anki – Inside That Japanese Book

Language diary #8: changing things in Anki

By: Inhae April 16, 2019October 30, 2019

My Anki deck for Japanese vocabulary is full of leeches (words you keep forgetting), so I am thinking of ways to remember words better…

New Anki deck, old goals

By: Inhae July 16, 2018July 16, 2018

motivation / daily studyanki7 Comments

I have started a new Anki deck… and I am not using anymore the one I started on the very first day of my learning Japanese. I have realised that my Anki deck was not fitting my goals anymore. When I created my deck, I had in mind a strategy to learn vocabulary as thoroughly…

Unclutter Anki

By: Inhae May 7, 2018May 7, 2018

motivation / daily studyanki8 Comments

I am struggling with Anki lately, and I have, therefore decided to do something to make Anki fun again (at least, if not fun, associated with positive feelings). There are two reasons why I hate studying Anki now: I have too many cards a day There are a lot of cards I actually don’t like From…

Daily Study: adding patterns to Anki

By: Inhae February 5, 2018February 5, 2018

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As I am not studying JLPT materials or any other textbook, I have to find the new words I want to learn, by myself. My goal for 2018 was to reach 10,000 words by the end of the year, a plan that can be achieved only by learning 10 new words every day. I started…

Motivation: studying Anki

By: Inhae January 22, 2018January 21, 2018

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If you are learning a foreign language, you are certainly using a spaced repetition system (SRS) to memorise vocabulary. I personally use Anki and created my deck from scratch when I started learning Japanese. Today, it contains more than 7000 words and expressions and I can say that, contrary to any other material, this Anki…

Anki: mistakes to avoid and tips to regain control over your deck

By: Inhae June 12, 2017August 1, 2017

learning strategies, motivation / daily studyanki3 Comments

I have spent the last few days trying to regain control over my Anki deck. The problem is that I added much to many new words in a fit of overconfidence in my mental capacities and I ended up with a huge study plan every day that took me hours to put down to zero.…

My three daily anki decks 2: kanji

By: Inhae April 29, 2017May 10, 2017

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I talked about my deck of words in this post. As for my deck of kanji, a note gives two cards which are: 1- Anki displays the kanji and some words using this kanji. I must know the kanji’s approximative meaning and I must pronounce the words. Note that I don’t bother saying all the…

My three daily anki decks 1: words

By: Inhae April 20, 2017May 10, 2017

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Like the majority of japanese learners (at least, I think so but I may be wrong), one part of my daily learning routine is anki. I have three decks, one for words, one for kanji and one for grammar (that I started recently because I just couldn’t figure out how to remember every grammar point…