Core10k covers core6k + 4000 other words. Core also contains a lot of words I wouldn't count independently, for example negative forms, but whatever, let's count them as 4000 other words. This works the same way with core6k, which contains core2k + 4000 other words.

Anyhow, I didn't mean to refer to core10k. I was referring to the 10k sentence deck.

Last edited by Fadeway (2012 August 07, 11:43 pm)

Why is everyone so obsessed with core6k here?

I like to make my own deck because then I review what I've learned instead of seemingly arbitrarily chosen sentences...
That is the only way this process can actually be quite fun.

Last edited by Stian (2012 August 08, 4:00 am)

@Stian: core6k is a frequency-based deck. I guess that's all that needs to be said:P

I've started recognising words a lot more easily now, even if I haven't seen them for awhile. As well as this, I keep saying words that I'm not sure where the hell I even learned, but apparently know. My girlfriend was playing Phoenix Wright earlier, Detective Gumshoe popped up and I said instantly: 「けいじ」! Definitely don't know where I picked that one up.

I'm sure you'll think it's not exactly an amazing moment, but definitely very motivating for me!

Awesome! I am definitely going to play them in Japanese some time in the near future (once I've gotten through this textbook maybe). Have played the first 4 in English so that should help me out a bit in case I get stuck (and my gf is playing in English as... she doesn't know any Japanese lol).

That website looks useful, have bookmarked it for later use. I was looking around for a Phoenix Wright deck but that looks good too!

I love phoenix wright, played it a while back much before starting Japanese though.

RawrPk wrote:

OMG yay! Found the entrie script for the Phoenix Wright game in Japanese ^_^

http://m-space.jp/a/novel2.php?ID=harek … amp;view=1

I just found the English script too GameFAQs so I don't need to post it

You can also watch the movie if you know where to look. I found a copy with Japanese subs. Was decent.

After a few weeks of neglecting Japanese, I finally mustered up enough motivation to do something drastic. I deleted every single deck/card that I made. RTK 1 and 3, and 1,400+ sentences including all of Tae Kim.

It feels really good to start over actually. I felt like all those cards were weighing me down. I dreaded opening up Anki every day because I saw a lot of RTK reviews left unanswered (~1,200), and my sentence deck was rapidly approaching the same number of overdue cards. So my plan moving forward is this: go through RTK again, but slowly since I'm already familiar with all of the kanji anyway. I might end up nixing this step because keeping up with the traditional RTK deck seems time consuming and my time may be better spent working with actual Japanese. The second part is a J-J sentence deck, similar to the methods on Japanese Level Up. Definition branching is a lot tougher than I imagined. The amount of new words that I have to look up seems exponential, but it's a new challenge and I'm having fun doing it.

I'm also thinking about working on some sort of listening deck that has the audio from a JDrama/the news on the front and definitions (J-J) on the back. Has anyone else tried this format? Did it help with listening comprehension?

Added my 2000th anki sentence card a few days ago. I'm glad I didn't do something like Core6k... Adding sentences from stuff you care about is so much better than textbook sentences. (I haven't opened a Japanese textbook since September, and I started in July)

Tori-kun wrote:

@Stian: core6k is a frequency-based deck. I guess that's all that needs to be said:P

Sure, but why study a premade deck stuffed with boring, contextless, textbook sentences?

You will learn the most common words by, you know, immersion and stuff, and taking your sentences from websites, books, video games etc. (At least, you will learn the words commonly encountered by you -- and Anki was made for remembering stuff you learn, not to teach you stuff.)

Last edited by Stian (2012 December 06, 5:57 pm)

Silly as it sounds, last night while watching yet another silly Japanese quiz show my wife had on, I found myself actually BEATING the Japanese players on the kanji stroke order game. Not only did I know the damn things, but I knew how to write them in the correct order. Admittedly, I was 'playing' against a bunch of talents on a show designed to make them look silly, but I was still impressed with myself.

Read the opening to DoBJG and was blown away by it. I learned so many new things and got a clear & more detailed explanation to a lot of rules I already knew. I really don't know why I haven't done it before, its just 60 pages and no other resource covers these topics like that.

Now on to DoIJG...

I just got the guide book for 二ノ国 it is somewhat head to read but it helps me play the game and do the side quest. I am not going to lie it can get very overwhelming trying to read a guide book. Do you guys have any advice/ stories about reading you would like to share? Is anyone at the level you can read a guide book with ease?