Japanese course based on Tae Kim's grammar guide & anime

I like it

Helps a lot for hearing. Some are cramped, but only a few.

Really helpful deck for everyone who is learning japanese from 1-10 months I assume. There is a lot of important and frequently usable grammar points and good amount of vocabulary to learn. This deck is definitely well done and personally for me it is very important chapter of learning japanese. I have done 85% of it, so I want to say thank you from very deep of my heart to creator of this deck, it helps a lot and I am sure there is a lot of people like me. Soon already going to complete this wonderful deck.

Nice deck!

This deck is absolutely amazing and helped me out a lot. Thank you very much for creating this!

Pretty good deck, but the a lot of the cards could use a bit of audio trimming at the end or beginning since they let the next/previous unrelated sentence start.

Thank you for you time to create THIS!!! <3

Good source of listening and grammar examples.

As an intermediate learner this is how I use this deck. I only do listening cards. If I understand the card I suspend it. If I get it wrong, there is a new word, or there is a rare grammar example I keep the card. I'm almost half way through the deck and the process of looking for 3 cards I dont know everyday is good learning exercise.

I changed the front to the kanji-unspaced version for better reading practice.

My main issue is that a lot of the cards have no context so they kind of impossible to have a correct meaning or translation. Also I wish there was separate field for just a precise translation, with no explanation.

Amazing deck! I can't update to the latest version. When I try to import the new deck file, anki asks if I want to use the deck with the jlab addon, and then when I click yes, an Apkg Converter window pops up. It says "Please set the required field names, then hit "convert" to convert the deck to the jlab format." The fields are: Japanese field, Translation field, Audio field and Image field. All of them with three options: - (selected), Front and Back. What do I have to do here?

Very useful.

Very good. Thanks.

Very good overall.Nice mix of examples from anime and live action shows.

Just finished the "Basic Grammar!" section. I've been picking up on sentences and noticing basic sentence structures in anime I watch. It's fun and it feels like I am making legitimate progress.

Tanoshimi da!

good

Precise, practical and intuitive.

I could'nt be more grateful with you for this deck.
Thank you.

Easy to follow and I enjoy learning this way.

Stellar job!

A very good deck for learning grammar and new words.

Best Anki deck for learning Japanese, as a beginner

great

This is fun

Absolutely the best deck I've used. 100% Recommend

Best japanese deck so far

Amazing!

The anime sounds and images really help because they add emotion to words making them easier to remember. And the structure is very good, because you get to see the same word in different contexts to understand the actual meaning better. It builds on top of what you're already expected to know and you get to try and figure out the meaning based on the image, the tone and the words you already know.

Amazing approach to grammar studying. I tried to get started with Genki and then reading Tae Kim's book directly, but this was so much more effective. The tips about learning approach are spot on. I've learned a lot about language learning and learning in general by going through this. Natural language learning changed my perspective completely and the way I'm studying.

I'm not following the deck exactly in the recommended way, since I started with reading following Tofugu's guide and was already quite invested into WaniKani when I started, but it still was an invaluable resource for me. Highly recommend it.

Wonderful course - easy to follow, noticeable progress, great work overall

What a amazing work! Thank you so much to give it to us!

Good so far

I Liked it very much!

Im recently finishing the third version of the course. I think is very good, almost each card have a new grammar or a new word.

Best anime themed Japanese deck I found.

Excellent and detailed.

This pack really did wonders to my studying. Fun and informative

very good. it help me a lot. thank you

Amazing! Thanks for the hard work

muito top

good for listening practice and helps supplement grammar

Only resource beginners need

Thank you so much for making this!

As someone who has struggled to learn Japanese for over a decade, this deck has been super helpful in rocketing me towards my goal. I appreciate all the info cards and the add-on. It's been super helpful in my language learning journey.

Very good deck. This really helped me!

Worth the time!!!

Just awesome deck. If you are starting your journey with Japanese, you must download it. Even if you don't like anime.

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Easy to use and good explanations

Really appreciate this deck so far (35 percent through Tae Kim's book according to the deck). Honestly don't think I have understood words so quickly before. Could be because I have seen these phrases in anime before. But the multi-sensory approach of this deck is great.

1. you read the phrase
2. hear the audio
3. see the anime (which may or may not help)
4. you get some grammar explanation, which is inspired or paraphrased from Tae Kim's guide.
I really enjoy this way of learning, thanks for helping me with my very slow progress in learning the Japanese language.

Also, I recommend replacing the romanji with hiragana if you know how to read it already. Just change it under Browse>Cards and switch to Jlab-Hiragana

What an amazing work, just wow.

This deck has been a huge help so far. Thank you so much for sharing it!

The best desk for start in japanese

*** Best. Language. Course. Ever!! *** I've studied a number of different languages, using a bunch of different techniques. Most courses and textbooks are pretty dry. This course is fantastic, for several reasons. First, it's based on Tae Kim's guide, which takes a "Japanese First" approach to grammar that is strictly better (IMO) than most textbooks. The course works best if you read Tae Kim along with it. (BTW, I only discovered Tae Kim because of this deck -- so thanks!) Second, you get to hear each phrase spoken by a wide variety of professional Japanese voice actors/actresses complete with over-the-top anime emotion. Third, it's anime! The phrases are colloquial, they include slang and rude words, and they aren't always grammatically correct, which is SO MUCH MORE FUN than any other language course that I have ever seen. Plus, you get to see your favorite characters and series pop up from time to time. A fantastic job, all round.

