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h1. Flash card learning programs

h2. "Anki":http://ankisrs.net/

Anki is a flash card learning program with clients for Android (free), IPhone (expensive), PC (Win, Mac, Linux) and Web.

* all shared flash cards that are tagged "icelandic": https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/Icelandic

* You need to use the PC client of Anki to import shared flash cards. After synchronizing it with the web you can however use the imported cards in all clients.

* If you create a set, please share it and tag it with "icelandic".

* Important:  You cannot delete the original deck, called "Default".  If you rename it and try to do some operations, it will result in unexpected things.

* If you export a card that has newlines in it, the exporter may just delete them!  This can cause entries to get put togethere with no spaces

h3. Register

# Goto https://ankisrs.net and register for an account

h3. To convert Brainscape to Anki flash cards:

# Export your Brainscape flash cards (you can only export the decks you created yourself).  You will want to convert each deck separately -- don't convert the entire group!

# Stefan created this "script":https://samvinna.ru.is/projects/projects/utlendingur/repository/raw/flashcards/convert_brainscape_cards_to_anki.sh to convert them to Anki flash cards.

## Joe has also created a python version which strips out the HTML formatting that sometimes the application does not like.  You will need to install the BeautifulSoup package to use it, but directions are in the top of the file: "brainscape-parse.py":https://samvinna.ru.is/projects/projects/utlendingur/repository/raw/flashcards/brainscape-parse.py

h3.  To setup a new deck (needs to be done for each deck you've exported)

# Install the desktop application from http://ankisrs.net/

# To create your deck:

## Click on "Decks"

## Click on "Create Deck"

h3. To import the converted decks into Anki

# Click on "Import File"

# Choose the file.  It shoudl end in -anki.csv if you used the scripts

# Import menu:

## Type: Basic (and reversed card) so you get to learn both directions (English to Icelandic and vice versa)

## Deck: (whatever the correct deck name is)

## Fields separated by: Semicolon

## Import even if existing note has same first field (allow duplicates)  You can change this if you wish

## Allow HTML in fields MUST be CHECKED!

## Field 1 of file is: mapped to Front

## Field 2 of file is: mapped to Back

# Now click on Import

# Import the deck into Anki (using the application program) an

h3. Sharing the deck

# Make sure you have "syncd" using the desktop application

# Login to the web interface at https://ankiweb.net/decks

# Copy the name of your deck using ctl-v.  (trust me)

# Go to your decks and click on the gear next to the deck.  Choose "share"

# Sharing window

## Paste the name of the deck in the title

## put they keywords in, space separated.  At a minimum, put: icelandic

## Put a longer description.  If this is from a book or class, it's best to put a citation here

# Click OK

# Wait 10 seconds for the database to update

h2. "Brainscape":https://www.brainscape.com/

Brainscape has nice clients for Web and IPhone and makes it easy to share and import cards. Unfortunately the algorithm deciding when the cards are repeated is awful.

Here are some flash cards you can import and use:

* "Colloquial Icelandic":https://www.brainscape.com/study?pack_id=34551

* "Learning Icelandic":https://www.brainscape.com/study?pack_id=30330

* "Marijke's flash cards":https://www.brainscape.com/study?pack_id=610876

* "Ute's flash cards":https://www.brainscape.com/study?pack_id=624245

h2. "Memrise":http://www.memrise.com/

Memrise is a nice looking web app that has tons of flash cards for all kinds of things including quite a few for learning icelandic. However the theme of growing, watering and harvesting plants together with the fact that you can only learn 5 cards at a time will drive you crazy after a while.