Hi everyone,

I've wondering if anyone uses Anki for helping to "internalize" grammar. For the last few months I've been using Anki for vocabulary and it's been great. (I downloaded a desk for minna no nihongo 1, my old text book, and have been adding in vocab for genki 2 as I go thru it in class).

My school is currently in break for class and I've realized that while my vocabulary has actually been growing, I feel that I've lost some of the grammar that I've learned. Whether that's just verb conjugations or sentence structures I don't know. But while I do lots of conversation exchange, and feel that my speaking and listening is either at the same level or growing, some of these finer points that I just learned are getting lost.

I'm wondering if there is some way to use Anki to keep this stuff fresh in my head.

Thanks a lot everyone.

Anki works great for grammar too. Check out the tae kim anki deck for a well done example.

Basically it just has the grammar point bolded and the answer contains a reference to the grammar section it is explained in more detail.

juniperpansy Wrote:Anki works great for grammar too. Check out the tae kim anki deck for a well done example.

Basically it just has the grammar point bolded and the answer contains a reference to the grammar section it is explained in more detail.

Could you link it? I've found only cloze-delete but something like what you said would be better for me thank you in advance

cophnia61 Wrote:Could you link it? I've found only cloze-delete but something like what you said would be better for me thank you in advance

That's the same deck I am using. Change the card template so that it shows "Sentence Answer" on the front of the card as opposed to "Sentence Cloze"

I believe that's what you want

I agree with juniperpansy, Anki does work great for grammar too.

There are some pre-made Anki Decks for studying grammar. I don't have any experience with the Tae Kim deck, but a while ago a user named uisukii spent an enormous amount of effort transcribing the Dictionary of Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Japanese Grammar into an Anki Deck.

Each note is focused around a key Japanese example sentence that uses a certain grammar point. It has fields for the English meaning, grammar concept, grammar concept hint, explanation of the grammar concept and more. I used a cloze-delete version, but there's also traditional sentence-meaning version if that suits you better.

I think its a really great resource. Since the information comes directly from the Dictionaries of Japanese Grammar (DoJG) series its very comprehensive and detailed. Working through the cloze-delete deck really helped me remember the grammar points and introduced some important grammar points that weren't covered in the textbooks I studied. Also as a side benefit, its become much easier and faster to use the DoJG since you're already familiar with the index.

If you already own a physical copy of DoJG I think the deck would be worth checking out.

Can you please post a link to the deck you use? I see a few "dictionary of japanese grammar" decks on ankiweb.

ariariari Wrote:Can you please post a link to the deck you use? I see a few "dictionary of japanese grammar" decks on ankiweb.

The one I mentioned should be here: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=10723

Thanks everyone! I tried a few decks but the one that has given me the biggest bang for my buck is "Japanese Verb Conjugations, Dictionary of Basic Jap. Grammar". I wound up deleting the others and am just focusing on this one.

I was shocked that so many simple verb conjugations I forgot and was getting wrong. It's amazing how helpful this deck has been in even just a short amount of time.

Thanks again.