I'm a third of the way through this deck (or, as it's just informed me, the end of the second version of this deck). It's taken four months, half an hour or more a day. A very engaging introduction to the language, vocab and grammar. I've appreciated the author's encouragement in notes along the way. Like not worrying about not understanding some things straight away.

Hi

Good.

When I was about to start grinding Japanese vocabulary, I found the deck that had been recommended to me very dry and without enough context on the words it taught and the grammar of the sentences that accompanied it. This deck proved an outstanding complement to that one, teaching grammar in a way that is easy to understand and remember. I wouldn't have gotten this far without it.

There are only two problems with it: one, if you are not experienced with anki or don't use the add on, configuring the cards to show just what you want them to show may take a bit, and since many of the cards do not use the same card type this is a process you will have to repeat a handful of times. I didn't have much trouble with it, but I have some minimum experience with what code and formatting looks like, so other users who simply download decks and use them as they are may have problems with it. There are probably many anki formatting tutorials out there that could help them, though.

The second problem is that many cards felt redundant. This felt less troublesome in the grammar part of the deck, where they provided more examples of the rules they were teaching and their uses, but in the latter, vocabulary part of the deck I found myself suspending two cards out of three. I had a very low mistake rate using it as a listening deck, even while trying to recall the kanjis used, but I've been studying kanji (through RTK) for a while so the difficulty may be just right for someone else.

All in all, an outstanding deck that may take some finicking with to make it do what you want, but will prove an excellent asset for a beginner in Japanese.

Very enjoyable and well crafted deck.

I feel lucky having access to this for free. Thank you for your work!

I also like how the whole expirience is customizibale. I've already made some minor tweaks to the front of cards.

Eu não sei o que dizer, só sei que gostei bastante :)

It is based in a reliable font

thank u so much!

very nice indeed

I've been working with this deck at the same time as WaniKani because I didn't want to fall into the problem of only being able to see/read words in isolation. I am leaving this review because I just passed the 30% mark of this deck (thanks for the reminder, authour-san) and it's far exceeded my expectations.

A few reasons why this deck is worth your studying time.

1. It's set up logically so that no prior vocab is needed to study with it; you learn the vocab alongside the grammar.
2. You intuit nuances of common words （自分、今度、etc.） from real sentences that are usually not taught in detail by vocab decks, and would be hard to understand even if they were because Japanese is a contextual language.
3. The listening practice trains your ears to "catch up" with the speed of natively spoken Japanese, to know where one word ends and another begins, when you are listening to a clause, when the speaker slurs words and omits particles (which happens a lot in anime and dorama).
4. The use of remark cards by the deck authour (explanatory cards you read once and then suspend) is really helpful and not something I've ever seen other deck authours make use of. Nice inclusion!

Thanks again for the deck, I will definitely be finishing this one!

Incredibly useful for grammar

My japanese is currently not enough to say some gratitude, so please accept my ありがthanks! I can't imagine how much effort did you put in this wonderful deck!
すいません for bothering you my 親切なauthor, but I think there's a minor concern about between my Anki and your dec. The deck questionably imported 4238 cards to my Anki instead of 2163 cards. Do you have an idea why this happened? So far, the deck seems fine.

