I’m currently at L8 on Wanikani, and trying to learn more vocab through reading. I do think that I least for the next few months, I’d like to use Anki to get additional non Wanikani vocab, so that I can get more comfortable faster when reading.
Is there any good premade Anki deck with Wanikani vocab excluded? I know that technically I could go and remove all of those cards, but if I have to spend time doing this, I might as well make my own deck instead.
I’m also a bit on the edge about using a premade deck, I made the mistake when I started Korean to learn a bunch of useless vocab (for beginner me at the time at least), and I ended up forgetting almost all of it. I just don’t know time wise what’s best, learning relevant vocab but also spending time making the deck, or spending time learning some vocab I could potentially not encounter for a while.
I don’t use the wanikani site but I use a deck based on it. I also have a separate mining deck. I only add vocab where the kanji I already went through in wk or that isn’t in wk at all.
I personally prefer mining because wk is already a premade deck in a sense. For premade stuff that you could use with wanikani, here is two I used to varying degrees: https://torii-srs.com/ is a stand alone srs program that has an option to not include wanikani cards
there is core 6k sorted by wanikani level (you have to suspend the ones you already know though) https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1980148643
At the level you’re at (already reading books) I don’t see how a pre-made deck would serve any purpose. Just mine words from the things you read, they’ll stick in your memory so much better and not be anything you already know. I’m assuming you’re using yomitan or something to make it fast and easy, but if not time to get that set up!
Might not be too useful as you may need to go through a remove words you know but you can export JPDB decks to Anki I’ve heard. If it’s specific books or series that are on there, those might be a shout. I was using the deck lists for また、同じ夢を見ていた and Frieren series (though that was their anime deck as they didn’t have a manga one) and just removing the words I already knew.
If you do decide to use a pre-made deck, maybe consider one that is KR - JP so you also add in the element of reviewing Korean? That would keep it from feeling like you are learning completely useless things.
You could find any beginner Korean Japanese vocab resource such as できる韓国語初級 or キクタン and then look for a premade deck made by a Japanese person on quizlet (There is an anki extension that lets you download quizlet decks so anything on that site can become your own premade anki deck).
This has the added benefit of helping you learn hanja and could help you learn Japanese and Korean vocab better than you would learning each one separately.
There is certainly a lot to be said about making your own deck out of words you encounter, though. Whichever way helps you learn best and is the most fun/aligned with your goals!
I don’t know what is the state of Korean learning tools and resources but the Japanese ones are plentiful and, dare I say, technologically advanced. If you go through the one-time trouble of setting up the mining workflow for the types of content you wish to consume, you’ll be able to add new cards to your mining deck so quickly and easily that most disadvantages of tailored decks over pre-made decks disappear. Especially, if you’re no longer at the absolute beginner stage where you have to front-load the top 1k–2k words. There exists multiple setup guides such as Setup: Anki - Lazy Guide and Setup - Immersion-Based Japanese Learning .
@HopeWaterfall I have a Japanese-Korean-English Anki deck that I’ve been studying. There are 20k cards from JLPT N5 to JLPT N1 and more. But, I have only managed to add Korean definition to about 13k cards since I only add them in when I learn a new card. If you don’t mind that there are still 7k cards with no Korean definition, I can extract the deck and share with you. Some (not all) cards come with audio and image as well.
Sample card. You can change the colors and font sizes by yourself or even not show the English definition if you prefer to see only Japanese and Korean.
I hadn’t thought of that, but definitely a good idea. I’m always scrambling for both time and especially energy, might as well save both by practicing both at the same time.
