Kardamone or Anki

You review with Anki and wonder what Kardamone would do differently? Here is what you will find, what works differently, and what is not there.

You no longer have to choose between Anki’s spaced repetition and Duolingo’s guided learning.

What you will find

Spaced repetition: each card comes back just before you would forget it, at longer and longer intervals.
Your own cards: a word and its translation, or a question and its answer, with an example and a note if you want them.
Importing a text file whose fields are separated by commas, semicolons or tabs.
Offline study: a list made available offline can be reviewed without a connection, and your answers sync once you are back online.

The catalogue. You do not have to build your cards first: the vocabulary and grammar lists are already written, proofread by hand and sorted by level, from A1 to C2.
The typed answer. You first pick the answer out of four, then type it with no help; each card accepts the correct variants of the answer.
Grammar. Each point is explained in a guide, with its exercises right beside it.
The path. After a level test of about five minutes, Kardamone offers you the lists in order; each day you do your reviews first, then learn new words and a little grammar.
The schedule. You choose among four review rhythms, the next day then after 4, 12 and 35 days by default, or set your own intervals. Anki offers FSRS or SM-2, with a retention rate you choose.
The browser. Kardamone opens in any browser and can be added to your phone’s home screen, with no app to install.
Articles and gender. In languages where nouns have a gender, you learn each noun with its article, and a typed answer with no article, or the wrong one, is pointed out.
Conjugation. You can look up verb conjugation tables on the site, and write the forms yourself in exercises.
Pronunciation. Most of the words you learn are shown with their phonetic transcription, and you can listen to every card.
Your documents. You can create a list from a text, a PDF or a Word file. For words already in the catalogue, you get its hand-checked cards, with their example and note.

In Anki on a computer, choose File › Export, then the "Notes in Plain Text (.txt)" format, and save the file.
On Kardamone, tap ＋, then "Import a file (CSV, Anki, Quizlet)". Choose the file, or paste its text.
Check the preview, correct it if needed, then confirm: the cards are added to the list.

Only the cards come across, not your review history in Anki, so the schedule starts afresh.

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