I'll update my comment if I encounter an important error.

~~~(UPDATE)~~~
ごめん… I just realized there are two sub-decks. The first deck which contains the 2163 for listening prac, while the other one has 2075 for reading prac. 4238 sum up.

~~Personal opinion / rating about the deck:
The audio + image + toggle furigana + grammar explanation + context explanation = SOLID ROCK!!!

I have no problem with Rōmaji on the front, though I personally prefer kana and kanji in the beginning. But don't worry, we can customize it in the setting. Our gigachad author understands us.

How about back side?... あの…I have no any big problem with Rōmaji, it's still comprehensible. You can still modify it manually if you want. The most important thing is you'll be able to comprehend the card, and that's a progress.

Overall, I actually find it a FUN as in entertaining deck to gain inputsss~ from Anime and Drama. It's also beginner-friendly.

Good

Fantastic deck! 30% through Tae Kim's guide through the deck now, and it's been a massive help in understanding the structure and meaning of spoken Japanese

Amazing job

Very useful

it's GREAT. Thank you

Fun deck for beginners, and even as someone who passed N3 it got me thinking about some nuances of usage. It would help beginners to provide more natural translations to English, such as "I'm going to sleep, too." (instead of "I sleep, too."), "I'll have a drink, too." (instead of "I drink, too."), "What a lovely dream!" (instead of "Lovely dream"), and so on. At least, *in addition* to the direct, more stilted-sounding translations.

Well put together amazing work!

An absolutely incredible resource. Grammar has been a tough hurdle, but this deck really helped me understand it with so many good examples.

The deck itself is very good, but one major flaw (in my opinion) is that the answer often does not match the card's meaning itself, but the meaning of the card in the context of where it was taken from in a conversation. That often leads to a gaslighting effect in which you know the isolated meaning of the front card, but it ends up not matching the answer, and the dichotomy between what you know (as a student that should prudently trust the material instead of your own knowledge) and the answer given ends up making you second-guess your answers for the remainder of the deck and acts as a brake to the natural language learning process of the brain.

However, everything I just spouted above might as well not exist, I'm not a linguist. Also, I recommend this deck to anyone interested in learning the language, it's definitely a 9/10 deck and one of the best language learning tools you can get your hands on. If you're trying to learn Japanese and haven't given this deck a try yet, you're making yourself a huge disservice!

Fantastic deck; incredibly detailed.

As a complete beginner this made the starting hurdle a lot more enjoyable for me, would also appreciated a minor changelog for version updates like "added x amount of cards" ect

very good deck. this help me a lot.

based

Really fun way to learn, with clear explanations! Much better than monotonously memorizing words!

awesome.! also suggestion about don't get more than 20 flash card everyday was epic

Awesome deck for complete beginners. Really feels like I'm learning alot at a good pace whilst being very easy to pick up and start learning. I do have a question though: do you recommended to ignore the written kana/romaji on the front of the card in the listening deck and just use your ears to figure out what is being said? I'd figured that it would help my reading comprehension the most if I move the kana/romaji readings from the front of the card to the back of the card in the listening deck. What do you think? Also, should I completely finish the listening deck first before moving on to the reading deck or should I be doing both at the same time? Thanks.

Clear structure and explanations, a great addon, and comprehensive. Great deck for learning Japanese grammar, especially for those who love anime.

It's seriously the best deck I've seen in my life.

Clear. Concise. Voices are good. Anime is popular. Explanations are not boring. He provided back-references. The amount of work put into this deck is tremendous.

I'm half way through and I feel that it complements Tae Kim course perfectly. My dream is that the author is able to create such decks as a full-time job.

Learned some useful grammar stuff from this, particularly about particles and conjugations, thank you

Everyone has been a noob at Anki once, but people like the reviewer below me should refrain from rating negatively and leaving an arrogant message due to their ignorance. For everyone who doesn't like the roumaji on the cards, you can change this very simply in this deck as it has the full kanji and hiragana expressions for each card.

This can be done by going to Browse > click on "Part 1: Listening ..." > click on "Cards..." > now change wherever you see a field that has roumaji, for example change {{Jlab-ListeningFront}} for {{Jlab-HiraganaCloze}} for hiragana or {{Jlab-Kanji}} for kanji.

This deck is a godsend.

I hate that there are no definitions on the reading card backs. This makes no sense and forces me to either look things up or go through the listening deck first. I might recognize a word by hearing it, but that doesn't mean that the kanji I am looking at means what I think it does because there are tons of homophones in japanese. This was a bad decision.

I also hate that there is romaji on the listening deck cards. The whole point is to get away from that as soon as possible, not use it as a crutch for longer. All it does it mix up your brain. と is always pronounced one way. "to" can be pronounced multiple ways and the English one is going to pop into your head first everything you see it. This creates unneeded stress when learning because it puts you in conflict right away.

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Fantastic deck for building and retaining a beginner vocabulary, engaging and I've found several new shows that I've enjoyed through it.

Well explained and the anime quotes make Japanese learning more fun

Awesome

Fun way to learn

Great helpful resource. Efficient and funny way to learn.

The literal translations help me a lot to get a sense how the language actually works. Thank you very much!

+++

This has been a great help in sublimating my other learning materials, great way to learn new words and grammar rules at the same time

Really good. A couple of months into learning the language, I noticed my grammar was lagging behind bad and this seems to be the right answer.

So far a great deck!

I have tried many Japanese apps to learn Japanese. But your one is the best of all. This actually teaches you native Japanese.

