Linguistics

Using AwesomeTTS preprocessing rules to address Russian pronunciation problems associated with stress marks and the letter ё in Azure voices.

An exploratory analysis of lapses in my Russian Anki collection, examining card direction, parts of speech, and noun gender.

Diagnosing and improving difficult Anki vocabulary cards through better context, clearer prompts, and more varied exposure to the language.

Using regular expressions to remove syllabic stress marks from Russian text.

An explanation of Anki’s ease-hell problem and a direct SQLite approach to resetting low card ease factors.

Installing a custom Russian phonetic keyboard layout on macOS to make syllabic stress marks easier to type.

A Keyboard Maestro workflow that uses UDAR to add Russian stress marks to selected text in place.

Early experiments with Stanza for Russian part-of-speech tagging, morphological analysis, and named-entity recognition.

Installing and using UDAR to add syllabic stress marks to Russian text through grammatical analysis.

A brief look at word-frequency statistics and their relevance to prioritizing vocabulary in language learning.