I just made a deck with subs2srs using a drama I've been watching, GTO. I'm still in the beginning stages of learning Japanese. I've got abut 700 kanji under my belt, and a very basic set of Japanese vocabulary. Most of what I see and hear I do not understand. However, I always read about people saying how important it is to actively read and listen as much as you can. Is there some way that I could set up Anki to just show me the cards made by subs2srs but not ask for again, hard, easy, very easy? I just want to read the cards, look at the translations and pick up whatever I can, but since I'm still building basic vocabulary and kanji, it's not worth trying to understand whole sentence from the drama.

What I do is score cards that are too difficult as `easy`

I want long intervals for cards that are too difficult. When the card shows up in a few months again I may be able to understand it by then. If I do understand it then I fail the card to reset the interval.


Edit: to answer your question directly I doubt it but you should be asking that in the anki forum.
You will probably have to import your subs2srs decks into something other than anki to do what you desire

That's a good alternative way of going through the deck. One guide I was reading was saying to add any word you don't know to a vocab card, and they acknowledged the fact that if you're a beginner that's going to be pretty much everything you see. Apparently the writer of that guide thought that was a reasonable way to study. I think that's too overwhelming and my focus should be on key vocabulary rather than everything I don't understand.

I think I'll just use your suggestion. Anki is my favorite and it's what I'm most used to.

Its probably worth starting with easier material, and then graduating up to "regular" material once you become more familiar with the process.
Also keep in mind that its important to try to keep your cards i+1. This means that any particular card should only have 1 piece of information that you don't know. If you are having trouble understanding a particular sentence altogether, then you probably shouldn't be SRSing it yet. Also don't feel like you have to learn everything all at once. If you make a ton of cards from a tv show, just go through them and pick out the ones that you CAN understand. Even if you only pick out 5 cards from a full episode on your first pass through, that's some progress. Go back through later on, and maybe you can pick out 10 more. Then next time, maybe you can understand 20 of them.

If you would like something simpler to start from, you might want to check out the decks I made for Erin's challenge, which is a drama designed for teaching Japanese: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...4#pid61624
(link to the website where you can watch it is the first post in the thread)

When I added the cards to anki for studying, I deleted over half of them, mainly because I had trouble understanding pronunciation on a lot of them. That's ok though. Don't focus on what you can't do, just focus on what you CAN do.

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That's a nice deck Zarxrax, looking at getting into Subs2SRS soon and Erin's challenge is a nice beginner resource

I wonder if anyone has done a similar deck with the skits from "Lets Learn Basic Japanese"? Even if there isn't a deck you should try watching the skits Zatarra. As it's designed as a beginner course the language is pretty simple. All of the episodes are on Youtube to watch.

Yeah as with Zarxrax said, only work on cards that you mostly understand. You can easily do this with the morphology plugin. It will keep track of the bits you have mature and then you can sort by what you don't know.

When I'm looking to learn new words, I filter by "k+n:1" and sort by the unknowns field. Then well, I look for a new word to learn—mark the word I'm learning and make whatever notes I need to know if I read it correctly—and reposition those cards to the front of the due list.

You can also work both Core2K and subs2srs sentences to give you some base vocab along with some variety.

I read a little bit about the morphology plugin. That's going to take some time to figure out. I'm trying to decide how to most efficiently go about my studying. I've been doing the same thing for a while now and I want to bring it up to another level.

One thing I saw some people do is they have just one one massive deck for everything they study, whether it be entire sentences from subs2srs or single vocab cards. I don't understand how they do this, but I can see how it may be beneficial.

I'm having some trouble wasting my time with repeated material. I run across the same words between my Genki 1 deck and my Core2K deck. I don't know if I should just delete the duplicates from one deck or what.

I want to make a deck to start drilling verb conjugation since I just started with the -te forms of verbs, which is making my head spin. I haven't really taken the time to distinguish ru verbs from u verbs. I guess that should be on all my anki cards too.

I'm slowly taking a look at all the resources that everybody's posted on this thread already. I'll get back to you on it when I've had enough time to look.

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zatarra Wrote:I'm having some trouble wasting my time with repeated material. I run across the same words between my Genki 1 deck and my Core2K deck. I don't know if I should just delete the duplicates from one deck or what.

I had the same issue with a Genki and Core2K deck. I ended up removing both decks and using the Japanese CorePlus deck (has about 25k cards.) This deck has a Core2K index and Genki chapter tags, so you do both from one deck. One way is to pull the the Genki cards from this deck into a separate Genki deck so you avoid overlap.

Damn, that CorePlus deck is massive. I like it though. This would solve my problems with repeat cards. How could I get the study data from my previous Core2K deck to be used in the CorePlus Deck?

I was using this thread as a rough guide to merging my decks:
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid167981
But this is becoming too big of an ordeal. I'm considering just deleting my old decks and starting anew with the CorePlus deck. I'll have to deal with seeing really easy cards over and over again for a while but it should work itself out after a while, right?

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You can try exporting it to excel and importing into another deck, but I ended up starting again and doing 50 new cards a day for a short period and setting the "easy" button to a higher initial value.

I decided to keep my Genki deck separate. I like it because it has sibling cards. I was trying to merge the two together but it turned out to be more trouble than it's worth. The CorePlus deck looks good, but I think I'm going to stick with what I have.