Visit brilliant.org/nicolevdh to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. The theme that I used in this video was Things, by Colin Eckert: github.com/colineckert/obsidian-things ! The Obsidian plugins I mentioned are: Spaced Repetition, Callouts (ok, a feature rather than a plugin), Daily Note (core), LanguageTool Integration, Excalidraw.

I wouldn't mind a more in depth video on how to use the Spaced Repetition plug-in, because I am still not entirely clear on how to set this up. Maybe in such a video, you could set up a new language from scratch? That way, I can actually see the entire process of setting this up and getting it to work.

Gosh I have been wanting to get started with Obsidian but it seems kind of daunting and I've been looking for a channel that has videos just like yours. I love how nice and bubbly you seem to be, couldn't be happier to subscribe to your channel :) All the best Nicole and thank you!

So inspiring! I've been stuck with language learning for a few years now but your video has given me heaps of ideas for starting again :-) I too would love a video on the SR tool. Thanks in advance!!

I am trying to get started using Obsidian and the way you show how you use it for different things is SO helpful and clear. Thank you for all your great videos, Nicole!

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Jessica! Happy to hear you're enjoying the videos. :) Thanks for the encouragement!

Another fantastic video, I particularly like your point that fluency doesn't have to be the end goal for a language! I would definitely be interested in a video on the Spaced Repetition plugin as well! Patiently waiting for that Tracker video too!

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Jesse! I've stopped learning Swedish for now... just too many other things to learn! But I still enjoyed it while it lasted. Thanks for letting me know about those two plugins as well! :)

Wow! This is so much more than I had asked for! Thaaaaanks a ton! I have gone through the video once, and I am so impressed! The community teachers are the best option for someone from a developing country! The SR Plugin - I would LOVE a video on that I have used it, but it is slightly confusing for me. Thanks for showing your attempt at speaking at the end! I really appreciate it!

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you liked it, Jamal! :) I remember you asked for something like this. Thanks for letting me know about the Spaced Repetition plugin - I do think it's a bit confusing, but it can do a lot!

thank you again! I'm binging your videos :P I'm learning Japanese, Italian and Croatian. I started with Anki but I find exhausting to make flashcard. With your method I'm so happy! A lot of the language learning tube is sooo focus on aesthetics and not in making the process easier

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad to hear you're liking the videos! :D I totally agree with you that Anki is a little more fiddly than I would like (and I have used it for years). The best tool/method is the one you'd actually use!

Having recently switched to Obsidian I find your videos very helpful. Great work!

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Hey, thank you, Anton! Glad to help. :)

Nicole, thank you for your WONDERFUL videos! I have learned so much from them :) I think a video on only the Spaced Repetition plugin and how to set it up from scratch would be great.

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Diana! I've added your +1 to that! Thanks heaps for letting me know!!

Åhå! Hej från Umeå! (Norrland/norra Sverige) Så oväntat och trevligt att se en av mina favorit Obsidian KZreadrs ta sig ann svenska! Tack för dina videor och allt du delar med dig av! De hjälper mig verkligen på min egna resa med Obsidian och att försöka reda ut mitt liv med visuellt tänkande och antecknande. ^__^

@oz_jones

Жыл бұрын

Det är... konstig att jag kan förstora dig även jag har inte läste svenskt för över... tjugo år. Hälsingar från Finland. (Också, jag nästan skrivde i Tyskt. (Sorry for any errors, like I said, it has been over 20 years since I studied Swedish)

Hi Nicole, I find your video very helpful and useful. I'd like to see more detailed explanation about spaced repetition if possible. Thanks for the effort for putting this helpful video.

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Chang!! I fell off the language learning train again over the holidays, but I do plan to start back up soon so I'll definitely be using Spaced Repetition again! Thanks for the feedback!

Yes please to a deep dive video on the Spaced Repetition plugin.

Thank you ! Once again, a great video.

