We can use various materials and tools available on the internet to continue studying Japanese. Over time we will select the materials and tools that bring us the most results.
Since we can often use materials available on the internet or we can even try to organize what we find on the internet and create our own material, in general, we can quote anki a well known program in the study of languages.
Anki is being constantly mentioned and used in the jisho that has been mentioned on Sukidesu, the news web easy site for reading, among others, the use of PDFs in studies is also very relevant.
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The problem of using Anki
Often, repetitive and time-consuming tasks, which in a generic way come to take our time and thus be less productive, such as preparing material or even creating anki cards - because these cards must be elaborated from the material we study or even that we work out – this often becomes boring.
We can also mention the fact that we get a text and go word for word or even take expressions, and go to a translator, like google translator, or even search on Jisho and then go through google translator to then have the result, and so we can create a pdf and add a few words to the anki, it takes a long time and it will be repeated over and over again, I am not saying that this is irrelevant, on the contrary it is very important, because we are in with the language.
Now let's look at the site news web easy, which has several articles that are constantly being updated (mentioned here on sukudesu), and we want to make its content part of our study.
Let's outline a course: select the article, read it (several times), but we want to turn it into study material. We can copy the content, open a text editor of our choice, and paste it there. Then we can go to jisho and research word by word. For each word, we go to Google Translate to translate it into our language, and then add it to our editor. After we have done this several times, we can save it in both an editable format and a PDF format. To review, we can start adding this content to Anki.
In the previous process we see that this can take some time, now imagine it makes it more automatic, how? Using the nwe program.
Using NWE as a Solution
The nwe is a desktop multplatform program still in development, based on python, it is exclusive to follow the previous process, meaning it is only for the website news web easy.
He will get an article, then he will search word for word on Jisho and soon after he will translate using the google translator and will make it into pdf and will generate cards for anki.
The nwe (news wen easy) is a software developed by narutolavo. For more information, the code is available on github, pypi, and libraries.
To use nwe, we will have to have python in version 3 or higher installed in my case is version 3.8.5.
If you don't have python installed (because by default on some operating systems it is already installed), we can follow the steps below according to your operating system:
In the Windows tutorial you can the executable, in the MacOS tutorial, it can be done through the terminal, in the Linux tutorial it can also be done through the terminal depending on the distribution.
Right after the previous step, we have to have pip installed in python. In the terminal or in the command prompt, give the command pip3 install nwe. Right after it is executed we can type nwe in the terminal/command prompt, so we can see the initial screen of the program. The following images better illustrate this.
We take an url of an article on the news web easy site, put in insert link and press the start button, wait for the process bar to complete, this is the most time consuming part, as the program will access the article the content, search on jisho and then on the google translator, then when complete we can then click on generate pdf and create anki which are the fastest part of the process.
We can go to anki and click on import card and look for the anki.txt file and just click ok, we already have the pdf and the anki deck. The images below illustrate better:
