Free Afrikaans Anki deck
Free · CC BY-SA 4.0 · no account needed
- Cards
- 9,066
- Sub-decks
- 6 (Core → Marginal)
- Direction
- Afrikaans → English
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
What you get.
- 9,066 Afrikaans → English recognition cards, ready to import into Anki.
- Split into six sub-decks by blended word frequency — Core, Very Common, Common, Mid, Rare, Marginal — so you can study the highest-value words first.
- English glosses sourced from Afrikaans Wiktionary (via kaikki.org).
- Built from open data: Afrikaans Wikipedia (37.6M tokens) blended with OpenSubtitles, Zipf-averaged so spoken words aren't under-rated.
Cards per frequency band
From download to first review.
Install Anki
Get the free desktop app from apps.ankiweb.net (Windows, macOS, Linux). New to Anki? Our getting-started guide walks through it.
Import the deck
Download the .apkg below, then double-click it or choose File → Import in Anki. The six sub-decks appear under one parent deck.
Study Core first
Start with the Core sub-deck and work down. The most common words give the fastest jump in reading comprehension.
Turn a word list into fluency.
Good to know.
Yes — it's free to download and use under CC BY-SA 4.0. No account or payment required. Just download the .apkg and import it into Anki.
Download the .apkg file, then in Anki Desktop double-click it or choose File → Import and select the file. The six frequency sub-decks import under a single parent deck. See our Getting started with Anki guide if you're new to Anki.
9,066 Afrikaans → English recognition cards, split into six sub-decks by frequency band from Core (most common) to Marginal.
Word frequencies come from Afrikaans Wikipedia blended with OpenSubtitles (Zipf-averaged); English glosses come from Afrikaans Wiktionary via kaikki.org. It's all open data — see the reference data page for full provenance.
Read your way into Afrikaans.
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