Jalup Master
It’s been almost 2 years since I completed Jalup Hero, the final piece to the 5,000 card sentence series to take you as far into the land of fluency as possible. I was extremely happy with how the original series turned out, and I appreciate all the continued support I had received then and still do now. I had said that this was the end of the sentence series. And I’ve covered a lot here on Jalup now.
Kana Conqueror masters the kana.
Kanji Kingdom masters the kanji.
Jalup Beginner masters the Japanese basics.
Jalup Intermediate through Jalup Hero guides you through the transition to a Japanese-only world and lays out the path to your eventual domination.
What’s left?
Immersion. Engaging in Japanese native materials is where the real adventure begins. The Jalup decks help you gain access to that adventure. But then you are off on your own and it’s a transition between 2 worlds:
● The structured study world: there is a general order, and a series of steps and guidelines
● The chaotic immersion world: everything imaginable is thrown at you randomly and at once
Jumping from one world to the other is as hard. Sometimes just as hard as jumping from J-E to J-J. And I’m sure you remember the fun you had with that… So I had been thinking for a while… is there any way I can assist you in your entry into the immersion world?
Enter Jalup Master
The idea: go through the beginning of many popular native materials (manga, anime, j-drama, etc.), introduce you to what you are ready to handle right now, and turn them into sentence cards for the Jalup series.
Here’s how it works:
1. I picked out a number of easier manga.
2. From each manga, I prepare you for reading the first chapter.
3. I picked out every word you don’t know. How do I know what you don’t know? This is a direct continuation off of Jalup Hero.
4. Rather than just take the sentences from the material, I created entirely new sentences using those unknown words. Why? To give you two different sentences to try to understand the same unknown word.
5. I continue filling in every unknown creating manga you can read confidently.
6. If you like the manga, you can continue to the next chapter and on to the rest of the series. While you will continue to hit new unknown words without my help, you know how to deal with them now.
Who is this for?
Someone who:
● Finished Jalup Hero, and wants to continue with the series.
And/Or
● Wants guidance/confidence with reading manga.
Those who have finished Jalup Hero will have the greatest advantage in this series (since it assumes knowledge of those 5,000 cards). However, it should work fine for anyone who is currently somewhere in the Jalup deck series (ex. Advanced). It may even work for those who have never done the Jalup decks, but are at an advanced level.
What’s inside?
1,250 Japanese Level Up original J-J cards, split up into stages.
Not sure about these manga and whether you are interested in them? Click on each link below to read a free sample of the first chapter(s) from their sites. Even if you have no interest in reading/buying the full manga, the sentences are based on the free sample that is provided by the online publisher.
Stage 1 covers most (depends on the manga) of the first chapters of 5 different manga.
1. よつばと! (Cards 1-74)
2. 日常 (Cards 75-110)
3. ドラゴンボール (Cards 111-179)
4. しろくまカフェ (180-199)
5. うさぎドロップ (200-250)
For 日常、click where it says 立ち読み (52ページ)
For ドラゴンボール, click where it 試し読みする
For うさぎドロップ, click where it says 立ち読み (30ページ)
For しろくまカフェ and よつばと! follow the direct link.
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Stage 2
1. 坂本ですが (1-28)
2. Charlotte (29-92)
3. 最強伝説黒沢 (93-217)
4. 幽遊白書 (218-250)
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Stage 3
1. 俺物語 (1-162)
2. Orange (163-250)
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Stage 4
1. 野ブタをプロデュース (1-94)
2. ハンターハンター (95-203)
3. イタズラなKISS (204-250)
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How will this series continue?
As I always says with everything that is developed here on Jalup, it’s up to you guys. This is an experimental series. If you like it, support it, and want to see more, I will make that happen. If there is not enough interest, I will stop at whatever stage I just completed.
If this works, I’ll expand on to more manga, j-drama, anime, novels, etc.
Support Included
Having a problem? Puzzled about a word or sentence? Ask me about it by e-mail.
Leveling where no one has leveled before
*Note: Jalup Master was originally called “Jalup Immersion”
Founder of Jalup. iOS Software Engineer. Former attorney, translator, and interpreter. Still watching 月曜から夜ふかし weekly since 2013.
Hmm, interesting indeed.. prolly getting this and seeing how it’s gonna turn out
I hope you enjoy it.
This makes me want to pick up my pace again with the Jalup Series so I can move on to this first experimental stage. To show my support I am going to pick it up right now even though I won’t be able to use it for 18 months (at my current pace of ten cards per day)
Actually, it will only take 12 months if I am religious about adding new cards every day, so by January 1st 2018 I should be especially ready for this, but will also be ready for it mid-way through this next summer when I finish Advanced. I will also be in Japan and could just buy these manga in person.
Thanks for the early support. Keep going at the pace you are going, and you’ll get there in no time :)
Purchased :) This was a no-brainer.
I’ve actually already read these manga but I really want to support this new series. It’s a very good idea and I think it will be super popular.
You’re doing great work, Adam. Please keep doing what you’re doing and releasing awesome products.