Really good for starting the language!

Infinitely more enjoyable than just reading through Tae Kim, thanks so much.

Thanks so much for making this

Great!

I'd hate to leave a dislike but somehow I can't sync this deck onto AnkiWeb. It says this https://gyazo.com/6c6e4178dd50ba87febcff95bbd5b690
Update: Fixed. It was my PC problem.

Animeis good to understand

Without a doubt this is an incredible source, the fact that new grammar points and words always come in context helps me immensely. Thank you so much for your hard work!

This is by far the BEST japanese deck that I've ever studied. I say this because it boosted my level after just a few weeks of usage.

Thanks for your amazing work, waiting for the next part!

Literally nothing bas about it that I found. Teachings everything relavent.

ありがとうございます.

ありがとう、助かった！

Really love this deck, although I removed the rōmaji after 4 days after some trial and error (I'm not used to Anki). I felt like they were hampering my reading of the Kana and they were so close to the Kana that when I was trying to challenge myself to read them I couldn't help but read the rōmaji as well and 'cheat'.
Maybe a suggestion; I don't know if it's possible to hide the rōmaji so that we can hover to see it or something? I understand the need for it if people haven't learnt the Kana yet

very useful and entertaining, an effective and enjoyable way to quickly improve your Japanese comprehension

Pretty good desk for starters

It is the best anime learning deck I have ever seen. At first, I was disappointed with the front rōmaji letter. Later I found out your manual instruction to remove the Rōmaji letter. I am so satisfied with this deck. Thanks for your hard work to create this amazing deck for us.

INCREDIBLE

Awesome!!!

Awesome!!

Easy to understand and straight-to-the-point.

Probably the best deck out there for learning Japanese.

Awesome, only deck that has kept me coming back so far! Learning with context is crucial for my engagement apparently.

Nice

I just wanted to thank you for your effort and your amazing teaching method I really really loved it
I have just finished first 1820 cards which covers tae kim's :)
質問がある
how do you find the video on the card
or in other words how do find specific context for a word or a grammer point ?

My favorite japanese learning deck. I've been using it for 30 minutes a day, every day and have learned a lot in just a few weeks, i'm definitely going to finish it.

Es un mazo muy bueno con el que es muy fácil aprender, proporciona los enlaces a las fuentes de información lo cual también es muy útil y lo vuelve confiable además también proporciona algunas herramientas bastante útiles durante el proceso de aprendizaje.

I liked the listening practice of this one so far.

The reading practice seemed a little off. In the listening part searching for a word makes it clozed in reading practice (with English meaning hiding the Japanese word). That means if I want to read the sentence in reading practice, first I need to guess which word the English text is hiding from me and make sure I got it right (by showing the answer), when I do that the audio plays and the reading practice is just repeating the audio - which is effortless. It seems more like a vocab practice.

I added a third writing practice by creating a new card type and adding {{type:JLab-kanji}} in front and back templates. I listen to the audio and try to type the sentence correctly. I also removed the image from these card types because I think it can create unnecessary associations between word/meaning - e.g. If I see the father from Totoro and I know (after seeing the image/audio/setence countless times by now ) he's supposed to say "ohayoo", I wouldn't care about the audio.

Great deck! The anime quotes make it fun to use it also to improve your speaking. Regarding the grammar, it covers Tae Kim's grammar guide which is the bible of every self-taught Japanese learners.

I like the explanations on the cards. Lots of contexts are given.

Excellent deck!!

Really solid pack. I've used it for the past 6 months. I never rate anything on the internet but this really deserves it. The amount of work poured into this pack is astounding.

Useful and teaches and explains grammar and vocabulary very well.

There are a few cards that don't seem perfect to me, but overall this is way more digestible than other decks I've tried which made it much more effective for me.

It's really fun to learn with!

Nutty

Best Japanese deck i've ever seen!!!

Occassionally audio is cut too early but otherwise very good.

Really good!

very good course even if youre not a beginner but just dont know a lot of expressions/anime vocab

Te best resource i've found

With minute imprefections, the deck is well thought through. In order to explain Japanese grammatical concepts, author refers to English grammar, so you have to have quite a grasp of English (at leas B1) to understand the intricacies

This deck has single handedly propelled my Japanese

One of the best resources I found for learning Japanese grammar

So fun and very descriptive explanations. It's obvious a lot of work went into this deck. Thank you so much! :)

Helps a lot!!!

Amazing deck for immersion

Thank you. I've started a few weeks ago; so far so good.
By the way, 1600422870000 - it seems she's saying あたし, not わたし　in 私一人ぼっちじゃないもの

EDIT:
1600424430000 - picture is missing :p
1600424610000 - alcohol (letter l is missing; no big deal)
1600422760000 - sound is very low (need some boost, I guess)
1600424600000 - the same ;p

EDIT2: I will (feedback using the provided links) - seems some others cards need some "sound boosting" or something ;p

Good deck, thanks!

It is great an helped me a lot understanding grammar

Yes

Good and easy to understand

This is the perfect deck to begin learning Japanese. This along with Japanese media consumption is perfect. I still have not finished but I notice big progress in my Japanese.

Great basic Japanese course!

Ya estudié Hiragana, Katakana y 2500 kanjis. El siguiente paso era aprender gramática básica antes de pasar al vocabulario. No puedo creer la suerte que tuve de encontrarme con este Deck tan completo y DIVERTIDO por sobre todas las cosas. Nunca me gustó la gramática en los idiomas, pero con este curso lo estoy pasando genial. Good Job!

great

Good explanation of grammar rules.

The author did a really good job

[japanesedecks.blogspot.com] Is it just me or is this BlogSpot thing not working? I have just finished the beginner deck, what should I do now?

My response to the author: You have my gratitude for clearing this up for me so quickly. Great PR is hard to come by these days, Also regarding Japanese have you thought of adding a simple explanation of the "intonation" of spoken words such as heiban atamadaka ect? Japanese say that a basic understanding of this will make immersion learning straightforward, like reading Kanji to find the difference between homophones.

