(2016-01-03, 8:27 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: Hi there everyone. So, I just started doing Core on Jan 1 and it's been pretty efficient so far. I'm going at a really fast pace since I've already finished Genki 2, so I'll probably get to 1k words today unless there isn't enough time. However, that brings me to an important question.
A couple of weeks ago, I made a thread asking whether I should do Core or if extensive reading alone was fine. But a lot of people recommended doing Core. Now that I've started, I want to keep going acquiring as much "essential" vocabulary as possible before getting into the stuff I'd like to read. But people told me that for anime and visual novels, which is what I want to be able to read asap, just doing core 2-3k and srsing vocabulary from these sources would be better.
Is there any good list/deck of high frenquency in anime/visual novels out there? Or is it possible to make one? I'd really like to learn more than these 2k-3k core words in advance, because I believe preparation pays off big time if done right. Finishing RTK allowed my vocabulary acquisition to blast off to an insane extent now that I don't have to worry about kanji shape. It would have been painful to stop everytime I learned a new word just to decipher kanji over and over again. The same applies to vocabulary - I'd rather lower that "extra work" as much as possible by doing it beforehand. That way, things will be more enjoyable once I get started.
Ps: I don't know if this is considered a "small question" because I'm usually prolix as it gets... sorry about that and please let me know if it would be better to post this back in the thread I made a while ago. Thanks.
SomeCallMeChris has a point that stating your goals of understanding "anime" and "VN" is vague due to the fact that they are just mediums, not genres. Those who are trying to tell you to use specific anime/VNs series is simply trying to state that genres are specific and you will find very specific set of vocab for these said genres. Even more specific in a particular series/franchise. Let me give you an example (not anime):
Star Wars and Star Trek. Both are science fiction, both involve space travel. But if you know anything about either one, despite having the same genre, these 2 franchises are completely different. Especially the vocabulary. This works the same for different mediums such as manga, anime, VNs, etc.
What you can do is use this tool, cb's Japanese Text Analysis Tool with the desired Japanese subtitle files (srt is common) and with the tool, it will create a txt file report word frequency, kanji frequency, Formula-based Readability, and User-based Readability Report. From there you can determine which vocab you want to make Anki cards for.
Hope this helps.