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Hello,
I realized that the JLPT vocab sets that come with Anki are far from complete.
I don't have much time, so I don't want to enter ALL of the vocabs by myself into Anki.
I've searched for quite a while now and I found tons of JLPT vocab lists, but they all seem to be in a format that doesn't work for Anki.
Can anybody tell me where I can find what I'm looking for?
And if not for Anki is there another SRS that I could use ONLY for my JLPT vocab study (that comes with a complete list already?)
Thanks SO much in advance!
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There is an extra deck section of the official Anki site in the wiki area. It has a JLPT 4 deck and an all-levels deck. I'm not sure if the all-levels deck really includes the JLPT 1 list though since that seems a bit hard to come by.
Sorry I can't link you there directly but try googling for "anki extra decks" if you have trouble finding it.
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The word lists available online are generated based on edict readings, which are hopeless for active learning. Avoid word lists and enter stuff as you learn it - the actual learning of material should be taking a much bigger part of your time than the input, and it's a waste of time trying to learn words without seeing them in the context of sentences.
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@ chochajin
The JLPT decks in the "extra decks" section of the site are not the same as those that come pre-loaded with the Anki program. The JLPT all-levels deck should have several thousand words if I'm not mistaken.. (EDIT: 8737 "facts" to be precise)
Normally I think word lists are a waste of time too. But JLPT lists are my personal exceptions to the rule because the words seem so common and useful. However, I think somebody mentioned in another thread that the "Understanding Basic Japanese Grammar" book basically contains the JLPT 3 & 4 vocabulary in sentence-form so you might want to consider looking in to it.
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No, anki can't import xls. You're supposed to copy what you want to a txt file (UTF-8) and import that.
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The green goddess is full of example sentences, though they can be a bit stiff at times. At level 2-3, there are many good textbooks available that provide plenty of stuff to mine.
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Use Mycroft in Firefox and add the excite.co.jp dictionary (that's Kenkyusha), then add the Yahoo one (yahoo.co.jp) -- it has a lot of example sentences for words that kenkyusha doesn't have examples for. You can also add the one from goo.ne.co.jp (I think that's the url.) The one at goo uses Sanseido, but it lacks good example sentences. Still useful in a pinch.
Also, use the alc.co.jp one as well. It doesn't always have spot-on translations, so you have to use it with care, but it has tons and tons of examples to use. (I know some people don't like it, but if you're careful, it can be a very useful tool.)
If you can get your hands on Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten for the DS, or most Sharp denshi jishos, you can get the Genius 2 dictionaries, which also have a lot of example sentences in them. I know other makers use Genius 2 as well, but I don't know which ones. Genius 2 covers a lot of what Kenkyusha doesn't, and vice-versa.
Kodansha's Communicative Eng->JP dictionary has good examples, as does the Kodansha Furigana JP->EN EN->JP dictionary. (But not for more obscure words. Usually more for common words.)
If you want to focus just on 2級, then the UNICOM book for kanji/vocab is good (although the red plastic thing you use to hide the English translations and furigana is clever, but kind of weird.) ISBN: 978-4-89689-446-2. I got mine from Kinokunia NY. It's full of sentences and vocab. Great thing about ordering from Kinokunia NY-- they'll ship as many books as I can afford to me via UPS ground for $7. This is both a good and a bad thing, as it means I can buy way too many books.
I also just got 徹底分析 日本語能力試験 文字・語彙２級 in the mail today from Kinokunia NY as well-- I saw it mentioned in another thread, and checked it out on amazon.co.jp before buying it elsewhere. No, I don't feel bad, because amazon.co.jp's overseas shipping costs suck. (I'm stocking up on 2級 prep books.) That one has a ton of multiple choice drills.
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I'm also looking for a complete deck of JLPT2 and 1 vocabulary.
I downloaded one set a while back, but it only had 600 JLPT2 words.
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All of the lists on the internet that have English definitions are filled with many errors. The best one I've seen is the one offered by playsay, but it still has mistakes.
You might want to add definitions yourself as you encounter the words.
