Hello,
Personally I do Core 4k at the moment until completion, alongside N2 Grammar deck.
I feel like I could do another, but was wondering how other people got on? Any recommendations for decks I should do? I was personally looking at food or nature.
Thanks,
Adam
I just started maybe around 9 months ago, so I’ve been doing the N5 Grammar and Vocabulary deck, as well as the Core 4K deck. I’ve been thinking of adding one more–maybe anime or something–as soon as I finish the N5 ones and I feel that I’m ready.
It depends on how many cards you’re doing at once - e.g. if you learn 3 N5 vocab a day then doing 2 N5 + Core 4K is the same workload regardless of the fact that it’s an extra deck
I do generally 1 vocab + 1 grammar deck (N4 for both) but, especially now I’m coming to the end of N4 stuff, I’m not too strict on whether what I’m learning is N4, N3 or some random other deck
I keep track of vocab (and occasional grammar) in certain video/tv series and in certain books/manga, which I will occasionally add to my reviews if I’ve seen a word pop up multiple times across either that series or just in general seen a few times and think it’s useful
I understand, yeah I do the same too. I have an anki deck on my phone for when I hear a new word multiple times!
At the moment 1, but I’ve done 2-4 before (the 4 was mostly review stuff, so not new material). I usually do a vocab deck and a grammar deck at the same time, but right now I’m waiting to finish more of the vocab before I move up grammar again. I do 12 new vocab per day, so that plus 3 grammar was 15 points a day, which was manageable for me.
I’m doing all of the N decks (3 items per deck). It’s kind of nice because I know most of the N5/N4 stuff so its kind of an easier buffer between harder items. I guess it’s not the most efficient use of my time to study words I already kind of know but it makes me feel happier LMAO and ofc there’s often other meanings/use cases I’m less familiar with.
I also add a lot of vocabulary to my queue just from what I am reading, and a lot of it tends to fall in the n3-n1 range or outside of the N deck area.
TBH I don’t always actually study new words from my decks because I add so much from reading anyway. I currently have a pretty miserable backlog and I’m trying to ease back on SRS anyway so I am probably not the best person to be giving advice either…
(but actually my advice is probably rather than study decks add words that you see in your life)
What kind of stuff do you read? I find myself reading intermediate articles and some words are definitely very formal or maybe not as common. I also wanted to learn casual Japanese only 
My teacher definitely doesn’t let that happen though.
I’ll definitely try upping it for a bit. I want to clear Core 4k ASAP 
I think it’s best to focus on what’s currently on your plate rather than trying other decks. Reviews can pile up tremendously… If you feel like you have extra time to do another deck, you can either alow you to learn more words per day or immerse more by reading novels ! I’ll give you a link with graded reading resources :
other difficulty list:
https://learnnatively.com/, https://jpdb.io/, https://jiten.moe/
Brand New Person
From here on, I think it’s good to have grammar be slightly further ahead than vocab, which is a reversal of how you start out. You’ll finish the N4 grammar about the same time as N5 vocab is complete in Bunpro. Wanikani users can take their time, aiming to complete only level 25 by the end of N4 and 50 by the end of N2.
Bunpro’s not without flaws on the vocab side. The JLPT vocab decks are full of words that were likely defined within the test itself (example: 丑/zodiac kanji and 鼈) and does not scaffold or teach the basics of understanding kanji at all.
Lastly, on mining decks, I think they are a dated strategy in a world where Bunpro exists. I think mining should be done no earlier than after you’re N4 level, but probably not until you’re in the middle or even done with N2.
I have 8 decks, but I don’t worry about actually doing them all. I mostly have them selected so they are easier to pull from and I’ll pull from the decks I most want to learn from that day. Order is important when doing it that way so the stuff you are most focused on come up first with the one click learn button. I also add a lot with search for words I come across enough in immersion to be worth adding.
Been experimenting with a lot of smaller decks, mainly one per book. This way when a word comes up in reviews it’s easier to remember usage context, or look it up in that book. Also easier to reorder / suspend whole decks.
You don’t have to add every new word you see! Just what you think is useful.
At the moment I am trying to read light novels so theres a lot of literary language which probably wouldnt be worth adding to your study queue for you, but also characters talk a lot which helps too.