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Anki for Hungarian

Anki is your retention engine: it makes sure that words you meet once don’t need to be met twenty times by accident.

Setup

Section titled “Setup”

  1. Install Anki from apps.ankiweb.net (desktop — the mobile apps sync to it).

  2. Enable FSRS in deck options (Anki ≥ 23.10: Deck options → FSRS toggle). FSRS schedules dramatically better than the legacy algorithm — fewer reviews for the same retention. Set desired retention to 0.9 to start.

  3. Create one deck: Hungarian. Resist sub-deck sprawl.

  4. Set a new-cards/day limit you can sustain forever (10–15 to start). Reviews compound; ambition on day 1 is debt on day 60.

Card philosophy

Section titled “Card philosophy”
  • Sentence cards over isolated words: Hungarian morphology only makes sense in context.
  • One card = one target. If a card tests two things, it fails as two cards.
  • Delete/suspend liberally. A card that annoys you is a card that kills the habit.

Common mistakes

Section titled “Common mistakes”
  1. Grinding conjugation tables into cards — acquire forms from input instead.
  2. 50 new cards/day in week one — the review avalanche arrives in week three.
  3. Ignoring “leeches” — if a card fails 8+ times, rewrite it or delete it.
  4. Studying cards instead of immersing — Anki is the supplement, not the meal.