Uhm, an anki plugin would be neat.

Well, I can't write computer programs. I'll find some other alternative. Anki will prevent you from adding a card that's the same as another right? I guess I'll just use that.

bandwidthjunkie wrote:

I've thought about this; if you were learning a language that (discounting contractions like I've, there're etc..) used exactly one character to separate words (ie " "), such as English, or any other language that uses the Roman alphabet then it is fairly stright forward to count the words you have learned quite accurately since you need no underlying knowledge of the language to count the distinct words in your SRS sentences.  Although this doesn't quite capture all the information because it is arguable that knowing "press" and "conference" doesn't automatically mean you know "press conference," so if "press conference appeared, then perhaps it should be treated as a word in it's own right, I suppose this is more personal opinion. However, determining word boundries in Japanese strikes me as a much more involved problem and one that would almost certainly require a knowledge of grammar and a comprehensive dictionary to approximate accurately.

Let's not forget all the words you know which aren't in your SRS.

bandwidthjunkie wrote:

I've thought about this; if you were learning a language that (discounting contractions like I've, there're etc..) used exactly one character to separate words (ie " "), such as English, or any other language that uses the Roman alphabet then it is fairly stright forward to count the words you have learned quite accurately since you need no underlying knowledge of the language to count the distinct words in your SRS sentences.  Although this doesn't quite capture all the information because it is arguable that knowing "press" and "conference" doesn't automatically mean you know "press conference," so if "press conference appeared, then perhaps it should be treated as a word in it's own right, I suppose this is more personal opinion. However, determining word boundries in Japanese strikes me as a much more involved problem and one that would almost certainly require a knowledge of grammar and a comprehensive dictionary to approximate accurately.

fortunately, strong people have done the hard work. see for example mecab or kakasi.

mafried wrote:

Actually I've thought about it some more, and there might be an even easier way.  I'll look into writing a plugin tonight or tomorrow.

I know this is a "just google it" sort of question, but I'm very short on time: does anyone have a machine readable list of vocab for the JLPT levels? (preferably the new ones, but both would be ideal).  If you're interested in the plugin, this would help it along.

http://www.thbz.org/kanjimots/jlpt.php3

mafried, i think the jlpt vocabulary shared anki deck is better. it has more words, and it doesn't include levels 3 and 4 in the level 2 file. also, it doesn't list a bunch of words in kana in level 4.

what are you trying to do? i can send you my python code used http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?pid=68590#p68590 if you want.

What I did to count the words in my SRS was export the content and then use the chasen parser to break down the sentences and then it was just a matter of counting the unique words in the result.

I wonder if it's a good thing to know how many words you know. It's easy to become afflicted by the "are we there yet?" syndrome: I only know 5000 words!? but I need at least 20'000 it's going to take me forever. *discouragement ensues*

This plugin would be super useful for me right now. It would be very convenient to know exactly how many words I know so that I can adjust (and hopefully reduce...) the number of words I need to learn for the JLPT in December.