Hello everyone,

Im looking for Japanese to Japanese Sentence Decks (Ajatt) for studying. Im almost finished with Tanuki-Ultima (Anki Shared Deck) (6,900 sentences).

Does anyone have any reccomendations for good sentences? Japanese to Japanese is my goal (so I will delete the English meanings because Im trying to remove all english from my decks).

If you are almost finished with that deck maybe you should start reading native material instead or are you doing that already?.

totally. Assuming there's plenty of unique vocabulary in those sentences, you should know more than enough to learn from authentic materials now. If you're very concerned about specific learning something new, just try to read from a wide variety of sources (though you'll definitely be learning something no matter what you read).

Ok sounds good. I will make the leap. I have practiced FNN-News for a while and will switch to other things too. Just got addicted to the SRS Sentence addiction and was looking for other premade sources.

animehunter123 Wrote:Ok sounds good. I will make the leap. I have practiced FNN-News for a while and will switch to other things too. Just got addicted to the SRS Sentence addiction and was looking for other premade sources.

From experience, the best type of sentences are the ones collected from native sources. Premade does wonders in the beginning phases but you will notice, as you reach the more advanced levels that: the only real way to improve is to collect sentences/vocabulary from native sources. (Hand picked by yourself but lucky, thanks to the wonderful members on this forum. They have made things like rikaisama which can save vocabulary cards and you can easily import them into anki. Saving you a lot of time).

On a side note, I thought this was cool: I just did a search for the Tanuki-Ultima deck, which brought me right back to this board. animehunter123 was the second person to enthusiastically take on the deck, and now, just under a year later he's completed it. 6,900 sentences. Impressive. Plus it's interesting how these forum posts are like a time capsule for individual's learning progression.

Thanks guys! Yeah it took me about 1 year to finish it. (I was tempted to do core or ko decks, but this one was strictly j to j; which forced me to learn new words and also had the readings (not auto generated) so i learned a lot. The deck was awesome and had some sentences that made me laugh (like the ones with "がいこくじん") too :o)

Immersion is great. Hand picking sentences is good (but hard on my-hands carpel, which is why i try to avoid making cards manually. However it is the best way to learn at this point...

So what i do now is:
Installed Japanese Ubuntu or Fedora (i like Fedora14 or Ubuntu 9.10 the most because of Gnome2 support) operating system, and use the left click to copy and middle click to paste (its much easier on the hands versus windows ctrlcp). I also used a rewroten kjiten to auto lookup anything i highlight) so I leave it running in the corner.

This method is working great, plus gave me some fun trying out linux. Best of luck to everyone and remember to never give up!

not sure if rikaisama works on linux but if so you could save yourself some work by using it's auto-import feature as TA said earlier...

If you read novels on your comp at all either, Yomichan is super easy to use too.

Wow rikaisama is nice. How do i use it to import a highlighted sentence (instead of making vocab cards, i want to make sentence cards. Any ideas?

How do you import sentences or vocab with Rikaisama into .anki files? I couldnt find a youtube video or guide for this.

Sorry to bump this thread again, but does anyone know?

animehunter123 Wrote:Wow rikaisama is nice. How do i use it to import a highlighted sentence (instead of making vocab cards, i want to make sentence cards. Any ideas?

I think you can import sentences into your deck but there is an anki plugin that does that too. I'd use that if I were you. I forgot the name exactly as I tend to just add it manually(sentences)

Thanks for your feedback. I followed the instructions and learned how to make vocab cards.


However, I still am at a loss on how to import a sentence with rikaisama or other tool into a anki deck. I searched for other plugins but no luck . Does anyone know?

http://subs2srs.sourceforge.net/rikaisama/
Look at the Save Format under "Advanced Save Options"

Do you have your card template set up to match your Save Format?

Yes, I followed the instructions: (Pasting here to help other readers):


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First install the Anki shared plugin I wrote called "Real-Time Import" (from Anki’s main menu select File → Download → Shared Plugin and type "Real-Time Import" into the search box).
Open the Rikaisama options dialog and select the Clipboard & Save tab. There are 2 things that you need to setup:

Tags. These are the tags that you want to use for cards that will be added. You may leave this blank if you want.
Save format. This is the save format to use. Make sure that it matches the fields that you enter the in the Field names box (see next step).
Now open the Anki tab. In the Field names box, enter the names that correspond to the desired fields in your Anki deck. Make sure that it matches the save format (see previous step).
Open your Anki deck. The Real-Time Import plugin will automatically load itself.
Back in Firefox, highlight a word and press the "R" key. If you setup everything correctly, you should see the total number of cards in Anki’s title bar increase by one.
Note: In addition to the "R" key, you may also use the "T" key to send the kana version of the word to Anki (essentially, the $d token is replaced with the $r token).

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So,
This words fine for Vocabulary Cards saved in the anki deck as "Expression", however I want to import the entire sentence into the Expression, so that I can have a Sample sentences with that word.

Any way to import an entire sentence that you are reading instead of the highlighted word?

Never mind.

If you use the sentence mode (not anki deck) just press s, and make sure you add $s to the list, it will save the sentence in a tab delimited file. then double check this before importing manually into anki.

very awesome tool. now to see if I can get it to also insert the full hiragana reading of the whole sentence

Here are the instructions:


To use Rikaisama to import Sentences into PortableAnki1.2.8

1. Install Shared Plugin for Anki "Real-time Import" (Use Download menu)

2. Install Rikaisama Plugin for Firefox,via URL:
http://subs2srs.sourceforge.net/rikaisama/#ss_epwing

3. Open up Firefox, Open up Rikaisama Options

4. Goto tab "Clipboard & Save" and set:
Filename = /tmp/test.txt
Tags = NewsSentence Rikaisama
Save format = $s$t$d$t$r$t$n

5. Goto tab "Anki" and set:

Fieldnames =

Example Vocabularykanji Vocabgana Definition
(those are my fields in my anki deck)

6. Download your deck to Anki. Load it but leave it in the stopwatch mode. Look at the top of anki to see the total number of cards.

7. Open up firefox. Goto japanese page like http://www.yomiuri.co.jp

8. Find a simple sentence with about 1 word you don't know. Highlight this word via mouseover.

Press 'r' to import into anki. You should be able to see the total number now go up by one. You can search with anki for the Rikaisama tag and it should work.

Thats it! You can also use 's' to save it to a tab-delim text file if needed.

I've been looking all day for an automatic way to add sentences to Anki in Japanese AND other languages, and this post is the closest I got to it. Only one thing is left...
Is it possible to use the Sentence Mode *only* for other languages ? Say I don't need to translate the word, just copy a sentence and add it to Anki. What do you think ? (the thread is a year old, I know, but any help is appreciated)