Hi there, just creating this thread as a place for people to provide feedback, ask questions, and discuss the deck “The Delights of Learning Turkish” that I created & shared. I’ll be checking this occasionally and might make updates to the deck as needed, although can’t promise it’ll happen instantaneously .
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@infinitely-zero, thank you for putting together such a great resource! I have been wanting to learn Turkish for many years now and finally taking the dive, I found your Anki cards from your post on Reddit and was blown away by the thoroughness. If you don’t mind, I have an issue that I’m hoping you can help me understand.
I am struggling to understand the order of flash cards when using the “Order in Book” option. After applying my sorting, the first card is “at” (which appears on page 38). However, “kalem” (which appears on page 37) is marked as card 230. Am I sorting the cards incorrectly? I am following these steps that you posted from a Reddit thread (r/turkishlearning/s/YxtcgPgg1u)
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Browser > Fields > Order in Book > Sort by this field in the browser
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Browser > Click on “Sort field” column. Now all cards are ordered by “Order in Book” field
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Select all cards (CMD & A if on Mac) > Right button > Reposition. Now the due value correspond to the “Order in Book” field.
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Start studying using your deck options. It should work now.
I notice before trying to apply any of these sorting settings that the “Oder in Book” field matches what I mentioned above, but I would think “kalem” would come before “at”. I am hoping you can clarify what I am missing. I understand not every word from the book is included, just trying to understand how “Order in Book” is built.
Thank you for your help!
[I had nothing to do with making this deck, but I’m pretty familiar with the book.]
I think you’re sorting them right. But when I look at the particular words that are pushed toward the front of the list I see a lot of very short words (ay, en, et, el) and words that are also English words with different meanings (at, her, son, hat, on). It makes me start to wonder whether tool the author used to put the words in order was only looking for where the series of characters appeared – not whether they were being used in English or Turkish, and not whether they were a whole or partial word.
For ordering, it would have been much more useful to simply tag the notes with the Unit of the book where they appear.
Hi, thank you for the deck. It is evident you have masterfully arranged it and taken the time to ensure it is both comprehensive and aesthetically pleasing. I noticed that there is additional audio for the sentences but not an additional play button for it. I think it will appear if
{{#Sentence Audio}}
{{Sentence Audio}}
{{/Sentence Audio}}
is added inside both showEx and showTra sections of the Back Template:
<!-- Display the front word for easy reference -->
<span class="turkishword">{{Front}}</span>
<br>
<span class="partofspeech">{{Part of Speech}}</span>
<div style='font-family: "Arial"; font-size: 20px;'>{{Word Audio}}</div>
<hr id="answer">
<span class="translation">{{Back}}</span>
<br><br>
<div id="buttonsBox">
<div class="button-row">
<button onclick="showEx()">Example Sentence</button>
<button onclick="showTra()">Sentence Translation</button>
</div>
<button class="conjugation-button" onclick="showConj()">Conjugations</button>
</div>
<!-- Example Sentence Section -->
<div id="showEx" style="display:none">
{{Example Sentence (Turkish)}}
<br><br>
<!-- SENTENCE PLAY BUTTON -->
{{#Sentence Audio}}
{{Sentence Audio}}
{{/Sentence Audio}}
</div>
<!-- Translation Section -->
<div id="showTra" style="display:none">
<strong>{{Example Sentence (Turkish)}}</strong>
<br>
<hr id="answer">
{{Example Sentence Translation (English)}}
<br>
<span class="partofspeech">{{Example Sentence Literal Translation (English)}}</span>
<br><br>
<!-- SENTENCE PLAY BUTTON -->
{{#Sentence Audio}}
{{Sentence Audio}}
{{/Sentence Audio}}
</div>
<!-- Conjugations Section -->
<div id="showConj" style="display:none">
{{Conjugations}}
</div>
<script>
function showEx() {
document.getElementById("showEx").style.display = "block";
document.getElementById("showTra").style.display = "none";
document.getElementById("showConj").style.display = "none";
}
function showTra() {
document.getElementById("showEx").style.display = "none";
document.getElementById("showTra").style.display = "block";
document.getElementById("showConj").style.display = "none";
}
function showConj() {
document.getElementById("showEx").style.display = "none";
document.getElementById("showTra").style.display = "none";
document.getElementById("showConj").style.display = "block";
}
</script>
<script>
var elem = document.querySelector(".soundLink, .replaybutton");
if (elem) {
elem.click();
}
</script>
Hello! My dad is trying to use this deck and I’m trying to help him with the Anki details. Is there any possibility that someone has updated this deck’s tags section to include “unit1” or “unit2” etc. all the way to 17 for each section? He’s having a hard time sorting through and only seeing vocab from one unit at a time. Thank you!
Merhaba everyone - appreciate all the feedback and suggestions for the deck. Life’s been busy but I’m finally getting around to making some updates this week. I think the suggestion on adding units is great and I’ve made some progress on that. I should hopefully have an update out by the end of the week or early next week. Stay tuned.
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Ahhhh that is so so exciting! Thank you so much for doing that!!!
Hey everyone, I have released a new major update addressing all your feedback. Hope you enjoy and happy learning. Release notes below:
12.17.25 Major 2.0 update that includes:
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Added 619 new words that are introduced throughout the book. They weren’t included originally as they’re not actually listed at the back of the book vocabulary section (which is what I originally made the deck out of). I was able to extract them from the Units themselves and add them in.
