence will make it easier to remember the word and give you important information about how the word is used.\n3. **Remember that Anki is a means to an end.** You're going to learn a bunch of words, and that's cool, but there's presumably something you want to _do_ in Mandarin. Anki is only as valuable as the assistance it provides in pursuit of that goal. Do Anki, but also spend time interacting with Mandarin!\n\nWith that out of the way, let's get into it:\n\n---\n\n## 1. A solid Chinese deck for absolute beginners\n\nLet's start with a good one.\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-mandarin-anki-beginner.jpeg\" width=\"1518\" height=\"1232\" alt=\"A deck of Chinese flashcards that's quite suitable for beginners\" \u002F>\n\nThis is a pretty awesome deck.\n\nTo be honest, the only thing I don't like about it is its length: it teaches you all the vocabulary you need to know for the HSK 1, and that works out to 150 words. That's a great start, but it's not quite enough to do much in Mandarin yet.\n\nThe front of each flashcard is a word and level-appropriate example sentence; the back of each card has pinyin and zhuyin (Taiwanese pinyin), a definition, and an image. If you tweak the settings a bit, you can also choose whether you see simplified or traditional characters.\n\nI'm going to get picky as we go on, but I've honestly got no complaints here. If you're just beginning to study Mandarin, and you're not sure if you want to pay for a dedicated resource, start with this deck.\n\n> Download it here: [Chinese HSK 1 - Simpl., Trad., Pinyin, Zhuyin, Audio, Images](https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F1081958254)\n\n## 2. A massive deck to learn Chinese grammar\n\nSo, AllSetResources has published [a dictionary of Chinese grammar online for free](https:\u002F\u002Fresources.allsetlearning.com\u002Fchinese\u002Fgrammar\u002F). It's an awesome resource... and people turned it into an Anki deck.\n\nIt's cool.\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-grammar.jpeg\" width=\"1504\" height=\"1238\" alt=\"A screenshot of a deck of Chinese grammar, created from AllSetResources\" \u002F>\n\nWhat's good about the deck:\n\n- It covers grammar points from HSK1 – HSK6\n- Each flashcard contains a link directing to the full entry, so you can read about the grammar point if the card itself isn't enough\n- There is audio—it's text-to-speech, but that's better than nothing\n- Having to think about things leads to stronger memories, even if you fail to remember, so the \"unjumble the sentence\" feature may be appreciated by some\n\nWhat's not so good:\n\n- Even the very first card of the HSK1 level contains like nine words, so this isn't really accessible to _total_ beginners—start it after learning 500 words or so\n- There's no grammatical notes on the card themselves, so you'll have to add them yourselves or click the link and read\n\nAll the same, those are pretty minor concerns. This is a pretty solid deck that you can chip away at well into your Chinese studies—you just might need a bit of a running headstart before you're ready to get started with it.\n\n> Download it here: [Chinese Grammar (汉语 语法) HSK1 - HSK 6](https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F797518833) \u003Cbr>\u003Cbr> _(or, [here's](https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F782551504) an older version of the same deck. It has some grammar notes, it doesn't have the tiles\u002Fclickable bubbles, and it also doesn't have audio.)_\n\n## 3. A few decks to practice Chinese pronunciation and tones \n\nSo, I've actually got a few decks to share here. I'm pretty happy with what I found.\n\n### A deck to learn Pinyin\n\nFirst, here's a two-part Pinyin deck. _([Pinyin is used to write the pronunciation of Chinese characters](https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FPinyin))._ The first deck teaches Pinyin initials (the first half of a Pinyin syllable) and the second deck teaches Pinyin finals (the second half of a Pinyin syllable). If you're planning to use Pinyin, you'll want to do both.\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-pinyin.jpeg\" width=\"1514\" height=\"1224\" alt=\"A screenshot of a deck of Anki flashcards for learning Pinyin\" \u002F>\n\nYou can't really see it in the picture, but the deck works like this:\n\n1. On the front of each card, you'll hear several recordings of different Mandarin speakers saying a Pinyin initial; you can type in what you heard\n2. On the back of the card, the Pinyin syllable you heard is spelled out\n\nI _really_ like this approach because it lets you learn the Pinyin with your ears instead of your eyes. There are a lot of basic pronunciation mistakes beginners end up making because they see a Pinyin letter and think it should sound a certain way because it looks a certain way and makes a certain sound in English. Going the other direction helps minimize this issue: hear a sound, think about what you hear, then learn how to represent that sound in writing.