Anki - Latin Deck
I created ancient Latin deck for anki, the popular SRS software, based on http://classicsunveiled.com. Feel free to use and distribute at your own risk.
Tuesday, 2009-01-13 | Language
| "furtum, furti, n. | theft, robbery" |
Anki, in the words of its developers, is a "a spaced repetition system (SRS)". Visit their website here.
An SRS is like flash-cards, except on your computer. You can run anki anywhere you can run a windowing system: it'll work in Windows, OSX and on (pretty much) any X-based software. Debian enthusiasts will be happy to know that it's part of the "Lenny" package repository.
Anki is modular: you can load "decks" of "cards" that pertain to specific subjects and study those cards in the system.
And while originally designed to help students of Japanese Kanji, this modularity has caused anki take on something of a life of its own: there are decks for all kinds of fun stuff and numerous languages. Unfortunately, however, I couldn't find an ancient Latin vocab deck.
So I made one.
I scraped the antique Latin dictionary at http://classicsunveiled.com/ and turned it into an anki deck. Here's how to use it:
- Download the .txt file here:
http://demongin.org/files/ankiLatin.txt
- Start anki.
- Click "File" -> "Import"
- Click "Choose file..." and browse for ankiLatin.txt.
- Once you've selected the file, everything should be ready to go: click "Import" (to the right of the "Field mapping" controls), give the program a second to import the deck, select close and get to it.
- You will probably find it helpful to "Save" the deck or maybe even to export it, but that's beyond my scope.
Enjoy.