![]() I personally recommend using the Tango N5 Deck and the Tango N4 Deck Anki decks, while you also mine a basic grammar guide such as The Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar. ![]() Fortunately, there are many beginner/pre-made Anki decks that cover these words systematically. However, you can get ~70-80% comprehension of the spoken language by just knowing the most frequent ~2,000 words in a language. You will need to know ~30,000 words in order to have 99.99% comprehension of almost all Japanese content you come across. Learning new vocabulary is one of the biggest parts of learning a language. Use Yomichan to look up the readings yourself and confirm that each one has a unique “reading” (it’s better to just remember each word as a separate entity). At this point, adding on the knowledge of how to write the characters from memory is incredibly easy. At this point, you will have foundational knowledge for thousands of characters (most likely anywhere from 3000-4000) by knowing multiple words that each character is used in. If you do want to learn how to write Kanji by hand, then you should do it after you are already able to read Japanese novels with little to no difficulty (which usually happens after a couple of years of doing hardcore immersion learning). Memorize each word as an individual “unit” and you will have no problem understanding your listening content or being able to read Japanese. ![]() The process is as simple as going “This word is read like this, and means this“. Through learning new vocabulary, you will naturally learn new characters and become able to read Japanese without any problem. After that, you don’t need any Kanji study at all! You can learn to read Japanese simply through learning new vocabulary while mining vocab/sentence cards from your reading immersion. Have you ever seen the character 「生」? It has at least 17 different readings* even if you learn all of them, how will you know which one is used where? It’s simply impossible to know without already knowing the vocabulary that the character is used in (which you could have learned without wasting time learning multiple “readings” for one character).Įfficient methods for learning kanji will simply have you focus on recognizing the most common ~500 characters to get your feet wet and used to the shapes. Let me provide an example of why this is a horrible idea. Inefficient methods for learning kanji will focus on having you learn to write the characters by hand, and learning various “readings” for each kanji out of context. So what is the different between efficient and inefficient methods for learning Kanji? However, once you get used to the characters, Kanji are an incredible cheat code for learning Japanese and make it much easier to learn new vocabulary. Most people think that these characters are incredibly hard to learn and they are if you go about doing so in the wrong way, which is a common beginner trap. Kanji is often the first “bump” that people run into when they start learning Japanese.
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