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Anki, without the assembly
Type the sentence you actually need. Taalhammer turns it into a card that speaks, shows the phonetic transcription, and comes back exactly when you are about to forget it — in any of 76 languages. Nothing to install, nothing to wire together, no deck to maintain.
Try it freeWhat it actually does
Making a good flashcard is not the hard part. Assembling the machinery around it is. In Anki, a sentence card with audio and phonetics means a text-to-speech add-on, a phonetics add-on, a translation lookup, a note type you configured, and a deck you keep tidy. Here that is the default, and there is nothing to configure.
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You type a sentence
Whatever you actually need to say: the thing you failed to say at work, the phrase your in-laws use, a line from a book you had to read twice. One box, your own words.
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It comes back finished
Audio in a natural voice on both sides. Phonetic transcription (IPA) generated automatically, in any script. A translation. Ready to review in both directions, scheduled from the first time you rate it.
Then it becomes something you can listen to
This is the part that matters, and it is the behaviour most strongly associated with people who keep going: users who work across both writing and listening convert far better than users who do either alone.
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Write it — or have it generated
Type the sentence yourself and it becomes a card with audio and IPA already attached. Or describe a topic and a level, and AI builds the whole collection for you — cards, example sentences, short stories made from words you already know, every line given a voice. AI runs underneath all of it: not a chatbot to talk to, not something replacing you, just the work a language learner has to do anyway — done for you, in one place.
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Review it
It comes back on a spaced-repetition schedule — hardest items first, adjusted by how well you actually recalled it. The memory research behind that is older than any of us, and it is why the app is shaped this way.
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Hear it, hands-free
The same sentences play back like a podcast made only of your own material, on the commute or at the gym — and when you want the real thing at full speed, live radio in the language you are learning is in the same place. That half is here.
What you no longer have to wire together
| To get this | In Anki | Here |
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| Audio on a card | A text-to-speech add-on, per language | Automatic, 76 languages |
| Phonetic transcription | A phonetics add-on, per script | Automatic |
| Translation | A lookup add-on or another tab | Built in |
| Example sentences | A sentence bank you assemble | Full-text search over real sentences |
| Deck upkeep | Yours to maintain | None |
None of this makes Anki a bad tool. It makes it a kit. If you enjoy the kit, keep it — plenty of people reasonably do.
Why sentences and not words
A word list teaches you a glossary. A sentence carries grammar, word order and register along with the vocabulary, so what you practise is the thing you will actually have to produce. That is not a house opinion — it is why the method is built this way.
Why sentences beat wordsHow the audio and phonetics are made
Who this is for
- Anki users tired of assembling cards out of add-ons.
- Sentence miners — lines from books, films, conversations.
- Polyglots, and anyone who looked at a pre-made course and thought: none of these sentences are mine.
- Not for you if you would rather be handed a syllabus and follow it.
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