Hi, I’m using a shared desk where I’d like to get randomised sometimes the one, sometimes the other language (so that I’m not only able to understand but also learning to actively use the language). How can I do so? Trying it I’m afraid I’ll loose the audio and transcription feature (I went to notes and on randomise it - and then that warning pops up). Any help would be much appreciated. Am quite struggling with Anki….
Try setting the Display Order > New card sort order option to Random under your deck options.
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The note type already creates both of those card types:
There are two card types:
Card 1 is Thai writing on the front and Audio + English on the back.
Card 2 is Audio on the front and Thai + English writing on the back.
– so you don’t need to do anything to the cards/notes to create that.
It’s not clear what you mean by this, but possibly you were looking at the New card insertion order in deck Options?
Are you asking about when the cards are introduced New for the first time?
If you really want order to be completely random – meaning that any one of the 1200+ cards could be introduced next, and you won’t know when the “reverse” sibling of a card might be introduced [which surprises me for a language learner] – then @abdo’s solution will do that.
If you want something else, you’ll have to describe it with more detail.
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Hi Danika,
many thanks for looking into this.
It’s great news that in theory it should already be part of my learning. However, I checked again and indeed for one and the same sentence exists card 1 and card 2, however, both have the same set up with first Thai and then English opposed to one having first the other language. That might be the issue…?
If so: is there a way how I can change easily on all card 2 the order of the languages or would I need to go manually in all of them? So far in my learning I only get Thai first (and this would actually also explain why some cards keep coming up several times despite having already learned them, i.e. I seem to learn twice the same cards).
Hope you have an idea on this! And thanks again.
I think your issue is that the card types in the shared deck both go from Thai to English, and what you want is an English → Thai card type.
In that case, you should modify one of the existing card types (if you haven’t studied many of them already), or add a new card type.
The manual explains how to do this and there are many posts and tutorials online such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIGF_EoGfHk.
Hi Zorn, thanks for the suggestions. I created a new card type and thought that I could now modify the whole deck 2. However, when trying with only a test card I a) don’t get shown the new card option and if I say ‘add new card’ I’m asked if I’m sure that I want to create 600plus new cards (which I don’t want; currently I’d like to only try the change on my test card). Any ideas? Sorry, I’m really not particularly good at this obviously despite watching the video and trying the manual.
TL;DR You want to modify an existing card type instead.
- In Anki, you make notes not cards.
- Each note has a note type, which determines its fields and card types.
- Each note type has at least one card type. Anki generates one card for each card type (with some exceptions[1]).
- Each card type consists of a front template and a back template.
- The styling section is shared between all templates and card types (of the current note type).
- Changes to the note types affect all notes with that note type.
Thus, adding a card type to note type X will generate one more card[2] for each of your 600 notes of type X.
Blimey, this programme is making me feel seriously inapt. So I now created a note English to Thai. Going on a test card I want to change its note properties but get a lot of options…. and somehow it seems as if I’d still only duplicate?!
Really sorry for my many questions and very grateful for the help!
You don’t need to create a new note type. Just click on “Cards…”, then the drop-down and select one of the card types you have which you want to change to English → Thai.
Next change the front template to
{{English}}
and the back template to
{{English}}
<hr>
{{Thai}}
<br>
{{Transcription}}
<br>
{{Audio}}
SUCCESS!!! 
The last description of @ZornHadNoChoice did the job (in being both easy enough for me to understand and working technically). Thanks so much for all the help!
I’m very excited to now be finally all set to get going with the learning.
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