Core 2k/6k Optimized Japanese Vocabulary with Sound Part 01

Great Deck! This deck had all the data(fields) I need.

Be aware that you need to adjust the note type to make it suit your style though.

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If someone wants to hide the furigana on the question you can do the following:

- Open the deck in browse
- Select all the cards in the deck
- Go to Notes -> Find and replace
- Fill the box as below:
Find: \[\w*\]
Replace with: (leave the field empty)
In: Sentence-Clozed
And make sure you have "Treat input as a regular expression" (last checkbox)

Then this will delete all the furigana on the question part

been using for the past 7 months. best one out there

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Love the deck, though you do need to change some bits! I edited the front and back templates to my liking, you can easily change more things if you want to but I feel like this should work for most people. I copied my script below so you can just copy-paste it into your deck and it should work!

For edits: (without image, furigana above kanji, translation of sentence to backside)

Front Template:

<span style="font-size: 28px; ">{{Vocabulary-English}}</span> <span style="font-size: 15px; color: #5555ff">{{Vocabulary-Pos}}</span><br> <br>

<span style="font-family: ＭＳ ゴシック; font-size: 32px; ">{{furigana:Sentence-Clozed}}</span>

<br>

{{Caution}}<br>


Back Template:

{{FrontSide}}

<hr id=answer>

{{Vocabulary-Audio}}{{Vocabulary-Furigana}}

<br><br>
<span style="font-family: ＭＳ ゴシック; ">{{furigana:Reading}}</span>
<br><br>

{{Sentence-Audio}}-- <span style="font-size: 10px">{{Notes}}</span>
--
<br><br>

<span style="font-size: 15px; ">{{Sentence-English}}</span>

This is not a good deck, it called itself "Optimized" but everything else about it is terrible. I have no idea why this has so many good reviews.

The furigana is immediately shown so we have to force ourselves not looking at it if we wanna learn the kanji, it also disrupts the reading cause the furigana is in the same line as the sentence for some reason, the translation is immediately shown at the bottom so we have to not look at it if we want to try translate ourselves first. And since this is a fill in the blank type of deck, the answers can be varied. Sometimes it feels like can be more than one correct answer, and I find myself memorizing which card wants which answer instead.

And then there's the images, one of them straight up had the answer (交番) in the image itself, how are we supposed to learn? It's also super suggestive, why? And they look annoying. I don't know who pick these images since the other 6k decks had it too. I'm sure it was picked these way cause it'll make it easier to remember or something, not the case for me. And since there's so many pictures the whole deck has to be separated into three now which sucks.

So in summary:
- Hate the card format (fill in the blank)
- Hate the sentence formatting (furigana)
- Hate the stock images (it's funny at first but gets annoying to look at after a while)
- Hate how I have to cover my screen if I want to try translating by myself
- Hate how it's split into three decks


Of course, I can just adjust the deck ourselves to my liking instead of complaining here, but why was it made in the most annoying way possible anyway? I might as well just get this from somewhere else where it's arranged in a more sensible way.

Anyway I'll stop complaining now, I know it's free and all, if you still want to use this deck, follow the instruction by the guy at the bottom. He has a good suggestion on what to do to make this deck series much better. Or you can just download another core deck.

Useful list for beginners

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Greate deck

Great

lol

epic

Very useful

Super useful. Going back to the basics after a while, this really helps me solidifying vocabulary I have missed or forgotten.

Also, if you are worried about some other reviewers saying that this is a bad deck complaining that the translation of "my daughter is turning nine" as わたしの娘明日九つになります。is wrong and should use 9歳. The つ counter is appropriate for ages up to 9 years old (and of course 九歳 or 九才 are valid). Which is a fact that I did not know and had to validate, so in a way, thanks for the comment. ;)

Very helpful

cram it in my brain しんでも

Really good and helpful

amazing and thorough

Good

A few things are weird and off about it but most of it is great!

The core 2K/6K deck is the best vocabulary deck to learn from, and this version has all the right fields such as example sentences and audio. The frequency order is better in terms of immediate use than a thematic order like in Genki or JLPT Tango (and as studies apparently suggest, better in terms of memorization because all words are very different). And it's a bit more general and extensive than V2K.

I made changes however, agreeing 100% with the commenter on 10/7/2019.

1. The "optimized" order makes no sense. The whole purpose of the core deck is the frequency order. I didn't do any prior kanji studying except for basic knowledge of radicals, and with the frequency order, I still found it easy to pick up kanji as I went.

2. The pictures are of questionable quality, particularly the more sexualized ones.

3. Recognition over production. Recognition is easier which builds momentum; is typically more useful in practice (depending on your use cases); provides more ambiguity for interpreting foreign words, rather than always associating an English meaning to just one foreign word; and favored for JLPT.

The cards' styling can be improved. The Javascript/CSS for how I style the deck is borrowed from here with things like Kanjax (https://github.com/dustinvtran/anki).

Seems nice

Very well organized and thoroughly and wisely ordered cards. The progressive order for used kanji is great to soften on-yomi readings immersion.

The downvote for inaccuracy (the reviewer says９つ should be 9歳) is not correct. It’s common usage and correct to say ９つ to mean “nine years old".

There are some really misleading ones in here.. Not two cards in, I got one saying "my daughter is turning nine" as わたしの娘明日九つになります。 This is just dead wrong, it should be 9歳

goddamn too good

Great

Thanks alot!

These three decks are absolutely beautiful, but I found that using them in their current state was a giant pain in the ass for me.

I hated the "optimized" ordering, since I think learning by frequency is the whole point of doing core2k/6k in the first place... I don't want to learn multiple-kanji words for office work before I learn how to say simple things like wind or sea or sky, you know? Also, I did Heisig before, so I don't really need to order them by kanji to ease me in, I just want to learn the most common words first.

Anyway, I found that these were really useless as production cards, because I started associating the words with the pictures, and very quickly there were too many possible Japanese answers for the English input, and it's hard to separate them by example sentence because the sentences often don't give you enough information.

I decided that since my goal is to get reading as soon as possible, I should turn these into recognition cards.

So TL;DR in my experience after a few months with these decks, this is the best way of using them if your goal is to read ASAP:
1. Merge the decks and sort by Core Index.
2. Take out all the pictures. You want to associate words with their definitions, not with pictures of girls looking at you suggestively.
3. Set the Kanji + example sentence + part of speech to be on the front, and pronunciation / English definition to be on the back.

After doing these three things, the decks have been a godsend for me, and recognizing words has become the strongest part of my Japanese study, as well as the easiest to learn.

Images help to learn the vocab and audio provides some useful listening practice as well!

very detailed and has about all you need

Nice

Thank you! It's a great deck.

This deck has everything you can wish for. Using keigo and tamego, male and female speech, the examples sentences are very diversified. The audio is professionally recorded and authentic.
If this wasn't free I would pay for it!

Awesome

This series of decks is great for pulling cards from as I've been studying through Minna no nihongo. Including the sound has been very helpful to my learning experience.

This deck is excellent. My only problem is that I have reached a point with very similar words and meanings-but no pictures. I hope the majority of what cards remain have pictures, as they have been very useful. Now that I am having to do without them study is much more difficult.

Very helpful deck, for each new word, include type(noun, verb, adj,...) kanji, meaning.
Especially example sentence and audio.

You could make things easier and link to the other decks.

Part 02 - https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1678635361
Part 03 - https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/764667979

Excellent deck!