Japanese course based on Tae Kim's grammar guide & anime

Language/Japanese

This is a self-contained Japanese course for beginners. It allows to learn Japanese with strong focus on listening comprehension using sample sentences from anime. The deck starts from zero and requires no prior reading skills.

Current deck version: 14 (you can get update notifications by newsletter).

Follow-up deck available (1000 cards / 150 video recommendations) on the project's patreon.

Please read the manual before downloading the deck. There's also a summary video on YouTube.

Key features

  • Starts from zero, no reading skills required
  • Follows Tae Kim's grammar guide, one of the most famous books on Japanese grammar
  • All sample sentences are taken from real anime and dorama
  • All sentences are hand-picked from a pool of ~2.2 million anime flashcards
  • Each card introduces at most 1 new item: grammar point or word (833 words so far)
  • Each card has a question link you can use if something is unclear
  • Cards have minimal grammar explanations and links to more elaborate resources

Acknowledgements Thanks a lot to Tae Kim for creating his fantastic grammar guide and even making it available for free. A big thank you also to the original operator of the mediafire subs2srs folder and all uploaders for creating & collecting so many decks.

Sample Data

Version 14
Sequence 1600436800000
Source Angel Beats! (JP Eng)
Audio
Image
RemarksFront
RemarksBack What did you do! During class [I mean].chuu: during (can be appended to some words)
QuestionLink link
References
Other-Front 何[なに] やってた の よ  授[じゅ] 業[ぎょう] 中[ちゅう] に
Other-Back
Jlab-Kanji 何やってたのよ授業中に
Jlab-KanjiSpaced 何 やってた の よ 授業中 に
Jlab-Hiragana なに やってた の よ じゅぎょうちゅう に
Jlab-KanjiCloze 何 やってた の よ 授業中 に
Jlab-Lemma 何 やる の よ 授業中 に
Jlab-HiraganaCloze なに やってた の よ じゅぎょうちゅう に
Jlab-Translation
Jlab-DictionaryLookup
Jlab-Metadata
Jlab-Remarks
Jlab-ListeningFront nani yatteta no yo jugyouchuu ni
Jlab-ListeningBack nani yatteta no yo jugyouchuu ni
Jlab-ClozeFront nani yatteta no yo jugyouchuu ni
Jlab-ClozeBack nani yatteta no yo jugyouchuu ni
Version 14
Sequence 1600434090000
Source Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei
Audio
Image
RemarksFront
RemarksBack [I] want information.jouhou: information; news
QuestionLink link
References
Other-Front 情[じょう] 報[ほう] が ほしい
Other-Back
Jlab-Kanji 情報がほしい
Jlab-KanjiSpaced 情報 が ほしい
Jlab-Hiragana じょうほう が ほしい
Jlab-KanjiCloze 情報 が ほしい
Jlab-Lemma 情報 が ほしい
Jlab-HiraganaCloze じょうほう が ほしい
Jlab-Translation
Jlab-DictionaryLookup
Jlab-Metadata
Jlab-Remarks
Jlab-ListeningFront jouhou ga hoshii
Jlab-ListeningBack jouhou ga hoshii
Jlab-ClozeFront jouhou ga hoshii
Jlab-ClozeBack jouhou ga hoshii
Version 14
Sequence 1600425700000
Source Inu X Boku Secret Service
Audio
Image
RemarksFront
RemarksBack And as for me, [I] met her son.musuko: sonatta: past tense of au (to meet; to encounter; to see). Remark: "atta" is also the past of "aru". In written Japanese they are easily distinguished by the kanji, but in spoken Japanese it's the context that will help you.
QuestionLink link
References
Other-Front そして  僕[ぼく] は  彼[かの] 女[じょ] の  息[むす] 子[こ] に  会[あ]った
Other-Back
Jlab-Kanji そして僕は彼女の息子に会った
Jlab-KanjiSpaced そして 僕 は 彼女 の 息子 に 会った
Jlab-Hiragana そして ぼく は かのじょ の むすこ に あった
Jlab-KanjiCloze そして 僕 は 彼女 の 息子 に 会った
Jlab-Lemma そして 僕 は 彼女 の 息子 に 会う
Jlab-HiraganaCloze そして ぼく は かのじょ の むすこ に あった
Jlab-Translation
Jlab-DictionaryLookup
Jlab-Metadata
Jlab-Remarks
Jlab-ListeningFront soshite boku ha kanojo no musuko ni atta
Jlab-ListeningBack soshite boku ha kanojo no musuko ni atta
Jlab-ClozeFront soshite boku ha kanojo no musuko ni atta
Jlab-ClozeBack soshite boku ha kanojo no musuko ni atta
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