[piva00]

How have you been making these flashcards? Finnish word in front -> English word on the back?

I have used the technique from "Fluent Forever" [1] to create my flashcards using images, not only translations for learning Swedish the past years and it works surprisingly well. Much easier to fixated words when you have a more personal connection to it, finding the right image for them is part of the process and it's worked for me, personally.

Of course, using the language and having reasons to learn a specific word help even more. I've used my deck to learn words that I came across in newspapers, in government articles and so on, to expose myself to words outside of the daily conversation usage.

Another technique from "Fluent Forever" that I think helped me a lot was listening to minimal pairs to train my ears to the sound of Swedish and intuitively know how words sound when spoken.

[1] https://blog.fluent-forever.com/simple-word-flashcards/

[leke]

Thanks for the link.

It's been a while since I Used Anki, so my memory is a bit fuzzy. If I remember correctly I tried it with both text and images. I also remember using TinyCards, which had multiple choice and I had more success getting correct answers with that, because I didn't have to pull the word out of my head and remember how it sounded/looked. However, even though I could guess correctly, I still had problems with recall.