Generate French learning Anki Deck

A CLI tool that creates French verb conjugation typing decks for Anki. Simply input a list of infinitives and choose which tenses to practice. The tool generates an APKG file ready to be imported into Anki. Currently supported common tenses include: indicatif présent, indicatif futur simple, indicatif passé composé, indicatif passé simple, conditionnel présent, and impératif présent.

Installation

From PyPI

pip install fr-anki

From Git

git clone https://github.com/yenyen1/generate-anki-deck.git 
cd generate-anki-deck 
pip install .

Print help

fr-anki --help

NOTE: The first run may take about a minute to download the model.

Usage: Generate French verb conjugation typing deck

Input verbs list by --infinitives

Use comma-separated infinitive verbs to input verbs list by --infinitives option.

fr-anki verb --tense present --infinitives "avoir,prendre,aller"

Input verbs list by --infinitive-file

Use a TXT file containing one infinitive verb per line to input verbs list.

fr-anki verb --tense present --infinitive-file verbs.txt

Example of verb list verbs.txt

avoir
prendre
aller

Import new cards into an existing Anki deck

Specify --deck-id (the ID of the existing Anki deck you want to import into) and --start-pid (the next consecutive primary ID after your existing cards) if you want to import new cards into an existing Anki deck.

fr-anki verb --tense present --infinitive-file verbs.txt --deck-id 132526148 --start-pid 52

Example of output Anki Deck output.apkg

• Front

  It shows the infinitive form with audio. You can type the conjugations separated by / in the input box.

  

• Back

  It displays all conjugation forms with audio and highlights your typing errors in different colors.

  

Credits

This tool uses the following Python libraries:

• genanki: A Python 3 library for generating Anki decks
• fr-audio: A tool for downloading MP3 audio of French verb conjugations that leveraging verbecc (for verb conjugation enhanced with machine learning techniques) and edge-tts (for accessing to Microsoft Edge’s online text-to-speech service from Python).