Looking around the ‘net and in AnkiWeb, I’ve always found it hard to find a deck that matches all of these criteria. I personally use all of these on a daily basis and highly recommend them. The JLPT makes this a little bit easier by establishing levels to progress through. Spending time learning academic words when you are just starting out in the language isn’t going to be the most beneficial to you and vice versa. You also want to have a deck that is specific to your level. For example, かける or 掛ける has something close to 23 senses according to WWWJDIC. You don’t want it to just give you a basic definition or only one ‘sense’ of the word when there could be several senses for one word. It is important that a deck is pretty through, too. Some people say it is easy to unlearn bad information if you focus on it enough, but I’ve never been a big believer in that. You want an accurate deck, because if your deck has the wrong definitions and you learn those words or practice those words with the wrong definitions, it will become increasingly more difficult to unlearn these incorrect definitions with every repetition. This is even more true if you are studying for one of the JLPT levels. A deck that is accurate, through and clear as well as specific to the set of words that you need to be studying. You can learn vocabulary and phrases a variety of ways, but probably the very best way to lock that information in, is with spaced repetition with a program like Anki.īut, in order to use Anki or any flashcard system for that matter you need to have a good deck to practice with.

Flashcards, they are in many ways the meat and potatoes of studying a language.

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