I love this website: it actually allowed me to go through Heisig's book and retain what I learned from it.
When moving on to memorizing vocabulary, I used SRSes from the get go, but none of the ones I tried completely satisfied me. You either have to rely on pre-built decks, which are never going to be a perfect fit for what you want/need to learn at the time, or build your own. Most of the time, this means looking for a new word you encountered in a dictionary, then copy/paste or type word and definition in the front/back of a new flashcard; it is time consuming, boring and takes you out of your immersion in whatever you were reading.
I believe there's a better way to go about vocabulary deck creation: having the dictionary itself create the flashcards and add them to the SRS for you, so that it only takes a second after looking something up to add it for review.
Jdic.net, an offline Japanese-English dictionary for Windows and flashcardsreview.net, an online SRS modeled on this website, are the two tools I created to do just that.
After using them myself for about a month (I am attending a Japanese school right now, so I am adding a lot of new words every day) and being happy with the results, I am offering them for public use by the community. If you think they may be useful to you, please try them out and tell me what you think. I'd love to get some feedback.
To use:
1. Go to flashcardsreview.net and register an account.
![[Image: howto01.png]](http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3397/howto01.png)
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2. Download Jdic.net from aftnet.net (requires the .net Framework 4 to run, get it here if you don't have it), install and run it.
3. Go to File->Options and enter the username and password of your flashcardsreview.net account.
![[Image: howto03.png]](http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/403/howto03.png)
4. Search for a word (use Kanji or Hiragana/Katakana, the dictionary doesn't do romaji conversion) and click the plus button next to the definition you want to create a flashcard for.
![[Image: howto04.png]](http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/6444/howto04.png)
5. If you are connected to the internet, after a bit the status bar should read "No unsynced flashcards": this means the flashcard has been synced to the website. You can add flashcards even when offline: the dictionary caches them and syncs them the first time it can connect.
6. Login to flashcardsreview.net: the flashcard will have been added to your deck in the SRS and you should be prompted to review it.
![[Image: howto05.png]](http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/5553/howto05.png)
7. Keep up with your reviews: while it looks different, the site works in the same way as Reviewing the Kanji.
![[Image: howto06.png]](http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/2038/howto06.png)
![[Image: howto07.png]](http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/4408/howto07.png)
When moving on to memorizing vocabulary, I used SRSes from the get go, but none of the ones I tried completely satisfied me. You either have to rely on pre-built decks, which are never going to be a perfect fit for what you want/need to learn at the time, or build your own. Most of the time, this means looking for a new word you encountered in a dictionary, then copy/paste or type word and definition in the front/back of a new flashcard; it is time consuming, boring and takes you out of your immersion in whatever you were reading.
I believe there's a better way to go about vocabulary deck creation: having the dictionary itself create the flashcards and add them to the SRS for you, so that it only takes a second after looking something up to add it for review.
Jdic.net, an offline Japanese-English dictionary for Windows and flashcardsreview.net, an online SRS modeled on this website, are the two tools I created to do just that.
After using them myself for about a month (I am attending a Japanese school right now, so I am adding a lot of new words every day) and being happy with the results, I am offering them for public use by the community. If you think they may be useful to you, please try them out and tell me what you think. I'd love to get some feedback.
To use:
1. Go to flashcardsreview.net and register an account.
2. Download Jdic.net from aftnet.net (requires the .net Framework 4 to run, get it here if you don't have it), install and run it.
3. Go to File->Options and enter the username and password of your flashcardsreview.net account.
4. Search for a word (use Kanji or Hiragana/Katakana, the dictionary doesn't do romaji conversion) and click the plus button next to the definition you want to create a flashcard for.
5. If you are connected to the internet, after a bit the status bar should read "No unsynced flashcards": this means the flashcard has been synced to the website. You can add flashcards even when offline: the dictionary caches them and syncs them the first time it can connect.
6. Login to flashcardsreview.net: the flashcard will have been added to your deck in the SRS and you should be prompted to review it.
7. Keep up with your reviews: while it looks different, the site works in the same way as Reviewing the Kanji.
Edited: 2012-01-02, 4:43 am
