Hey everyone,
I have been making great progress in wanikani, kaniwani and my grammar and I am planning to try and start reading sometime soonish.
This made me wonder what the best complementary anki deck for wanikani is.
Because from my understanding while wanikani is great for kanji it is missing some essential vocab,(mostly the ones that are pure hiragana I think).
So I was wondering do any of you guys know are have some really good anki decks for the vocab that I am missing? Or should I just try to create my own as I am reading?
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Do something like kaishi1.5k to cover the most common (suspend what you already know) and then mine your own.
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Thank you so much for the advice!
I will be sure to check it out.
Realistically, mine your own. The best thing you can pair with wanikani is some kind of japanese content, be that books, movies, shows, anime, whatever, and the best deck you can make for those is whatever you mine.
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Not so much for vocab but I found JLAB’s beginner deck v helpful for reinforcing listening.
The main focus of the deck is grammar but for me that was more of a review of other things from Genki. I adjusted the template slightly so it was audio only on the front so I could focus on listening and would fail a card if I didn’t understand it just from the audio. (The default template I think it has romaji of all things which I would not recommend - I think everyone that uses the deck changes that).
WK doesn’t cover grammar or listening well so I found it a nice complement. Might not help if you really want to focus on vocab though!
For what it’s worth I found Kaishi a bit tricky to combine with WK because the order kanji come up is so totally different, but that might just be me. Certainly seems to be the generally recommended vocab deck.
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If you’re open to a paid alternative, I recommend @s1212z’s Kaishi 1.5k deck on Kitsun.io. You type in your answers similar to how you do on here.
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