Card types & note setup
One good note type carries you for years. Set it up once.
Recommended fields
Section titled “Recommended fields”| Field | Contents |
|---|---|
Sentence |
The Hungarian sentence, target word bolded |
Target |
The word as it appeared (e.g. házamban) |
DictForm |
Dictionary form / szótári alak (e.g. ház) |
Definition |
EN gloss or (later) HU definition |
Audio |
Sentence audio if available |
Image |
Screenshot from the source — context is memory glue |
Source |
Where you mined it (optional, but great for motivation archaeology) |
The card
Section titled “The card”Front: Sentence (+ Audio).
Back: everything.
One direction only — recognition. Production cards (EN→HU) double your reviews for marginal benefit at Stage 1–2; output practice does that job better later.
Hungarian-specific choices
Section titled “Hungarian-specific choices”- Always fill
DictForm. The skill you’re training is connecting inflected forms to stems — the exact skill Hungarian demands thousands of times per book. - Bold the target including its suffixes (
**házamban**, not**ház**amban) — you’re learning the form in its habitat. - For verbs with preverbs, note the split behavior in the sentence if it occurs (
el is megyek) — mined examples teach this better than any rule.
Grading honestly
Section titled “Grading honestly”Pass = you understood the sentence and the target’s meaning. You do not need to recall every nuance of the definition field. Grading strictly on trivia is how decks become hated.