Free JLPT Anki Deck: 10,600 Japanese Vocabulary Cards N1–N5 with Audio

A while back I was building a small vocabulary quiz — nothing serious, just wanted to practice Japanese words in a structured way. I asked my agent to generate the word list and it did, but then I started checking the readings and found a few that were just wrong. Not dramatically wrong, just subtly off in the way that would quietly teach you the incorrect pronunciation without you even noticing. That's when I started looking for actual verified data instead of trusting generated content.

This JLPT deck by a community author known as "egg rolls" covers the entire JLPT range — all five levels N5 through N1 — with about 10,600 vocabulary entries total. Each word comes with real human voice recordings (not synthesized), at least one example sentence with audio, pitch accent markers, and part-of-speech tags. The deck is based on real JLPT exam questions from 2010 through late 2025, so higher-level words are sorted by actual exam frequency. Thats genuine verified data, not something made up.

One thing worth knowing before you download: the deck interface and glosses are in Chinese (simplified or traditional, your choice). The Japanese vocabulary itself works regardless of your native language — the words, readings, example sentences, and audio are all Japanese. But if you open it in Anki and expect English explanations, you won't find them there. For using it as a raw data source for building an app, your agent can add English or Russian translations on top of the Japanese entries without any problem.

1How to install the JLPT deck in Anki

After import, you get structured sub-decks organized by JLPT level — N5 at the top, N1 at the bottom. Cards show the word on the front, and the back reveals the reading, meaning (in Chinese), example sentence with audio, and any related or opposite words. Syncing with AnkiWeb for cross-device progress works exactly like any other Anki deck.

2How to use the vocabulary deck as data for a quiz app

If you're building a Japanese quiz app or learning tool, the simplest approach is to give your agent the GitHub link and let it pull the data. The deck is distributed as a .apkg file — which is essentially a renamed zip containing a SQLite database — so your agent can extract the vocabulary entries directly and build around them. You can also point your agent at the AnkiWeb page at ankiweb.net/shared/info/832276382 to understand the vocabulary scope before writing any code. Either way you end up with reliable, exam-verified data instead of whatever the agent would have hallucinated on its own.