Why
When I read English books, I logged new words and the sentences they came from in Notion, then reviewed them in Anki. The slow part was in between: making each card by hand.
How it works
The script takes words from my Notion vocabulary database and, for each one:
- gets the pronunciation and phonetics from the Merriam-Webster API;
- reads the example sentence aloud with Azure text-to-speech;
- creates an Anki card through AnkiConnect: the word and phonetics on the front, the original sentence, audio and meaning on the back.
Later
Four years later I built “read English, collect words, review them” again: Word Pebble.