Here is HUGE collection of Simplified Chinese/English subtitle ANKI flashcards from most of my favourite TV shows (around 600,000)

September 30, 2015 at 07:52 AM

For those who aren't familiar, this is a really effective technique for finding sentences that are not only very naturally written by native Chinese speakers, but are also direct translations of scripts from many popular TV shows. The aim is to study real Chinese, packed with native-level slang and word usage, something lacking in standard dictionaries available. This makes the process of learning a lot more fun and convenient.

Please check out the link below and download any you like, they are all .apkg anki packs ready to be automatically installed:

UPDATED: https://drive.google.com/file/u/1/d/1btI_Q130atOge5ubwyySSWTrBSvgRfgW/view?usp=sharing

Here's how I've been using them:

Step 1: Double-click the downloaded .apkg files of all the different TV Shows to automatically install them as individual decks into Anki

Step 2: Go in each individual deck's 'browse' function and highlight all cards and click 'change deck' at the top to transfer all cards into one big deck. Call the big deck 'TV Sentences' or something similar to differentiate from others.

Step 3: In the big sentence deck you now have, search at the top in the address bar (leaving a single space) for one or several words/characters/grammar function you want to study. It should come up with at least a few very entertainingly written (and therefore easier to remember) sentences

Step 4: Create cloze deletions of the words you want to study and tranfer to a separate study deck

I would advise to suspend all cards in the big deck and transfer any cloze deletions you make from it to a separate deck for studying. This is because the big TV sentences deck is in the order the cards are added, making it relatively easy to find two or more connected sentences from the same episode and join them together This is in case the single sentence doesn't provide enough context. However, the big deck could possibly eventually change the order of the cards, making it almost impossible to find the next sentence in the episode.

Also, I would say that even if you haven't seen a show in the list, just add it anyway as the more sentences you have, the more will come up to choose from later, the fact that you remember the line from the show personally is just a kind of bonus.

I hope I explained well enough and that this is as helpful to you as it is for me and my friends.

I also hope I won't be sued for copyright infringement....

September 30, 2015 at 08:17 AM

thanks for sharing these

which ones are Chinese tv series ?

and about the foreign series, are those official translations, or internet volunteer translations?

September 30, 2015 at 08:19 AM

No worries. These are all American/British TV shows and are from public subtitle sites, so I can assume most are volunteer translations.

September 30, 2015 at 08:20 AM

No worries. These are all American/British TV shows and are from public subtitle sites, so I can assume most are volunteer translations.

September 30, 2015 at 09:09 AM

Very nice; thanks! I wish some were Chinese TV series.

October 1, 2015 at 08:30 AM

Yeah, me too. It's just unfortunately very tough to find soft subs for Chinese shows, maybe impossible. The good thing about these though is that the English lines are often very memorable or funny, which makes the words in context a lot easier to memorise.