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Introduction
Introduction
We’ll look at how to analyze our cards to estimate how many words we already know.
That’s useful on its own, but the main goal is to compare our known-word list with the vocabulary used in a specific source. Using some files I created, Morphman can compare the words you’ve learned with those found in an anime, game, or manga, and tell you how much of that material you already understand.
This makes it easier to choose content that’s at just the right difficulty level for you.
Get the necessary files
Get the necessary files
We need 3 files.
Go to Anki => Tools => Add-ons => Get Add-ons. Type or paste the following numbers. That will install the add-on automatically.
Morphman: 900801631
Mecab: 13462835. There's a new version here. Instead of "Get Add-ons", choose the option below => Install from file...
Readability Files : Link.
Close Anki for the changes to take effect and reopen. You should see the addons in your list like below.
Analyze what you know
Analyze what you know
Morphman works with any deck and any cards—whether they’re your own or someone else’s—and you don’t need to finish a deck for it to analyze your progress.
In this guide, I’ll use my Japanese course as an example.
Open Morphman’s preferences (Ctrl + O).
Note Filter
Note Filter
Morphman needs two main pieces of information to analyze your cards: the Note Type and the Field. You can also use Tags to filter which cards you want to include.
Note Type : Pick the note type of your deck. You can pick multiple. To add one, click on Clone. To remove one, click on Delete.
Tags: If your cards use tags, you can select a specific tag to analyze only the cards that contain it.
Fields: Enter the name of the field you want Morphman to analyze. This should be the field that contains what you’ve learned—for example, the Japanese word or sentence.
If you choose a field containing full sentences, Morphman will treat every word in those sentences as known. To avoid that, select a field containing only the target word, if your deck has one.
My Japanese course is built around the i+1 principle, meaning each card uses sentences with previously learned words, so choosing the sentence field works well.
Morphemizer: This determines how Morphman breaks down sentences and identifies words. For Japanese, choose MeCab. For other languages—especially those that use spaces, like English—select the appropriate option.
Read: Enable this so Morphman can read (i.e., analyze) your cards.
Modify : Leave this unchecked for now. We only want to analyze the cards, not change them.
Tags
Tags
Morphman considers a card known only if you’ve reviewed it at least once.
If you want certain cards to be treated as known even without reviewing them, you can use a tag.
In the Tags panel, choose which tag you want to use. By default, Morphman uses the tag mm_alreadyKnown. Apply this tag to any cards you want counted as known. If you prefer to use a different tag, you can set it here.
General
General
In the final panel, you can adjust how Morphman analyzes your cards.
Treat proper nouns as known: I recommend enabling this unless you want to actively learn proper nouns. Otherwise, names of characters, people, or cities will be counted as vocabulary to study. Note that it doesn't really work for fictional names that you will find in video games. That's why if you check my game scripts, I put them in brackets.
Consider words with multiple grammar roles as separate: Some words can serve different grammatical functions. If you want to keep things simple, enable this option. Otherwise, a word used in different ways will be counted as separate words. Note that this refers to grammar roles, not multiple meanings of the same word.
Ignore content within brackets: This is useful if you’re analyzing subtitles, which often include character names or audio descriptions in brackets.
When you're done, click apply and recalc (Ctrl + M).
K and V
K and V
Two numbers should appear on the top. If not make sure you picked the right note type, field, and you have reviewed some cards or use the already known tag.
A word can have multiple alterations :
K: Number of Known words (ね and ねぇ count as 1 word)
V: Number of Known words - with iterations (ね and ねぇ count as 2 words)
Note that the deck or mecab may change between the moment I write this tutorial and the time you do it, so the numbers below may be different.
Use different database
Use different database
Check this folder : AppData\Roaming\Anki2\[Your_Profile]\dbs
You will see different database files. Your database of known words is called "known".
That's the one that will be selected by default in the analyzer. We'll see in the next page how to use it.
When you use the analyzer, you can pick another db file. In my readability files, there is a folder with some premade. So if you studied Genki for example, and you know the vocabulary used in that book, but haven't studied with Anki yet, you can use the analyzer anyway.
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