Happy New Year :)
Thanks for the support Ben! And happy new year :)
Awesome! I’ve just started Expert and, although I am doing immersion now, I was beginning to fear the day that I had to set sail alone into that vast frontier. I’ll definitely be getting this!
Fear no more haha.
Man this is perfect. Even more motivation to make it through these decks.
This is a great idea, and although I have read most of these manga before, and have added a few thousand cards myself after Expert, I usually read manga without adding the words I read, so I am sure there will be plenty of cards to supplement my own with.
No brainer for me :)
I have started using the cards now and so far they are even better than expected. I love the slang cards, as these can be quite tricky to figure out on my own, so they will be a great supplement to the my own cards.
Seems like an easy buy to me. I’ve finished expert already but have had a tough time creating my own cards, so this is a life saver. I’m also looking forward to integrating my anki deck into jalup next someday. I’ve only heard good things about it and can’t wait to see where jalup goes in the future!
Thanks for all your hard work Adam! It’s been life changing to say the least :D
As others have said already this is a no-brainer. This is the perfect addition to the Jalup series and I can’t wait to get started!
I’m interested in this idea, but I would be more likely to skip the manga one and get the novel/drama/anime ones. I’m not anywhere close to being finished with JALUP’s 5k though, so if you do the other types of media way down the road that’s fine with me. :)
Purchased!
Coming back to say I’m glad I purchased this and am looking forward to future stages.
Purchased stages 1, 2, 3, 4, and now 5. Please keep on keeping on! Every stage I’ve been through has been time well spent.
Easiest decision of the new year so far :D
Haven’t started working through the cards yet but just glancing through them I agree with what Jesper said above: the slang cards are awesome. That’s some of the hardest stuff to look up or make good cards for on your own, I find.
I just purchased Stage 1 and skimmed the Excel document; as usual, Adam has exceeded expectations with this deck. Buy it. Adam deserves as much support as we can give him in extending this deck series.
Also, if you haven’t checked out Next yet, you are missing out. If we all support it, even by pledging just $1 or so a month through the Patreon link, the rewards will be huge. Check out the “Future Features & Development Goals” in the post “The Dawn of Jalup Next.”
Adam’s plans for this platform will develop into, hands down, the most fun, efficient, and powerful method for reaching fluency. The card linking feature alone will save you hours of time and frustration when you switch from J-E to J-J cards.
As I’m still buying the Expert stages and have limited funds, I can’t get this right now, but I definitely will in the future! Even if I’ve already been through the first volumes of some of these manga, I hate to look up and take note of unknown words while I read so this is right on point for me. Great idea!
Purchased. Not quite ready to use these yet but I definitely want this series to continue and expand to dramas.
Purchased stage 2. Not quite ready for them but I will be.
Bought stage 2. Stage 1 was awesome, so this was a no-brainer as usual.
Again, purchasing mine in advanced because I want to see this series continue. Just got stage 2.
I just realized something I don’t think Adam emphasized enough in why this is in fact a primer for immersion. For one, we are learning using different sentences than what are contained in the manga/native media. Then, here is where the immersion comes in (and I’m probably just saying the obvious, something I am really good at). After you learn the word, you read the free chapters available online to get exposure to the word again in a different sentence. Hence, the immersion… I know Adam said this would be the natural thing to do, read the manga I mean… but what I don’t think he emphasized enough is that this is the value of the immersion primer: being able to see the word again in a different context. This is why it worth buying these sentences: the ability to see them again in the manga, in a different context. Obviously, the slang is very valuable too. That alone makes these cards worth buying, but if you are in it for help in immersion, then obviously much of the value lies in reading the manga after you learn the words in this series of cards.
Wow, I can’t wait until I’m up to this!
Great idea and I went ahead and bought stage 2. Hope that it will continue. One idea I might suggest to get some more revenue is to add a link from your website where you can go to amazon directly and buy all the manga included in each level.
Have you also considered instead of only adding the first volume from each series maybe going through and adding say all of the よつぼと volumes to a deck or did you figure that the subsequent volumes are similar enough to the first that there’s no need to do that?
Thanks for the suggestion. Will look into the linking think. As for adding all the volumes, a few reasons behind the way I’m doing it now.
1. While there will be plenty of new stuff, each manga often has its own style of language use, so I’d like to introduce as many manga as I can.
2. I like people getting to try new manga, and seeing that they can understand a wide range of manga.
3. If it’s all Yotsubato, and someone doesn’t like Yotsubato, it’s not going to help them as much.
4. I like the official free samples being able to fully be used with the material.
Yussssss! Stage one was awesome, looking forward to getting started on stage two this very night!
Is there any chance that 僕だけがいない街 will be in the running for one of these stages? I can understand very little of it, but it seems compelling! :D
I’ll have to take a look at it and see how difficult it is. I remember there being a lot of dialect, so it may be possible as a manga in later stages.
I consider myself intermediate so I’m not yet ready for that kind of level!
Yet it’s really exciting one day I’ll reach it and soon
So glad you picked up 俺物語! Seriously I think that’s the perfect beginner manga, was the first thing I read all the way through (while in my beginner deck) and I have very fond memories of it.
