📩 Kanji Transition deck update

Thanks to @frowkie, 110 additional word cards were converted to sentence cards.

Deck links:
TSC https://www.patreon.com/posts/47991075
WCC https://www.patreon.com/posts/47990957

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🈚️ Japanese fonts

On a freshly installed GNU/Linux distro Japanese characters may not look pretty. This can be fixed by installing Japanese fonts and creating a proper Fontconfig configuration file.

https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/blog/japanese-fonts.html

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📑 Rikaitan Dictionaries Collection

Rikaitan is a a pop up dictionary that allows you to look up unknown words with the hover of a mouse. On top of that Rikaitan can be set up to create Anki cards from the words you look up.

This archive contains all Rikaitan dictionaries that I know of. Inside you'll find bilingual and monolingual dictionaries.

See also:
・ Rikaitan setup guide can be found here.
・ This archive on Yandex Disk.

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⭐️ Updated Ankidrone Starter Pack

・Added word audio to cards in Tango N3 and Tango N4.
・Fixed small mistakes.

Download: https://t.me/ajatt_tools/60

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🔤 A note about locales

It was pointed out to me that if you forget to generate the locale, you may have font rendering issues.
I've added a note about it to the fonts article.

https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/blog/japanese-fonts.html

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📚 Updated the resources page

1) added a new JLPT resource
2) added dl-zip.net
3) added book readers: zathura and foliate
4) added kanji stroke orders font
5) linked notable refold articles
6) a warning about anime cards

Also fixed small typos.

https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/blog/resources.html

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🌟 How to review Anki cards

Though Anki is an excellent piece of software, you can learn languages more effectively if you tweak some settings and know how to review. The next part of the guide is about how to review and how to deal with backlogs.

https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/blog/how-to-review.html

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⭐️ AJT Browser Play Button for Anki 2.1

I'm happy to announce yet another Anki add-on! AJT Browser Play Button lets you play audio on your cards right from the Anki Browser window. The add-on has a graphical configuration menu and supports Anki 2.1.41 and newer.

・Watch the video demonstration・Install from AnkiWeb

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Anki add-ons update

Browser Play Button: added support for older versions of Anki (2.1.31-2.1.40).
Paste Images As WebP: disabled error message when drag-and-dropping audio files.

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📖 Guide updates

Today I updated the site and added a few cool things. Hope you find it useful!

・Deleting and suspending cards・If someone has watched anime with English subs for thousands of hours before starting to learn Japanese, how much of a head start does that give them?・What about reading physical books?・How to extract audio from immersion content for passive listening?・I'm a beginner. Do you recommend learning the "advanced grammar" within Tae Kim's grammar guide?

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🔄 Updates to the site's layout

For a while I've been thinking about adding a menu with a list of paragraphs on each page of the site. It took me a while to figure out how to do it without having to rewrite the whole site, but this is what I've come up with:

Now the site has an overlay-like sidebar. You can toggle it by pressing the ・・・ button on the top. Once enabled, it shows all paragraphs on the left, and you can quickly jump to the one you're interested in. This is especially useful on the FAQ page, which is quite long.

The overlay is written in JS, so it won't work if you have JS disabled in your browser. However, the code is completely free, and it's compatible with libreJS.

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Add-on update

Learn now Button updated to work with Anki 2.1.45.

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New config option in Mortician

On GitHub saxoncameron asked to add a separate "Again threshold" for new cards to the Mortician add-on. The feature has been implemented, and I encourage you to test it!

Update/install: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1255924302

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🏯 AJT Pitch Accent

The JaPitch add-on for Anki 2.1 has been remastered, and received a new name: AJT Pitch Accent!

In this update, the codebase was significantly improved.

Below are the main changes:

・Added kana lookups. If a lookup fails, the add-on tries to use the kana reading of a word to find its pitch accent graph.
・Fixed a bug that prevented pitch accent lookups unless the first field of a note is focused.
・Added a context menu item to look up pitch accents of a selection. Select the expression you want to look up, then right-click and choose "NHK pitch accent lookup".
・Added a button that allows you to copy the result of a manual lookup as HTML.

The add-on is up on AnkiWeb.
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1225470483

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Updates on the site

Anki decks
Now the Kanji Transition deck includes more explanations about how to use it. I also updated the Kana writing deck and the Kanji Transition decks fixing the card ID bug reported by Abdo.
https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/blog/jp1k-anki-deck.html
https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/blog/writing-japanese.html#writing-kana

New recommended Matrix servers
https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/blog/list-of-matrix-servers.html#recommendations

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🏯 AJT Pitch Accent updates

New features in this release:

・Furigana-aware lookups. If the add-on detects furigana reading in the source field, it will add pitch accents for the reading and skip other readings.
・Added kanjium data to the pitch accent database. The add-on uses NHK pitch accent data to generate pitch accents and searches kanjium data if nothing found.
・Settings dialog. No need to edit config.json to configure the add-on anymore. You can access the settings by going to AJT > Pitch Accent Options...

Install/update:
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1225470483

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Do Japanese people use Matrix? The answer is yes, though I must admit that Matrix is not as popular in Japan as Telegram. Because I've been using Matrix for quite a while, I've met many Japanese people and have found several servers run by Japanese people.

I've selected a few servers that I think are the the most interesting and added them to our "Recommendations" section on the site. You are free to make an account on one of them or join their rooms if you already have an account on any other server.

https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/blog/list-of-matrix-servers.html#recommendations

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🏣 AJT Furigana

I often get asked how to keep the target word bold when generating furigana on targeted sentence cards. Until today, the answer was "you can't". Today I'm happy to release AJT Furigana for Anki 2.1.

The purpose of this add-on is to automatically generate and bulk-generate furigana readings. TSC formatting is preserved.

Features:

・Furigana. After you type in a word or phrase into the SentKanji or VocabKanji fields and hit Tab, Anki will automatically generate furigana for you and place it in SentFurigana and VocabFurigana fields respectfully. Field names can be configured in settings.
・Furigana on flush. Automatic furigana generation when a new note gets created with Rikaitan.
・Furigana from selection. You can convert any selected text to furigana by clicking Furigana for selection in the context menu while using the note editor.
・Toolbar button. You can replace the content of any selected field with furigana by pressing 振 on the toolbar.
・Note type. A new built-in note type designed for studying Japanese sentences. You can find it by going to Tools > Manage Note Types > Add > Japanese sentences.
・Compound words properly split. Words like 取って置き or 言い方 produce correct furigana, unlike the Japanese support add-on.

⬇️ Download: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1344485230

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Ankidrone Sentence Pack

Ankidrone Sentence Pack is an Anki deck
that contains over 44,000 Japanese sentence with native audio.
This deck is not to be learned from back to back,
its purpose is to aid you in finding example sentences
for your targeted sentence cards.

https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/blog/ankidrone-sentence-pack.html

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One target sentences

I haven't really explained the theory behind 1T before. Fixing this blank spot in a new article.

https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/blog/one-target-sentences.html

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If you don't want to build qolibri yourself, there's now a binary package.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qolibri-bin/

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