Hello!
Is there an SRS Program for the Japanese Prefectures and famous Japanese Cities? To learn their location and stuff like that?
Thanks a lot!

-Mesqueeb

You can download a prefectures deck from the Anki site.

Thora Wrote:You can download a prefectures deck from the Anki site.

Oh, I didn't know that.
I actually created the cards myself. The format is:
Q: picture of Japan with the prefecture in question highlighted
A: name and pronunciation

Also, for every "region(?)" (地方) I created another card that asks for the list of prefectures it contains. But this part may not be the best way to do it, as there's slightly too much information on the cards.

Why thank you all for your lovely information!
Can I use your deck and see which I like best, NacEst?
Thanks a lot!

-Mesqueeb

nac_est Wrote:Oh, I didn't know that.
I actually created the cards myself. The format is:
Q: picture of Japan with the prefecture in question highlighted
A: name and pronunciation

Hey! This sounds good!
I would love to have that too!

Here it is: zip file. (Hokkaido is the only one missing, but it's easy and I couldn't bother adding it)
As I said it's very simple, but it does seem to work ^^
Next I'm going to learn the major cities, then maybe some other important geographical features. It's not totally useful to me right now, but it's fun. SRS FTW!

Thanks! I've been wanting to learn these for a while now.

Does anyone have a deck with all the wards of Tokyo? Or at least a good place to steal maps/pictures from? I defiantly need to start adding ward cards.

kitsu Wrote:Or at least a good place to steal maps/pictures from? I defiantly need to start adding ward cards.

Wikipedia. And it doesn't even count as stealing

The Anki list also quizzes prefectural capitals and has map images, but not regions (as I recall). [correction: it does include regions - thx cb4960] I want to thank the member who contributed it - it was useful for reading news. Wards will be too.

nac_est Wrote:Wikipedia. And it doesn't even count as stealing

Ha! Well that was obvious. If you follow the "special wards" link there are some nice graphics and links to additional information on each ward. I'll get started tonight!

Also worth looking at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/

I've been using that Anki list for the last couple of weeks (10 minutes every day). It is very well put together. BTW, it does quiz you on regions.

Also, a deck on Tokyo's wards sounds like it would be fun.

Does anyone know where I can find japanese map that contains all japanese Prefectures and their capital? I can find some romaji map. But it would be nice if it contains kanji and furigana only.

Yufina Wrote:Does anyone know where I can find japanese map that contains all japanese Prefectures and their capital? I can find some romaji map. But it would be nice if it contains kanji and furigana only.

Again, Wikipedia has something. It doesn't pinpoint exactly the position of the city, but it shows the "subregion" (how's it called?) that contains it. Here's an example for Akitashi. And here's a list of the cities.

EDIT: I didn't find a map of the whole Japan with the cities, though.

I'm up to about fifteen wards. I want to add some additional information about important neighborhoods, buildings, parks, etc. too. I'm not sure I like the card layout yet either, but it is hard to tell without doing a few reps.

Okay, rough draft is up! See Tokyo places at the bottom of the Japanese section:
http://ichi2.net/anki/wiki/PreMadeDecks#Japanese

I still haven't tried it out, so any sugestions would be great. I plan to add important places like Ikebukuro, Asakusa, 109, etc. I also intend on put Wikipedia links in all the cards.

kitsu Wrote:Okay, rough draft is up! See Tokyo places at the bottom of the Japanese section:
http://ichi2.net/anki/wiki/PreMadeDecks#Japanese

I still haven't tried it out, so any sugestions would be great. I plan to add important places like Ikebukuro, Asakusa, 109, etc. I also intend on put Wikipedia links in all the cards.

I like where this deck is going. Keep up the good work!

Great little game for remembering the location of the prefectures:

http://www.mapmsg.com/games/statetris/japan/

Kind of like tetris but you have to drop the prefectures in the right place on a map of japan.

Unfortuantely it's all in english so won't help you're kanji but makes a nice break from your studies.

Okay, that Tetris like game is great. Perfect if the names were in Japanese, but regardless, it was really helpful. heh...

I did it in 7:45 and it said I need more practice... I guess I need more anki

Ben_Nielson Wrote:... Perfect if the names were in Japanese ...

Not sure how well this is known, but there's a Japanese Flash game site called 709709.com that has a timed "Guess the Prefecture"-type game. It's here.

I'm not good at it though

atylmo Wrote:

Ben_Nielson Wrote:... Perfect if the names were in Japanese ...

Not sure how well this is known, but there's a Japanese Flash game site called 709709.com that has a timed "Guess the Prefecture"-type game. It's here.

I'm not good at it though

This one's great too! I did only 20 prefectures before the time was up, but I got them all correct (in normal mode). One point to SRS!
Ok it's time to open a tournament in both games

I found this really cool video a little bit ago that sings through all the prefectures and their capitals, compete with annoying yet catchy computerized voice!

It's also on NicoNico, if you have an account.

Maybe I can finally do better at that game now

I've added my own take on the Japanese prefecture Flash game.

http://www.paulheatondesign.co.uk/images...e_game.swf

This one has more of an emphasis on the kanji and attempts to teach, then test the kanji for each prefecture. Flash has it's limitations (I had to exclude the long ō sound, and you have to click in the text box each time to type in) but otherwise it's how I wanted it.

I actually studied japan geography 2 years ago but I feel that I'm forgetting some prefectures locations. Isn't there any deck with the name of the prefecture and a map indication its location?