Great stuff as always and you are brave speaking a foreign language on camera! I am interested in more Obsidian spaced repetition . Thanks.

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Ryan! I'll add your +1 to the list! :)

Love this video, love your channel

This video is a gem, thank you Nicole!

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked this one! :)

I really liked this video because it combines two of my interests: languages and Obsidian.

Thanks for this. I love that my flashcards will be tied to notes I've taken from learning rather than a collection of words without any pretext. So cool that you got Mark Borg in Swedish. Did you order the Swedish edition of Drakar och Demoner (Dragonbane)?

Thank you for your precious tips! Dziękuję! 😊

This was an amazing video so functional!

I’m depth! Also thanks for making this video. I have been learning Japanese for a few years and I had a feeling that obsidian could be extremely helpful, but I couldn’t figure out how to use it for this use case! I ended up with a bunch of paper notebooks with random notes and I often ran into the problem “I know I learned this, but where the heck did I put my notes?”😅 I think your system is a great stepping stone for making a system that works for me in obsidian. 本当にありがとう😊

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Happy to hear that! I have not learned Japanese (I was born in Asia, so I'm learning European languages - go figure)! Nice to know I'm not the only language AND note-taking nerd. ;)

I would love to see you do a video dedicated to the spaced repetition plugin for Obsidian.

Hey, it's very useful video))) I would like to see more in-depth video about flash cads in obsidian

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Maybe I can move that video up!

Please make an as detailed as possible video on Spaced Repetition Flashcards. I have used RemNote but it feels like Obsidian would be a better investment than Remnote. Thank You!

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Added your vote to this video idea. Appreciate the suggestion!

Please do make a video on Spaced Repetition plug-in and how to set it up.. I really appreciate your videos and find them really helpful. Thank you so much!

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! I'll add your +1 to that idea. Glad you like my videos! :)

This was super helpful, thank you! And I'd love if you did a more in depth video on what plug ins you would recommend for language learners. I'm specifically checking out Obsidian for my language learning notes and feeling overwhelmed with learning a new program as well as new languages!

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

I can understand that! Maybe go a bit easy on yourself. Sounds like you're learning a lot of new things at the same time. :) However, the only real language-specific plugin I'm using in Obsidian is Spaced Repetition. I will add your vote to that idea, thank you!

@kristiharman2843

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolevdh thank you!

Another great video. I would love to see a video dedicated to the Spaced Repetition Plugin. You had yours setup with pre-defined time intervals but is it possible to set it up so that it uses the spaced repetition algorithm and with only two buttons (Correct, Wrong). Thanks!

Hi Nicole! Great content, and more importantly lovely "performance" and warm performer :) I am wondering, and unlike like (I am writer and translator), finding difficulties with learning every new app. Anyway, I am coping good with Obsidian so far, what's more -- I am willing to learn (and can't find at your online vault) more customization. I saw, on various of your videos: text that has border, I think it is not Call Out, nor stretched table -- what it could be? How to put border around the piece of text or heading? THANK YOU VERY MUCH, if you ever want to learn more on experimental cinema or learn new language from former Yugoslavia, me and my husband are there :) :) :)

Please do do that in depth look at spaced repetition! I need direction :)

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'll add your +1 to that idea. :)

Siiiimmm. Gostaria muito de um vídeo somente sobre o Obsidian Spaced Repetition. Eu também acho a interface do Anki pouco "amigável". Consegui personalizar algumas coisas, mas não tenho motivação para usá-lo com frequência. Obrigada pelo vídeo.

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Obrigada. :) Estou feliz que não seja só eu. Vou colocar a Obsidian Spaced Repetition na lista! :)

Love Pimsleur - they have them in 5 lesson increments on Audible.

Thanks for this video, are you modify anything in this year?

Olá, muito obrigado pelos vídeos sobre Obsidian. Sim, eu gostaria de ver um video sobre como usar o "spaced repetition plugin"! Cumprimentos.