The deck looks good, but the cards are not ordered from easy to hard... The first cards are already hard (tetsudatte kureru ka). I don't understand, maybe it's just my settings but I cannot fix that. (NB: I don't use the addon because I'm on Qt6)

EDIT: Thank you so much, your answer solved the problem!

very good, thanks so much. this is must-have course for begginers

Very good

Nicely done

A good starting course with a main focus on listening and learning new words.

Been using this card for almost a year now and this helps me understand Anime without even watching the subtitle. The author of this card is responsive through emails with regards to correcting some typos in a card. Keep up the good work! I've stop sending emails since I've been busy with work but I did not stop learning japanese using this card though!

good

Eazy to UNDERSTAND!!!

Amazing samples and overall structure. Stellar work!

With people like an author of this course - we should don't worry too much about brightness of future for that planet (meow, fact)

hello when I import this it just create a new deck, how do I update so that the new words are added in the previous deck ? please help

Well explained, super easy to learn deck

This deck will probably change how people learn Japanese from now on. It sure has done for me. I've struggled with many methods: I've studied Genki I and II, I did Core 2k halfway, I did RTK, and more. But it is pretty boring and especially Genki was difficult and cumbersome to review. I lost motivation and stopped practicing, and I had to restart from scratch after not studying for a year. Now with this deck I feel like things have changed. I'm learning so much vocabulary every day, while reviewing and learning grammar, and training my ears to listen to native audio instead of the artificial Core 2k audio. I see this deck as the bridge between a complete beginner and being able to learn from immersing in anime, YouTube and movies, and mining vocabulary from there. This deck still needs to expand a bit until reaching there, as you need a few thousand known words to start immersing without it being a painful experience, but I am very sure it will reach to that point. If you check the Patreon, it is actually stated that the goal is creating a deck with the 10k most common words. We have to be patient as high quality decks like this one take a lot of work to expand. I also want to support this gargantuan effort of the creator by donating a bit a month through Patreon, as much as I can permit being a student.

Idea for the future: cover additional grammar points covered by other resources. Check Jo-Mako's compilation of grammar points. https://sites.google.com/view/jo-mako/resources/grammar-list

Thank you so much, your second anonymous patron.

I'm doing 30% of it. I wish I've been through this on day 1.

Amazing work!

คอมเมนต์เผื่อคนไทยด้วยกัน
ถ้าคุณฟังเมะไม่ออก คุณใช้เด็คนี้เลย สุดยอดมาก ผมฟังผ่าน ๆ ไม่ได้ตั้งใจจำ วันละห้าสิบคำ+ แล้วไปดูเมะ มันยังพอจับบางประโยคได้เลย เด็คนี้สุดยอดจริง ๆ

Amazing course. You can really feel the passion the author has in teaching the student in each of the cards. Been learning this language for a while and this is the first deck I am actually excited to go through each day.

Really good one. It made me stop being afraid to start

Do I like it? I LOVE IT! Can't appreciate your effort enough!
Thanks a lot for the effort to put it all together! Very very helpful!

Amazing course! It's exactly what I needed. Many thanks to the creator.

Well paced

I hate to just repeat everyone (and it really is everyone) but this is simply the best beginner deck available. I can't believe how effortless and smooth it feels to progress through this deck. You never feel overly challenged or frustrated, yet you're picking it all up at a very fast pace.

Really helpful, I am a beginner started learning 3 months back with book, but study like this I made more progress

A really great way to work through Tae Kim. Much thanks to the author for putting the work in to make this deck!

JUST FINISHED: omg this deck is amazing, it provides grammar points WITH easy to understand context. I really couldn't be bothered reading through all of taekims but this deck helped me get through it while making reviews fun and simple! My understanding of grammar has improved so much thank you:)

A truly amazing deck in every way. I was desperately wanting to improve my listening skills for spoken Japanese in anime and this is literally perfect. Many audio resources have relatively slow and perfectly pronounced Japanese. This deck throws in fast and slow samples, and often has weird pronunciations you'll need to master listening for. It also has you learning vocab and grammar simultaneously in a relatively painless way. The multiple examples are really great as well. I had at least a partial understanding of most of these grammar points, but I can honestly notice a gradual increase in my comprehension when watching anime thanks to this deck, and I'm not even halfway through yet. Good stuff!

Всё подробно объясняется, благодаря этому курсу понял много затруднительной для меня грамматики

Really usefull

For some reason, the back of the card for the part 2 half of the deck is not showing the definition if I try to study it alone? It works normally if I study the whole deck though.

This course provides a good foundation to learn Japanese passively I've been using it for months and have learned so much

GOD

Incredible. This is the new best deck of Japanese in Anki for beginners. The evolution of Core 2k. You learn vocabulary + grammar + listening skills from real anime. I'm half way through and enjoying this so much.

The dream here would be for this deck to reach about 2k of the highest frequency words in anime (link at end of review), the point which what most people say it's sufficient to start immersion by watching anime and other native Japanese media to continue learning. Like the review below me, I am so eager to see the new updates of this deck.

Personally, I style my listening cards to have no text in the front so I focus on listening solely, and I set the image as a hint on the front. Then on the back, I like having the kanji with furigana (and importantly, with a Japanese font, as normally it defaults to a Chinese font) along with the image. Here's the styling:

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<p style="font-size:70%; color:grey">Your deck version: <strong>{{Version}}</strong><br> Check for updates <a href = "https://www.japanese-like-a-breeze.com/guide-for-beginners/">here.</a></p><br>


