Anki pre-made kana flash cards?

[Sephael]

Does anyone have those for the newest anki? I'm having issues importing/opening the older *.anki files with the newest one.

PS: Any japanese-related flash cards for anki are good, but kana (hiragana & katakana) are the most important.

Thanks in advance!

[chryuop]

Nope, I cut thick paper in small rectangles and write my own flash cards. When I know well the ones I am studying I make 10 new ones and add them to my pile and go on studying them (now it is really eating up a lot of time just going through them all once hee hee).

[SHAD0W]

Originally Posted by chryuop

Nope, I cut thick paper in small rectangles and write my own flash cards.

Best idea. Writing your own helps with recognition

Im doing it with kanji and its helping lots!

[sushidushi]

Originally Posted by SHAD0W

Best idea. Writing your own helps with recognition

Im doing it with kanji and its helping lots!

I fear that if I write my own and form the characters incorrectly, I might get in to bad habits. I feel really daunted about learning Japanese.

[SHAD0W]

Originally Posted by sushidushi

I fear that if I write my own and form the characters incorrectly, I might get in to bad habits. I feel really daunted about learning Japanese.

Well then maybe you need to ask yourself if its really for you?

Google a hiragana table, copy it into word (or whatever, but keep the origional site up in a different window), turn up the font size to something you can see very clearly - maybe so each character is the size of your thumb, print it, cut them out, write the Romaji on the back of each (using the site to help) and your sorted

[Sephael]

I'm guessing that youre not really getting what I mean

I'm looking for these
http://ichi2.net/anki/wiki/ExtraDecks

but they have to be compatible with the newest Anki
http://ichi2.net/anki/download/index.html



PS: I already have a paper set.

[SHAD0W]

Originally Posted by Sephael

I already have a paper set.

And your not listening to what I said.. I've been there and done that dude. I was using realkana for ages but i got nothing, just didnt suit my learning style. Used paper flash cards where I could write the symbol over the top of the printed one while saying its syllable and i got it in less than 2 weeks.

Learn from other peoples mistakes so you don't have to eat the dirt too.

[Sephael]

What you said wasnt even aimed at me.

Besides, I just want to test it out. Loads of people recommended Anki/Mnemosyne to me, so I simply want to give it a shot.

[Befron]

I would not recommend learning Kana like that. I am learning kanji with a kanji a day. By Richard S. Keirstead. IT gives you a kanji, the on pronunciation in katakana and kun pronunciation in hiragana. So, I would recommend getting this, using a kana chart, everyday, do two or three kanji (even though it's one a day lol) and look up their pronunciations. This constant looking up and using the kana for something, such as the pronunciation, will help you memorize them quicker then just outright memorization games with cards, plus since there are so few, it's really not worth it. So basically learn them along with something else, not just them alone. That's how I did it, and I feel I have a good grasp on them. Hope this helps.

[chryuop]

Learning a kanji a day would be good, but are you learning it the right way?
I am studying kanji and so far I arrived to know 120 both readings ON and KUN, but that is not enough. I write the kanji on one side of my flash card then I turn it over and divide it in 2. Left side contains ON reading and right side KUN reading...but not only that. Under each reading I write also the translation and when I study them I repeat reading and meaning at the same time.
Knowing a bunch of sounds is not useful at all.
I will give you a an example with one of the kanji that took longer to me to learn: 生. Easy for me to say quickly now セイ、ショウ、い、う、は、なま、き、は (well actually not really easy, because I have learnt them in the way I will describe...so the come out of my mind easily as full words not just readings). But that is not the way to study them in my opinion. To me it is more useful when repeating them starting...セイ、ショウ:life. 生ける: arrange flowers. いきる: live. いかす：let live, revive, highlight a talent. なま: raw, live (of show). き: plain alcohol without ice.
うみ: birth. うむ: to give birth, to produce. うまれる: to be born. はやず: grow plants. はえる: to grow up of a plant or being born of a plant.
Of course you can't expect to get all the meanings and all the readings (think just to 上 which has tons of readings, along with 下, 生 and 付 so far the hardest to learn I have met), but it is a good way to know kanji and you will see that learning 1 a day will become rather hard.

Just my 2 cents of course...