Hey there fellow wannabe nihonjins! jk jk. :-p I am curious as to what Shared public decks you recommend for downloading in Anki. I am mostly trying to find some subs2srs kinds of decks or just media decks in general that have audio.

I ask because I don't want to go through the hassle of creating these decks (I'm lazy).

However, there is no need to keep the suggestions focused on just media decks. Anything helps as this could be useful to other people as well.


Edit: Oh! And if you have a deck that you made and are willing to share that is not available through Anki don't hold back.

A lot of people here will just say the "RtK Heisig" deck which is the top downloaded one.

However I make my own cards and find it's more fun because you have to go in and edit all your stories in anyway.

The Tae Kim deck is also good

I like the Japanese surnames deck. I changed mine so that instead of romazation it will display hiragana and a Korean reading of the names though because it's easier for me to remember that way.

8550 Japanese Sentences is nice too, but it's a very random assortment of sentences. Some of them are very easy, and then some of them sound like something out of a politician's speech (Even in English it's something I wouldn't understand).

I also have a deck called 2500 kanji verbs (it has 2500 kanji and quizzes by on and kun readings) and another one that has nothing but yojijukugo (quizzes you on four letter compounds), but I don't know what their original names are or if they were from the download site.

@ocircle -- the 8555 Sentences deck, isn't that the one from the Dictionary of -level- Japanese Grammar? If so, the sentences are taken from the book which, while they could be considered random, are actually organized well if you have the book.


I'm curious, however, if anyone has any experience with the "JLPT Vocabulary for all levels" deck, with 8311 cards. I was thinking about zooming through it, deleting the cards I know and keeping those I don't. I wouldn't be too concerned with learning them very well, but more to practice readings than anything else.

I think it is that one the one I have.

I searched for JLPT4 and JLPT3 tagged cards and directly deleted them.
Then I made JLPT2 the higher priority tag, JLPT1 second and start reviewing.
I did know like 70% of JLPT2 cards, still found lots of useful stuff for me.
If your level is higher you may find JLPT2 too boring and better just delete it or too hard and maybe you even want to go through JLPT3.

Well that sounds good then. The English translation thing might not be the best ever, but for my purposes, it should do just fine then, I presume.

I was thinking about doing just what you did, as I believe I'm somewhere between 2 and 1 level. I think I probably know most of the JLPT2 cards as well. Why did you put JLPT2 higher priority than JLPT1 if you knew most of them already?

Great thread ＾＿＾
Any shared plugin recommendations would also be appreciated.

Asriel Wrote:Why did you put JLPT2 higher priority than JLPT1 if you knew most of them already?

The higher you go on JLPT, less frequent words you find. Or at least I guess it should be like that!
So to maximize my return (Japanese I can understand / time invested ) I put the easy stuff first. Very good feeling when I found those words on real material later
I also did quite a pruning of JLPT2 I_can_believe_how_this_got_to_JPLT2 easy words as I was going through.

I uploaded a corrected Anki deck that has at least a lot of the RTK 2 onyomi vocabulary with readings and definitions. I'm hoping to extend it to RTK 3 and the kunyomi over time. After I get the database together, I'd like to extract it so that it can be added to a setup more like this site for review. It's just a start.

If you do decide to use the RTK deck at the top, you might want to check out the variants first. Particularly the one near the bottom. It is the RTK deck but with this sites top two stories embedded in the deck so that you don't need an internet connection. Search for "community stories" and you'll find it.