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

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:

### FRONT ###

{{Audio}}<br>
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{{hint:Image}}<br><br>


{{RemarksFront}}
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<p style="font-size:70%;color:grey">Source of this card: {{Source}}<br>Change text with the <a href = "https://www.japanese-like-a-breeze.com/addon-manual/">jlab addon (2110939339)</a> or <a href = "https://www.japanese-like-a-breeze.com/course-without-addon/">without the addon</a>.</p>
<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>


### BACK ###

{{Audio}}<br>
{{Image}}
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<span style="font-size: 50px; " lang="ja-jp";">{{furigana:Other-Front}}</span>
<br><br>

<div style="text-align: left;">{{RemarksBack}}<br>
{{Jlab-Remarks}}<br>
References:<br>
{{References}}<br>
{{Other-Back}}<br>
<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>


### STYLING ###

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font-family: arial;
font-size: 20px;
max-width: 800px;
text-align: center;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
color: black;
background-color: #faf9f5;
}
.kanjipopup {
font-family: Noto Sans JP;
font-size: 50px;
text-align: center;
color: black;
background-color: #faf9f5;

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.kanjipopup ruby rt { visibility: visible; }
.kanjipopup ruby:active rt { visibility: visible; }
.kanjipopup ruby:hover rt { visibility: visible; }

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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

Excellent grammar deck!

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

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

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 :)

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.

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!