You Should Be Using Anki

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➣ Starter Decks (Japanese)

➣ Addons

➣ Popup Dictionaries

➣ Dictionary Files

Outline
0:00 Introduction
1:07 The Role of Anki
6:05 Finding Words
4:48 Card Types
9:08 Consistency
10:19 Settings
12:11 Starter Decks
13:07 Addons
14:19 Making Automatic Cards
16:29 Card Audio Fixes
17:42 Conclusion

[NekoCinnamon]

I trust this penguin more than I ever trusted any textbook

[Entropic_Alloy]

"If you use it correctly" is key. Because you can easily fall into burning all your time into an Anki death spiral, which would be better spent with gaining input.

[degariuslozak]

Bro convinced me to start learning Japanese and he is giving me steps

What a legend

[fatimahmakgatho]

Thank you for actually talking about WHERE to get words. Too many ppl say "just immerse."

It always ticks me off when ppl are too vague.

[makariostokes]

You have no idea how handy your videos are. I’m taking Japanese in college and I noticed it’s not actually set up so you actually learn the language. I’m going to try your methods. Keep up the great videos!

[canaldecasta]

I downloaded plenty of anki related stuff a couple months ago and I kid you not I was so lost the first time I never looked back.
Thank you.

[anachristi]

For my ADHD folks, flash cards are a great way to learn and memorize!

[yamsfreckles]

PLEASE DO NOT STOP MAKING THOSE VIDEOS THEY ARE SO HELPFUL TT
also literally boosting my motivation I appreciate it so so much

[celiazarzuelo]

I've been studying Japanese for 4 years but I haven't made much progress. I wanted to try immersion but didn't really know how. I recently discovered your channel and I think it's super useful, this video helped me a lot, tysm!

[hyperx]

I really appreciate you uploading so often now please keep doing it, I’m actively learning Japanese and your channel has helped me the most!

[jamesbarantor]

I use a lot of your methodologies to help me out. I'm a beginner so I'm starting with learning Hiragana so I can even read some stuff. The immersion method has definitely been helping and watching normal J-dramas has helped me pause and look up words so I slowly understand what's going on in context.

Keep up the good work, you are definitely helping folks like me.

[balkan.improvement]

Thank you penguin man, you have revitalazed my old goal of learning japanese, now i am making progress.

[TusanoTradingCo]

Thank you for this, between this and the genki textbooks and the immersion/podcast table you've given me a solid basis to start learning. My great grandfather unfortunately swore off the language for my entire family after 9066 came down, so this is a huge and appreciated boon for me to revive and learn the language for the American side of my family

[kimberleyg]

Thank you kind Penguin!
On behalf of my fellow learners can I just thank you for this in depth video and tutorial. I've stopped and started my studies so much because I struggled to get Anki to work for my needs and I don't tend to gel with other people's premade decks. Your video helped fix my confusion and multiple year battle with Anki.

[Solidlauti]

Thank you so much, these videos are super useful. I feel like stressing over getting the right tools, applying the right method, etc, has stopped me from learning Japanese before. So your videos have been really helpful!

[YannMar]

I knew Anki wasn‘t user friendly but DAMN

[Arisulv]

you have no idea how much you are helping us

[Mahiru-shiina]

I tried Anki and it worked great. I’m slowly expanding my vocabulary.

[frnck]

Thank you Trenton! I now feel ready to start my learning journey. I started listening to podcasts a couple days ago after listening to your "Learning Japanese isn't that hard" video, but I don't understand a single word right now. Hopefully I'll get one once in a while with my Anki deck setup.

Thanks a lot for the lenghty explanation and great video once again!

[EvanFar_]

This video came RIGHT as I needed it, thank you so much.