The Anki starter deck
50 of the 650 essentials as a ready-to-import .apkg: real images, native audio, and fill-in-the-blank sentences already on every card. Feel what the format should be before you build your own.
Most Anki decks you can download are word-pair lists: cheap to make, weak to study. These 50 cards are cut from Verbamor's production deck, so each one already has the three things the research-backed format demands:
- A real image on the front, so you bind the word to a picture instead of an English translation.
- Native audio on the back, so your ears learn the word your eyes are learning.
- A cloze sentence as the prompt: you produce the word inside real grammar, out loud, before you flip.
Import takes one double-click (or File → Import). If you're setting Anki up fresh, do the setup guide first, especially the FSRS toggle.
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- Spanish starter deck (.apkg)
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Using it well
- Answer out loud before flipping. The blank line is the workout; a silent read is a peek.
- Grade honestly. If you peeked or half-knew it, that's Again. Optimistic grading rots the schedule.
- Note the build cost. Each of these cards takes 2 to 3 minutes to make by hand: find the image, find native audio, write the cloze. Fifty cards is about 2 hours of assembly. That's the bar, and that's the bill, for every word your tutor teaches you next week.
These 50 come free with no strings. The other 600 (and every word from your own lessons, built to the same format automatically) are what the app is for.
Like the cards? The app builds them from your lessons.
Record a tutor session and every new word comes out in this exact format: image, native audio, cloze, scheduled.
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