Japanese Cheat Sheet Pack
UPDATE: The Japanese Cheat Sheet Pack is now finished and printing!
At last, the time has come to unveil what I’ve spent the last several months working on: a pack of Japanese cheat sheets for intermediate to advanced Japanese learners.
No doubt this is the single largest project I’ve ever tackled. I spent literally hundreds of dollars on reference books, probably more than a hundred hours dissecting real-life Japanese materials, and hundreds more hours applying my very best language and organizational skills. The result? I think I got (almost) the entire language onto nine sheets of paper.
Nihonshock’s Japanese Cheat Sheet Pack
- Basic Japanese (a new-and-improved version of the old sheet)
- Advanced Grammar
- Advanced Verbs
- Numbers and Time
- Spoken Japanese
- Natural Japanese
- Beyond Vocabulary
- Keigo
- Kanji
It’s not quite done yet. I still want to take time to polish and “test drive” everything and also get plenty of native-speaker checking. I’m putting my name and reputation on these, so it has to be perfect. That’s what I’ll be doing in June, so don’t expect much blog activity this month either.
The cheat sheet set (9 sheets in all) will be offered as laminated high-quality prints and priced at $25, which I think is reasonable considering they contain several times the amount of information similarly-priced books have, in a unique format.
I won’t go into detail here about the sheets because I made a sub-site specifically for them, loaded with details. So… go check it out! Feel free to leave questions or comments here if you have any, since the product site is not commentable. Note that there is a FAQ section on the product page, so if you’ve got a question the answer might already be there.
Thanks for supporting Nihonshock!
Great! I really like your Basic Japanese cheatsheet and use it all the time. The quality is outstanding.
I’m considering buying these, but I’d much prefer a digital version to be honest. Right now I can just open the PDF on my phone for a quick glance wherever I am.
by: mkrause, Jun 1st at 11:18 pm
@mkrause: I’ve received a number of messages/comments saying the same thing. I realize people want a digital version and I want to offer one. But I need to consider a lot of things before I do. Where and how to sell it, for example.
I also think since a digital version isn’t bound to any paper size, there might be a better way to organize things.
by: Lloyd Vincent, Jun 2nd at 1:19 am
Excellent ! This looks like a killer tool set ! And a bookworm army’s work !
I’d like a digital version also for you can refer to it anytime anywhere, but for now let’s get the paper version ^^
Just one thing, I thought you were in Nagoya, how come the shipping is free in the US and not in Japan ???
by: Sjamon, Jun 6th at 2:52 pm
@Sjamon: Thanks! It was a lot of work, I hope you like it.
I moved back to the US last October, hence the shipping situation. I know I need to update a lot still…
by: Lloyd Vincent, Jun 6th at 2:57 pm
OK, so I guess it’s too late to say okaeri ^^
No doubt I’ll like it if the new sheets are only half as good as the beginner one
by: Sjamon, Jun 8th at 10:40 am
I love supporting awesome people, and Vincent, you’re no exception.
Between your articles, insights, and resources — you’ve been a tremendous asset in my studies. Thanks for being 超かっこいい.
Keep up the great work, and congratulations on such an epic release!
by: Tsnepseg, Jun 29th at 3:32 am
Hi, thanks for making the cheat sheets.
I don’t live in America and it’s really hard for me to buy the cheatsheets. Can you put it up on bookdepository or something?
by: A, Apr 22nd at 10:44 am