Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck [1960 Flashcards with Audio, IPA & Images]

Do you want to learn the Japanese A2 vocabulary in the most effective and efficient way possible?

If so, the Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck is the best solution for you!

In this post I am going to explain everything you need to know about why you should use the Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck, what it is, and how to get it!

Here’s a video that shows you the content of the Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck:

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Why should you use the Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck?

1. Practice the Japanese A2 Vocabulary

The Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck has 1960 flashcards. These flashcards contain every single concept that you need to know! This means you have a tremendous amount of exercises. The best part is that the exercises will adapt to your performance, creating a personalized practice experience.

This gives you a tailor-made practice deck. You will be able to practice every single facet of Japanese A2 vocabulary.

2. Improve your Japanese comprehension and pronunciation

All of the flashcards in the Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck have audio files. Each word is accompanied by two audio files: one for the sentence it’s in and another for the word itself.

This means that you will know how the words and sentences are supposed to sound in Japanese. This will greatly improve your Arabic comprehension. Moreover, because you hear the audio, you also improve your own pronunciation.

Additionally, for further clarity, the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is provided for all words and sentences. This means that you can check pronunciation whenever needed.

3. The best way to memorize the Japanese A2 vocabulary

One of the biggest advantages of using the Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck, is that it is the PERFECT tool for memorizing what you have learned. No longer will you keep forgetting what you studied!

Read more on the benefits of Anki in the next chapter!

Why is it so important to use Anki?

Have you ever studied for an exam and then forgotten everything a few days after the exam? It is a feeling that most of us experience.

In fact, according to Art Kohn Ph.D, a professor at Duke University, within 24 hours most of us forget an average of 70% of new information.

Often this would not be a problem. However, when it comes to language this can become a huge issue. Learning vocabulary and grammar to then forget them later on would be a disaster!

Anki prevents this from happening and ensures that you remember what you study. Let’s take a look at the 3 reasons why Anki is so effective.

1. Active recall

Active recall means that Anki asks you a question and you have to remember the answer. This is more powerful than passive learning and improves your memory.

When you retrieve information from your brain, you strengthen your ability to retain information and create connections in your brain between different concepts.

2. Spaced Repetition

Spaced repetition introduces new concepts in batches to you. A flashcard appears and if you know the answer the flashcard moves to the next batch. This batch will be shown to you at a later time. The more often you answer correctly the later the intervals become.

However, should you answer wrongly, the flashcard moves to the first batch again, and you will see it more often.

This system finds its origins in the spacing effect. The spacing effect illustrates how people learn better if reviews are spread out over time.

3. Ease

Anki takes care of all your scheduling. There’s no need to calculate when you need to practice which cards. Furthermore, Anki is available on both iOS and Android users, so you can download it on your smartphone and use it wherever you are.

Card Structure of the Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck

All words in the Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck are used in sentences to help you learn them in context. Each flashcard includes furigana, an image, IPA notation, and an audio file.

Furigana is shown above kanji, so you can read the Japanese sentence even when you do not yet know all the kanji.

The image allows you to create a better memory with the word/concept that you are studying. You are linking a concept with a certain image.

The IPA notation is so you can know exactly how something is pronounced and be able to repeat that pronunciation yourself.

The audio file allows you to understand how something is pronounced in Japanese. This will help you to improve your Japanese comprehension.

Here is an extract, so you can hear what the audio sounds like in the Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck. The IPA notation has been added too. The flashcards also have audio for the words.

There are 2 card types in the Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck.

1. Conjugate/Fill in the blank

On the front side, you will find a sentence in both Japanese and English. This is accompanied by an image that shows the context of the sentence. In the Japanese sentence, the word you need to know is missing and represented as a blank. In the English sentence, the word you need to know is bolded and underlined. You should determine what belongs in place of the blank.

On the back, you will see the full Japanese sentence with the target word highlighted in indigo. This is so you can immediately spot the answer. Below that you will find the IPA transcription of the sentence, the English translation, and an audio file of the sentence.

For verbs, the card shows two forms of the word:

• The polite form (ます form, e.g. 食べます) comes first, as this is the form you will actually use in everyday conversation.
• The dictionary form (e.g. 食べる) comes second, as this is the form used in dictionaries and grammar references.

Each form is accompanied by its IPA transcription, English translation, and audio file, so you can hear exactly how each form sounds.

For nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and other word classes, only one form is shown. These words do not have a separate polite/dictionary distinction the way verbs do.

You will also see just the Japanese word, its IPA transcription, its English translation, and an audio file of the word. This allows you to see and hear the word in a sentence and just by itself.

2. Type the correct Japanese word (optional)

This is the same as the first card, however in this one, you have to type the correct word. You will see if you made any errors, or if you were correct.

This helps improve your writing skills in Japanese.

Course Content of the Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck

The Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck contains a total of 1960 Flashcards across 7 chapters, which are further divided into a total of 26 lessons.

Every chapter has 1 lesson except for the nouns chapter, which contains 20 lessons. These 20 lessons correspond to the 20 categories into which the nouns are divided.

I am going to show you exactly what’s inside the Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck, chapter by chapter.

Please note that for every sentence there are 2 card types.

The card types have been explained in the previous chapter.

Chapter 1: Pronouns

The first chapter of the Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck is about pronouns!

The chapter has 38 Flashcards.

These are the words that you will be learning:

anybody	either
hers	herself
himself	his
itself	least
less	mine (possession)
myself	neither
none	ourselves
several	somewhere
themselves	whose
yours

Chapter 2: Conjunctions

The second chapter of the Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck is about conjunctions!

The chapter has 12 Flashcards.

These are the words that you will be learning:

after	although
as	before
since	while

Chapter 3: Verbs

The third chapter of the Japanese A2 Vocabulary Anki Deck is about verbs!

The chapter has 364 Flashcards.

These are the words that you will be learning:

to accept	to achieve
to act	to advertise
to affect	to allow
to appear	to apply
to argue	to arrange (to plan or organize something in advance)
to attack	to attend
to avoid	to beat
to behave	to belong
to blow	to boil
to book	to borrow
to brush	to burn
to camp	to care
to catch	to cause
to celebrate	to collect
to communicate	to compete
to complain	to connect
to consider	to contain
to continue	to control
to copy	to count
to cover	to cross
to cry	to cycle
to depend	to destroy
to develop	to disagree
to disappear	to discover
to double	to download
to dream	to drop
to dry	to earn
to employ	to enter
to exist	to expect
to express	to fail
to farm	to feed
to fight	to film
to fish (to try to catch fish)	to fit
to fix	to focus
to gift	to greet
to guide	to have
to heat	to hide
to hit (beating someone/something)	to hit (collision)
to hold	to hurt
to identify	to increase
to invent	to invite
to involve	to joke
to jump	to kill
to knock	to land
to last (taking time)	to lead
to lecture	to lend
to lift	to light (from a lamp/the sun)
to lock	to mail
to manage (do something difficult)	to manage (to control or be in charge of a team, an organization)
to mark (to write/draw a symbol/line on something in order to give information about it)	to marry
to mention	to notice
to number	to offer
to organize	to own
to pack	to pass
to perform	to photograph
to pick (to choose)	to pick up
to plant