Anki Kaishi 15k Verified -

Almost every card features high-quality native speaker audio for correct pronunciation and pitch accent awareness.

Have you used the Kaishi 1.5k deck? Share your progress in the comments below. How many cards have you matured, and what are you mining now?

Beginners should start at a comfortable pace, such as 5–10 new words per day. anki kaishi 15k

Getting started with Kaishi 1.5k is a straightforward process. The deck is free and available in two official locations:

Do not set your "New Cards Per Day" too high. A good rule of thumb is: Almost every card features high-quality native speaker audio

Around the 3,000 and 7,000-card marks, many learners hit a wall where reviews pile up (often 200+ per day). If reviews become overwhelming, set New Cards to 0 for a week. Clear the backlog before adding anything new. Anki Kaishi 15k

| Month | New/day | Total cards | Daily reviews | Notes | |-------|---------|-------------|---------------|-------| | 1 | 10 | 300 | ~50–80 | Focus on sentence comprehension | | 2 | 12 | 660 | ~90–120 | Pitch accent becomes natural | | 3 | 15 | 1,110 | ~120–150 | Slight burnout risk – take breaks | | 4 | 15 | 1,500 (done) | ~160–200 | Then switch to pure review + immersion | How many cards have you matured, and what are you mining now

: The word order is optimized using various frequency dictionaries to ensure you learn the most useful words first.

: Having mastered the most common 1,500 words, the learner begins "sentence mining"—creating their own cards from things they actually enjoy, like manga or video games.

The Anki Kaishi 15k deck is a massive, pre-made flashcard vocabulary dataset designed for the spaced repetition software (SRS) program, Anki. It contains roughly 15,000 Japanese words curated to take learners from a baseline understanding of the language up to an advanced level.

: Includes 1,500 core words with sentences, native audio, images, and pitch accent notation.