![]() ![]() More information about Cloze Deletion in Anki can be found in the online Anki Manual: If you hold down alt (option on a Mac) while creating a cloze, Anki will automatically use the same number instead of incrementing it.” In the above example, if you change c2 to c1, only one card would be created, with both Canberra and 1913 hidden. “You can also elide multiple sections on the same card. This is an excerpt from the Anki Manual which explains this same point as well as a keyboard shortcut. In theory, you can Cloze as many parts of a card as you’d like. This example shows two particles both being omitted and thus, makes it way less boring to see the same cards. The idea is to have both cloze’d texts having the same number. The background ‘code’ for the card would look like this: Using the above article’s example, you could have the following as a single card: In Anki, you are able to Cloze multiple words in a single card. Please share your experiences in the comments! At worst, it is a great tool to have at your disposal. MCDs can have a range of uses that have lifted some Japanese learners to a high level. I believe that people who are intermediates or higher should use MCDs to learn words that are 3+ kanji there is no easier way to take down tough words. ![]() MCDs can be useful to a new comer in learning many grammar points, but people below level 20 need to get the hang of Japanese sentences to help their comprehension. ![]() Personally, I wouldn’t suggest anybody shift exclusively to MCDs until they are at least at an intermediate level. One thing to make clear is that there is no reason you need to use exclusively sentences or MCDs I believe there are appropriate times to use both. While this goes for every method, I do believe the added creativity required for MCDs makes it an art that is harder to perfect than the sentence method. It takes a bit to get used to creating MCDs. The whole point of doing sentences/Anki is to enjoy what you are studying, so for some this ruins that atmosphere.ģ. “Fill in the blank” cards can sometimes feel more like a test. Particularly for a newbie, you need to be digesting full sentences so you can get the hang of Japanese grammar.Ģ. Because there is so much content on the front of an MCD, you wind up doing a lot of skimming. Useful for particles: the forced output helps you get the hang of when to use which particle.ġ. Having one MCD card for each kanji can break the word down in a way where it is much easier to remember.ģ. Useful for learning words with three or more kanji. Being forced to “output” the unknown word or character may help increase comprehension.Ģ. Here are a few more examples.īut what you really want to know is are they good or bad.ġ. MCDs give you a lot more room to be creative, so experiment with what works best for you. Of course, MCDs are what you make them adding things like furigana, more content, mono-lingual definitions, etc. In this case, the cloze is one kanji at a time, so you would have a separate card for the 前 kanji. That and other context clues should help you figure out that the cloze is 名前. If you already knew the context of はじめまして, you quickly can come to the conclusion that this is an introduction. While a normal MCD will usually have much more context, even this example can make it clear how the context can help you. Here is an example of a very basic MCD in J-E style: This serves a number of functions, but the idea is to use the surrounding context to figure out and remember the cloze. The difference between an MCD and a cloze deletion is that an MCD will give you a large amount of context to the cloze often times, the front of an MCD card can have an entire paragraph on it. You create a “cloze deletion” of something you don’t know (a word, a particle, kanji, etc.) and your goal is to guess the deleted part of the sentence. Based on the long established cloze deletion flashcards, MCDs are at their core a fill in the blank system of flashcards. MCDs stand for massive context cloze-deletion. So what’s the deal with these MCDs anyway? In the past two years, many in the Japanese community have shifted to MCDs based SRS cards instead of sentences. Okay, I probably should have seen that coming…īut even more refined searches lead me to scattered information about MCDs. When I first heard learners in the Japanese community talking about MCDs, I did what any sensible internet user would and Googled it. ![]()
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