Hi All,

This is probably a total newb question, but it should be easy to address, so please bear with me...

I want to generate a deck that I test my writing production with, i.e. to be prompted with kana-only and then write I write the sentence out using kana+kanji. It seems that Anki is friendly towards testing things the other way around, namely I enter my Japanese sentence from some source, kanji and all, and then the reading is automatically generated. Is there a way to extract the reading prompt without the Kanji being present? Right now I enter the full sentence (with kanji), let it generate the reading answer, then I erase the prompt sentence and write it again with only kana. This is time consuming and I imagine there's gotta be a quick fix. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

k

I remember there being some function that did promote to disable the automatic readings for the given kanji for anki. For me personally what i do is that, i mix up my sentences. I do some kana-kanji production and kanji-kana reading practice all in the same deck. Because some kanji i can easily write due to be exposed to it. Simply sentences are easy now, but some are not so. So training that specific skill is good, b/c you want that to grow with you're readings and understandings of the language.

I agree with your comments about mixing it up -- I essentially do that by deciding whether or not to take the time to write the kanji from the kana prompt. If I see some hiragana I know is a very simple kanji compound (as far as my skill goes) then I simply don't take the time to write it down again. So, in this regard, I'd just like to find a quick way to input all these sentences in their normal form (kana and kanji) and then generate the prompt to display only kana.

BTW, I don't know if anyone else has done this sort of studying -- this community seems very focused on SRS exposure to reading and input only (a'la AJATT), but practicing writing in this method has cemented my knowledge of the kanji I've studied in this way very quickly. It's fun and you notice things about readings, or at least I have, that I didn't really notice in the passive reading I was doing before. On that note, I still do the standard passive SRS exposure to reading, for input practice, so I'm not trying to tout any kind of superiority here.

k

I am following the ajatt method. But i do my own things as well. I don't just follow khatz blindy. His thoughts about gaining fluency are helpfull. In the begnining of learning japanese i must say it helped alot. But being into like the 8 months of learning japanese. Meaning kanji for 3 months and rest for sentences deck,vocab deck,kanji decks,other deck,etc

I do agree with the kana-kanji. It helps greatly to be able to recognize the specific readings for that kanji. B/c once that's done, you'll be able to write that kanji out from memory, no problem! So that's why it's always good to mix it up. I'm at like 5700 sentences in my sentence deck. And i've only recently started doing kana-kanji, b/c i was worried my writing skills wouldn't grow in the language. Sure i can write any kanji easily(aside from those complicated ones). My readings and especially my understandings have grown to a level i didn't really think possible(i still don't understand everything i hear, but it's so much easier now then it was at the beginning)
Only drawback is that it's time-consuming to do kana-kanji, but it does work. So rest assured that you're writing will increase with this. And as along as you keep actively practicing writing, you'll definitely gain that skill in japanese.

Aha! In my googling about I found a post by none other than RtK's Tabberoth. Problem Solved.

Thanks!

http://groups.google.com/group/ankisrs/b...237dda4813

nice find.

kodorakun Wrote:http://groups.google.com/group/ankisrs/b...237dda4813

that's nice for new cards as you can then use the deck on any anki client

if you have a lot of existing cards and you only use ankiqt (the regular desktop anki) you could use the xxfurigana plugin

with the japanese language plugin that creates the furigana (this is what you are talking about right?), at least on my anki, when the reading is in the question field it only displays the hiragana. It displays Kanji plus furigana only when in the answer field.

what i did when i was doing both reading and production cards was make a new template with %(reading)s in the question field and then generate the new cards. If you only want to do production then you can either set Reading as and inactive tag, or delete the reading cards altogether and just stick with production. no need to make a whole new deck.