UPDATED Japanese Vocab Template (Fluent Forever Method)

UPDATE: I have increased the interval to 200% because cards were too easy (because each word is tested 4 or 5 different ways). You may have to play around with this. After a month or so, if your cards are still too easy, you can increase this number, or if they are too hard you can decrease it. I also added fields for example phrases/sentences, but these are not tested as a card. This is my personal method of making vocab cards. I have been using it for two months, and words stick super well so far. It is inspired by fluent forever, but I am using a different method for kanji and sentences, so I just make vocab cards. This deck only has an example card in it. This is a template for making your own cards. The name of the card type I used is "iknow vocabulary." Each vocab word has 5 cards. The back of the cards all contain the following: picture of the word, Meaning in English (written in white text, so you only have to read it if you want to, by highlighting it), audio (from forvo), kanji, reading in kana, example sentence/phrase in English (written in white text, so you only have to read it if you want to, by highlighting it), And the example in Japanese. The five types of cards are: 1. audio (pass as good if you could think of the picture/meaning of the word). 2. picture with meaning in white (pass as good if you can say the word out loud) 3. kanji (pass as good if you correctly type in the reading in kana) 4. kanji (pass as good if you correctly think of the meaning/picture) 5. audio (pass as good if you correctly type in the kanji) (Sentences are not tested.) Each card is only testing one aspect of the word. So, if on the picture card, you can only think of how to say the word, but not what kanji it uses, you should still pass the card. A different card will test you on if you know the correct kanji. It's important to choose good pictures, because you want to be thinking in ideas, and only look at your English meaning when you can't remember what the picture represents. I search for a picture first with the Japanese word, then if I can't find one using Japanese, I will search in English. When I can't find a good picture, I will modify it or draw my own stick figures in MS paint. If you don't want to use a picture (an abstract word like "already") you can type the word into the image field and it will show up on your card. (Words in the meaning field are in white and will only be able to be seen if you highlight it). Pick your vocab from your textbook, media mining, fluent forever basic vocab list ( https://blog.fluent-forever.com/base-vocabulary-list/ ), or anywhere else. I get my kanji/readings/meaning from: jisho.org Get audio from: https://forvo.com Get pictures from: https://www.google.com/search?q=Type+your+search+here&tbm=isch&sout=1 (These are the right size image for flash cards) Get example sentences/phrases from: https://ejje.weblio.jp/sentence/content/赤 (This site may look intimidating because it is all in Japanese, but just put your word in the search bar, and the second tab on the top is where you will find examples.) Related cards are buried, so you will only see one of the 5 types for a particular word on a given day. You don't have to have a kanji and reading. If it's a kana only word, or the kana is more common than the kanji, put the kana in the "expression" field and leave the "reading" field blank. Anki will only make 4 cards is "reading" is left blank, and will not test you on the reading of the kana word. By default new cards is set to 0 per day. I manually pick how many new cards I want after I finish my reviews. First will show up new cards that were formerllt buried. Then after that will be your new words. As far as I know, adding audio from forvo doesn't work on Android. I make my cards on desktop and study them on my phone. I haven't used the "ID" and "type" fields for much. I have been using "type" for part of speech (noun, verb, etc) and other relevant information. Anything in these fields will not show up on the front or back of the card. You can only see it if you go into the edit menu of the card. You can use these fields however you want.