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Are you trying to up your Japanese reading skills? Have a set of electronic reading materials, but don't know which one to start with? One way to rate them is by how easy they would be for you to read, so you can pick the level you're comfortable with. To do that, you'll first need a text list of words you already know, and then use that as an input file to the Japanese Text Frequency Analyzer tool. An easy way to get the list is to use the Morphman plugin in Anki (I'm assuming you're using Anki. Find out how to export the list if you use another SRS/flashcard system). What you'll need: Anki Morphman Anki Plugin cb's Japanese Text Analysis Tool Steps: 1. Ensure your database of known words is up to date by forcing a Morphman Recalc. You can do this by using the Anki tools menu or the default shortcut Ctrl+M. If there are words you already know that are not in Anki, see this section of MorphMan Wiki . To make things easier for m...

I've been trying to self-study Japanese recently by immersing myself in a Japanese game/book. There are various study strategies out there, mine is learning vocabulary strategically before playing/reading. By strategic, I mean I only learn a handful of vocab that is frequently used - any other vocab I'll attempt to pick up when I see them. This should enable me to understand a significant chunk of the game/book with minimal time spent studying. There are tons of forum threads on doing this, but I couldn't find a comprehensive and easy-to-follow tutorial while I struggled with the tools, so I decided to write my own flow down for future reference. Bonus points if this helps anyone else reading this ;) What you'll need: Anki Morphman Anki Plugin cb's Japanese Text Analysis Tool AntConc  Epwing2Anki Brief steps: Find the text scripts of the game. Usually <game> 台詞集 / セリフ集 will give you results. Save the game scripts as txt. Recommended to encode in...