A terminal program that creates Anki cards to study Mandarin Chinese.
I wrote it for myself to save time. Before, I would have to enter the values into the fields by hand, which gets tedious, especially with media files like images and sounds.
It should be noted that as of now this is an ad hoc solution, since other learners might need fields that are different from the ones that I've included in this program, in another order or from other sources.
The cards consist of:
- Hanzi characters
- Pinyin
- English translations
- Stroke order animations
- Pronunciation audio
Example of a card after importing:
The user inputs search queries, results of which are parsed for hanzi, pinyin and translation. If a query returns multiple definitions, user can select the one that he's looking for from a list. After selecting the definition, the program downloads stroke animations.
Audio files are downloaded from soundoftext.com, the website provides a nice API to download audio generated by Google Translate.
Output is saved in a tsv file that later can be imported in Anki. The media
files are downloaded to a separate folder, contents of which should be manually
moved to the local collection.media folder
($HOME/.local/share/Anki2/User/collection.media on Linux).
Here is an example line of the output tsv file:
好 hǎo good / well / proper <img src="22909.gif"> [sound:626ff390-cc30-11e7-b331-7d14f8ed1278.mp3]
Configuration is done via a config file, in which output paths, number of translation variants and keybindings can be configured.