\n\n> Download them here: [Pinyin initials](https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F2069190049) & [Pinyin finals](https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F509132394)\n\n### A deck to learn Zhuyin \u002F Bopomofo (Taiwanese Pinyin)\n\nIf you're interested in Mandarin as is spoken in Taiwan, you'll instead (or also) want to know [Zhuyin (also called _bopomofo_)](https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FBopomofo), which is Taiwan's version of Zhuyin.\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-zhuyin.jpeg\" width=\"1520\" height=\"1232\" alt=\"A screenshot of an Anki deck that helps Chinese students learn Zhuyin\" \u002F>\n\nThis deck is more straightforward: you see a Zhuyin symbol on the front of a card, then you hear how it sounds on the back of the card. The back of the card also provides a bit of extra information about the symbol's formation and the equivalent Pinyin letter.\n\n> Download it here: [Zhuyin \u002F bopomofo](https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F736801862)\n\n### Two decks to test your ears\n\nThis first deck comes from the same person that made the Pinyin decks above. It contains four subdecks—one for Pinyin initials, one for Pinyin finals, one for [minimal pairs](https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FMinimal_pair), and one for tones recognition practice.\n\nThe minimal pair subdeck in particular (shown below) is really beautiful. When the front of the card loads, you hear a recording. You'll see two possible Pinyin\u002FZhuyin representing sounds you _could_ have heard, and you have to pick the right one. The back of the card contains the answer, plus useful diagrams showing how each sound is made.\n\nIf you're struggling to differentiate certain Chinese sounds, it's worth spending some time with this deck.\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-minimal-pairs.jpeg\" width=\"1524\" height=\"1236\" alt=\"A deck of Anki flashcards for Chinese pronunciation practice\" \u002F>\n\n> Download it here: [Mandarin ear training with IPA\u002FPinyin\u002FZhuyin for Beginners](https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F854183352)\n\nThe next deck is short and sweet, but definitely worth spending time with. It's for practicing what are called _tone pairs_.\n\n[Mandarin has 4 tones (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th)](\u002Fblog\u002Fchinese\u002Fchinese-language-tones), plus a neutral tone, and every single Chinese word is some sort of combination of those four tones. In other words, it's not only important to be able to hear tones in isolation, but also to know what it sounds like to hear a 4th tone (falling tone) transitioning into a 2nd tone (rising tone), and so forth.\n\nThis deck will help get your ears into shape so you can do that.\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-tone-pairs.jpeg\" width=\"1514\" height=\"1222\" alt=\"A deck of Anki flashcards for practicing Chinese tones\" \u002F>\n\nThe front of the each flashcard contains an audio recording. The back of the card contains a picture showing the Pinyin of the word that was said, plus its tones.\n\nIf you learn to reliably hear each tone pair, it'll help you out with listening comprehension later on.\n\n> Download it here: [Chinese Tone Pairs - ALL Chinese TONES in all combinations](https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F2124722609)\n\n## 4. A deck of Chinese vocab \u002F sentences organized by frequency\n\nThis next deck I have mixed feelings about. It's the one _I_ personally used to learn vocabulary when I began studying Chinese, and I went on to pass [the TOCFL 5](https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FTest_of_Chinese_as_a_Foreign_Language) (Taiwan's Mandarin proficiency test, roughly [~HSK8](https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FHanyu_Shuiping_Kaoshi) in difficulty).\n\nThe deck contains roughly 5,000 flashcards—pretty much everything you need from HSK1 to HSK6—and they're organized in terms of how commonly they occur in real Chinese media.