JLPT Nx 単語帳

List of words for making japanese flashcards

The data is licensed as CC-BY by Jonathan Waller.

You can find the words and a lot of other cool stuff at his website:

http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/

Setup

To set up, install the requirements (you might want to set up a venv first)

$ python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Ensure that you have a proper installation of TeXlive installed, including XeLaTeX, and the Noto Sans CJK fonts

Then generate all the cards by running

$ make all

The resulting pdfs can be found in the pdf directory.

Printing

These booklets are meant to be printed as greyscale double sided A4 papers. As standalone pdfs, they tend to be somewhat useless (for the time being at least)

Intended use case

First of all, get some kind of flashcard solution. This might be a mobile app, it might be a bunch of paper slices. Personally, I would recommend getting a pack of premade paper cards (image)

Secondly, get one of these bad bois:

Although not strictly required, keeping track of which of the words you've put into your memorization cards will help you avoid duplicates.