Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese)

RawToast Wrote:And back to the great resource you've provided It may be possible to use a regular expression to remove the roumaji or add a tab/comma so that it's moved to another field.

I threw together a web-browser-based display for APKG files because I wanted a closer look at this deck: http://fasiha.github.io/fuzzy-anki/

(It's "web-browser-based", not "web-based" since it's all client-side Javascript, you're not uploading an APKG file to anyone except yourself, so you could use this to view personal decks in APKG files.)

It'll actually detect this Core5000 deck and make some changes to it: it'll replace "[kana readings]" and put them in "span" HTML tags that can then be styled with CSS. I've temporarily chosen to just make them smaller. (If you upload the APKG file you downloaded from Ankiweb.net to the app, you'll see what I mean.) I'm working (on the side) at a regular expression to deal with the roumaji in a similar way (put it in span tags so people can choose to hide them entirely, or make them small, or surround them with brackets, whatever) but it's a bit complicated because you have multiple words, e.g.,

Quote:人 hito n. person, people, human being
若い wakai i-adj. young

and sometimes there are multiple roumaji separated by commas before the part-of-speech tag. I'll work something out. The changes the app makes can't yet be exported as a modified APKG file (the tool is about twelve hours old), but I will probably add that. Also useful might be a manual, non-programmatic way to edit the contents one-at-a-time like in Anki's horrible browser, that might come later too.

But all that is boring technical preface to this: I like this deck! I fully appreciate the shortcomings of frequency-based approaches, thanks to erlog, who said back in 2009,

erlog Wrote:A kanji's frequency of appearing has little do with how important it is for understanding. In fact, you could make the case that frequency and importance have an inverse relationship. The less frequent kanji are probably more important because they are only used when they are necessary. The same goes for words.
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How important is the word Monday in this sentence: Monday, my father died. -or- Yesterday, I started choking while eating an apple.

Those mundane words are the most common like Monday, my, father, apple, and eating. The less common words are where the true meaning of the sentence lies.

But nonetheless, this is useful for me. The sentences are funny

Quote:ケーキとかチョコレートばかり 食たべるから、 君きみは 太ふとるんだ。 You gain weight, because you always eat cake and chocolate.