Wow, thank you so much for this! I'm going through something like the same process as you, trying out Anki in the classroom and as an independent learning tool, and discovering its positives and negatives. I teach language, and it does help with learning words, though the way I use it is actually covert phonetics drilling. My students (Chinese, age 6-15) often simply haven't mastered the English sounds despite X years of learning. I set up Anki cards using words from a phonics textbook, so in the course of their Ankiing, whether individual or group, they have to distinguish between hem and ham, bad and bud, dog and dock, fuzz and fuss...... (read more)
Wow, thank you so much for this! I'm going through something like the same process as you, trying out Anki in the classroom and as an independent learning tool, and discovering its positives and negatives. I teach language, and it does help with learning words, though the way I use it is actually covert phonetics drilling. My students (Chinese, age 6-15) often simply haven't mastered the English sounds despite X years of learning. I set up Anki cards using words from a phonics textbook, so in the course of their Ankiing, whether individual or group, they have to distinguish between hem and ham, bad and bud, dog and dock, fuzz and fuss...... (read more)