Fundamental Vocabulary to Learn Japanese

Finished JP1K today, haven’t missed a day since 3rd of July, I also do sentence mining while doing this deck, Proud to say I’m at around 2B – C, I have tried turning off Japanese sub lately and it’s suprising how much I can understand and improve.

After seeing 100 words from the JP1K Anki deck I was able to read this short passage. I understood 98% of it without lookups. Nowhere near the level of most people here but I’m happy with my progress so far. This is day 11 of using Refold for Japanese, this stuff works. Can’t wait to finish the 1K deck and start immersing more and understanding what I’m listening to. 😀

I hit 100 cards in JP1K today, after missing yesterday and having quite a bit waiting for me to catch up on today. I am also <50% mature on my hiragana, which feels nice. Immersion has been a little slow lately, but I’m understanding more and more conversational Japanese everyday, which is nice.

Over 100 words on the 1k deck right now and feeling like I’m starting to get a hang of things ! Also feeling very good about my pace as in the past, I have really overdone it with Anki and burned out after a few months. 6 new cards a day in French and Japanese is feeling very doable

IDK if this is a win but I’m doing jp1k (half of it) and I understood all kanji from this Instagram story

I’m starting to recognize words from the JP1K deck in my immersion and I even remember their meaning, it looks like I’m also able to recognize the topic, subject and object of sentences in some instances

Man this deck is sooo high quality! I love it

REALLY digging the new deck. Seems so much easier for me to remember things having the sentences there.

About 6 weeks into immersion and 70% of the way through the JP1K deck and I’m starting to feel that Kanji fluency, I’ve noticed I have to look at characters way less often to remember the reading.

The benefit of the new JP1Kv2 deck for those at Stage 2C+ is so underrated! Periodically listening to the isolated pitch accent for the most common words outside of immersion is chef’s kiss.

On my 2nd day of jp1k deck and I’m already recognising words while watching (reading immersion) non non biyori.

Normally I keep to myself, but nobody gets how progress feels unless they are also going through it. But basically I finished JP1K and now my reviews for the deck take like half the time, which is awesome. I notice a lot of words in my immersion and can occasionally understand an entire sentence. When I read, it’s easier to understand stuff that I otherwise couldn’t. I can just tell I’m making progress and I just wanted to share.

The new JP1K is soooooooo good guys! It is freaking awesome, love the fact that it tells you which steps to follow for every word and that the sentences are gradually created with the words that appeared before!!! (just started right now haha)

I was mid JP1K V1, but I am totally in for another ride with this on.

That took a while, but I’ve finally got where I’m consistently immersing, and doing JP1K (which you should check out by the way, it’s amazing so far). I’m currently about 40% of the way through JP1K, should be finished with it by next month at my current pace, maybe sooner since I’m thinking about increasing the number of new cards I learn every day.

I’m only 4–5 days into the jp1k v2, but I feel it’s much better than V1.

Something that drags your progress with the v1 deck is how easily the cards are forgotten, even if you saw them 10 seconds ago.

Wow the V2 deck is insanely better than the V1. I really struggled with the V1 deck and ended up abandoning it after a couple weeks. I just couldn’t recall the meanings of the words no matter how hard I tried. This new deck is completely different. The example sentences make such a huge difference. I love how the sentences incorporate words you have already learned and they really help me retain the meanings of the words. So much work went into this deck and it really shows. Kuddos.

So as to give some feedback for the jp1k sentence deck, I’m not well versed in what makes a good card or what might not, but I have to say, this deck alone has skyrocketed my comprehension. I love it so much, and it’s super fun to come back to every day! I hope that at some point a separate jp2k deck comes out or something where there are 1000 more sentences, because I would really enjoy that. 😀

100 words in to jp1k, and I was looking through my jpop playlist and I started recognizing kanji ITS CLICKING

I think I just experienced my first “snap” moment. I went back to listen to some of Perfume’s songs, whose lyrics I am familiar with, but previously only knew as sounds without meaning. As I’m listening, I start catching that some of the words are ones I know, and I felt this weird shifting feeling in my head. They morphed from being just “sounds” that I know, to actually carrying some meaning.

As someone who used Kanji Damage, Tango and eventually settled on Book 1 of RTK and created my own stories/ producing kanji through stories and writing them 50 times each. I can say with full confidence that the JP1k deck is my favourite. I feel like my retention rate (10 new cards a day) has increased significantly. I’m aware that JP1k is quite simple to make. In fact, I could make it myself, but most people just want a straightforward way of learning.

100 words into jp1k, and I’m already seeing the words I’ve learned used in a couple places in animes I’m immersing in. Only a few days in, and this feeling is very motivating.

I’ve done Anki for three months now, and in a row on top of that. I started off using a whole bunch of different frequency decks for Japanese but ever since I bought the JP1K anki has just felt smooth.

Completed my first 30 days of Refold! I learned 250 words from JP1K deck and did 38 hours of total immersion. I’m recognizing some words during immersion and there were some occasions where I can completely understand a phrase/sentence. I can recognize words that I learned years ago (from college). I can’t wait to watch more shows, complete the JP1K deck, and acquire more Japanese while having fun during the process.