The ULTIMATE Sentence Mining Tutorial - How to make your own Anki cards

Hey language learners! Sentence mining the content you're watching is one of the *best* ways to learn new vocabulary. However, if you're not highly technical or a beginner who doesn't understand how the process works, sentence mining can be a bit intimidating!

How do you choose sentences? Do you need to use certain computer programs? Is there an easy way to collect vocabulary from the shows you're watching without ruining your flow?

The fact is, it doesn't have to be intimidating. Sentence mining can be as low or high-tech as you want it to be. In this ultimate sentence mining tutorial, Ben breaks down his method and will walk you through how to set up your very own sentence mining routine!

--Helpful Links
Kimchi reader
Migaku
Language Reactor
Iago
Refold Sentence Mining Note Type
ASB Player link
Yomitan
Vocabsieve
HyperTTS
AntiMicroX
Enjoyable (macOS)
xdotool
AutoHotKey
ScriptEditor

--Helpful Videos
How to set up Anki
Goldlist video
Secret Video Link

--Anki Add-ons
Anki Connect add-on 2055492159
HyperTTS add-on 111623432

--Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:28 Sentence mining basics
03:13 Ben's sentence mining recommendation
03:49 Anki setup
05:49 ASB Player setup
08:51 Vocabsieve vs Yomitan
09:15 Vocabsieve setup
12:38 Yomitan setup
18:10 Optional HyperTTS
22:37 Ben's controller setup
25:42 Conclusion
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[dharmabm]

If there was an award to recognize contributions to the language learning community at a fancy award ceremony ("The Krashies", "The Polys", "The Lexies"?), Ben would be the first awardee.

[duluc_j_]

I have been looking for a way to mine sentences, and finally I found a awesome way to do this, plus, with audio.

[oliviah.]

Dude! This is awesome! I didn't think I could do it, but with your guidance I made it happened. Thank you thank you!

[Sage-zsqy]

Thanks for gathering all this information in one place! Time to spend an hour fiddling with neat custom scripts instead of immersing 😅

[Mustu]

Thanks for all the valuable information in this video! It’s going to be super helpful for my language learning journey.
By the way, for shows without subtitles, a great trick is to use Subtitle Edit with its audio-to-text feature (Whisper) to generate subtitles. Then, you can load them into asbplayer to watch with subtitles seamlessly.

[timohomsar]

This is money in the bank. Amazing stuff. Thank you!!

[TheWishDragon]

Love this, thank you for sharing yomitan. I stopped immersion and sentence mining when vocabsieve started fighting me haha. I look forward to give it a go again. Thanks. ❤

[jeffreybarker]

Glad to see Refold make a video about another part of its process!

Also weird that no one has a made an all-in-one program or process and sold. I want what I’m seeing but don’t wanna go through all the hassle (cut-and-paste with no media for me it is!)

[peach]

This was super helpful!! Thank you so much!!

[GCSE_TUTOR]

Another totally amazing video. Thank You!

[Guestzr]

hey thanks a lot for that, I have successfully set up my German workflow!

I have 1 question though: Is there somewhere where I can learn more about this refold mining type note?

I would like to see how configurable it is, I tried to display more definitions by including glossary-brief but it doesnt look as nice, the separate definitions are not separated visually in the best way

[romangonzalez]

Wow, you're putting a lot of effort on the latest videos. Very useful.

[nesrine]

wow was just looking for a video about sentence mining

[carloshumbertocacaofiguero]

Estes le mejor tutorial Has revelado las mejores herramientas para la adquisión pasiva de idiomas. Muchas gracias por tan valioso video.

[GloryToGod]

This is super awesome. I need to try this soon. I've realized how time-consuming adding cards manually is. Also, I know this sounds like a crazy question, but is there anything like this for mobile? I do most of my immersion using my phone so I thought that would be pretty cool.

[pohlpiano]

For these kind of shortcut commands, apart from the game controller, you can also use mice and keyboards for gamers, which are often equipped with dedicated programmable keys.

[MattPain-hz]

I really appreciate these tech vids. Have helped me so much. Judging from the response to the tech videos I don’t think you have to worry about them being too complex.

Any chance of an mpvacious video? I recall you saying you used that in the past (and the delay in appending media to cards is noticeably smaller with mpv)

[danielsuarez-xb]

El video que estaba esperando buscaba esto en todo youtube y no encontraba nada

[ryancase]

Super helpful video!

A couple questions that came up for me. Will try and do some independent research later and will post the answers myself if I can come up with anything on my own. I'm using ASB Player + VocabSieve

1. Is there a way to move the sentence pronunciation to the front of the card?
2. If a sentence is spread out over multiple subtitles, what's the easiest way to capture the full sentence on one card?
3. Can you mark 'pass' for a card without revealing the other side of the card? I'd rather not see the English definition if I feel I have a strong understanding of the sentence already.

[JosueSanchezUpper]

how to resolve the bug between the audio and the asb player subtiltes?