Anki is very powerful, but indeed that makes it a bit complicated to start with.
However, once you get your note types created, which requires HTML notation, you mostly just have to create content. I mostly learned how to do that by downloading community decks and checking out how they did it, and combining the ideas myself.
I create all my cards using Libreoffice Calc and saving as a csv file, then importing to Anki. Each column of the csv has a corresponding field on the note type.
Sometimes I use Perl programs to generate huge csv files from source materials, automating most of the creation of decks, and I convinced my language tutor to give me example phrases in Excel format instead of Word to easily import on Anki.
I think one of the most used alternative to Anki is Mnemosine, you can check it out, maybe it fits you better.
However, once you get your note types created, which requires HTML notation, you mostly just have to create content. I mostly learned how to do that by downloading community decks and checking out how they did it, and combining the ideas myself.
I create all my cards using Libreoffice Calc and saving as a csv file, then importing to Anki. Each column of the csv has a corresponding field on the note type.
Sometimes I use Perl programs to generate huge csv files from source materials, automating most of the creation of decks, and I convinced my language tutor to give me example phrases in Excel format instead of Word to easily import on Anki.
I think one of the most used alternative to Anki is Mnemosine, you can check it out, maybe it fits you better.