jm-moreau/french-genanki-jupyter

A jupyter notebook for creating French Anki cards. It loads a csv of search words then gets data from bing images api, and collins dictionary.

french-genanki-jupyter

A jupyter notebook for creating French anki cards. The script loads a csv file of words to search, then it gets data from bing image search api, and collins dictionary. The script tries to get culture / language specific images. This could be easily adapted to other languages & dictionaries.

It creates five cards per word for testing:

• comprehension based on the image (without words);
• generation (thinking of the word with a picture cue);
• pronunciation (with audio and IPA);
• spelling; and
• quizzing the gender of nouns.

Inspiration

• a similar project for chinese "pre-study".
• Fluent Forever

Requirements

• You need to get a MS Bing Image Search API Key, (which costs about $US 5 per 1000 queries)
  • I tried all sorts of free options, but nothing else worked well.
• you must install the following python libraries:
  • jupyterlab
  • python-resize-image
  • requests
  • BeautifulSoup
  • yaml

To use:

1. install required libraries
2. save your bing image search api key to bing_settings.yaml file
3. open notebook from jupyter lab
4. run all cells to test fire!

Example cards

french-genanki-jupyter's Issues

genanki

Package requires genanki, could add it to README under requirements

Example sentences for disambiguation. Feature request

I learned Spanish by using cards like these. When I read Spanish text I often found that I memorized the wrong meaning of the English word. Could you please include a few sentences with translations on opposite side of card so this does not happen?

Default deck / model ID generation could result in collision

Anki uses the current time (in milliseconds) as the ID when it creates most rows in the SQLite database. By generating a random number within this range, I think there is a risk of re-using an already-taken deck and/or model ID. Another option is to follow the same standard (also use time in millis), or create cards with IDs far outside the range.