(2015-12-15, 3:01 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: I guess I'll start hitting easy very often from the start then and perhaps suspend the no-brainers.
By the way, I have this 10k deck: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/953269262
It's a pretty neat looking version of core 10k. I guess it's a safe bet that the first 2k words are all part of core 2k, right?
By the way, you say doing core 2k is good enough for anime, but is that really enough to get started with visual novels? I thought I'd need at least 6k words to get by somewhat comfortably.
In that deck, anything with a core index of 2000 or lower is core 2k.
2k isn't enough for visual novels, but the question after 2k becomes "which words?". The core list was sourced from the frequency of newspapers and as such lacks a many of the words you'll encounter in visual novels but includes words you won't encounter. As you get higher into the core list, the overlap with words frequently found in anime and visual novels becomes less and less. If you are in a hurry to read visual novels, creating a more focused list makes a lot more sense to me.