First of all, i'm very happy that i finish KO 1,2, although it was mentally exhausting on the beginning. Now i have the anki deck containing all the sentences(text not pictures) along with audio. Although i finish KO, i don't know much about particles or grammar rules, and was hoping someone could share a deck with me that would help me with grammar or particles. I will gladly share my deck with you.
After finishing RTK1 i immediately moved to KO while not knowing no grammar,vocab, or anything, now that i made a dorama deck i came upon something that really confuse me for example this sentence "今ないってことは 終わったってことよ" it's really easy to read but i don't understand it, or this "どうして　小学校の先生に なっちゃったの" i understand どうして　小学校の先生に part, but not "なっちゃったの"
I think i can read almost of the cards but just understand a few. I don't know if it was a mistake to move to KO without knowing anything.

なっちゃった　is なってしまった or なってしまいました I will let someone else explain the の part >_<

って　is っていう　or という

oh wow! now i realize i'm in more trouble than i thought, i don't understand anything. DAMN!!!!

Other people here suggested that I buy Dictionary of Basic JP Grammar and I did. Well, I can say that the book is great if grammar is what you're struggling with. Decks containing all the example sentences exist on Anki and those are what I am using to drill the meanings into my head.

Why not get a good textbook to work from? Japanese for Everyone covers quite a bit, and it's only $20. It also builds up on itself, so it's easier to remember the grammar you've learned.
There's also Tae Kim, which focuses only on grammar. As long as you're immersing, or continuing to review your KO sentences, you should be able to have the re-enforcement of the grammar you're learning.

I was thinking about "Understanding basic japanese grammar" but i'm tired of typing each sentence into anki, that's why i was hoping someone could share their deck with me.

There is a shared deck for "Understanding Basic Japanese Grammar," just search "UBJG," and it should be the only one listed. There is a little more to the book than just the sentences, but that book's philosophy is "learn by example" anyway.

Imho, trying to go through a bunch of sentences when you don't know any grammar is just going to be painful. A pure vocab list can work (especially for RTK finishers), although if you can't see them used in context you may end up not really getting the usage of them.

Start with a textbook which will teach vocab and grammar together, and only use stuff you're supposed to know in dialogues and example sentences. That'll get you a base from which you can approach more native sentences (ie stuff real people would say, not just simple textbook sentences).

zigmonty Wrote:Imho, trying to go through a bunch of sentences when you don't know any grammar is just going to be painful. A pure vocab list can work (especially for RTK finishers), although if you can't see them used in context you may end up not really getting the usage of them.

Start with a textbook which will teach vocab and grammar together, and only use stuff you're supposed to know in dialogues and example sentences. That'll get you a base from which you can approach more native sentences (ie stuff real people would say, not just simple textbook sentences).

Not sure if you were supporting or rejecting the use of UBJG (or maybe not referring to it at all?), but I agree completely with your second paragraph, which pretty much describes what UBJG is.

To the OP, seeing as you've gone through KO 1&2 already, I think the transition to UBJG would be easy. I personally like having a hard copy of the book, but I wouldn't say it's necessary. However, because the book is not a traditional textbook, it covers a lot of different grammar at a relatively quick pace. But since you brought the book up, you probably know all of this already from your research. Good luck!

That's the reason i wanted to SRS doramas, native dialogue, and yes very different from book sentences. So that's my next goal, start UBJG or some other grammar book. I may not know alot of grammar, but at least i know some readings to get me through most cards. I think that's what KO is all about anyways.