Hey Thank anyone for stopping by! Hopefully you learned a little something about Anki. Good luck with whatever it is that you are looking at memorizing! Also side note I'm sure I messed up some pronunciations and there was a part where I referred to Hiragana Characters and English letters and it's not a direct comparison. Please take it easy on a dude that's learning. I'm much better at software than languages. 😅 Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:19 What is Anki? 02:06 Content Outline 02:45 My Workflow with Anki 06:02 Anki Terminology 11:39 Shared Decks 13:44 Review Settings 14:52 Review Example 15:52 Sync Issue Warning! 16:37 Outro
Wow. Fortunately, I am from one religion in which do not say English Language and I used to learn English by Anki app about 12 months. Anki is free and to be easy to use for every one. I highly recomend people who should learn new language with it... 🤩🤩🤩😘😘😘
Great video!! Pro tip, when using ANKI every time you flip a card and see the kanji and keyword, write down the kanji on paper, this helps you get better and writing kanji, and helps reinforce the meaning with the writing.
As an Anki user myself. I support this, amazing video! I must say that you did a great job, and congrats on learning, keep it up man. Increase your knowledge! Thanks for the useful information you are giving.
I don't know why it was so much harder to learn the kana characters for me, but it took me a whole week to really get those down. I learned so many more Kanji in that same time. I guess remembering the idea of things is easier than random sounds.
For me hiragana and kanji is fine. Learned all joyo kanji in a year. But katakana haunts me though, not knowing the characters, but reading it out, super unintuitive, especially if it's some rare loan word. Take solace in that many japanese people struggle with that aswell at times.
Never tried 2 myself but 1 is definitely super helpful. The funny little stories and building up the characters by parts definitely make it a lot easier to remember everything.
@@thegreatestdancer I'm working on RTK2 presently and I'm happy with it. It's for learning standard pronunciations: onyomi first since some radicals give you clues, and then kunyomi which are more intensive like RTK1. There's far less guidance with mnemonics but I make them just the same. I tried jumping into learning words straight after RTK1 and found it frustrating. It was a huge pain to come up with mnemonics tying together the sequence of the kanji AND the pronunciation AND the translation. For two reasons: one, a lot of words have similar meanings and/or share kanji; and two, a lot of words have pronunciations that are just the WORST to try to map onto english sentence fragments. For example, 増加 (increase) is "zouka," and 捕食者 (predator) is "hoshokusha." Often I would just give up and depend on rote memorization to handle at least one element, which trashed my progress. I assumed I would pick up patterns in pronunciations automatically but mostly didn't. On which note... use some discretion if you try the core2k or core6k decks. The concept behind them (ie: learning a couple thousand very common words first) makes sense, but I seriously wonder how the words were chosen. The core2k deck I use throws out words like "embassy," "legislator," "exports," "heisei era", and "manufacturing," which I doubt if I will ever use.
@@expressionamidstcacophony390 Thanks for the details! Much appreciated. My goal currently is to attempt to finish up RTK1 and the two grammar books that I have and then to be honest I'm not sure what I'm going to pick up next. If I remember correctly I feel like some of those decks used Newspaper articles or something (Could be making that up don't remember where I heard it) so I could definitely see some of those words coming up but I agree probably not helpful for the average person just trying to have a casual conversation. I'll definitely consider RTK2 as a resource I do really enjoy how with RTK1 everything builds on the previous knowledge which really accelerates the learning process even if you pick up some stuff that might not be useful along the way (I feel like I know way too many types of trees than necessary😅). With my grammar book I see tons of situations where this compounding effect would've been useful for the vocabulary and it wasn't mentioned at all and you have to fill in the blanks yourself.
