What page does that section start on? I’ve never looked back there, and I wouldn’t mind some extra (easy) reading practice.
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It starts on page 250 of the textbook. The first two lessons are hiragana and katakana, and the rest are ~15 kanji each. They make a point to use the new grammar from each lesson too, which helps to reinforce that but also makes it hard to study ahead.
If you’re using the workbook, it starts on page 105 there, but it’s more writing and translation practice than reading.
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Thanks! I’ll be sure to check it out.
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fyi: I was wrong about furigana gradually disappearing as you go.
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I’ve made a few fixes to @hinekidori’s Genki decks.
- The Kana cards dictionary links all reference the {{Kanji}} field instead of the {{Kana}} fields, so you’d search for the text “Unknown field Kanji” instead of what you wanted.
- Ankidroid specific: I’ve added this to the script section or the Kana and Kanji card so if you use the HTML type-in field it doesn’t auto-capitalize. If you use the HTML type-in field (rather than Ankidroid’s native input field), you get a cute IME that auto chooses the right Kanji for you if you get the reading right, and also supports capital letters to make katakana:
- document.getElementById(‘typeans’).autocapitalize = “none”
Also added some synonyms I thought were required to at least the first four chapters.
If there’s interest, I might be convinced to export my changes if anyone needs them, but they’re trivial changes to make yourself.
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I guess my remaining problem is that maybe my font is wrong.
大抵 showed up, and in the font it chose the bar in the bottom of 抵 is more of a hook, which I suspect is the chinese writing of it.
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Well, there were two ways to fix it.
- Install the CJK Noto JP font into the AnkiDroid fonts/ directory and set it as Ankidroid’s default for everything. This is a bit slow as the Web View loads the font, there can be a pause.
- If you have Android 7 or better, add Japanese as an additional system language, and Android will prefer JP glyphs over CN one.
Presumably there’d be a way to add lang attributes to the tags in the HTML in the cards, but I didn’t go down that route.
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I don’t understand the underworkings of the program… So I have no idea what you mean with item 1 (kana vs. kanji). But it sounds like it may be important for some people.
I’ve been using Google Japanese or not bothering to type.
I’d be curious to know what kind of synonyms you’ve added - and maybe how to add them myself. Can you edit cards within Ankidroid? Or only online with a PC?
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Ah, the first thing: in @eninny’s (first) modified deck, s/he split kana-only reading cards into a different type from the kanji cards. The kana-only ones are orange, and the kanji ones are purple. While doing the split, s/he renamed a field from Kanji to Kana, but did not update all the references.
You can add synonyms to the card. In Ankidroid, there’s a menu item, “edit note” in the “…” menu when looking at a card, and there should be a field for alternative meaning that can be set. For example, I added ‘before’ as an alternative for 前, which only had front as a definition.
“Notes” are the raw data that "cards’ are generated from. In these genki decks, three cards are generated for each note: english → kana/kanji, kana/kanji → english, audio → english. If you update the alternative meaning, all three cards will be changed.
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第１４課
Counters I guess, how do you respond to this question?
今学期、授業をいくつ取っていますか。
This semester, how many classes are you taking?
Is there a specific counter for “classes?”
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Ohyes! I have the orange cards. I think I know what you mean now. Because of the nature of Anki, I’ve never thought of them as “front and back” sets of cards, but rather as all individual cards. It lets me do one and move on, they don’t effect each other like in WaniKani.
Thanks! I had not realized they were all attached like that.
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Hmmm… Is it in the appendix, maybe? If not, perhaps the general “things” can be used? What lesson is that from - I don’t remember coming across that.
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Lesson 14, it’s an example in the book.
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Oh, that’s Genki II, right? I haven’t gotten that far…
So don’t pay attention to my previous answer, it may not be accurate or correct.
I’m on Lesson 11 myself.
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Looks like I’ve been summoned… nice to see my old efforts have some lasting value here. Thank you for fixing the bug in my old deck. 
Hope you all are doing well, I dropped off the Japanese wagon for now. Hopefully I can get back on at some point…
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No problem; I love your deck mods, just was fixing some things that annoyed me slightly 
I might have to release the @chezmax version of @eninny’s version of @hinekidori’s deck. Confuse the poor everyone.
I also have to figure out how to differentiate the two different 聞く cards without actually giving away the meaning.
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I think it would just be the usual つ counter
So for example, “I’m taking 3 classes this semester”:
今学期、3つの授業を取っています。
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@chezmax. Confuse away! It would be cool to come back to Japanese/WK and see the continuation of the Anki mod experiment!
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ahh okay I guess that makes sense. I kinda forgot about those 
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Not sure if this is quite right thread to ask this in, but does anyone know if Genki II covers ばかりand わけ?
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I don’t believe so. I did Genki I and II and didn’t see either of those in my notes.
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