Japanese Snowball Sentences · 1,000 cards with furigana
By Bembambo
Tags: japanese, sentences, grammar, furigana, jlpt n4, jlpt n3, conversation
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
- 朝ご飯を食べた。 I ate breakfast.
- 朝ご飯を食べてから、駅まで歩いた。
- …駅まで歩いたけど、電車はもう出ていた。
- …もう出ていたので、次の電車を待った。
- …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