@@thegreatestdancer Oh yeah. Oak, sweet oak, chestnut, horse chestnut, persimmon, cedar, pine, peach, cherry, japanese judas, catalpa, camphor etc. Yeah there really is a weirdly long list of tree kanji now that I think about it. I assume you're around the point by now where Heisig stops providing mnemonics, so if you have trouble with that, have a peek at kanji.koohii.com . I think you have to register a free account and add ~2300 cards under flashcards > manage, but once you're in you can browse literal pages of mnemonics people have come up with by searching the heisig keyword or character under study > browse. Of course many of them are awful and there are lots of strange subculture names for certain radicals (eg: the person radical on the left as in 休 is often referred to as "Mr. T" for some unfathomable reason), but I got quite a bit of mileage out of it in building up the creative muscle for mnemonics. You might also like yomichan, which is a dictionary browser plugin with anki support. I remember it being a pain in the ass to set up, but now that it's running I can shift + mouse over a japanese word in my browser and make an anki note with a click: kanji, kana, definition, audio, sentence and screengrab for context all at once. Possibly other bits too if you're more patient than I was. It has various shortcomings of course: it doesn't play that well with grammar, it doesn't always find pronunciation files, the cards can end up too long to display nicely and it grabs way too much stuff in the example sentences sometimes, but it's a big improvement over manual input. The only reason I don't use it more is that I've put vocab on hold until I improve my lagging onyomi and then grammar.
Wow thanks for all the resources! Much appreciated. Yeah I miss having stories fed to me in RTK I'm not as imaginative but I think it usually sticks a little bit easier when you come up with it by yourself. Although I definitely like Mr. T my best guess is just a loose pictogram interpretation of the letter M and T mashed together. That browser plugin sounds pretty slick I'll have to check that out when I start reading more content. That's the day I'm hoping to come to eventually where I can study more just by consuming content in Japanese and looking into the things that I don't understand. Still quite a ways off unfortunately though. haha Thanks again. Good luck on the studies!
@@thegreatestdancer ahahah man continue to study you are doing well. I start to do the RTK last week to is very hard but your video give me some motivation 😄
He pls tell I completed deck which had these kanjis I only put stories .now I want to redoit without loosing stories I entered pls tell how can I reset deck
Great video but Anki seems really complicated for no real reason and you have to create these decks and notes with many tabs. Maybe this is just me, everyone else seems to love the design of the app.
I am against using ANKI or any kind of flashcards. There are many disadvantages with flashcards: 1. They are time-consuming. It may take a long time just to write them. Then you have to read and keep repeating until you get the answers correctly. That can also take a long time. 2. They are boring, tedious, you may lose motivation. 3. They take the words out of context. It is much harder to memorize and understand them. Flashcards are completely inefficient compared to just reading. 4. The fact that you can answer all flashcards correctly doesn't mean you have learned the subject. Why not just read a book? In the same time you create and read flashcards you could just read a book. In one hour you can read several pages of a book. In the same hour how many flashcards can you write (and read)? Flashcards are much more time-consuming than just reading. Or, if you are studying something like Physics or Mathematics, you should just solve a bunch of exercises from a textbook. Most textbooks have plenty of exercises for you to practice. All you have to do is solve them. The book author already prepared all the exercises for you, you don't need to write them, unlike flashcards. If you are learning a foreign language you should read as much as possible. Reading is the best way to acquire vocabulary. You consult the dictionary for the words necessary to understand the text. Reading is much more fun, entertaining, engaging and pleasant than using flashcards. By reading you always see the words in context. In the case of JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) you should buy specific books for it. There are books on sale that specifically help you for the test, offering a bunch of exercises similar to the JLPT questions. It is a much more efficient way to study than flashcards created by someone you don't know. Even if you nailed all the ANKI flashcards, there is no way to know if the flashcards are actually related to the JLPT. Textbooks on the other hand will base their exercises on the actual questions that appear in the exam. I have been studying Swedish for 3 years now mostly by translating song lyrics. I have translated almost 500 songs. I listen to the songs while reading the lyrics, I get vocabulary and pronunciation at the same time. It is a lot of fun and pleasant, I never get bored. I don't worry about memorization, I only care about understanding the lyrics. In the beginning I was barely translating one song in one hour. Now I can translate more than 8 songs in one hour. And I never study more than one hour per day.
