Kana Anki decks
June 20, 2022 — Tatsumoto
These Anki deck teach hiragana and katakana. There's a Recognition deck and a Production deck. The Recognition deck teaches how to read kana, the Production deck teaches how to write kana from memory.
How Anki works
June 13, 2022 — Tatsumoto
Since in this guide we are going to use Anki to study our target language, let's talk about how it works.
JLPT Tango N1 Anki deck
April 10, 2022 — Tatsumoto
3000 Essential Vocabulary for the JLPT N1, also known as JLPT Tango N1, is a textbook to prepare for the JLPT N1. It contains ~2000 Japanese sentences and their English translations. The book includes vocabulary found commonly on the JLPT and often used in everyday life.
With the help of our chat members, we have created an Anki deck from sentences listed in the book and native audio that comes with it.
JLPT Tango N2 Anki deck
December 21, 2021 — Tatsumoto
2500 Essential Vocabulary for the JLPT N2, also known as JLPT Tango N2, is a textbook to prepare for the JLPT N2. It contains ~1,500 Japanese sentences and their English translations. The book includes vocabulary found commonly on the JLPT and often used in everyday life.
With the help of our chat members, we have created an Anki deck specifically for the JLPT Tango N2. We took sentences from the book, downloaded audio from the publisher's website and combined them to make this Anki deck.
Ankidrone Sentence Pack
September 07, 2021 — Tatsumoto
Ankidrone Sentence Pack is an Anki deck that contains over 44,000 Japanese sentence with native audio. This deck is not to be learned from back to back, its purpose is to aid you in finding example sentences for your targeted sentence cards.
How to review
July 13, 2021 — Tatsumoto
Though Anki is an excellent piece of software, you can learn languages more effectively if you tweak some settings and know how to review. Even if you're using Anki for something other than studying human languages, this article may still help you.
AJT Kanji Transition deck
February 25, 2021 — Tatsumoto
The most important part of learning Japanese with the AJATT method is to enjoy native content and be able to grow your understanding of the language entirely through immersion by picking up new words from the media you read, watch or listen to. To transition towards learning directly from Japanese media, first you need to level up your comprehension.
Ajatt-Tools Kanji Transition deck is an Anki Deck for newcomers to Japanese based on the JP1K method. If you want to learn the theory behind this deck, please read this article.
The deck is designed to teach how to recognize Kanji along with the most common 1000 words used in everyday conversations. Once you finish this deck, you should be able to understand enough Japanese to start learning directly from your immersion.
Prior knowledge of kana is required but there is no need to do any isolated kanji study.
If you have already learned basic vocabulary through a premade deck like Core or Tango and know more than 1000 words or have gone through isolated kanji study with a book like RTK, you are unlikely to benefit from the deck. However, if your vocabulary is below 1000 words, I recommend that you give the Kanji Transition deck a try.
The vocabulary used in the deck was taken from Ankidrone Starter Pack and consists of words commonly used in everyday life in Japan. Each sentence in the deck tries to introduce only one unknown word or structure. Each word along with each sentence has native audio and an English translation.
Our Immersion Learning Toolset
February 03, 2021 — Tatsumoto
At Ajatt Tools we're developing tools to help you connect with another language. We hope that they and other libre projects developed by the community will help you in your language learning journey.
Ankidrone Starter Pack
January 31, 2021 — Tatsumoto
After finishing kanji, kana and essential grammar the bulk of your AJATT journey will consist of learning vocabulary. As the first step in this process, it makes sense to go through a basic vocabulary deck containing the most frequent words in Japanese. As before, you are going to use Anki to do it.
Discussing various card templates
January 14, 2021 — Tatsumoto
Many learners agree that the most effective way to acquire Japanese is to combine the SRS with immersion. After finishing learning kana and kanji you're going to continue to use Anki in your study time to memorize vocabulary. When memorizing new vocabulary, there are various card templates you can choose from.
Card templates are differentiated by what you put on the front of the card.
There are two major card templates that people tend to use: sentence cards and word cards.
Both have their variations depending on what other information they contain.
This article covers recognition cards. Production cards are covered here.
Useful Anki add-ons for Japanese
December 30, 2020 — Tatsumoto
In this article I want to talk about Anki add-ons I recommend using when studying Japanese. Anki add-ons are small Python programs that extend or change functionality of Anki. To install an add-on open Anki, go to "Tools" > "Add-ons" > "Get add-ons" and paste the code of the add-on. To find the code you need to open the corresponding add-on page on AnkiWeb and scroll down to the "Download" section.
Setting up Anki
December 28, 2020 — Tatsumoto
Anki is a Spaced repetition system (SRS), a program which allows you to create, manage and review flashcards.
Many language learners find Anki useful to quickly memorize (front-load) core vocabulary of their target language (TL), as well as help them remember new material later.
One of the downsides of Anki is that it can be a little difficult to learn how to use. Depending on how you use it, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying or make using Anki a living hell for yourself. If you find yourself confused about how Anki works, it is recommended that you read the Anki manual. However, because it's highly detailed and technical, the bulk of this article will focus on explaining the most useful Anki settings to help you get things up and running as quickly as possible.
Learning kana in two days
December 07, 2020 — Tatsumoto
Learning kana is usually taken as one of the first steps to learn Japanese. As you know, Japanese has three different writing systems: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Hiragana and katakana are two phonetic writing systems, together they are referred to as "kana". Unlike kanji, kana characters don't represent unique meanings. All you need to do is to learn how they sound.