Complete Guardian Anki Decks

[tinny]

So that only took me a year...

I made three decks out of nnozomi's Guardian vocabulary list.

1) a Vocab learning only deck
2) a Hanzi writing only deck
3) a combined deck with both

The cards look like this:





Front Side of the Vocab card. The back side of course contains the translation (of both the word and the example sentence), and it pronounces the Hanzi using text-to-speech. Note: If you can't hear the sounds being pronounced, you will have to install text-to-speech for Chinese for your OS. Phones usually have it pre-installed (even for Chinese), but Windows needs a separate region/language for it, and I don't know about Mac OS.







Back Side of the Writing card. The front side lets you write the character on your own, the back side writes the character for you (and you can write along if you want). It pronounces the Hanzi both on front and back, and it includes an example word, because most Hanzi on their own don't mean anything (much) and are impossible to tell apart by pronunciation only.


Here are the decks for download:

The Chinese font embedded in the deck is 32MB in size. /o\ So I made versions with and without the font. Feel free to try it out: you probably only need one of the font-included ones.

Big (with font) :
Vocab Only Deck
Writing Only Deck
Combined Deck

Small (without font) :
Vocab Only Deck
Writing Only Deck
Combined Deck


p.s.: full disclosure: on my very old android tablet, the writing deck sometimes crashes ankidroid. It doesn't lose any progress, though (except for the card shown when it crashed). I tried it with a newer android phone, and it worked without problems.

ETA: I updated all the decks on 2021-04-17 (current version: v8). They now contain the "meaning" for all the Writing cards as well, which were missing before. Many thanks to nnozomi for helping to add them. To update your deck, simply import it into anki, and it will notice that it's a newer version of the older deck and update it. Your studying progress will not be affected by that import.

Comments

[trobadora]

This is awesome! Thank you, maybe now I'll be able to motivate myself to actually study. *g*

[tinny]

Thank you! And you're welcome.

Haha, that was my thought, too, lets hope my brain doesn't come up with *another* excuse now that the set is mostly done. :D

p.s.: If you find any problems/errors, let me know and I'll fix them!

[nnozomi]

These are amazing! Thank you so much for taking the time and having the expertise. (I wish we could post them on the Anki site for people in general to download, but given the not very authorized use of the Guardian script it might not be a good idea? Not sure.) Now clearly the next step is to contact Zhu Yilong and Bai Yu and get them to record the audio ;) 太辛苦了，万分感谢！

[tinny]

Thank you! And you're welcome. Most of the work is yours - I just added some technical frills. :)

Well, considering you made the word list when we only had transcripts for 6 eps, you must have typed off the rest on your own, right? I don't see a problem with that at all, honestly.

We can try uploading the deck to the site, but I doubt the interested user base is large enough to keep it there. (They delete all the decks that don't get enough downloads.)

Now clearly the next step is to contact Zhu Yilong and Bai Yu and get them to record the audio ;)

Considering they already did that, we just need someone to clip it. Hmmm. Not unrealistic, actually. And the audio is usually studio looped audio, too, so should even be usable for something like this.

BUT: I just started learning from the combined deck today and realized that a lot of meanings for the single characters are missing. I think I forgot to add those. It's not too bad, since a lot of them really don't mean anything, but there are some where it would make sense to add meaning. I can then upload the changed words again and everyone can update their decks (so you can already learn with the current versions, and the new meanings can be added using an import into the existing deck later).


Would you like to help me complete those? If I do it on my own again, I know I will take another few months... /o\


p.s.: If you find any other problems/errors, let me know and I'll fix them!

[nnozomi]

The word list drew on the work you and Q very kindly did (I think up to about 14 episodes in total?) as well as the ZYL/BY script acquired from Unknown but Incredibly Helpful Chinese Internet Person somewhere, you remember. Other than that I typed up some lines I wanted to add, plus the English came from Solo's subtitles with a bit of tweaking.

When you know what needs doing with the single-character meanings, let me know and if it's within my limited technical skills I'll give it a try!

Thanks again--♡

[tinny]

I am keeping an eye on the downloads, and so far, there have been around 10 of the original deck, and a single one of the updated version.

Maybe there is no more interest, or it's just too well hidden here. If you still think we should upload the deck to anki, I have no problem with that. (But I assume it will not last very long there.)

[solo]

Oh, thank you, I'll download these! ♥

[tinny]

I hope you enjoy them!

p.s.: If you find any problems/errors, let me know and I'll fix them!

[qisforqubit]

That's fantastic, thank you so much! I already spend way too much time on Anki, looking forward to spending even more :P

[tinny]

Thank you! <3 Your work has been invaluable. <3

[circumference_pie]

OMG you did it!

[tinny]

Yes, omg! And now I can finally start studying them. ;DD

(p.s.: I just made an update of the decks today, adding "meaning" to the writing part of the deck - it was missing for most words. So feel free to reimport - anki should simply update your cards.)