@@punchgod Yep. But it's interesting to see someone still thinking that Anki isn't helpful in 2024. Well, kind of expected under a video of a guy only learning 700 Kanji in 3 Months. You really get a good idea why DJT is as "elitist" as they are made out to be.
Originally it started because I wanted to travel there for vacation and be able to have some basic conversations. Which I could've just done some more focused learning for that. But at this point I just really enjoy the studying and I like a challenge. I always treated learning a foreign language especially one as complex as Japanese as an almost impossible feat for someone that didn't start as a child. I'm really interested to see if I can continue on and become somewhat fluent in a few years. I'm not exactly moving super fast but a little progress each day is pretty satisfying.
Hey Thank anyone for stopping by! Hopefully you learned a little something about Anki. Good luck with whatever it is that you are looking at memorizing!
Also side note I'm sure I messed up some pronunciations and there was a part where I referred to Hiragana Characters and English letters and it's not a direct comparison. Please take it easy on a dude that's learning. I'm much better at software than languages. 😅
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:19 What is Anki?
02:06 Content Outline
02:45 My Workflow with Anki
06:02 Anki Terminology
11:39 Shared Decks
13:44 Review Settings
14:52 Review Example
15:52 Sync Issue Warning!
16:37 Outro
Wow. Fortunately, I am from one religion in which do not say English Language and I used to learn English by Anki app about 12 months. Anki is free and to be easy to use for every one. I highly recomend people who should learn new language with it... 🤩🤩🤩😘😘😘
That's awesome! Glad it helped you out! Definitely a great app. 😃
Great video!! Pro tip, when using ANKI every time you flip a card and see the kanji and keyword, write down the kanji on paper, this helps you get better and writing kanji, and helps reinforce the meaning with the writing.
As an Anki user myself. I support this, amazing video!
I must say that you did a great job, and congrats on learning, keep it up man.
Increase your knowledge! Thanks for the useful information you are giving.
That's awesome! I appreciate the kind words! Good luck on your own learning. 🙂
Very well presented. Thanks Dale!
I came across this dude in my recommended (which I don’t normally find interesting) but THIS....
this guy seems like quite a nice dude in general.
That's awesome. I appreciate that! Being a nice dude is certainly the goal. 😊
I don't know why it was so much harder to learn the kana characters for me, but it took me a whole week to really get those down. I learned so many more Kanji in that same time. I guess remembering the idea of things is easier than random sounds.
For me hiragana and kanji is fine. Learned all joyo kanji in a year. But katakana haunts me though, not knowing the characters, but reading it out, super unintuitive, especially if it's some rare loan word. Take solace in that many japanese people struggle with that aswell at times.
ummmm try learning the 3 to 5000 kanji you'll need to have daily conversations, lol
Thanks for sharing this value, will use some of your advice...subbed
Thanks for the comment! Glad you liked it! 😁
Wow this is a very high quality video, I totally thought you had more than 100k subscribers lol. Thank you for the great video!
Thank you, I am also learning Japanese. It is very familar for me to learn kanji because I am a Chinese!
I created a deck with furigana above the kanji, so I feel like I'm kind of cheating. Creating a seperate kanji deck is a great idea.
The more decks the merrier. I have a handful which all help for different stuff. Recently added verb conjugation which is a pain. 😅
Really Good one!✌🏻
Much appreciated! Glad you liked it!
Why u not viral yet, great video 🙌😊
Thank you very much! Glad you liked it! 🙂
Thanks man!
Happy studying!
Remembering the Kanji 1 & 2 are very beneficial
Never tried 2 myself but 1 is definitely super helpful. The funny little stories and building up the characters by parts definitely make it a lot easier to remember everything.
