language-learning on That Cyborg

Anki

blog@thatcyb.org (That Cyborg) — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:12:00 +0000

A free and open-source SRS application using flashcards.

Available here for many platforms - including web, mobile and desktop.

Spaced Repetition System

blog@thatcyb.org (That Cyborg) — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Spaced Repetition System or SRS as I’ll call it from now on is a system designed to help you learn stuff and improve your recall abilities using less reviews over a period of time.

How does it work?

Basically, when using SRS, the system tries to figure out when you are the most likely to forget a piece of information and then it tests you on that information before you forget it. This makes it better since you don’t neccessarily need to review something every day if you will forget it only in a week or more. Each time you review something, you need to grade your recall ability - which lets the SRS figure out how hard it was for you to recall and adjust the next interval accordingly.

Typing Vietnamese Using Simple Telex

blog@thatcyb.org (That Cyborg) — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I learned how to use Simple Telex to type Vietnamese, this page will document what I found.

It’s pretty simple to use, which we can learn from its name.

Vowels

As you already know if you’ve ever seen Vietnamese written, aside from the vowels we have in English - Vietnamese also has â ô ê ă ơ ư and y (which is like the y used in the Latin alphabet so we type it as usual).

Actually Learning Lanugages

blog@thatcyb.org (That Cyborg) — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve spent most of my life learning, at the start I didn’t really have any method and I just tried everything.

It all started with my interest in foreign scripts where I started to just learn scripts different to the ones I already knew and then it developed to wanting to learn more than just reading and writing in another script and learning how other languages work.

Throughout the years, I’ve developed a system that works for me (by combining stuff I found online) and I’d like to share it so people would stop using Duolingo and say “I’m learning Spanish”.