Top Three Powerful Ways To Learn Languages With Anki Pro In 2025
How exactly is a flashcard app will help you become fluent in your target language next year? Keep reading to find out!
Summary
If you want to fail at learning any language, memorize and repeat all of the concepts to dislike the process and quit. If you want a steady and enjoyable way to become fluent in any language, in this blog post I’ll teach you how the General Spaced Repetition and Anki will put you in an optimal position to gain language fluency.
What Is Anki?
Anki is a customizable flashcard app that creates sets of cards to learn all kind of concepts, including languages. Ever since I picked up a book called Fluent Forever, I’ve grown to understand how important Anki Pro is to learn a target language. It’s become a fundamental language learning tool that goes above and beyond.
Anki creates sets of cards that you can have on your smartphone, tablet and even your laptop. The app has a paid version, but the free version is capable enough with Fill In The Blanks cards and learning modules like General Spaced Repetition, which we’ll cover quite soon. This app optimizes your grasp in your target language.
General Spaced Repetition Simplified
Simply put, General Spaced Repetition is the basis of all Anki Cards that segments all your created cards to assimilate each of them in intervals. Instead of going through all of your cards at once, Anki features this method to split and batch your cards in a way that your brain will start to assimilate at a better rate that feels less cluttered.
Anki Pro will show a card to guess and once you flip the card, the app will ask for your feedback and it will buffer based on it. Depending on its accuracy, it will set it at a different rotation regardless of how its difficulty. This lets the Anki know how to prioritize the way it shows each card and your brain feels less overwhelmed by them.
Three Ways To Use Anki Pro
The truth of the matter is, there’s no specific way to use, so try different ways to make your own set of flashcards. Import sets from other users to get inspired. Regardless of the approach, I base all of my cards from the concepts I struggle to learn well to focus on my weaknesses rather than on the ones I’ve become confident enough.
I journal my weekly finds in a Notion Word and Phrase bank. With Anki I create new flash cards to test how well I can remember them. It can’t get any easier and efficient than that. One side with the words in Spanish and the back side in the target language.
I also like to manually import workbook tests in each card. Copy each question in the same layout with the answer in the back to retake the same test with Anki. I’ve reformatted the same tests in Notion as a journal to approach them as a story to assimilate the concepts in as many ways as possible.
As an oddball, I set all the sides of each card in multiple target languages. I may set the front side of the card in Portuguese and the back side in French to be as vigilant as possible and keep assimilating the language indirectly. In Notion I have three notebooks to register all of my teachings in the target language.
Conclusion
Anki Pro has become a fundamental tool to learn my target languages and even miscellaneous items. The more you creative you become at it, the more obsessed you’ll become with it. The paid version is affordable but I’ve never had the necessity to get it since the free version goes above and beyond with the exception of adding images and other features to help you assimilate better.
There are knockoff versions like Anki that lets you add images and audio in their free version, but with a cluttered and outdated interface that I found to be completely obsolete. I encourage you to don’t limit yourself with the free features and find ways to create your own set of cards that adapt to your learning approach.
Once you get a few cards in, you can take them everywhere and get inspired whenever you are waiting in line, sitting in a restaurant or even taking notes and create cards based on what you see everyday and you’ll all kinds of cards you can practice anywhere and anytime.