Japanese Snowball Sentences · 1,000 cards with furigana

Build real Japanese sentences, one piece at a time.

1,000 cards in 200 "snowball" chains. Each chain starts with a short everyday sentence and grows over 5 cards. Every step adds one new piece, so you practice extending what you already know instead of memorizing isolated phrases.

Example chain

1. 朝ご飯を食べた。 I ate breakfast.
2. 朝ご飯を食べてから、駅まで歩いた。
3. …駅まで歩いたけど、電車はもう出ていた。
4. …もう出ていたので、次の電車を待った。
5. …次の電車を待ったせいで、会議に十分遅れてしまった。

Two chain styles, alternating

• Adding details: who, when, where, what kind (100 chains)
• Clauses & connectors: から, けど, ので, たら, て, し, のに, せいで, おかげで, うえに and more (100 chains)

Card design

• Front: English, with the newly added part highlighted
• Back: Japanese with furigana above every kanji, new part highlighted
• Step dots (●●●○○) show where you are in the chain
• Empty Audio field on every card, ready for your own recordings or TTS
• Light and dark mode on desktop, AnkiMobile and AnkiDroid

Content

Everyday conversation: errands, work, home, friends, plans, invitations, requests, small mishaps, travel. Mostly casual plain form, with です/ます where the situation calls for it (shops, work

Level: upper beginner to intermediate (around JLPT N4–N3) Tags inside the deck: snowball::details, snowball::connectors