For fun, I've been teaching myself Japanese. I'm using the method outlined here, which is highly influenced by Khatzumoto over at alljapaneseallthetime.com. Part of the method involves reading-for-understanding (not for rote memorization) thousands of example sentences.
People commonly ask me if they can save time by downloading pre-made flashcards. I don't know of any such flashcards. But here, you can look at mine. Exactly as exported from Mnemosyne. The formatting is generic enough that you could use them for Anki flashcards, SuperMemo flashcards, VTrain flashcards, or any other SRS flashcards.
To see these cards probably, you'll obviously need a font which can render Japanese characters.
A bunch of flashcards are one-word direct translation flashcards. These aren't really optimal. I made those before I discovered the 10,000 example sentence method. I'm (verrrry slowwwwly) replacing their English definitions with Japanese definitions from a J-J dictionary. In the one-word flashcards for verbs, an asterisk (*) indicates the verb takes a godan conjugation instead of an ichidan conjugation.
Most of the sentences are from either the Yahoo Japanese-Japanese dictionary or from Tae Kim's Japanese Guide to Japanese Grammar.
Four Thousand Flashcards: 4kcards.txt
Just by looking at these flashcards and reading my webpage, you've already taken a big step toward polylingualism.
Here are some other articles you'll enjoy reading.
How to Learn a Language the Right Way
The Two Types of Music
Learn the Idioms, not just the Word
People commonly ask me if they can save time by downloading pre-made flashcards. I don't know of any such flashcards. But here, you can look at mine. Exactly as exported from Mnemosyne. The formatting is generic enough that you could use them for Anki flashcards, SuperMemo flashcards, VTrain flashcards, or any other SRS flashcards.
To see these cards probably, you'll obviously need a font which can render Japanese characters.
A bunch of flashcards are one-word direct translation flashcards. These aren't really optimal. I made those before I discovered the 10,000 example sentence method. I'm (verrrry slowwwwly) replacing their English definitions with Japanese definitions from a J-J dictionary. In the one-word flashcards for verbs, an asterisk (*) indicates the verb takes a godan conjugation instead of an ichidan conjugation.
Most of the sentences are from either the Yahoo Japanese-Japanese dictionary or from Tae Kim's Japanese Guide to Japanese Grammar.
Four Thousand Flashcards: 4kcards.txt
Just by looking at these flashcards and reading my webpage, you've already taken a big step toward polylingualism.
Here are some other articles you'll enjoy reading.
How to Learn a Language the Right Way
The Two Types of Music
Learn the Idioms, not just the Word
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2 comments:
Hello Glowing Face Man!
Thank-you for sharing these thousands of flashcards.
Regarding the mnemosyne project, I totally agree that some type of SRS is needed to help review material you are learning in an efficient manner. Unfortunately, after downloading the mnemosyne software and installing it, I was unable to get the sound feature to work. I think it was that I couldn't figure out the way to enter the path to the sound files correctly. I posted some pleas for support in this and was unable to find help. Meanwhile, I found another shareware SRS called Vtrain which is easy to use, allows the connection of sound, pictures, video as well as a function for comments which can be hidden and unhidded as you review. It also allows you to customize the repeat intervals which I find useful since I am 50 years old and I think my memory decay time may be somewhat shorter than younger learners.
Do you know of a website or blog where less technical users can get help with simple problems using mnemosyne? I'm not sure I am going to change now but I would like to try and figure out how to use the mnemosyne software and then decide.
Hi.. can you repost your 4k flash cards? I tried it with mnemosyne and it game an error. Maybe if you post it in XML format?
Thank you
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