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Olá Jay :) De nada e obrigada! Vou fazer esse video!

Hi Nicole. Thanks for yet another very informative video. Now, this weekend I am planning to hook Anki with obsidian but now you got me thinking. Could you elaborate a bit on the down side of Anki integration with obsidian?

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

I think it's slower and clunkier to integrate Anki. Honestly, I was never that big a fan of Anki, but there wasn't anything better. The interface isn't great. It's also about workflow. With spaced repetition, I take notes in Obsidian during a lesson, and all I have to do is add a tag for Spaced Repetition to parse the notes. With Anki, I'd have to take notes in Obsidian, open up Anki, wait for the sync to happen, then go back to Anki to actually use the flashcards. Just seems unnecessary.

@fullcholas

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolevdh makes sense. Thanks a lot

@user-ur7kn9vn5o

Жыл бұрын

@@fullcholas I find editing card during review in Obsidian is little more inconvenient than in Anki. You can't edit during review and you can't batch editing. Also, No again button makes difficult to review a card need relearning. But I agree with Nicole. Having tried both, I use anki for flashcards and #review for incremental writing.

I like how you set clear and specific goals. I am learning Japanese now just to learn it but having a concise goal would be useful. You seem to manage everything in Obsidian. Do you have different vaults for different roles in your life or just everything into the one vault?

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the goals really help me! Travel tends to be a good one for me, but other times I've also used TV shows or books as concrete goals. I do use Obsidian for everything! I have one main vault but I do have multiple others. Usually I separate them for privacy reasons (my work vaults have to be separate from personal ones) or to distinguish between what I've written and what others have written (I have a vault just for D&D game reference material, for example). It's easiest if you start with a single vault and create new ones if you feel the need.

@amokbel

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolevdh Thanks for the tip. I also have one vault for work and another for personal use. It feel like it works better that way.

Thank you so much. I love this plug in. I'm learning French, so I would love it if you could develop more ideas. I've used Memrise too, but I did for a year, and stopped. Is it working for you as a lifetime member?

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I like having it! I don't do it every day, but I'm okay with that. I go back to it every now and then and still find it incredibly useful.

I like how you organise your italki lessons taking advantage of Obsidian (scheduling, what you have learnt). Probably that's enough content for a video. Here are my tips for learning a foreign language in Obsidian: 1. I was constantly using Deepl, until I found out there's a Deepl plugin. 2. Obsidian Copilot (gpt3.5) + Storytelling. Prompt for a made up story and continue it. Probably the funniest way to practise a language

@Natalia-bi6pq

8 ай бұрын

So here is my Assisted Foreign Language Workflow , hope you find it useful. 1. Read novels and watch films, series etc. 2. Write down unfamiliar words 3. Look up their definition in Cambridge Dictionary, classify in the Obsidian vault and make an example sentence Deepl-assisted. 4. Storytelling ai-assisted, wether chatGPT or Obsidian copilot, prompting those words to use them and make them sink. 5. Record myself reading aloud that story and send it to Whisper for transcription to check pronunciation accuracy

yes I am using obsidian and anki - anki is super clunky hate the interface and sync between mobile is also clunky - thanks for the video Nicole!

hahaha bra jobbat! ;)

Muito interessante o plugin de Spaced Repetition

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Obrigada Leonardo! Talvez eu faça um vídeo mais detalhado sobre isso algum dia.

Thanks for the video. Please make a video about making a dictionary using Obsidian. By the way, where does the Language integration plugin's dictionary located? I want to edit the dictionary file.

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Hi Mohammad! Sorry, I don't create dictionaries - I prefer the flashcard approach to creating a dictionary for languages. However you could do this in Obsidian by creating a note for every word and then maybe using Dataview to display an alphabetical list. Good luck! The LanguageTool plugin lets you add custom words. Just like all plugins, its plugin settings are in the .obsidian/plugins folder.

