Hello fellow community members,
I am a hobby programmer and enjoy creating small scripts or programs to solve niche problems of mine. I saw a post the other day about called “[How/When Do I Begin Immersion?](https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/x2hf4r/howwhen_do_i_begin_immersion/)”.
Therein the reddit user u/ReaperOverload recommend a lot of ways one could start immersing. One of the tips they mentioned in their post was sorting Anki cards by frequency via this method [here](https://github.com/MarvNC/JP-Resources#sorting-mined-anki-cards-by-frequency) . To be honest, I liked the premise of this method, but this seemed to be extremely cumbersome, especially for cards that you would have to backfill.
# Bulk Generate Japanese Vocabulary Frequency (Original Add-on)
I went searching for an Anki add-on and found an old Anki add-on [Bulk-Generate Japanese Vocab Frequency Ranking](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1612642956). Unfortunately, the person is not exactly a programmer (their words, not mine), and the software has basically become abandonware at this point and no longer works properly. I inspected the code, and with the help of the other commentors, noticed that there were only a few basic tweaks that needed to be implemented to make it work.
# Japanese Vocabulary Frequency – (Improved Add-on)
I created a new version [Japanese Vocab Frequency](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1004691625) of this add-on that works with 2.48+. Since this is a port and bug-fix, the add on works essentially the same as the broken one. The add-on basically inserts the frequency of a Japanese word to a given Anki field. The add-on uses the Rikaisama (202k words) as reference. As their is no calculation going on in the background, it is a simple look up and then match, the add-on can quickly add on cards. If you are unhappy with the database, you can point it a custom one you trained or found provided that it has the same structure as the one provided.
# Report Errors
I am somewhat nervous here as I don’t usually post code. So, please be kind to me as I am simply a hobby programmer. However, If you found this add-on at all helpful, I would appreciate any feedback or constructive criticism.Please report any errors to the Github repo.
[https://github.com/christopher-chandler/Bulk\_Generate\_Japanese\_Vocab\_Frequency](https://github.com/christopher-chandler/Bulk_Generate_Japanese_Vocab_Frequency)
Best,
Chris
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