I started using anki's Japanese support to build my sentence decks. Only one problem.
It only displays the furigana when I click one of the buttons to get the answer. My Kanji reading ability is a bit crap and I'd rather have it display the furigana on the front of the card so I can actually read the sentence. Can someone help?

If you had furigana on the front, what would you actually be training? You would just... read sentences? How useless. The point of the furigana is to let you know if you read it correctly, you shouldn't use it to cheat.

EDIT: If you're a complete beginner and want to learn basic grammar etc before training readings (which is still a bad idea, learning the readings early is good), you could remove the kanji and write the words in hiragana instead. Another option is to simply not test yourself for readings, so even if you don't know how to read a compound, if you know what it means you still pass the card. Again, it's a bad idea, you need to learn readings eventually anyways.

I'm not using my sentence decks to study Kanji. I'm using it for vocab and grammar in context. I'm not a complete beginner, more like an intermediate stage. I would like the Kanji displayed however (with furigana). That alone will teach me readings incidentally.

This is what I do for RtK reviews
Settings > Deck properties > edit > card templates > question: add readings to question field

I would not recommend adding reading in the question field for sentences.

domokun1134 Wrote:I'm not using my sentence decks to study Kanji. I'm using it for vocab and grammar in context. I'm not a complete beginner, more like an intermediate stage. I would like the Kanji displayed however (with furigana). That alone will teach me readings incidentally.

No, it won't. You will be fed the readings every time you read a card, so you won't learn anything, you will learn as much as a kid learning maths from a book with all the problems already filled in by a teacher. A good rule of thumb is to test yourself on stuff you NEED to know when you're actually using Japanese. Real Japanese stuff not meant for kids does not include furigana. Since I doubt you want to read manga for kids all your life, you better keep the furigana off your cards so you learn to read Japanese proper. It's also better for your active memory, you will have an easier time remembering how to pronounce the words when you want to use them in a conversation.

You're using your deck for learning vocab. It's not learning vocab if you can't read it without furigana.

Tobberoth Wrote:No, it won't. You will be fed the readings every time you read a card, so you won't learn anything, you will learn as much as a kid learning maths from a book with all the problems already filled in by a teacher. A good rule of thumb is to test yourself on stuff you NEED to know when you're actually using Japanese. Real Japanese stuff not meant for kids does not include furigana. Since I doubt you want to read manga for kids all your life, you better keep the furigana off your cards so you learn to read Japanese proper. It's also better for your active memory, you will have an easier time remembering how to pronounce the words when you want to use them in a conversation.

I agree; life does not come with subtitles, or a selection of multiple choices. You either know it or you don't.

Tobberoth Wrote:

domokun1134 Wrote:That alone will teach me readings incidentally.

No, it won't. You will be fed the readings every time you read a card, so you won't learn anything,

Agreed. And I'm talking from experience. I learned NO readings from that method. I only started learning readings when I started studying without furigana.

I was actually studying specifically to learn readings at that point, though, so it throws a little bias on it.

My personal advice is to learn the vocab in context, and then learn the readings after. For that, having furigana on the front of the card is a good idea.

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domokun1134: did you not see the Anki message appearing when you create a new Anki topic?

This message now appears clearly after you Submit or Preview a new topic containing the word "anki". It is clearly displayed at the top of the page, and you have to click submit a second time in case you believe your Anki topic falls within the guidelines.

Please note that Anki has a dedicated forum at http://groups.google.com/group/ankisrs

All technical / troubleshooting Anki topics MUST be posted on Anki's own forums!

Topics about learning with Anki (eg: decks, review schedules and so on) are welcome in
the Learning resources forum.

Your question is clearly a technical one and not about learning with Anki. I will not tolerate people disregarding the forum guidelines.

Soon, such topics will be deleted without notice.

Oh crap. I really didn't see anything of the sort. It wasn't intentional disregard of the rules. もしわけありません。

However, this thread brought up some interesting points and I'd like to continue with it. I'll change my original topic and message if necessary.

Getting back to the topic at hand:

What about the fact that I'm only at 380 cards with RTK1 right now? Should I really be trying to learn the readings of Kanji I haven't even studied yet?