# Can the user control whether the English or Japanese is displayed

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**Created:** [May 10, 2023, 3:26am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/can-the-user-control-whether-the-english-or-japanese-is-displayed/30178 "2023-05-10T03:26:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jackson920](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/97f17d/32.png) [@Jackson920](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Jackson920)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 3:26am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/can-the-user-control-whether-the-english-or-japanese-is-displayed/30178/1 "2023-05-10T03:26:42Z")

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Hi. I’m new to Anki, so this may be a stupid question. I downloaded a Genki I slide deck and started using them. The deck is set up to display the Japanese and the answer is in English. I’d like to have the Q be in Japanese and the answer in English. Is there an easy way to reverse the presentation? Thanks in advance for any response.

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**Author:** ![kelciour](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/kelciour/32/14770_2.png) [@kelciour](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/kelciour)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/can-the-user-control-whether-the-english-or-japanese-is-displayed/30178/2 "2023-05-10T08:24:18Z")

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Edit \> Cards to open the card template and use the Flip button at the bottom of the screen.

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/2X/b/be74b1d1dbb65685edbac323fa6e60ca3e7b1409.jpeg "Anki 2: Switching Card Order") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnbKwHEQ1mA)

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**Author:** ![Jackson920](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/97f17d/32.png) [@Jackson920](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Jackson920)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/can-the-user-control-whether-the-english-or-japanese-is-displayed/30178/3 "2023-05-10T15:23:05Z")

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Thank you. This video is very helpful. I went to Edit \> Cards to open the card template and discovered that the English is on the front of the card and the Japanese on the back. Using the cards a little more, I realized that Anki is sometimes displaying the back first and sometimes the front first in what appears to be a random manner. Is there any way I can control this? I’d prefer to do all English to Japanese first and then flip them and do it the other way around.

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**Author:** ![kelciour](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/kelciour/32/14770_2.png) [@kelciour](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/kelciour)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/can-the-user-control-whether-the-english-or-japanese-is-displayed/30178/4 "2023-05-10T15:39:57Z")

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It looks like the note type contains more than one card type.

[https://docs.ankiweb.net/getting-started.html#card-types](https://docs.ankiweb.net/getting-started.html#card-types)

One of the card types can be removed using Options.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/2X/2/2bdb0880d724b4dc8261b407062003b19ec437d9.png)

But since you want to flip them later, it might be better either

- To use the browser to suspend cards with the specific card type, for example, Card 1 or Card 2.

- To create a filtered deck with card:1 or card:2 and study it

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/can-the-user-control-whether-the-english-or-japanese-is-displayed/30178/5 "2023-06-09T15:40:15Z")

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