Quick and easy foreign language vocab card generation for anki.
Tired of needing to look up and manually make flash cards for foreign language study? It can quickly add up to hours when creating so many cards...
easyvocab can generate all those cards for you, with beautifully styled and formatted notes with extra useful information and text-to-speech to help you internalize the sounds of your target language. Generate reverse cards automatically to help establish a two way association with each word and its meaning. Just throw the words you want to learn into a text file or directly into the interface and cards will be generated and added to a deck. easyvocab uses the googletrans and gTTS python packages to translate your words and generate text-to-speech, so the process is totally free and doesn't require any premium API keys.
If you want to install the plugin manually just clone the repo, navigate to the scripts directory and run
./install_deps.sh && ./package.sh
You can use the resulting easyvocab.ankiaddon file to install the addon.
This addon was heavily inspired by mnemocards, especially the card format. mnemocards is great if you want some more advanced features but it comes with an unnecessary 3 minute pause after every 25 cards that can make very large vocab sets take a long long time to generate. It also generates .apkg files that have to be separately imported into anki and a command line tool with json configuration isn't convenient for most users. I wanted to make something that can be used directly from anki and is focused on just quickly generating vocab cards to help accelerate language learning.
I also want to give credit to anki-prettify for the base card format I extended for foreign language vocabulary. The note type responds to system theme and is responsive to screen size so it displays really nicely on mobile. I also tried to make the card format as easily human editable as possible without relying on embedded html in the card fields for styling (with one small exception) so you should be able to quickly update any cards that googletrans produces questionable translations for.