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Replaced the “Order in Book” field with the “Unit” field. The original “Order in Book” field was not super accurate (as reported by folks on the forum - thank you) so I retired it. Instead, I was able to map each word to the unit it was first introduced in. Again, I spot-checked thoroughly but it’s possible there are some minor mistakes. Overall it seems very accurate from my own experience. It’s not perfect because some words are actually introduced multiple times (in that case, I use the Unit where it appeared first), some words are introduced before the first unit (in that case, it’s listed as Unit 0), and words are introduced in various ways throughout the book. Overall, this turned out well and you should be able to use it to learn in the order things appear in the book. cc @OmgItsMe
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Added a new “Sentences: Cloze Deletion” deck. I’ve been using the Clozemaster app and got inspired to add this option here as it’s amazing for learnings words in context. You can start with that deck or use it as a supplement.
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All 3 sentence decks now have an “Explain” button on the back that acts as a deep-link into ChatGPT (app if you have it, web if not). So pressing it opens the ChatGPT app and pre-fills a pre-written prompt asking ChatGPT to explain the grammatical make-up of that sentence. You’re welcome to (a) use it! (b) delete it from your cards, as I know some folks don’t want this, or (c) change your prompt by going into the card template and modifying the prompt. Again, this is modeled after the same feature in Clozemaster and I’ve found it super helpful for understanding more complex sentences where the grammar is new to me.
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As requested on the forum, I added a way to play sentence audio on the vocabulary cards. cc @sneakynuts
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Audited and improved literal translations as well as conjugations on all cards.
Hey! Just added this in the latest version. Thanks for your feedback.
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Hey! Just added a new “Unit” field instead of “Order in Book” based on all the feedback.
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Thank you so so so much! So excited to help my dad get this update and for him to start using it! Seriously thank you. It’s going to make him so happy!
Very happy to hear! Hope your dad has the best time learning.
Many thanks for this wonderful deck! I’ve left a thumbs up review on the main site. 
Tiny question: I am a beginner and I also don’t plan to buy the book (yet). What study order would you recommend? Due date, then random, or due date, then deck? And how about the Cloze1 cards? I understand that it is subdeck 5 out of 5, right? If I were to study, say, 5 cards a day, is there a logic that would show cards from different subdeck in a specific order?
Appreciate the thumbs up!
Study order is personal preference but I’d recommend starting with Turkish → English vocab cards and doing 5-10 per day depending on how much free time you’re willing to dedicate. I did all Turkish → English vocab cards and now working through Cloze sentence cards for example. Some would argue that starting with sentences is more effective as you learn with more context. I’m finding that to be true.
In any case, I’d recommend sticking to 1-2 decks at-a-time vs mixing them altogether (but again, personal preference!).
Re: order - your screenshot here is the daily review order - I’d do due date & then deck because it should use Unit ordering then (order they appear in in the book). I did due date + random though and that was fine for me as well.
thank you so much for the free resource! I already had the book and it would be great to use them concurrently. I am concerned about the quality of the audio. Some of the first words I was served (kaz, sekreter, siz) sound AI-generated and are incorrect or as if someone is reading them with an American or just random accent. (Other words are read by a Turkish person.) I would much prefer no audio to the incorrect ones. Is there a way to disable just the generated or incorrect pronunciations? I don’t think I can use it as is as I don’t think it’s wise to reinforce words that are read by anything other than a native speaker (let alone generative AI which is a notoriously poor substitute for translation work, or any profession at all really but that’s neither here nor there…). Thank you for understanding and for your hard work.
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Hey there,
Thanks for flagging this, I appreciate it. It’s an interesting issue.
Some context - all of the audio is TTS-generated using models that sounded the most natural to me. So there isn’t a specific flag for the words that sound off.
What makes this more difficult is it’s hard to debug and find each problematic word. The only solution I see is trying to re-generate all of the word audio again with explicit Turkish settings to make sure the model doesn’t think it’s English.
I will try this in the coming weeks when I have time. In the meantime, I recommend using the Cloze deck with sentence audio which doesn’t have that issue (I’m using it myself right now). It’s also just a more effective way to learn. I also did finish the entire Turkish > English deck and didn’t catch this issue myself so I suspect it’s not extremely widespread (clearly you’re more attentive than me - totally agree it’s disruptive/ confusing when it does occur).
If you don’t want to wait, you can also use the HyperTTS plugin yourself to regenerate the audio.
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Hello! I am here to report the same exact issue. The deck is wonderful but I am having the same audio issue. A lot of the words in the first deck sound like they were pronounced by an American English speaker. I tried fixing with HyperTTS myself but got confused myself. Regardless, this is a wonderful resource and I really appreciate all your hard work
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Just wanting to clarify initial setup for this deck, with the “Unit” field:
- From Anki desktop: Browser > Fields > “Unit” > Sort by this field in the browser > Save
- Browser > Click on “Sort field” column name. Now all cards are ordered by the “Unit” field
- Select all cards (CTRL+A on PC, CMD+A on Mac) > Right Click > Reposition. Now the Due value will correspond to the “Unit” field.
- Start studying
Am I getting this right? Or, is this step no longer needed (default order is by “unit”?)
Thank you so much! -Eren