SBS DhammaVinaya Learning Tools

SBS Pāḷi-English Vocab - Anki Deck

UNDER DEVELOPMENT

Made for the memorization of words from ‘SBS Pāḷi-English Recitations’. It is available for testing and feedback. Be sure to regularly download the latest content here.

This tool is recommended to be used together with SBS Pāḷi-English Recitations; the Analysis of SBS Pāḷi-English Recitations and the DPD with SBS examples.

Also, as a reference Word by Word Analysis of SBS Anumodana made by Ven. Ṭhanuttamo can be made use of.

• Download the latest update

• Install Anki

• Double-click on the downloaded file SBS Pāḷi-English Vocab.apkg and it will appear in your Anki.

Recommended ways of studying this deck:

1) Use the order of the Recitation Book.

• Read analysis of the first chant.
• Then study words from this chant.
• After this, go to the next chant.
• Better to go with order of the Recitation Book.

Benefits: you will cover all words consistently.

2) Study chants that you are interested.

Using this method you are at risk to lose some words, because they have been added in order of the Recitation Book, and if the word appear later it is not always added again.

• Read the analysis of the chant that you like to study.
• in Anki go to Browse

• Select deck SBS Pāḷi-English Vocab in the left panel
• Select all card by Ctrl + A
• Right click and choose Toggle Suspend (Ctrl + J)

Now all cards are inactive for study.

• Select chant which you want to study among tags in the left panel
• Select all card by Ctrl + A
• Right click and choose Toggle Suspend (Ctrl + J)

Now all cards from the selected chant will appear in your Anki daily routine. After you finish them, you may repeat the process with another chant and so on.

• If English is not your first language, it is always recommended to translate words to your native language. For this, there is an empty field called “native”, that you can fill. And even with next update, this field still will keep all your info. Unless you are using one of the available language add-ons for SBS decks.

Updating existing deck without losing your statistics

!Important! Before doing anything, synchronize your collection across all your Anki devices. Go to Tools > Preferences > Syncing and enable “On next sync force changes in one direction”. This will provide a secure backup on the Anki cloud in case of any issues.

It is recommended to use Special fields Add-on

Please see a small video how to update.

Or just follow the description:

Usually it is enough just to double-click on the downloaded file SBS Pāli-English Vocab.apkg, and it will update in your Anki. Only you need to remove outdated words

Another method of updating

If you have a problem with updating, you can use the following method:

• download the latest csv file here.

• make sure that your filed list exectly the same as current filed list. You can check it in menu: Tools > Manage Note Types

• make sure that your card settings exectly the same as current card settings. You can check it in menu: Tools > Manage Note Types

• note that there are 3 different fields for card settings:
  1. FRONT TEMPLATE
  2. BACK TEMPLATE
  3. STYLE

Check that each of them matches current card settings.

• in the Anki click on File > Import

• choose downloaded sbs-pd.csv

• choose Notetype - SBS Vocab ; Deck - SBS Pāli-English Vocab ; Existing notes - Update ; Match scope - Notetype

• then scrol down to the end of the Field mapping section and switch the possition of marks and Tags, so that marks will map to the last column in the CSV file, while tags will be left unmapped (Nothing).

• double check everything and click import

• now you are up-to-date.

• also make sure to remove outdated words

• and click Clear Unused Tags, you can find it in the Browse > Notes