@@thegreatestdancer I'm working on RTK2 presently and I'm happy with it. It's for learning standard pronunciations: onyomi first since some radicals give you clues, and then kunyomi which are more intensive like RTK1. There's far less guidance with mnemonics but I make them just the same.
I tried jumping into learning words straight after RTK1 and found it frustrating. It was a huge pain to come up with mnemonics tying together the sequence of the kanji AND the pronunciation AND the translation. For two reasons: one, a lot of words have similar meanings and/or share kanji; and two, a lot of words have pronunciations that are just the WORST to try to map onto english sentence fragments. For example, 増加 (increase) is "zouka," and 捕食者 (predator) is "hoshokusha." Often I would just give up and depend on rote memorization to handle at least one element, which trashed my progress. I assumed I would pick up patterns in pronunciations automatically but mostly didn't.
On which note... use some discretion if you try the core2k or core6k decks. The concept behind them (ie: learning a couple thousand very common words first) makes sense, but I seriously wonder how the words were chosen. The core2k deck I use throws out words like "embassy," "legislator," "exports," "heisei era", and "manufacturing," which I doubt if I will ever use.
@@expressionamidstcacophony390 Thanks for the details! Much appreciated. My goal currently is to attempt to finish up RTK1 and the two grammar books that I have and then to be honest I'm not sure what I'm going to pick up next. If I remember correctly I feel like some of those decks used Newspaper articles or something (Could be making that up don't remember where I heard it) so I could definitely see some of those words coming up but I agree probably not helpful for the average person just trying to have a casual conversation. I'll definitely consider RTK2 as a resource I do really enjoy how with RTK1 everything builds on the previous knowledge which really accelerates the learning process even if you pick up some stuff that might not be useful along the way (I feel like I know way too many types of trees than necessary😅). With my grammar book I see tons of situations where this compounding effect would've been useful for the vocabulary and it wasn't mentioned at all and you have to fill in the blanks yourself.
@@thegreatestdancer Oh yeah. Oak, sweet oak, chestnut, horse chestnut, persimmon, cedar, pine, peach, cherry, japanese judas, catalpa, camphor etc. Yeah there really is a weirdly long list of tree kanji now that I think about it.
I assume you're around the point by now where Heisig stops providing mnemonics, so if you have trouble with that, have a peek at kanji.koohii.com . I think you have to register a free account and add ~2300 cards under flashcards > manage, but once you're in you can browse literal pages of mnemonics people have come up with by searching the heisig keyword or character under study > browse. Of course many of them are awful and there are lots of strange subculture names for certain radicals (eg: the person radical on the left as in 休 is often referred to as "Mr. T" for some unfathomable reason), but I got quite a bit of mileage out of it in building up the creative muscle for mnemonics.
You might also like yomichan, which is a dictionary browser plugin with anki support. I remember it being a pain in the ass to set up, but now that it's running I can shift + mouse over a japanese word in my browser and make an anki note with a click: kanji, kana, definition, audio, sentence and screengrab for context all at once. Possibly other bits too if you're more patient than I was. It has various shortcomings of course: it doesn't play that well with grammar, it doesn't always find pronunciation files, the cards can end up too long to display nicely and it grabs way too much stuff in the example sentences sometimes, but it's a big improvement over manual input. The only reason I don't use it more is that I've put vocab on hold until I improve my lagging onyomi and then grammar.
Wow thanks for all the resources! Much appreciated. Yeah I miss having stories fed to me in RTK I'm not as imaginative but I think it usually sticks a little bit easier when you come up with it by yourself. Although I definitely like Mr. T my best guess is just a loose pictogram interpretation of the letter M and T mashed together. That browser plugin sounds pretty slick I'll have to check that out when I start reading more content. That's the day I'm hoping to come to eventually where I can study more just by consuming content in Japanese and looking into the things that I don't understand. Still quite a ways off unfortunately though. haha Thanks again. Good luck on the studies!
