Fundamental Vocabulary to Learn Japanese

• High-quality Images: Now, as you go through the deck, you can use clear, high-resolution pictures to help you remember what you’re learning.
• Better card order: Our data wizards worked their magic to improve the card order in the deck! Now the sequence of cards is even better at building on words and concepts you have already learned.
• Brand new design: The JP1K has received a complete makeover! Now the deck is as beautiful as it is functional.
• User-friendly customization: Want the deck to match your personal aesthetic? We made it easier than ever to change the text size and color.

Yes! It’s a bit complicated so we created a tutorial video for you. Watch the tutorial here.

Yep! It just takes time, energy, and effort. The Japanese deck took our team of data scientists, high-level Japanese learners, and Japanese natives about 250 hours to create. We’ve done the hard work so you don’t have to.

If it’s your first time studying a language, then you probably should.

Duolingo is a language-learning video game. It’s a great way to try out a language to see if you like it and to build a daily habit of engaging with the language.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t get you very far, and definitely won’t help you understand Japanese.

Yep! But they have a few problems:

• They aren’t focused on helping you understand TV shows and casual conversation.
• They don’t have native audio.
• The words are not in an optimized order to make learning faster and easier.
• The example sentences are crowdsourced and usually low quality.

If you want to use a free deck, here’s the best we’ve found: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1146263310

NO! This just builds the initial foundation for understanding Japanese. Fluency comes after thousands of hours spent with the language.

Check out our Japanese quickstart guide for content recommendations.

Congrats 🥳! Head on over to our guide on sentence mining to learn how to make cards directly from your immersion.

We analyzed the frequency of words within 16 slice-of-life anime series and then only chose words that were common within a series AND across many series. We cross-referenced this list against a database of thousands of Japanese dramas to guarantee that the words were applicable across other media domains. A Japanese learner and Japanese native then reviewed the word list to manually filter out any words that didn’t seem useful.

You’ll learn about 700 kanji using this deck.

Yes, over 90% of the sentences in this deck are 1T. This means that for over 90% of the example sentences you will already know every word in the sentence, except for the new word you’re learning. This makes learning new words much faster and easier!