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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.

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