Noice! ありがとうございます！
I see a error on you vocab card is not おにがいします but is お願いします (おねがいします)
ありがとうございます！That's what happens when I don't look at the book for something I thought I knew already 😅
@@thegreatestdancer ahahah man continue to study you are doing well. I start to do the RTK last week to is very hard but your video give me some motivation 😄
He pls tell I completed deck which had these kanjis I only put stories .now I want to redoit without loosing stories I entered pls tell how can I reset deck
Nice vid!
Btw at 5:34 you misspelled the word. It should be yoroshikuonEgaishimasu, not yoroshikuonigaishimasu ;)
Fixed it! ありがとうございます 🙂
Great video but Anki seems really complicated for no real reason and you have to create these decks and notes with many tabs. Maybe this is just me, everyone else seems to love the design of the app.
I bet 100 dollars if i don't learn almost Japanese N3 in six months.....
how it go?
yeah how did it go?
RTK is useless for reading. You memorized key words that mean nothing.
I am against using ANKI or any kind of flashcards.
There are many disadvantages with flashcards:
1. They are time-consuming. It may take a long time just to write them. Then you have to read and keep repeating until you get the answers correctly. That can also take a long time.
2. They are boring, tedious, you may lose motivation.
3. They take the words out of context. It is much harder to memorize and understand them. Flashcards are completely inefficient compared to just reading.
4. The fact that you can answer all flashcards correctly doesn't mean you have learned the subject.
Why not just read a book? In the same time you create and read flashcards you could just read a book. In one hour you can read several pages of a book. In the same hour how many flashcards can you write (and read)? Flashcards are much more time-consuming than just reading. Or, if you are studying something like Physics or Mathematics, you should just solve a bunch of exercises from a textbook. Most textbooks have plenty of exercises for you to practice. All you have to do is solve them. The book author already prepared all the exercises for you, you don't need to write them, unlike flashcards.
If you are learning a foreign language you should read as much as possible. Reading is the best way to acquire vocabulary. You consult the dictionary for the words necessary to understand the text.
Reading is much more fun, entertaining, engaging and pleasant than using flashcards. By reading you always see the words in context.
In the case of JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) you should buy specific books for it. There are books on sale that specifically help you for the test, offering a bunch of exercises similar to the JLPT questions. It is a much more efficient way to study than flashcards created by someone you don't know. Even if you nailed all the ANKI flashcards, there is no way to know if the flashcards are actually related to the JLPT. Textbooks on the other hand will base their exercises on the actual questions that appear in the exam.
I have been studying Swedish for 3 years now mostly by translating song lyrics. I have translated almost 500 songs. I listen to the songs while reading the lyrics, I get vocabulary and pronunciation at the same time. It is a lot of fun and pleasant, I never get bored. I don't worry about memorization, I only care about understanding the lyrics. In the beginning I was barely translating one song in one hour. Now I can translate more than 8 songs in one hour. And I never study more than one hour per day.
My brother in Christ, if anything was a waste of time it was writing this comment.
@@punchgod Why? Do you use flashcards?
@@punchgod Yep. But it's interesting to see someone still thinking that Anki isn't helpful in 2024. Well, kind of expected under a video of a guy only learning 700 Kanji in 3 Months. You really get a good idea why DJT is as "elitist" as they are made out to be.
Why are you learning Japanese?
Originally it started because I wanted to travel there for vacation and be able to have some basic conversations. Which I could've just done some more focused learning for that. But at this point I just really enjoy the studying and I like a challenge. I always treated learning a foreign language especially one as complex as Japanese as an almost impossible feat for someone that didn't start as a child. I'm really interested to see if I can continue on and become somewhat fluent in a few years. I'm not exactly moving super fast but a little progress each day is pretty satisfying.
@@thegreatestdancer amazing reply thank you
your audio is so low i can barely hear you darling. i had to max my volume so i could hear you