Updated Vocab/Signs/Anki/Everything! (1-24)

by tedsakkadian

New stuff! For you!

  • Cuneiform Signs, Lessons 9-24: Updated Excel Spreadsheet (In alphabetical order by sign value; sort by any other column at your own risk: for some reason the sort function is still messing up the placement and size of the images)
  • Vocabulary, Lessons 1-24: Updated Excel Spreadsheet (You can re-sort this one to your heart’s content!)
  • The Anki decks have also been updated through Lesson 24. Right now, until they improve Anki’s syncing functions, you have two less than perfect options for getting the new cards into your computer:
    • 1. Re-download both decks from the Anki server (Open Anki on your computer and go to: File > Download > Shared Deck, then type “Akkadian” in the Search field and click on the deck (mine are the two with the long names), then click OK. You have to do this once for the Vocabulary deck and once for the Cuneiform deck). Drawback of this technique: it will erase all your personal learning statistics. Benefit: this method is quick and easy. Also, you will get all the additions, cross-references and corrections that I have made to previous lessons, in addition to the new material.
    • 2. Import only the new lessons using the following technique. (Benefits: you get to keep all your learning statistics from the previous lessons while adding the new material. Drawbacks: much more involved than method 1; also, you won’t get any of my updates/corrections/cross-references/additions to previous lessons.)
      • 1. Download the following three files, saving them to your desktop:
      • 2. Open Anki.
      • 3. Open the Vocabulary deck.
      • 4. Go to File > Import
      • 5. Choose the “Vocabulary Lesson 24” text file that you downloaded to your desktop and click “Open”
      • 6. In the Import window, click on the “Change” button next to the words “Field 5 of File is <ignored>”.
      • 7. In the Import:Select Target Field window, select “Map to Tags” and click OK.
      • 8. Back in the main Import window, click “Import” (next to the “Field 2 of File” line).
      • 9. Repeat steps 3-8 for the Cuneiform deck.
      • 10. In your computer go to My Documents > Anki > Akkadian Vocabulary – Huehnergard GA 2nd Ed.media
      • 11. Drag the “Cuneiform Images” zip file from your desktop into this … .media folder.
      • 12. Unzip the file in the .media folder. The images must be in that folder itself, not in another sub-folder inside it. After unzipping, you can delete the .zip file.
      • 13. Both decks should now contain the updated material and the cuneiform signs should be displayed properly in Anki.
  • So there you have it, you can pick your poison. Unfortunately Anki works best when sharing complete decks that aren’t constantly changing. But I fully expect them to improve this aspect of the program, since they are constantly refining it.

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