I think most people recommend after Core6k, especially if you have the grammar and in your case since you've passed N2, to just start reading. Keep vocab lists if you want, but read and read and pull vocab from real-life things. It's likely since you've passed N2 that you'll know the majority of the core6k vocab.

nohika wrote:

I think most people recommend after Core6k, especially if you have the grammar and in your case since you've passed N2, to just start reading.

Double quote... my bad.

Yeah I am planning on starting to read novels/newspapers once I am done, but I still like to sit down and review with Anki. It has become like an addiction to me.

Well, assuming the tags are correct, there are 560 words at N5, another 500 at N4. There are 2700 words that cover N3 and N2. That leaves about 2300 words that are at the N1 level.

Now, whether this is enough to pass N1 depends on your viewpoint. My opinion is, one is not just studying these vocabulary lists while learning. You're reading manga, books, websites in addition to listening to songs and webcasts not to mention all the television you'll be watching. If you're doing this, I don't think you'll get a benefit from studying 8,000 words of which only a small percent will appear on any particular test.

Of those 8,000 words, many you'll have knowledge at first sight even without studying them just because kanji gives the answer away most of the time (annoying at the times it does not). On top of that, you get context to help further.

In the end, it might be enough to pass the N1, but it won't be enough to excel at the N1.

Alec_xvi wrote:

vix86 wrote:

Core10k + Kanji in Context

What is this magic you speak of?

Is Core 10K a deck of 10,000 cards, or 10,000 words in a number of cards, or 4000 cards/words that build upon the Core 6k deck?

Sounds interesting~!

The core10k was a deck that iKnow had been working on but later scrapped. Some people grabbed it before it was completely pulled from the web. I believe it lacks natural audio for the sentences. I recently included the Core10k cards into my deck but I realized there something weird with a alot of the cards and exported an excel sheet. I ran some searches and comparisions on the list and realized that a lot of the words in the deck were simply taking prior words in the Core2k+6k that were hiragana only and making them have kanji now. I stripped these cards out and simply kept the cards which were unique words. This left me with around 1200 cards vs the 4000 it should have added on. It could be I accidently grabbed an older version of the excel too, I don't know.

I've looked around and searched and have been unsuccessful in finding the thread where people ran comparisons between different combinations and proposed JLPT1 lists that existed. Its on this board somewhere though...I'm sure SOMEONE knows what I'm talking about.

If you want to keep reviewing with Anki, why not just make sentence cards or vocab cards based on what you read?

Most of the time I use http://jisho.org/ to get sentences. It has a lot of very simple ones, sometimes more simple than what I was looking for, and it has translations already as well.

I think core10k is pretty decent for N2 and N1. The question is, however, if you will really excel at N1, as Nukemarine said. I agree on this. Glancing through the old JLPT2 読解 of Kanzen Master, I saw many annotations like explaining what 光合成 was in a note below. I did not need this description as I knew this word already. I guess that is a good indication for what jettyke said to be true: you need a LOT of words!!