Can’t wait to see more of the series, and it’s wonderful for the JALUP community!
Stage 3: purchased! The only downside is that now I’m behind… still have a good 50 cards to go on Stage 2. Guess I’d better get goin’!
Buy these; they’re great!
Bought Stage 2 last week and Stage 3, just now–Adam is a J output machine! :D
Purchased. Can’t wait to get started. Probably Jan. 1st 2018. This means I plan on completing expert by the end of the year.
Are these sentences J-J?
Yes. It assumes knowledge of Jalup Expert but claims that you might get something out of it if you start it after Jalup Advanced. (Everything after Jalup Beginner is J-J)
I look forward to one day getting to Stage 4. Cheers! (purchased).
Man, c’mon! You released stage 4 the day after I finished stage 3?! Always keepin’ me busy… :D
You are on a roll with these. Thanks. These are really a great supplement to my own cards.
I think this is a really good idea. I might get one of the stages after I’ve done intermediate. You know what would be a really good idea for another immersion type deck? RPGs. I’ve tried to make decks from scripts for Ocarina of Time, FF6/3, and Persona, and someone has done one of Chrono trigger, but its just so much information… I tried putting the Persona one through a word frequency processor to find the most useful words for playing the game, but unlike you, no-one’s gonna pay me to sift through that. They’re so long tho, it might not be realistic.
J-drama ones sounds good too but I have methods with which I can create those. A mixture of substosrs and morphman addons and you’re golden. As long as you can find japanese subs. Novels would pobably be an awesome idea tho, that I would probably end up buying the whole of. Manga I can deal with, even when I’ve been reading text-heavy series like Detective Conan and Seinen like Gantz:G recently, but when there’s no pictures and I have to look up so many words I instantly give up. But I did a course on Modern Japanese Literature recently and there’s things I want to read in the original Japanese.
Fingers-crossed Jalup NEXT grows and you will be able to sell your own decks in the future NEXT store. Until then, I feel your pain. I want to make themed decks based on the new things I try to learn through Japanese, like a Surfing deck which teaches about ocean tides, waves, and wind and air pressure, and all that crazy surfing slang. The thing is, it is so difficult for me right now and without a pay off like you said, it seems I am better off putting my time elsewhere.
Is there a big surfing culture in Japan?
Right now I am in Onjuku, a city in the Chiba prefecture and there are a ton of surfing shops and I see quite a few surfers out when I go to the beach. I’m just starting to learn myself. Onjuku beach is known for being a great place for beginners to learn how to surf. I recommend checking it out if you are interested. As far as if there is a big surfing culture, I don’t know. I’m just starting to get into surfing and have nothing to compare this experience to.
That’s pretty rad! I had no idea.
As usual, these are great! Thanks for consistently putting out such quality decks!
Stage 5 is an instant buy. These cards are always great.
One piece! I really like the variety of these and I can’t wait to reach these decks haha
Just keep going when you do. They are a perfect continuation of Jalup 5000
I wish I could buy Stage 5 instantly. My budget is shot, but will be getting these ASAP. I’m gonna get started on Jalup Immersion come winter break.
Is Stage 6 coming any time soon, Adam?
It’s been on hold for a long time hasn’t it. In part because of all the app development. In part because I wasn’t sure of the direction to go with it. And finally in part because I didn’t really know if there was a big enough demand for a continuation.
That’s not an answer to your question unfortunately, but it is definitely still up in the air what I will do with it.
I’m also interested in seeing this continue.
Thanks for letting me know your interest. I may do a pre-order post similar to the way Expert was done, to see if enough people would want me to continue the series.
I’m also thinking of letting the people who make the pre-order choose the source of where the new cards come from (ex. what manga) – a perk of supporting the pre-order.
Please let us know if/when you’re starting the pre-order for Stage 6, Adam.
There is no information about audio in advanced, expert, hero, master decks. Is there full audio sentences in all this decks?
Ah you’re right. I forgot to update that information when audio was finally added. Just added it now, and thanks for pointing that out.
As of this comment, every deck from Jalup Beginner to Jalup Hero has full, native audio. The only deck that does not is Jalup Master.
In two months I should be ready to start Master. As is my style I like to plan ahead a little bit.
I have long been excited for Master with the format change basing it off of manga.
Does anyone that has done this have best practice or recommendation for tackling master? I saw someone say they learned the words in a manga first via the cards, then read the manga chapter. I could also imagine doing the reading alongside adding flash cards as you go.
Secondly wanted to see if Adam had any update he was willing to share on adding Master to the app. Is it a couple months away, or longer? Just planning my (inevitable?) transition from the app to anki once I outpace content and need to make my own cards. Though in my dream world the app will add the ability to load in my custom cards one day :)
People have done it both ways (simultaneously with the manga, or read the manga after they do the set of cards from the manga).
No update about Master just yet.
I’m so excited! “However, it should work fine for anyone who is currently somewhere in the Jalup deck series (ex. Advanced)” I’m gonna set my anki to 5 cards each of Master and Expert. I have trouble adjustinging to immersion. I am very greatful for the assist. I already read yotsubato! but I’ll buy the rest through the affliate link.