Editing Japanese learning resources (section)

== Anki ==
Anki is spaced repetition software. Shows you cards, and if you remember the card, waits longer to show you it. In this manner, arbitrary numbers of facts can be learned.

My recommendations are to make sure that leeches are being suspended, else they will come to take up most of the time - leeches are cards that, for whatever reason, Anki isn't working to teach you, and so you should learn them elsewhere. Limit the number of new cards per day, I found that doubling the number of new cards per day doubled the amount of time I was spending looking at cards and doubled my error rate on cards that weren't new. I use 5 new cards per day, though the precise number depends on the person. 

I currently have these Anki decks running:

* [https://gohoneko.neocities.org/learn/anki Core 2k/6k Optimised Japanese Vocabulary], recommended by [https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/wiki/gambsguide Gamb's guide]. Contains the top 6000 Japanese words in order as sampled from ten years of issues of [[wikipedia:The_Asahi_Shimbun|the Asahi Shimbun]] newspaper in the 90s (so it has some dated words; reddit points out that it contains [[wikt:日ソ|日ソ]], meaning "Japan and the Soviet Union" [two syllables in Japanese]). [https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1146263310 Core 2.3k] is a smaller deck that Gamb's guide also recommends, made up of 2k/6k filtered to remove uncommon and redundant words.
* A deck where I add random Japanese words and phrases it seems like it would be useful to know. Generally my heuristic for this is that if I want to say something in Japanese, or read something in Japanese, that I encounter in real life, I add it to the deck. The first word I added to the deck was 辛口, from an untranslated menu; the most recent word I've added is 首輪, meaning collar.
* A deck for [https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1081858108 hiragana] and a deck for [https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1027153995 katakana]. These decks are mostly learned. 
* A small deck that contains the most common [[wikipedia:Japanese_particles|particles]]. I have this separate from other vocab decks so that I know that I'm looking at a particle and not a word. Core 2k/6k excludes particles, which I think is a good idea; particles are more "grammar" than "vocabulary".