How to Set Up Your Anki Deck

1. Copy the audio files from your phrasebook to your computer’s hard drive.  For this tutorial, I am using McGraw-Hill’s French All in One.
2. Download Anki.
3. Open Anki.
4. Your screen should look like this. Click on Add.

Click on Fields

Rename “Front” to French.  Rename “Back” to English.

Click on Add and create a new field called Audio.

Click close, then in another window, open the folder with your audio files in it.  Drag and drop an mp3 file into the Audio field.

Type (or cut and paste) the French word from the Audio field into the French field.  Put the English word into the English field.  Then click Add.

Repeat as necessary to make as many cards as you need.

Making Anki Test Us Both Ways

We want Anki to test us both ways; that is, from French to English and from English to French.   So…

Click Close, then…