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Kaishi 1.5k

Course Resource · Language learning · 60 mentions · 1 subreddit · discussed in r/LearnJapanese

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Pros

  • Kaishi 1.5k seems to be the most recommended deck.
  • Do not use this please. It's not a good way to study. Get a grammar guide, get a deck like Kaishi 1.5k, study grammar and make your way through Kaishi 1.5k and put a priority on grammar.
  • Tango N5+N4 or Kaishi 1.5k. After completing start mining for your own deck is most recommended.
  • Kaishi 1.5k and Tango N5+N4 are much better decks for starting out.
  • For example you could try an Anki deck like the Kaishi 1.5k. The words will sometimes overlap with what you have learned in Genki, but that is just good practice.

Cons

  • From my time with it, it does not appear to be n+1. It’s certainly challenging!
  • if you're new to the language this isn't going to result in a lifehack of 350% increase in your ability to crush a deck like Kaishi 1.5k. It's dramatically harder to brute things in Japanese when you're new
  • After 750 cards of Kaishi 1.5k I started to encounter too many words that I had already learned from my own mining. Therefore, for the last month I have suspended the rest of Kaishi 1.5k and am only learning words from my own mining deck.
  • I started out with the Kaishi 1.5k deck and have done about 750 cards of that deck. ... After 750 cards of Kaishi 1.5k I started to encounter too many words that I had already learned from my own mining. Therefore, for the last month I h...
  • Just encountered this in Kaishi 1.5k and I understand it's meaning of "just" or "simply". I'm really struggling with why there is a seperate card that means "free" and I haven't found a straightforward, consistent answer on how it works

Sentiment

42 positive (70%) · 13 mixed (22%) · 5 negative (8%)

Trust + time weighted score: +63% · raw score 62%

What redditors said (10 of 60)

Kaishi 1.5k seems to be the most recommended deck.
positive · u/M****r · r/LearnJapanese · comment · Feb 28, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
From my time with it, it does not appear to be n+1. It’s certainly challenging!
mixed · u/G****7 · r/LearnJapanese · comment · Jan 25, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
if you're new to the language this isn't going to result in a lifehack of 350% increase in your ability to crush a deck like Kaishi 1.5k. It's dramatically harder to brute things in Japanese when you're new
mixed · u/r***i · r/LearnJapanese · comment · Nov 25, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Do not use this please. It's not a good way to study. Get a grammar guide, get a deck like Kaishi 1.5k, study grammar and make your way through Kaishi 1.5k and put a priority on grammar.
positive · u/r***i · r/LearnJapanese · comment · Feb 16, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Tango N5+N4 or Kaishi 1.5k. After completing start mining for your own deck is most recommended.
positive · u/r***i · r/LearnJapanese · comment · Feb 11, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Kaishi 1.5k and Tango N5+N4 are much better decks for starting out.
positive · u/r***i · r/LearnJapanese · comment · Jan 18, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
For example you could try an Anki deck like the Kaishi 1.5k. The words will sometimes overlap with what you have learned in Genki, but that is just good practice.
positive · u/S****a · r/LearnJapanese · comment · Aug 29, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Parent context: 彼女は通りがかりの人に救われたよ (She was saved by a passing stranger.) From Kaishi 1.5k what is the が(ga) particle for or doing? Reply: 通りがかり is an adjective that means “passing.”
positive · u/E****u · r/LearnJapanese · comment · Jan 3, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
it's much more productive to learn some basic vocabulary and grammar (eg go through kaishi 1.5k and yokubi grammar guide) so that you can actually find some comprehensible input.
positive · u/C****g · r/LearnJapanese · comment · Dec 10, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Kaishi 1.5k, after you are done with that make your own cards. ... The deck can be found here, I also recommend reading the guide.
positive · u/a****6 · r/LearnJapanese · comment · Feb 28, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗

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