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I’ve been doing this for a couple years as directed by Fluent Forever[1] (highly recommended if this article vibes with you), and the results have been really good to say the least.

Some great additional content here, I wouldn’t have thought of the stable diffusion trick— very clever!

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Fluent-Forever-Learn-Language-Forget/...

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One of the important Fluent Forever tips missing from this blob post is optimizing, as far as possible, the process of getting things into Anki, which is discussed here:

https://blog.fluent-forever.com/multi-search/

Extending the multi-search idea, with AnkiConnect (a REST API into your own local Anki database) and a little code (and a few tricks like disabling X-Frame-Options on sites like Google Images) you can get to the point where you just click on on the images/audio files you want in the flash cards.

After thinking more about the process, I also found that it is quite cumbersome. Especially in the beginning, it takes a lot of time to create new cards. And because of the effort, most people will probably not attempt this. But after a bit of training, I can create new cards in a matter of seconds. When you've already opened all the tabs to Dictionary/Google Images/Forvo/Reverso, it's actually simple enough.

But yeah – I'm still thinking about how to automate the boring (i.e. non-valuable) part.

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