Get started with the decks
Put your deck into Anki and study your first card. It takes about five minutes.
No deck yet? The A1 level is free on Ko-fi, and its English edition is also on AnkiWeb. A2 to C1 are in the Ko-fi shop.
First, get Anki
Download Anki for your computer (version 2.1.50 or newer), AnkiDroid for Android or AnkiMobile for iPhone, all from apps.ankiweb.net.
The steps below are almost the same in all three, so the pictures show one of them: Anki on a computer.
Anki and AnkiDroid are free. AnkiMobile is a paid app, and you do not need it if you can import the deck once on a computer or an Android phone: after that you can study in the browser on your iPhone for free.
Import your deck
The pictures show the A1 level as an example. Every level has the same five decks and the same card layout, so everything shown here applies to every level.
Open the file in Anki.
Double click the .apkg file, or choose File, then Import (on Windows and Linux, File is at the top of Anki's window). On a phone, tap the file and pick AnkiDroid, or share it to AnkiMobile.
Pick the file with the meanings you want.
EN has the meanings in English and AR in Arabic, and you only need one.
Leave the options as they are and click Import.
Nothing here needs changing for your first import.
Anki confirms the import.
For the A1 file that is 609 notes, one for each word card and each typing card. Every other level shows its own number.
Your five decks
Tarkib German holds your level, and your level holds five decks: words, verbs, verbs with a preposition, set phrases and fixed expressions. Under each one, Cloze holds its typing cards.
Study your first card
Click a deck, then Study Now.
Think of the meaning, click Show Answer to see the whole card and hear the German, then click how well you knew it.
Type the missing words on a typing card.
Type what fills the gap and click Check. Letters in the right place turn green, so you can fix the rest and check again.
How it works explains every part of a card.
On your phone
Sync between your devices
Click Sync in Anki and make a free AnkiWeb account. Then sign in with the same account on your other devices and sync there too. The cards arrive with their pictures and sound, and your progress follows you everywhere.
Study in the browser
Sign in at ankiweb.net with the same account and you can study on any device, an iPhone too, with the pictures and the sound. It needs an internet connection.
If something does not look right
I see no pictures or hear no sound
On a phone this almost always means the sync has not finished. Open Anki on the phone, press Sync again and wait. Media files come after the cards.
Anki says the cards are duplicates
That warning is only about the editing screen and it does not affect your studying. You can ignore it.
I imported the wrong language
Import the file of the language you want, and before you click Import, open Updates and set Update notes to Always. The meanings on your cards change and your reviews stay, but your own changes on those cards are replaced. Switching language explains why.