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You don't want ready-made decks except at the very beginning. Once you get past words like "mom" that have very obvious usage, these decks aren't great because they lack examples and structure.

Instead, one should use Anki to make their own decks with words that they find whilst learning the language.

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You can, and I have, make your own Memrise courses as well. I'm better at remembering to visit a website than I am at remembering to open a program. It's a silly difference, but I almost always have a browser open and every new tab I open serves as a reminder. I always fail to remember to open/use software. The times I've tried converting to Anki rather than relying that Memrise will continue to be available, my study time per week dropped by about 95%~.

You actually can use anki online, it's ankiweb.net. You can't modify decks on the website but it works for studying daily cards. Otherwise I use the mac osx or ios apps.

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