A software engineer shares tools used to study Japanese, including Anki flashcards for learning new words, readings, and meanings.Explains the Japanese language components - Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji, and how they are used together.Details the process of creating flashcards with sentences in Japanese, including furigana annotations.Introduces using ChatGPT to automate generating flashcards with Japanese sentences, readings, and meanings.Describes the backend setup using Node.js for fetching Japanese sentences and returning flashcard fields.Discusses automating aspects using Python and NLP, such as scraping news for sentences and extracting new words.Shares the process of scraping news articles, fetching existing Anki cards, and extracting relevant vocabulary for learning.Explains how NLP filtering is used to extract base forms of words and filter out unwanted elements in sentence processing.Demonstrates the integration of these processes to automate flashcard creation for Japanese language learning.Includes GitHub repositories links for deeper exploration and a YouTube video link detailing the language learning process.