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<div style="text-align: left;">{{RemarksBack}}<br>
{{Jlab-Remarks}}<br>
References:<br>
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<p style="font-size:70%;color:grey">Something unclear? Ask a question related to this card using this {{QuestionLink}}.</p>
<p style="font-size:70%;color:grey">For a sloppy grammar summary, refer to <a href="https://www.japanese-like-a-breeze.com/cheat-sheet/">Jlab's cheat sheet.</a><p></div>


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Link to anime word frequency list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ukDIWSkh_xvpppPbgs1nUR2kaEwFaWlsJgZUlb9LuTs/edit#gid=1454508950

Very good deck. I modified it a little for my liking, but it's definitely a very good course.

EDIT:
I finished this deck a few minutes ago and can say with a 100% certainty that this is one of the most useful Japanese learning tools out there. This deck single-handedly formed at least 60% of my current Japanese. This is, hands down, the most enjoyable, the most engaging, the most fun, the fastest, and the most efficient way to learn Japanese grammar (it's important to say that you won't acquire all the grammar covered in the course to completion, but rather it will give you a good enough understanding to be able to pick it up in speech and have an idea about how it works). And guess what? IT'S FREE. And it was made by one person. I have only respect for you, Mr. Joe, for investing so much time and effort just to allow some weebs on the internet to learn a language lol.
And this is not even the end apparently! I was so caught off guard when it said near the end that there are going to be 2000 words in the deck in the future! Dude, this is so absolutely insane! This deck is already such a good and extensive course, and yet there is MORE to come. How cool is that? I genuinely enjoyed this deck so much and I will be waiting for all the updates like I wait for Silksong.

Great deck!

Looks cool

Really helpful!

Fire deck

very helpful

This is greatly focused on the grammar frequently used in anime and everything is clearly explained. The first 20 cards, you will surely hear some of it being used no matter what episode of anime you watch.

The best anki deck for Japanese I've found so far

I liked the course, because you explain everything. Course is very interesting and have a lot of information.

This is a wonderful deck to get through the beginning phase of Japanese learning. It covers the most essential bits of Tae Kim's grammar guide and each grammar point often have multipe examples to reinforce the learning experience.

Personally I did 20 new cards a day (~100 reviews) and switched to 30 (~150 reviews) about half way in. The journey took about 3 month to finish.

Well one

This deck has helped me a lot, I strongly recommend it.

Thanks to the author, you are helping me like you have no idea.

Great idea executed well. Really appreciative of the time that's gone into this.

ありがとう

Very cringe indeed

This deck leads you through the beginning stages of learning very well. Lots of good examples, and the listening provides several pronunciations of the same word. Thank you so much for making this deck!

Nearly a third of the way through this deck now - it's been an absolutely fantastic resource. Really appreciate the time that's been put into making this deck, as well as the updates!

Very nice example sentences with the vocabulary and the context which makes vocabulary learning much easier. Moreover, you teach useful grammar with real examples. Thank you so much !!!

I've been using this deck for about a month now and I've been loving it.

Sorry to bother you but question: Can I make so the front card only shows the kanji + Kana without the voice and make so the back of the card has also the Kanji + kana setence in the front with the voice?
I kind of already learned hiragana + katakana and the romaji won't help me much and I feel like it is better for me to read for my first first before listening to the word/sentence.

And also bother me that the back of the card doesn't show the word of the front which in my opinion is not very optmal because sometimes I want to read the sentence that was in the front but the only way to is either go back to the previous card or use the "preview" option on "browse"

It's a good deck, very good because it teaches grammar along the way.
BUT!!!! My only problem was with the cards layout, I wish I could see the front card setence and not only the back where I can see only romaji and not the whole setence in the front card. It's the only problem of this deck, i've been altering and adding the front setence in the back card as well but I stopped after 100 or so cards because it became annoying to do.

I get it that he bases his whole concept on "being able the listen and ignore reading the setence in kana/kanji" but it would be very benefitial to have both options in the back so you could passively train.
It's a big deck apparently (3k+ I think) and ignoring reading kana/kanji will only hurt in the long way.
Again just adding or completely changing the layout would hurt at all.

I make a few changes on the deck style:

1) change {{furigana:Jlab-ListeningFront}} to hidden by default and visualize if {kanjipopup} shown.
2) add {{furigana:Other-Front}} to the back

Reasons:
1) I found I will trend to read the ListeningFront before read the hiragana, hide the ListeningFront could force me read the hiragana first.
2) Shown original sentence along with pronanceation

I think I found a mistake: the card 1600424450000, when talking about the negative past tense, shouldn't it be "instead of shizuka janai deshita" the phrase "instead of shizuka janai desu"? I know it's trying to convey the wrong version, but both examples of "wrong" (present and past) are the same.

Great deck, by the way!

Seems to be a great deck, will definitely use, but I'd like to have a question: is it possible to remove the romanized text from the cards? I've tried to do it, but when I save the deck, an error message appears right after the first card. I'm already comfortable reading hiragana and a lot of kanji, so I'd like to use the cards only having those.
Thanks in advance!

Well done

Really impressive deck!

So glad to have found this one, never got bored out of studying with this, would really recommend!

This is a great way to learn Japanese grammar!

Amazing work!

ive learned so much from this i hope it continues!

really cool deck

One of the best decks

Really fun to learn with.
It is great for listening to conversation and learning basic words/principles and not only having stuff written.
If you don't want the romaji, and only want to read japanese letters you can always change that (I changed it for my learning style because I didn't want romaji first).
