Hey guys, so I'm slowing chugging a lot my first year of practicing japanese. I've gotten through the first 2000 or so core anki cards, can read easynews with not too much problem and Im slowly becoming comfortable enough to have small conversations with my girlfriend. Close to finishing Genki II also.

I wanted to try and move towards monolingual study but I can't seem to find the free one people were talking about called the ultima-tanuki deck I saw on the anki forums, and the jalup one seems really expensive. I was toying with the idea of building one using words from easy news and other sources but the branching stuff gets tough and I'm wasting my study hours on just making cards when I want to use it on conversations, grammar study, and reading.

Any help on finding something, or creating sensible decks quickly and work toward monolingual study when it comes to vocab. If this has already asked a billion times sorry about that!

Thanks