Vocabulary - Core Anime Deck

Please, read the description before using the deck The goal of the deck is to teach the most frequent words used in anime, using only anime examples. I picked the most top rated, beloved shows (based on MyAnimeList) to teach you japanese, one word at a time. Each sentence only uses words you've seen before and each grammar point is explained before you see it. It can be used by beginners as soon as you know hiragna and katakana. This is the deck to use if you want to immerse in anime as soon as possible, because it follows a frequency list based on anime. However, if you want to learn grammar and vocab in order to pass the JLPT test, visit or work in japan, this is not the right deck. This spreadsheet will show you how much you'll understand for hundreds of anime by the end of the deck. If you've never used Anki before, you should check out my tutorial to set up Anki. It's still a work in progress, more cards will be added THE DECK The 2 most recommended decks are usually the core2K decks and the Tango decks. I hope this will improve on them, or at least give a valuable third option. Frequency List The core 2K uses a frequency list based on newspapers. The tango decks follow more or less the JLPT levels (there is no offcial list for JLPT). This deck will teach you the most frequent words used in anime instead. I used 2 different list to make sure the words are frequent but also present in various anime regardless of genre. You can see the list of anime selected for the frequency here. In the deck, both numbers are present: the first is the rank of how frequent the word is, the second is in how many anime the words appears (from all the anime in the list above). I didn't include words that appeared in less that 50% of the shows. +1 Order Like the tango deck, each card will only teach you one new word at a time. This will make sure no new sentence is too hard. Grammar lessons Unlike the tango decks, this one also teaches you grammar. A new grammar point will be explained in a grammar card before it's being used in the sentence in the vocabulary card. The grammar cards are based on my grammar deck, and you'll find 3 examples for each highlighting the grammar with explanations from various textbooks, including Genki, Bunpro ... The grammar cards use a different note type than the vocabulary ones, so if you don't want any, you can suspend/delete all the cards at once in the browser. Good audio Each card is taken from an anime, so it has native audio. I picked cards where the audio was clear to make sure you could easily understand the sentence. Useful screenshots If you tried the core decks you know the pictures were pretty random. The tango decks don't have any. Here, I picked cards where the picture should actually help you remember the word. It's not always the case though, and priority was given to the sentence and audio. Cards Selection I manually picked every single card to check all the above factors. I only used my own decks. 100 decks were created so I could use examples from all of them for this deck. The selection was based on the top rated, most favourited shows on MyAnimeList, with the addition or easy beginners shows to watch. Among those I usually picked examples from the firsts episodes to avoid major spoilers. Definitions The definition for the new word were added with the Migaku addon. In the back card, the website ichi.moe is embedded and will give definitions for each word in the sentence. HOW TO USE The deck and cards are based on my own preferences. But it is Anki, and you can modify anything you want from the deck. Modify the card template Don't hesitate to edit the card and modify the card style according to your preferences. If you don't want to have the screenshot on the front, simply delete the {{Screenshot}} on the front card template, or if you don't want the Morph on the front, delete . The "Audio_Extra" is designed to add sound for only the new word if you want to. The code is pretty simple, so if you're not sure about how card templates work, just check the Anki manual, or contact me, I'll help you. The subdecks I divided the deck in 3 parts for visual presentation only. To mix reviews, you can move all the cards into the same deck. - The introduction are "lessons cards" to explain how the japanese language works: writing systems, sentence order. You can delete or suspend those cards once you read it. - The basics will introduce you to the basic grammar you need to get understand any sentence. Sentences will be very short as you barely know any vocab or grammar. - The third deck still introduces new grammar point via grammar cards, but the focus is now on vocabulary with longer sentences. Feel free to delete the introduction once read and put all the cards into one deck, without subdecks. The order of the cards won't change. The deck includes a Kanji dictionary pop-up (Anki V 2.1.35 only) Click on any kanji in the card to display the informations. You can edit which info you'd like or not in the card style, as seen on the gif from this page. You need to download my kanji deck to have the stroke order animated gifs. If you want to display / hide the sound button on the card, follow the same method. If you want to change the size of the pictures, just change the zoom % in the template. NOTES Duplicates The frequency list was created with Morphman and Mecab. I followed the logic that the user wanted to analyze his progress with Morphman by the end of the deck. So you can delete, suspend some cards that don't seem useful. You can always suspend them and tag them as Already known for Morphman. - Some cards will teach a same word written in different form. Ex: 本当, ほんと, ホント. - A lot of interjection. Ex: おっ, くっ ... - In some cases, I made 2 cards for one new word to cover different meanings. Ex: 聞く (listen), 聞く (ask). - Some words were not analyzed by Mecab so I created specific card: なんだ, なんで, 気をつける ... Don't modify with Morphman The cards are already in a +1 order. In the Morphman's setting uncheck the box for modify. When analyzing the deck, use the "Expression" field and not "Morph". The deck was also designed for that. Translation IMPORTANT: the english sentence is not a direct translation of the japanese sentence. It's simply the english subtitle used at that moment. HISTORY V2 - 11/08/2021 - Note type modified - Vocabulary cards added V1 - 11/03/2021 - Release OTHER DECKS - Study : Kanji, Grammar, Vocabulary - Reading: Manga (Yotsuba), Games (Pokemon, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest) - Listening : Anime, Pimsleur I've compiled all my resources in a website. You can find guides on how to study japanese, tutorials for Anki and Morphman, resources for learning with Anime, Manga and games, ordered by difficulty. If you have any issues or requests with deck, use the contact button, or you can reach me on Discord or reddit (Jo-Mako). Buy me a coffee