It’s time consuming to make this deck (and any other deck) so I was wondering if there is already a pre-made ones.
The popular ones and those that I try to find has so much information and in a format that I don’t need. I just want simple picture flashcards with only Japanese inside.
Thanks.
PS: If there isn’t one. I am prepared to make one automatically and code something up. However, I would need a resource where I can get the list of Japanese words. Of course, I’ll be happy to share them.
PPS: I think this way is very good since in will never need to involve another language. Just pure japanese.
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There are only so many words an image can describe…
I’ve seen several such courses on memrise like:
[https://app.memrise.com/course/351852/japanese-with-pictures-audio/](https://app.memrise.com/course/351852/japanese-with-pictures-audio/)
It can be picture-hiragana or picture-pronunciation. Similarly as far as I know you can edit Anki decks and either add or delete some fields. I would also like to say a bit about such picture-pronunciation format, because in my opinion it’s quite specific. Not so much in the meaning that not all words can be expressed via pictures, the more abstract something is, the less likely for us to find physical presentation of that, but rather that objects and words are slightly different associations for us. When we speak about beginner stages, people who learn with pictures are faster at naming physical objects, like if you see an apple, you can immediately say/think it’s “ringo”, while people who learn with words have a slight delay, be it noticeable or not. Sometimes it’s quite noticeable and people spend from half a second to several seconds trying to recall how it’s named. It’s basically like a bridge, we know a pair of two languages, for example, “apple-ringo”, so we see some apple, we know apple is ringo, therefore it’s ringo. The situation becomes the opposite when we talk about texts, because people who learn with words train to recognize textual representation, and people who learn with pictures would have a small delay here. It’s also a bridge, but now from visual to textual formats. Such transformation depends on what we try to do, because words basically can be expressed as physical instance, text, sound, handwriting (as physical movement) or communication (as output, ability to use it in our speech). It all involves slightly different skills, and just by seeing or hearing we won’t learn how to write it and so on.
This becomes less noticeable with time, because we fill the blanks. People who learn with pictures would see texts too, while people who learn with words would get context where it’s used. So we mostly talk about initial stages, when people only get to know it, nonetheless it might be important depending on personal goals. Giving personal example, I want to read books, so for me textual experience (ability and speed of textual recognition) is much more important than pictures or pronunciations.