Some design things can be optimized for cards, but you can also easily change them yourself, and overall with the listening it just works well anyway.
For all Anki Decks this has been the most fun to work with so far.

I am not into anime too much but the pictures and sometimes over the top voices make things easy to remember and learn

This makes Anki more entertaining!

Been trying lots of decks in the last year, found about this one by myself and it's a shame it's not more openly recommended like the cores, tango's of the world. One could argue that audio from anime isn't the best but still it's an amazing way to get inmersed on this world.
Really useful to do along with a grammar guide.

Awesome!

One of the best resources for learning japanese. There are orher good decks for vocabulary, but not for grammar. Used together with Tae Kim's course (which is also available as Android app) make up a really great method. Much recommended.

By far the best and most useful deck out there! It has N+1 vocabulary and grammar concepts, real native audio and full sentences practice reading. So yeah, pretty much everything needed for an advanced beginner.

Very well made deck.

very useful

cool.

A very fun way to learn. I have found that I'm able to recognize many words and structures after having done this deck for a few weeks. I only wish that were some pure gramma rule cards, to help me remember the general rules. There are explanation cards for gramma, but you are supposed to suspend them once they are read once and they don't have a backside. I did also end up editing the back-card template to embed an ichi.moe lookup which I found very helpful.

چون کلمات خیلی جالبی رو انتخاب کرده بود خیلی از یاد گرفتن لذت بردم. ممنون.

good

This deck is absolutely god-like. It does a great job of hammering the basics - while giving concise, easy to follow blurbs about grammar points. (without ever sounding like a textbook) The only thing that slightly holds it back are :

1. Uses romaji, which I think is a waste of time. And can end up being more confusing.
2. Doesn't have the sentence on the back of the card.

Otherwise, I would consider this deck a MUST for any beginner!

Fantastic deck to use for beginners, i'm really enjoying learning with this deck highly recommend!

great deck, really motivating and helpful

Just finished basic grammar and I have to say your course is amazing! Your entire website is a gem and I'm looking forward to contribute (e.g. with sentence mining decks or modified kanji RTKs) one day.

Sentence mining is incredible fun & valuable, plus I'm really enjoying the phonation of anime characters. Wish you all the best and please remember, that you've created (prehaps) the most important anki deck out there!

This is the perfect way to start learning Japanese, can't recommend it enough!

So far it seems incredible but I do have one question. Should I only focus on the romaji and audio while doing the listening part when studying from this deck. Because of those 2 I find it really difficult to test my Kanji comprehension, since I hear and see the answers before the show answers scren

Very nice.

Best ankideck

Amazing!

Very well structured

Amazing dedication. Cannot find a better teacher. Exceptional

Good stuff

I have attempted several times to complete Tae Kim's Grammar Guide. I just could never do it... it was just too boring and made a chore out of something I routinely enjoy; learning Japanese. This course, takes a natural and low key approach to tacking this obstacle, without feeling like you've studied grammar all day. This deck uses sentences from anime to tackle each grammar point in Tae Kim. There are links to Tae Kim's explanations and examples, but I found the the creator of this deck had much more easily understandable explanations. Instead of focusing on the technical (the links are there for each grammar point if your into that though), this deck is more exposure and repetition to those grammar patterns for a more natural acquisition. I've been learning for several years now, so I'm not starting from zero, but I certainly wish this deck existed back then. It would have saved me a lot of time. Even now, I founding grammar patterns I've missed or didn't understand, and I'm getting better at "hearing" spoken Japanese.

Looks good and very detailed :O

Just really, really good - in my opinion the fastest way to understand Japanese.

This is a great deck and only been going through it for a few days and I love it. Because anime card style is used where there's actual dialogue from anime and yet still using grammar from the book it doesn't feel dry. I like how I have read the book in a while yet I feel like I better grasp the more basic concepts after reviewing the sentences. There isn't any technical jargon involved it makes it easier to concentrate on the Japanese instead of having to try and remember each grammar concept. Using this an immersion learning method I can definitely find this as a true gem. Thanks for taking the time in making this! :D

this is THE deck for beginners

I did Tae Kim 1 chapter a day 6 months ago whilst doing RTK. I forgot most of Tae Kim from reading and making card. It is nice to come back with more knowledge from 6 months of Japanese and with no pressure to rush the grammar rules. This deck helps beginners and former students of Tae Kim.

I like so much and help me too :')thx for your time and effort I appreciate you for doing that thx

Best deck ever!

I tried Duolingo and other stuff, but this is far more superior. It´s super easy to stay motivated and it gives you grammar with new words in best pace. If you watch anime, you´ll be able to see your progress daily. I already finished it and i feel sad there is no more yet.

I´m able to watch some anime i watched without subtitles understanding maybe 50%. Sometimes, there is 2min dialogue i completely understand :D :)
I´ll try Core 2000 deck now, to get more vocab.

This deck makes it easy to start to acquire Japanese.

Enjoying using this to brush up my listening!

thank you so much!
p.s to anyone thinking of suspending any easy cards, don't! I was thinking of suspending them but I decided not to & my listening comprehension was significantly much better, it's more just hearing the grammar fundamentals at play than just understanding the words, don't think you can skimp out of listening to words you already "know", it's more about the unconscious comprehension picking everything up so you hear it instantaneously- so just repeat, repeat and repeat.

Great course. I really like that how the author managed to combine the learning progress of grammar and vocabulary that geat!

Best beginner's deck imho!
Thank you so much for this! 😍🔥👍🏼👍🏼