\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-vocab.jpeg\" width=\"1522\" height=\"1230\" alt=\"A deck of Anki flashcards for studying Chinese vocabulary\" \u002F>\n\nWhat's great about the deck:\n\n- A lot of vocabulary words organized by how common they are\n- Each word has an example sentence\n- Native audio recordings for each word and sentence\n- The option to display words\u002Fsentences in simplified and\u002For traditional characters\n\nThe Achilles' heel of this deck is that the example sentences often aren't learner friendly. There are many instances of things like this:\n\n- Word: _Truth_\n- Sentence: _It's a timeless truth that the planet Earth revolves around the sun._\n\nThe issue is that the sort of person who is learning a word like _truth_ probably isn't ready to learn _timeless_ or _revolve_. That's not necessarily a deal breaker (like I said, it's what I used, way back in 2018!) but it's definitely a kick in the shins.\n\nEven so, this is still the best Chinese vocabulary deck you'll find for free.\n\n> Download it here: [Reddit post](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.reddit.com\u002Fr\u002FChineseLanguage\u002Fcomments\u002F7mjmjc\u002Fbest_anki_deck_for_hsk_ive_come_across\u002F) \u002F [Direct link](https:\u002F\u002Fdrive.google.com\u002Ffile\u002Fd\u002F123pXHfElVObijk_6YUwmzMtaqAb9kWmM\u002Fview)\n\n## 5. A streamlined course from zero to advanced\n\nI've shared several pretty nice decks, and I've got a few more to share below.\n\nConsistently, though, I've been saying: \"This is a cool deck, _but_...\"\n\nAnd that \"but\" annoyed us at Migaku enough that we ended up making our own decks from scratch to meet the 6 Golden Rules of Flashcards mentioned up at the top of this article.\n\nHere they are, in brief:\n\n### Migaku Chinese Fundamentals: Learn to read and pronounce the pinyin\n\nOur Mandarin Fundamentals course teaches you how to read and correctly pronounce Pinyin. You'll get a detailed but accessible explanation of how each Pinyin final and Pinyin initial works, then learn how they sound by doing flashcards in which a native speaker pronounces syllables including that particular Pinyin.\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-fundamentals-pinyin.jpeg\" width=\"1762\" height=\"1240\" alt=\"A screenshot of Migaku's Mandarin Fundamentals course, showing how we teach Pinyin\" \u002F>\n\nOnce you finish learning Pinyin, you'll move on to learn about the tones and how they fit together, doing a similar sort of tone-training as discussed at the end of section 3.\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-fundamentals-tones.jpeg\" width=\"1830\" height=\"1284\" alt=\"A screenshot of Migaku's Mandarin Fundamentals course, showing how we teach Chinese tones\" \u002F>\n\nIt'll take about 2 weeks to finish the deck, and by the time you finish, you'll be able to confidently pronounce any Pinyin word you see. Or, if you do 13 flashcards per day, you can actually finish the entire Fundamentals course during Migaku's 10-day free trial:\n\n\u003Cprose-button href=\"\u002Flearn-chinese\" text=\"Try Migaku, Learn Pinyin\">\u003C\u002Fprose-button>\n\n### Migaku Chinese Academy: Learn the most common ~1,500 words and ~300 grammar points\n\nThe Migaku Chinese Academy is a much cooler deck: it teaches you the 1,500 words (and 330 grammar points) you need to make sense of 80% of the sentences you encounter in Chinese media.\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-discord-chinese-academy.jpeg\" width=\"1750\" height=\"1224\" alt=\"A screenshot of Migaku's Mandarin Academy, showing how we teach Chinese vocab and Chinese grammar \" \u002F>\n\nAs you progress through the deck, you'll read a lesson introducing a grammar point and then learn several flashcards which utilize that grammar point. What's special is that all of the flashcards have been carefully curated so that each one introduces precisely one new vocabulary word—the result is that you're always learning something new, but are never overwhelmed.\n\nThis deck will take about 6 months to finish if you learn 10 words per day, and by the time you finish, Chinese will have gone from foreign to familiar. You won't be fluent, but you'll have built the foundation you need to begin exploring real Chinese media.\n\n### Migaku App & Extension: Learn Mandarin by sentence mining\n\nSo, we've got an entire blog post that talks about [how to learn vocabulary](\u002Fblog\u002Fjapanese\u002Fhow-to-learn-japanese-vocabulary). It contains two major takeaways:\n\n1. **The good news**: Not all words occur equally often: while a typical native speaker knows ~30,000 words, you only need ~1,500 to recognize 80% of the words you encounter in any random sentence. As a beginner, you want to focus on these high-frequency words.