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More ways to create flashcards on Kanshudo

Posted: 2016-07-06, Tags: newfeatures studyaids flashcards usability
Did you know that Kanshudo can automatically create word or kanji flashcards for you from a variety of popular dictionaries, or even just word lists you create yourself? Any flashcards you study on Kanshudo, however you create them, count towards your study points! Plus - any kanji flashcards you study will improve your kanji mastery score, and help Kanshudo provide better study recommendations.
Kanshudo supports several key formats for vocab lists:
  • Simple text - write cards yourself, or copy/paste from eg Excel
  • Midori - a popular iPhone dictionary
  • imiwa? - another popular iPhone dictionary (Kanshudo supports two separate imiwa? formats)
Additionally, Kanshudo can create kanji cards for you from any Japanese text - you could just paste an entire paragraph of text and Kanshudo will select the kanji.
We've increased the import limits - Kanshudo Pros can now import up to 50,000 character vocab lists, which enables you to quickly import your entire vocab collection for study.
Any flashcards you create can go into a new set, or an existing set. Plus, as with all Kanshudo flashcards, any kanji included are shown in cascading kanji™ format to refresh your memory of the components and mnemonics. Kanshudo intelligently remembers your progress and shows you cards to learn or review using the spaced repetition algorithm invented by SuperMemo and used in the popular Anki flashcard program.
See our detailed 'how to' guide, or just experiment with cutting and pasting text into the importer yourself - try the importer now.
If you have cards in other formats you want to import, or you are not sure how to import your cards, we'd be happy to help you - just send us a message.

Kanshudo is your AI Japanese tutor, and your constant companion on the road to mastery of the Japanese language. To get started learning Japanese, just follow the study recommendations on your Dashboard. You can use Quick search (accessible using the icon at the top of every page) to look up any Japanese word, kanji or grammar point, as well as to find anything on Kanshudo quickly. For an overview, take the tour.
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