So I’m like 200 words into the core 2k anki deck and today or so Genki I should arrive. Originally I just wanted to use it for the grammar but now I am conflicted wether I should keep on studying the core deck. But I am scared that I won’t be able to use the grammar if I don’t learn Genki vocabulary.
I also heard you can change the order of the anki deck to fit Genki vocab but I don’t know how to do that and if that’s working out.
Should I drop the core deck and start learning Genki vocab or should I somehow combine them..? Because I am already studying ~18 words a day from the core deck (not really new to Japanese but restarting). Additional Genki vocab would be over the top.
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What i do with Genki is to learn the vocab in advance before beginning a chapter. By doing so i just add around 10 vocab flashcards from the Genki vocab every day and i am done with adding new cards before the next chapter starts.
I haven’t done the Core deck, but i would think it is reasonable to just slow down with the core deck to like ~10 words a day and then get the remaining 8 cards from Genki to stay at 18 cards a day like you’re doing now. But honestly, i would slow down – i’m not comfortable with more than 10 new flashcards a day.
Genki I vocab is not a lot, and it’s very simple everyday words and verbs anyways. Genki II starts having some more difficult vocabulary.
I tried to do a core deck and Genki at the same time – it was too much for me. It may not be for you, so do whatever is working. I felt like I could get more out of Genki by drilling the vocab from the book in Anki.
I think Genki 1&2 gives you about 1700 words. They’re used in the dialogues and exercises found in both the textbook and workbook. The Core 2K should see a lot of overlap.
Put Core on hold. Get an Anki genki deck. Do that and the book. After finishing Genki, restart Core, or do something else.
Do both.
I’d recommend doing both, slow down the new cards in the core deck if you have to, but you’ll find that a lot of the vocab in the core deck is stuff you’ll see in Genki anyway, they’ll help each other.
Just keep doing something and you will continue to make progress. Things that are hard today, you’ll come back to eventually and you’ll find that they start clicking.
I don’t know how Anki works, but you should be able to get a Genki deck and put that as your priority so your new cards come from there first.
I think it’s a good idea and it’s what I did. It made working through the chapters much smoother when I already knew the vocabulary ahead of time. I had Genki I and Genki II decks in order, with a Core deck behind it. There isn’t really that much vocabulary in the books so you’ll probably get through the vocabulary much faster than you do the books, especially at 18 words/day. I was actually through both decks before I started the second book.
There’s also lots of overlap between the content, so it’s not like it’s Genki Only words. You’ll be making significant progress towards the Core vocabulary by doing Genki.
Do both but limit the amount of new cards from each deck to about 5 or less
I am a big fan of the Tango Anki decks starting with Tango N5 for vocabulary. They are set up in an i +1/1t format which means they teach you with sentences but every sentence only has 1 new word. That way you see the words and grammar you have learned over and over in a natural way. They also work great with Genki. I used them myself and then moved in to sentence mining later on to get to a good level of japanese.
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/866090213
Tokini Andy has a great play list you should use along with Genki. When it comes to starting japanese I pretty much agree with everything in this video except I prefer the free Migaku Kanji God addon Anki addon over RTK. The addon creates RTK style cards which are based on the kanji coming up in your Anki decks.
https://youtu.be/L1NQoQivkIY