\n2. **The bad news**: The downside of \"1,500 words = 80% value!\" is \"28,500 words = 20% value\". Put differently, it takes ~10,000 words to build a vocabulary that gives you ~98% text coverage, so those last 20,000 words get used less than 2% of the time. That's stark!\n\nAnd this leads us to a really, really important point:\n\n> The same word can be super important in one context but useless in another.\n\nWith this in mind, the most \"optimal\" way to learn is to make your own flashcards out of vocabulary words you encounter while consuming Chinese media. This ensures that every single word you learn is something that will actually help _you_ do the things _you_ are interested in doing.\n\nMigaku was actually built for precisely this purpose. We work with pretty much anything that has text—websites, YouTube, Netflix, etc—and enable you to click on words to see definitions of what they mean.\n\nFor example, here I'm watching [a video essay about the Taiwanese drama The World Between Us](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=B-87R84vbk4). I encountered the word 酬勞 (chou2lao2), and I don't know what it means, so I just clicked on it:\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-popup-dict.jpeg\" width=\"2880\" height=\"1800\" alt=\"A screenshot of Migaku's Chrome browser extension, showing how it makes YouTube subtitles interactive\" \u002F>\n\nThat word seems useful, given my current level, so I clicked the orange-button in the top-right corner of the pop-up dictionary. As a result, Migaku automatically created the below flashcard using the YouTube video, its audio, and its subtitles:\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-mining.jpeg\" width=\"1530\" height=\"12#4\" alt=\"A screenshot of Migaku, showing a flashcard that was created from a YouTube video essay\" \u002F>\n\n> Basically—to learn Chinese with Migaku, all you have to do is consume Chinese media that you enjoy.\n\nAs you do so, you can use Migaku to turn any useful words you find into flashcards. The result is that you'll improve in Mandarin as a byproduct of entertaining yourself. Pretty cool!\n\n\u003Cprose-button href=\"\u002Flearn-chinese\" text=\"Learn Chinese with Migaku\">\u003C\u002Fprose-button>\n\n## 6. An Anki deck for learning Chinese characters\n\nSo, I debated about including these decks here. While I think it makes sense to intentionally learn the most common ~1,000 Hanzi, I'm not quite sure that this sort of deck is the way to do that. Three big reasons for this:\n\n1. [Remembering the Hanzi](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.amazon.com\u002FRemembering-Simplified-Hanzi-Meaning-Characters\u002Fdp\u002F0824833236) was super OP back in the 80s, but it has faults. One of them is not being organized in terms of frequency. You learn some pretty rare characters pretty early.\n2. It covers ~3,000 Chinese characters, meaning you'll end up learning a bunch of Hanzi you might never see.\n3. For most learners, I think you'd be better off just consuming Chinese media and learning to recognize the characters gradually as they appear in vocabulary words you learn.\n\n_Anyway_—I ultimately decided that it isn't my place to make that decision for you. As such, if you'd like to learn the Chinese characters with Anki, here are the decks I'd use to do that:\n\n### An Anki deck to learn simplified Chinese characters\n\nThis deck is pretty straightforward:\n\n- The front of each card contains a simplified Hanzi character\n- The back of each card contains that character's meaning, an animation showing how to write it, and a story that connects the character's parts to its meaning\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-simplfiied-characters.jpeg\" width=\"1520\" height=\"1230\" alt=\"A screenshot of a Chinese Anki deck that you can use to learn simplified hanzi\" \u002F>\n\nThis deck _won't_ teach you any Chinese words. It's purely a way to get a rough idea of what particular Chinese characters mean.\n\n\u003Caccordion heading=\"[Fix] This deck is slightly broken...\">\n\nIt looks like the styling on this deck is a bit broken: whereas I've shown it with a black background in my screenshot, the deck by default comes with a white background... which conveniently makes it impossible to see which character is written on the front of the card.\n\nTo fix this, open the deck (to do reviews) and click E on your computer keyboard. This will open the _card editor_. Click the button labeled \"cards\" in the top-left corner of this screen.