@mohammadkamelan1047

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolevdh I found some json files in The Language Tool plugin folder. Do you know by any chance which file contains words so I can edit it?

Instead of language tool, nowadays I use LLM to parse my input texts into the format that the flashcard needs (add translation after :::, list the conjugations, etc). I wish that there's a handy tool to add audio for the flashcards; that's the only thing I find missing from spaced repetition. On Anki there's a plugin to generate TTS with one click. Any suggestions?

Sweet video - love your callouts - which plugin is that?

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

No plugin! It's a core Obsidian functionality, introduced recently: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hqWNs5KkcZTfcdI.html

Obsidian Spaced Repetition looks interesting… but as much as I love Obsidian I don’t think it’s going to be replacing Anki for me anytime soon because it doesn’t seem nearly as powerful. For example, I have my russian deck set up with russian word which I must relate to image and audio and viceversa (avoiding my native language all together, for more “immersion”, based on FluentForever’s tips), and I don’t think OSR is really intended to handle those use cases. That being said, I can see how it can be very useful, especially for these sort of fleeting reviews that don’t take as much time to setup! Also Obsidian Tracker looks very interesting, can’t wait for your deep dive on it :)

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Actually, It DOES work with image and audio and vice versa. I didn't need it for Swedish, but my Thai deck actually does contain images (for the alphabet) and audio files (since it's a tonal language). But if Anki is working for you, no need to fix what isn't broken! :) Thanks for the feedback on Tracker! I will definitely add your +1 to it.

@thealex23ro

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolevdh wow! I guess i’ll have to check it out more throughly.. thanks for the heads up!

Thanks

@nicolevdh

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Appreciate the support.

Cool. I keep thinking about having a bash at Japanese. I know lots of French but I can't do the accent, it always has a Brummy twang. At least with Japanese, I don't sound like a simpleton. 😀

tack sa mycket

Hello Nicole. Which service do you use/recommend to caption/transcribe video/audio?

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Hey! For KZread videos? I use Rev.com's human transcription. :)

Ah, Nicole, 20 days late for my birthday and you publish this video on the topic that I use Obsidian for the most... It's like you don't even know who I am! (I hope this made you laugh) Hej då!

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha! Sorry about that, I should have come with a better present! ;) Maybe next year! 🎁 (Btw belated happy birthday!!) I'm curious about how YOU use it for languages if you're doing anything differently!

@RobertKaucher

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolevdh My workflow is quite different. I use it for easily transferring my Kindle highlights to Anki. And I also use it for studying things in my target languages. For example I have this massive textbook on La divina commedia (Gilda Sbrilli) that I am going through and I am taking notes on the historical context of Dante's poem. Occasionally I may have a quote that I want to memorize from the poem, but generally I just let the language kind of wash over me. But the annotations I pay attention to and there are writing assignments that I do as well. I also have a large number of notes in Italian on the history of Italy from ~1960s to the present as a kind of cultural "second brain" so I can talk at least somewhat intelligently about things that would at least be in the living memory of most people's parents. And I also use it, and this is the most important thing, to manage and track my learning.

Ho! Vi estas samideanin'! Saluton! Dankon por Via filmeto!

Imponerande :)

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Tack så mycket ;)

Estas bone vidi Esperanton en via listo de lingvoj

Deep dives deep dives!

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Haha. Was this for Spaced Repetition? :)

@glennlangford7736

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolevdh +1 deep dives ::: mergulhos profundos ;)

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Haha, thanks for teaching me a word I hadn't learned yet! Muito obrigada :D

Anki is love. Anki is life. IMO it puts apps like duolingo to shame. The customization is insane. Don't write it off just because Nicole doesn't like it. It's the God of spaced repetition.

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely don't write anything off just because I don't like it! :) Many people swear by Anki. It's certainly functional. My concerns are aesthetic. I wouldn't compare Duolingo to Anki, since Duolingo doesn't do spaced repetition.