日本語 Learning

DOWNLOAD THE 2,200 IMAGES HERE!

I initially made these scripts in quite a rush to get on with my person studying, but I've subsequently had a chance to clean them up a little bit! Enjoy...

What is this?

Remembering The Kanji (RTK) is a method of learning to recognise the roughly 2,200 Jōyō kanji, where you work through a book. This repo contains some scripts that generate some nice looking Anki cards which I'm using to try and learn these characters! It also contains some of the CSS and HTML used for the cards. I've used ImageMagick to create the kanji images.

Although I do own a physical copy of the book, the list of kanji I used to make these cards was originally in this Reddit post.

Running your own

You will obviously only want to run your own if you want to generate a different set of characters to learn, otherwise you can just download the images I generated...!

With that in mind, if you're aiming to recreate this exact style of image (for Japanese learning specifically), you just need to install these:

• Meiryo, Microsoft
• Noto Serif JP, Google Fonts
• Yuji Mai, Google Fonts
• BIZ UDGothic, Microsoft

Then you can run the script called benkyou with an argument pointing at the input file location. For example, to run mine it's:

./benkyou src/RTK-2200

You can change the output location by editing the benkyou script. It outputs to output/ by default!

Otherwise you'll have to edit the file in src/build.sh to reference the new fonts you want to use. Likewise, colours of the images generated would have to be changed in that file.