By way of background, I'm in the middle of RTK1 (1300 or so), using RevTK, which works fine for me. I've also worked through all of Genki 1 and all of Human Japanese, so I have some understanding of grammar. Anyway, I downloaded Anki today just to try it, in anticipation of whatever next step I choose after RTK1. (I sure like what I've seen of Core 2000, for example.) Now I have several questions:

1. I accidentally downloaded the Core 2000 deck twice, and now it shows up twice in Anki. How can I delete the extra deck?

2. The Core2000 deck presents me with a whole sentence, and a word highlighted in bold. Which am I supposed to be testing myself on? The words are easy; the sentences obviously more involved.

3. Right now I seem to be getting "recognition" questions rather than "recall". I.e., I see Japanese text and I'm asked to translate it to English. Is that the default, or will I eventually see English-to-Japanese? I thought I read somewhere I could change this, but I'm not sure whether or how I should.

4. In addition, I read about the "Kore" deck here, but I couldn't find it on the download list in Anki. Is it called "Kore"?

5. I know this is a huge and rather vague question, but I'm curious: is it better to study sentences or individual vocab words? And are there decks geared toward one approach or the other? I gather both KO2001 and Core2000 take a sentence-oriented approach (and both look good, presenting the problem of which to pick); is there a deck that focuses solely on vocab?

Thanks in advance.

Not complete, but:

1) from the 'Decks' display click the More button, pick delete.
4) The Kore information you're looking for is cangy's delightful handiwork, and it's on the anki wiki. Pertinent thread is here.
5) There is some ongoing debate on this on many threads. It seems to vary based on personal preference, and for some, time. Many people started with sentences and have shifted to more vocabulary-only as their reading ability has improved that reviewing entire sentences is less necessary, et cetera. Try both! You can configure the Kore either way via fussing with the database in excel or something prior to importing it.

Thanks for your helpful reply. I successfully deleted the extra deck.

So can anyone answer questions 2 and 3 for me? I'm not sure whether the basic Core module is testing just a single word or word-for-word recall of the entire sentence. The multiple-choice "test" is limited to the word, but the entire sentence is presented repeatedly too. And: should I be going from English to Japanese, or vice-versa?

i have some noobs questions too, if anyone could answer please? i don't know how to manipulate the font in anki. i mean i paste the japanese but i can't make it bigger. cause there are some kanji that really need to be bigger. how do i change that?

settings>fonts and colors

thankxs zarxrax. another noob question, i added some fields to my cards. when i edit them i can input stuff into the new fields but when i review they dont show up. how do i make them show up?

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This is mostly for errtu:


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