Hi, so I’ve searched all around here for kana-only decks for Anki and I cannot find one that’s working anywhere. I found a Memrise one with 929 words but the link just sends me to the Japanese course on Memrise and I cannot see that deck there. I also found a 10k “kana-only” deck, but after downloading it literally has kanji in it, I don’t see the “kana-only” anywhere. Am I missing something orr?? Am I supposed to cut out all the kanji words in the deck? I’m lost. Please help.
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I think it may be tricky to compose a pure kana deck because many words that are usually written in kana also have a more or less common kanji version, maybe that’s why the decks you’ve found featured both? For instance どこ (where) is almost always written in kana but you may encounter it spelled 何処 in formal contexts. わたし/私 are both extremely common too.
Why are you looking specifically for a kana deck? Just to avoid getting the same vocab twice with WaniKani? In this case I would probably just pick a normal vocab deck and suspend all WaniKani vocab to get it out of the way and focus on the rest.
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Yeah, I’m not sure there even are 929 words that are exclusively kana-only on a regular basis. As a means of practicing the kana itself, it sounds like serious overkill.
For what purpose do you need such a deck?
I use a sound->kana deck to practice handwriting my kana.
Utterly useless in this modern world, I know, but it tickles me so leave me be.
So far I have about 300 words, most of them are names and places.
You know, considering how many times I’ve heard people complain how they struggle to read katakana, maybe there really is a purpose behind even such a deck.
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I have used a pure katakana practice deck early in my studies. This one I think:
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2015522924
It really helped bring my katakana skills in line with the hiragana.
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Ah yes, fair. I could probably think of 929 katakana words. If I had a week or two with nothing better to do. 
A 929-word katakana deck still kinda feels like overkill, though.
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since the main purpose of wanikani is kanji they mostly feature words that use kanji (or with okurigana) but there aren’t many kana-only words (like native Japanese words for example), at least not where I am right now. Did you learn many kana-only words throughout your journey to level 60?
how do I suspend all the WaniKani vocab from a deck without it taking a century 
? is there a tutorial somewhere? or do I have to do it manually?
If you use Anki it’s very easy to suspend cards as you get them in lessons (on desktop you can press the ‘!’ key, on mobile you have to use the context menu). I’d just suspend them when they come up for lessons and you don’t want to study them instead of doing everything at once.
That should be a minor inconvenience if you just suspend a handful of cards every day when they come up.
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