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Intermediate 3 Finished

I just uploaded the finished version of intermediate 3 with 932 cards in total (352 new ones). The download link is the same as before, see 2025-07-21 21:48:52 +0000 UTC View Post

Imperfect cards

The last releases contained a few rather sloppy cards: sometimes the translations are not accurate, sometimes the back is missing, sometimes there are multiple translations on the back. Why is this...

Intermediate 3 updated

The download link is the same as before, see this post.

There are around 300 new cards and 35 ne...

My New AI Assistant: Often Stupid, But Incredibly Useful

Since around March, I’ve done a lot of programming on my tools. One big change is that the project now includes an AI assistant that helps with various boring and tedious tasks. Right now, it sup...

Expanding to podcasts (outside of YouTube)

Since around the beginning of March I spent lots of time on developing new features for the tools I use for deck creation. One of those features is to support arbitrary podcasts in addition to YouT...

Delete (or Suspend) Your Flashcards to Improve

In the beginner's course and on the jlab website, I recommend to start deleting flashcards at some point. Some people asked why they should do this, so I added an 2025-03-02 15:29:33 +0000 UTC View Post

New YouTube-Video

This has been on my todo-list for quite some time.
The video is not public yet, because the description is still missing.

Let's see what the reading-first people think about the advice to ...

YouTube, LLMs, Intermediate 3...

Hey everyone, here is a short summary of all the things I've been working on recently:

• A new YouTube video with hints to practice listening comprehension. This is not completed yet, b...

  2024-12-29 18:45:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Intermediate 3 deck

The intermediate decks build on each other, please do them in the correct order.

I just finished the first version of the intermediate 3 deck. It has 320 cards at the moment ...

How many words are in the decks?

An interesting question that came up, here is the answer:

Beginner: 1180
Counting: 155
Intermediate 1: 715
Intermediate 2: 592
Loan words: 210

Total: 2852

Some explana...

Intermediate 2 Finished

I just uploaded the completed Intermediate 2 deck, ~400 new cards and ~50 videos were added. The playlist on YouTube has also been updated and now contains 272 videos (which are presented on 100+ d...

Speaking, maintenance, cards...

Here's a quick update on what I did since my last post. I’ve written two new articles that address common questions I receive:

• 2024-08-23 05:46:55 +0000 UTC View Post

How to google for grammar

Ever wondered where all the references in the decks are coming from? I've been using a set of simple patterns that make it quite easy to google for Japanese grammar, and I've written an 2024-07-21 12:42:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Intermediate decks updated

Hey everyone,

Since my last post, I’ve added all the feedback I received to the intermediate decks. I’ve fixed small errors, improved explanations, and corrected several wrong translation...

Subtitles for the video recommendations

You can download the subtitles I use for working on the the video recommendations from the link above. Below is an excerpt from the readme.txt contained in the zip:

I used OpenAi's whisper to...

Status Update

Hey everyone,

I know it's been a while since my last update In January. What happened?

Long story short, I was really sick for almost 5 months. After recovering, life got super busy wit...

Vocabulary deck

I just finished the vocab deck you had voted for, the download link is in this post: https://www.patreon.c...

Vocabulary deck download links

This post is just for sharing the links to the new vocab deck. The details are in this public post: https:...

December update

It's the last day of 2023 and high time for an update! The last weeks were packed with job and family related things, so I did not post anything. However, I also continued with the project: In addi...

Intermediate 2 deck updated

I just uploaded version 2 of the intermediate deck with ~250 new cards and 42 new videos. The new videos cover friendship, love hotels, kitanai kotoba, kids embarrassed by the hair dresser, giving ...

Jlab intermediate 2 deck (with updates)

The intermediate decks build on each other, please do them in the correct order.

You can download the second intermediate deck from the link above. As usual, the link is...

Vacation!!!

I'm taking the first vacation from my new job. I have been riding the train for four hours now while creating new flashcards for the first time in four months. It's so much fun... For those still w...

How to make the beginner's course easier

I wondered if it is possible to lower the entry barrier of the beginner's course. From the feedback I get, it seems to work well for most people. For some however, there is too much to digest on a ...

Where's the next update?!

I started a new, demanding job in May, which currently eats up most of my time. It requires to learn many new things and it will take a few weeks until I got used to everything.

Until then, t...

45.000 downloads - Thank you!

The beginner's course recently hit 45.000 downloads, which is absolutely amazing. I have uploaded a video to the jlab channel to say thank you to all users, maybe some of you have seen it already:<...

Intermediate deck updated

Version 3 has now ~1000 cards and 150 video recommendations. You can download it with the previous/known download link from this post: 2023-04-18 08:30:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Playlist deleted

By accident I deleted the jlab playlist on YouTube (instead of updating it - stupid). Here's the new link:

2023-04-18 08:01:56 +0000 UTC View Post

What happened in March?

I did a lot in March, but nothing is fully finished yet:

I finally started patching the Anki addon, which stopped working on 2.1.55. Unfortunately, the operations executed when a deck was imp...

Subs2srs decks now hosted by jlab

The original owner of the community-created subs2srs deck repository had removed her blog a while ago for time reasons. I've been in touch with her for a while and asked for taking over the account...

Intermediate deck updated

Version 2 now has 250 new cards. There are 82 videos included on 30 video cards. You can download the new version with the same download link.