evident-indigo•2mo ago
Monolingual Korean from Day 1
I couldn't decide if this should go in the Migaku or the Anki section
I want to immerse in Korean from day 1 as much as possible. My current strategy is to learn individual words through images. I asked AI to give me the 100 most common Korean nouns exclusively in Hangeul. I then search images and see if I feel confident that I recognize the meaning. If I do, I have been manually creating Anki cards which takes a lot of time. I realized I probably can save time with Migaku, but I am having a little bit of trouble.
First, my understanding was the image generates from Google Images, right? I was creating a card for 고기 which I had already searched for in both Naver and Google and felt confident I understood the meaning (it pulled back images of meat). I then started creating the Migaku word card, but an image I didn't expect kept coming up (a live chicken). I wondered if the meaning was more broad than I thought, so I broke my monolingual rule and used Google Translate. The only definition that came back was "meat", no "chicken". I don't get any images of chickens when I search the word in Google Images nor Naver, so why would that image pull up in Migaku? It makes me worried about creating these types of cards with Migaku.
Also is there a way to make the target word the front of the card? I thought I had changed the card type to something like a "individual word card" in Migaku, but now I am not finding that as an option so maybe I just imagined that 😂 It is fine if I simply have to add the word to the sentence field and target word field to get it to work. It simply makes the card a little busier than I would like it but not a huge deal.
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For starters, it pulls from bing not Google. That being said I put 고기 into Migaku and got back meat, are you doing it in the card creator or from the dictionary/clipboard and using the popup? With the popup you can see a list of images and choose the one you want.
Also you shouldn’t be getting this list from AI. AI can be wrong and there’s no way for you to realize it’s wrong. Not to mention there’s like a hundred websites that give a 100 words list you can use instead.
Also a fair warning using images for the meaning really isn’t scalable and only really works with nouns. There’s really nothing wrong with using your native language for the definitions. That plus an image would be a better setup imo
I assume you have the card set to sentence card, in which case you need to select the cog icon for settings and do customize card and scroll to where it says sentence card and enable the word appearing in the front
Also, I’d recommend doing Migaku fundamentals and academy level 1 course over a random list online. Everything builds off of each other and is designed to teach you words/grammar based on immersion frequency so you can get to watching shows or immersing in something like a book or something faster
evident-indigoOP•2mo ago
I was doing it in the card creator, so I will try with the popup. Ah, it looks like I can't change the card type when exporting to Anki. Thank you so much for the help!