\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-fix1.jpeg\" width=\"2800\" height=\"1800\" alt=\"A screenshot showing Anki's card creator, part 1\" \u002F>\n\nNow, click \"styling\" (shown below next to 1) and then highlight the value located next to \"background-color: #?????;\" (shown below next to 2).\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-fix2.jpeg\" width=\"2800\" height=\"1800\" alt=\"A screenshot showing Anki's card creator, part 2\" \u002F>\n\nYou can change this value to anything you wish, but I've personally changed it to \"aaaaas\", which is a dark grey color that matches my Anki background.\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-fix3.jpeg\" width=\"2800\" height=\"1800\" alt=\"A screenshot showing Anki's card creator, part 3\" \u002F>\n\nWhat you've just edited is a \"customized style sheet\", or CSS for short.\n\n\u003C\u002Faccordion>\n\n> Download it here: [Heisig Method Remembering Simplified Hanzi 1 (RSH 1) Deck](https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F1672301233)\n\n### An Anki deck to learn traditional Chinese characters\n\nI unfortunately didn't find a deck I feel comfortable recommending to learn traditional Chinese characters 🙁 I will update this section if\u002Fwhen I do.\n\n### An Anki deck for learning the radicals\n\nIf you like the idea of learning Hanzi by making stories out of their component parts, but don't want to wade through a deck of 3,000 characters, you can sort of DIY that process by instead learning the 214 Kangxi Radicals.\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-radicals.jpeg\" width=\"1512\" height=\"1230\" alt=\"A screenshot of an Chinese Anki deck used for learning the Hanzi Radicals\" \u002F>\n\nHow Hanzi and radicals work is beyond the scope of this post ([see this blog post for that](https:\u002F\u002Fmigaku.com\u002Fblog\u002Fjapanese\u002Fhow-to-learn-kanji#how-japanese-kanji-work)), but the basic idea is that they are recurrent parts that occur across multiple characters. It's not what they were originally intended for, but if you know your radicals, you can condense a character with 10+ strokes into just 2–3 components, which makes the character easier to remember.\n\n> Download it here: [Chinese Radicals Deck+](https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F1732259414)\n\n## 7. A deck to practice Chinese listening comprehension \n\nThe last deck I'd like to share is sort of an extension of the pronunciation decks introduced in section three. The idea is that:\n\n- On the front of the card, you hear an audio sample (and can optionally type in what you hear)\n- On the back of the card, you see the answer\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-chinese-anki-transcription.jpeg\" width=\"1520\" height=\"1228\" alt=\"A Chinese Anki deck that lets you practice listening comprehension by doing shadowing\" \u002F>\n\nIf you're newer to Chinese, you can focus purely on the Pinyin to see if you're picking out the correct letters and tones. If you're more experienced with Mandarin, you can focus on the characters themselves.\n\nI don't think anyone should do this _entire_ deck—you're better off building your listening comprehension skills naturally over time, by consuming Chinese media you enjoy—but if you're really feeling stuck, go ahead and do a few hundred cards. The deck will force you to rely on your ears, rather than your eyes, and the skills you build will feed right back into your YouTube binging.\n\n> Download it here: [Test your listening: Mandarin Chinese sentences from Tatoeba](https:\u002F\u002Fankiweb.net\u002Fshared\u002Finfo\u002F1964251300)\n\n## Anyway—if you're here because you want to learn Chinese...\n\nWrapping up, I'd like to present you with one final Golden Rule of Flashcards:\n\n> \u003CCenteredText> \u003Cbr>✨✨✨Thy flashcards shalt _complement_ your interactions with Chinese, \u003Cbr>\u003Cbr> not _replace_ them.✨✨✨\u003C\u002FCenteredText>\u003Cbr>\n\nIt takes time to learn a language—especially one as difficult as Chinese.\n\nThe good news is that the vast majority of that time commitment will be enjoyable. It takes a bit of time to get your feet under you, but a lot of fluency is really just a byproduct of having spent a lot of time doing things you personally find enjoyable in Mandarin.\n\nIn other words: you _don't_ need to get fluent before you can start doing cool things in Mandarin. On the contrary, you become fluent in Mandarin _by_ doing cool things in Mandarin.\n\nGrind those flashcards and make your gains—but remember to spend time with real Mandarin content, too!\n",{"title":5,"description":1118},"article\u002Fchinese\u002Fmandarin-anki","XBdXC-yUEca7SZGFoM4hmEx7lt4PKDDlFnQ2r4oAM6Q","March 18, 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