This's the Japanese Core Vocab deck that everyone knows and loves, except for that it's a LOT bigger in content.
I've tried to combine the 3 famous Core decks I know into a single one, plus some of my own modification, and made this huge deck. Those three decks are Core 10K, Core 10K Supplement and CorePlus.
More info about these deck is here:
http://goo.gl/Y8rqTM and
http://goo.gl/DkX00z .
And here is some details of this deck:
- The number of notes: As you can see, it is nearly 30000 notes (which means 30000 words) in total.
But as recommended by many people, you should only focus on the first 6000 words (the Core 6K) and maybe complete Core 10K if you have have time.
This big number of words is just to ensure that in case you see any new words in anywhere, that word is already included in this deck, so you just need to reschedule the word and learn it right away instead of having to add it by hand.
- The order of the deck: The first 6000 words are sorted in original order (the Core Index). If you want another order, please see the note below.
The next 3567 words are sorted the same as other core10k decks out there (the optimized index).
The rest is the combination of the other 2 decks mentioned above. There may be duplicated words, but they should be at the end of the deck, not the core10k part.
- The fields: Almost the same as other decks. I just changed the name of some field and added a new field called "Detailed Core Index". It's just the interpreted version of core index, for example index 432 should be 'Core 1000 Step 5 - 32'.
For more info about 'Pitch Accent' and 'Wordstructure' fields, please refer to the above deck link.
'Sentence Lookup' field is quite useful for beginners, available for most core6k words, and you should expect some errors because this field is computer-generated.
- The tags: based on tags from CorePlus deck (the core10k deck doesn't have many tags). There are many useful tags such as homophone, suru-verb, (in)transitive verb pairs, JLPT, Usually-kana words, etc.
You can delele the tags you find unnessary, such as '10 phrases you should know about...', there're lots of them.
There are also tags for some popular books like Genki, Tobira, An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese. But those tags would make your colletion a bit messy if you don't need them.
Therefore, I made a separate tag file for those who need it:
https://mega.nz/#!zFsghTAa!K7R447si9AYgMV5FxgwjmGHNGyY9lfV-vIj5m-7NCHs (please comment if link dies). Use this file to import these tags to your deck, remember to choose the right note type, deck and field to import ('tags' field).
- The format of the cards: I made changes to match my preference (it looks quite good on my phone). Remember that you can always change it the way you like. If you need help, it's here:
http://ankisrs.net/docs/manual.html#basic-templates
Some content only appears when available (like Sentence Lookup or Pitch Accent). Download the deck to see if it fits you.
Note: To make changes to the order of the deck, you just need follow this simple procedure: export deck as text file, open text with excel, sort it the way you want, save as unicode text from excel, save as UTF-8 encoding with notepad, delete notes from browser of anki (you can filter new notes by adding 'is:new' into searchbox), re-import.
And also, I don't include sounds and images in this deck, please install another Core10K deck, and copy media from that deck to your media folder. In windows, media folder should be /Documents/Anki/*your username*/collection.media. In Android, it's /sdcard/Ankidroid/collection.media