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There isn't a deck with just those fields, but there are plenty of decks which have those fields among others. And you can set up your deck to only use those fields.
You'll have to download the right deck ("Core 2k/6k Optimized Japanese Vocabulary" is the exact name of the one I have, so download that one to be able to follow my explanation), and then make some changes:
1. open the deck, go to browse/current deck, click Cards...
2. among other things, you will see two boxes called Front Template and Back Template. These are the ones you'll need to edit. The two preview boxes on the right will show the results of your editing in real time.
3. First edit the Front Template: What you're looking at now is field names in double{} braces, in the middle of all that code. {{Vocabulary-Kanji}}, for instance. Find the first one, and whatever it is, replace it with {{Vocabulary-Kana}}. Get rid of all the other ones (delete them, leave everything else alone; the preview box should show your card starting to look the way you want it).
4. Now the Back Template. This is tricky, because it likely has a {{FrontSide}} thing, and a {{Sentence-Audio}} thing. Leave those alone, and replace the first thing in {{}} that's not one of those things, with {{Vocabulary-English}}. Get rid of all other field names, to make your second preview box look the way you want it.
In steps 3. and 4., you're editing html style markup in real time, to display the content you want. You can put any field in there, and it will show up in all your cards. It shouldn't be too difficult to get the hang of it and make your cards look exactly the way you want them. You can for instance just as easily switch the front and back template's content, to have the English vocab in the question and the Kana vocab in the answer.
5. Replace {{Sentence-Audio}} with {{Vocabulary-Audio}}
6. Download the audio files (there's a stickied thread called NukeMarine's something or other with the links), copy them to your Anki media directory, and you should be good to go (I've never actually tried using vocab audio, because I use sentences, but I think they work). Audio is important, the writing alone won't tell you how to pronounce the words correctly.
P.S. I told you how to do this, but I strongly advise against trying to memorize vocab on its own. You'd be better off using sentences. I also strongly advise against using Kana alone, you'd be better off using Furigana. You don't need to know Kanji to use Furigana. It's basically Kana, but with the Kanji left in there too, to provide some structural guidance.
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Wow dude... That was a really comprehensive guide! Thank you so much! Everything worked exactly as I needed it to! The only thing that i'm confused about now is the audio. I went and downloaded the vocabulary audio from that nukemarine thing you were talking about but i'm perplexed as how to add audio to the deck. I read about it and it said that you need to put your audio in the "Anki media folder" But I can't find the folder and i have no idea what that means. I think this might be because i'm on mac i'm not sure could you help me?
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~/Documents/Anki/<your_profile>/collection.media
Edited: 2014-05-01, 7:28 am