Maybe you can upload the Jlab’s Sloppy Grammar Cheat Sheet, because there is nothing here yet. 🙏🏼

tried reading tae kim's book a few months ago but i couldn't stick to it since it was boring. this deck really saved me because i was trying to find a good source for grammar, thanks for your hard work.

Doing it right now, it's pretty good. Watched an anime recently and was able to pick up 夢じゃなかったそぇ solely because of this.

Would recommend.

Amazing deck! Thanks so much for making this. Also, this might be a dumb question, but how would you update the deck version? I'm not really familiar with Anki.

Good pacing with motivational notes

This is a great resource. I like looking at the pictures. Not only do I learn Japanese, I also get to know new cute animes.
Thank you for your work.

Very fun to learn using this deck

Very easy and good explanations about what is going on in the dialogue.

there are a few cards that don't have their translation on them , and instead talk about the concepts of what we are learning. while i understand that the translation is not the point of those cards, it would have been nice to have it just so i could verify that my translation was correct.

What an undertaking it must have been to make this course.
The most useful deck I have ever come across for learning a language.

just beautiful

This is a real highlight!

Fun and easy to step in

Who doesn't like to learn Japanese with Anime?

This course is just awesome. Granted, you have to be persistent, but it works very well for me. Arigatou gozaimasu

Absolutely recommended to everyone who want's to learn grammar with immersion!

good

I just started reading Tae Kim's book but it was too dry for me, so i found this deck. this is definitley the best one yet. really nice quality with the use of the deck along with the addon. i only find it strange that some words are sometimes written in kana and other times in kanji. i always tend to mix them up because i think they must be different words, even though they're not. I don't know if it's a japanese thing or a thing with this deck. But that won't let me stop from using this deck, because it's just so good for teaching me the grammar. thanks for the hard work you're putting in this project :)

Its a very nice deck to train your listening skills and trying to understand the sentence. The effort of making this deck is extermly high and i really appreciate the taking effort.
You did a really good job making this deck, thank you for sharing!

Great deck thank you!

Love this deck mate!!!

I'm wondering if there's an easy way for me to hide the romaji text on all cards at once?

I always tend to look at the Romaji first and I think It would be good for me to only display the Japanese text.

It's much easier for me to learn in this form than the guide itself I think. Thank you!

Best deck I've found and use as a beginner.

The best deck I've found so far, as a beginner. Keep up the good work.

ありがとうございました。

Just today I finished version 5 of the deck, I was going to comment that it's great (and it is) and today you uploaded version 6 haha, awesome, thanks for making the tae kim guide not boring.

An amazing anki deck. It is profoundly helpful and useful. Highly recommended

Very good explanations and plentiful contexts

Great deck to get started

Great, great, great deck! I think that this deck is the answer for all of the people interested in learning for anime, manga, and dramas. One question, though. How do I change it so that I'm learning the card in Japanese only, with furigana on hover, but still have the English meaning for an answer? Also, I hope you can take this to around 2,000-3,500 words someday. That's where frequency for anime and manga decks starts to drop below like 10 for a lot of lists. How many words are currently in the deck, if I might ask?

Awesome! Thank you!

Great course to take while studying Tae Kim's book!

If you have interest in mass immersion methods want a jump start, this deck is for you. It will also come with challenges of consuming real materials like how the meaning/structure is not clear cut like textbooks, different kinds of voices but I'd say it's better to know it now than later.

Great for beginner.

nice way to learn

This is my absolute favorite Japanese deck! I tried the other popular decks (Core 2k, Tango, JP1K, etc) all they just felt like a boring grind. I wasn't having fun, and I found it really difficult to retain the information. This, on the other hand, is easy, fun, and is ACTUALLY helping me learn. Thank you so much for this deck! I'm recommending this to everyone as an intro to learning Japanese.

It's the best, I totally recommend it. It's not the most efficient, but it made me stick to it. I'm also doing RTK for kanji, but your course is what gave me the foundation with words in anime context, so it wasn't as boring as anki , and your page is full of resources that makes me feel excited about keeping learning Japanese. You should do something similar to learn English but with American series, it would be the best, I struggled to learn English even though my native language is Spanish. But this make Japanese so Easy. Thanks, again, and keep it up.

Even with some level of experience in learning the language prior to using the deck, it has still helped me in a way that improves the already built up foundation that I had and making it more concrete.

Been using the deck for a few days and really like the concept. Cards are very well made, very easy to edit (I personally got rid of the romaji) and the add-on makes studying the cards all the more efficient.

Great work! Hope you see it through and finish the deck. It would be a truly great resource for beginners.

Excellent desk

I'm an idiot. This deck is extremely good, and I usually don't rate things.. Simple [Previous knowledge + 1 new item] system keeps you moving. Explanations where necessary for context or changes of meaning through tone. Cards from different origins enabling you to separate each card in your mind.

Thanks for incredible deck!

Fantastic deck. It's a lot of fun encountering cards from scenes you recognize. My only complaint is that many cards don't have an answer to check, so I'm sometimes not sure if I got them right or not.

very good!

Just started and love it so far. I can see how much effort you've put into this amazing project. I have always been super lazy when it comes to Japanese grammar but this motivates me a lot.
ありがとうございます。楽しみです。

Core2000 become boring for me after I started this deck. Very interesting! Even can help with text pasing if need.

Really great deck. Hope you can update for more Tae Kim grammar points

The best grammar deck.

This deck and the whole project itself is amazing. Unbelievable how much work is put into this.
Thank you!