Anki for languages is likely a bad idea. Advice for beginners.

Описание: In this video, I share my perspective as a French coach and language educator on Anki and its role in language learning.

00:00 Trust issues from the start
00:31 Language is complexity
02:08 The learner's dilemma
03:32 Flattening language in Anki
04:57 What is Anki?
05:26 The problems with Anki
07:14 If it was so easy to self-teach...
07:32 What is the Anki identity?
08:43 Should we use Anki?
09:09 What I would do

Language learning is not just about memorising words. It’s an identity, a process, and a deep cognitive transformation that depends on experience, context, and progression. The more you study a language, the more layers you begin to see — pronunciation, structure, hierarchy of frequency, nuance, timing, human interaction.

Anki works at a very basic level: memory scheduling.
But language is not only memory.

In this video, I discuss:

The trust issue behind open decks

The difficulty beginners face in evaluating quality

The problem of flattening language (treating all words as equal)

The illusion of progress vs real-world performance

The risks of building your own curriculum without expertise

Why popularity is not a reliable indicator of quality

Whether memorising words or sentences leads to real fluency

And where tools like Anki might fall short compared to guided progression

This is not an attack on Anki users.
It’s a reflection on complexity — and on what serious language learning actually requires.

If you’re interested in a structured, experience-driven approach to French, you can find my program here:

OuiCommunicate teaches online French to adult learners https://ouicommunicate.com

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