Find your favorite (foreign) song on lyricstranslate.com and generate an Anki space-repetition flashcard set to learn all the words!
Are you learning a foreign language? Is there a song you like and wish you knew the words?
The Song to Anki extension can help! The extension builds a custom flash card deck of all the lines in your song of choice, aligned with their translation, for easy import into Anki spaced repetition software. What's more is that the more difficult words in your target language will be left as fill-in-the-blank, following a method called "cloze deletion" designed to improve retention and force you to learn words or phrases that you don't already know.
Usage:
Go to lyricstranslate.com and find a song you like. Then select the song translation in your language of choice. Finally, click the Song to Anki icon, verify the language you're learning in the text box, and click submit. You'll then be prompted to download an Anki (.apkg) flash card deck.
More infos:
If you're unfamiliar with Anki/Spaced Repetition Software, read more about it here: https://apps.ankiweb.net/
If you've never used cloze deletion flash cards, read about them here: https://www.ollielovell.com/edtech/anki3/
If you'd like to check out the source code, you can find it on GitHub here:
https://github.com/dallonasnes/song-to-anki/tree/master/chrome_extension
And if you'd like to get in touch with me to report bugs/suggestions/say hello in your new language, please reach out to me (Dallon) at:
dalloncodes [at] gmail [dot] com
Happy language learning and shower singing!
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Thanks to:
logomakr.com for the free custom icon
lyricstranslate.com for hosting lyrics + translations
people who upload song lyrics + translations on the web AND
musicians for making great tunes!