![]() Since I started immersing (like manga made by natives for natives, no more of that やさしい日本語 stuff) at times I just want to review words and Kanji that I encounter instead of the shotgun method of WaniKani. Most of the big complaints about it are the obscure words that are used to reinforce the Kanji but for me, it's a little bit different. Very helpful up to level 30ish then beyond that your mileage may vary. ![]() I do think Wanikani is best when done from the beginning simply because kanji and vocabulary make everything else you need to do easier, but it’s important to understand that that’s all it’s teaching, it’s not a complete Japanese course by a long shot. More so than anything like Wanikani kanji are one of the easier aspects of Japanese after all, they only need a lot of time. But it will not get you very far.Ĭonsequently, I also think text books are important in the beginning. The only exception is Kawaii Nihongo for people in the pre-beginner stage - I think it does a better job than other apps at giving people an initial idea of what Japanese is like and doesn’t make impossible promises. I should also note that I don’t like apps that claim to teach you all aspects of Japanese. Other good ways to pay people for admin work are bunpro for grammar (although not intended as a guide/textbook replacement, it’s just a learning tool), and Skritter for learning how to handwrite (which I think is not necessary, but pretty cool). It’s just that when I started I didn’t want to learn Anki, I wanted to start learning Japanese right away. Anki is pretty amazing with its flexibility. You’ll also want to learn other things, grammar patterns, entire sentences, one of the first decks I made was one with prefecture and city names so I could understand maps on TV and know where places are when there was no map. In fact I recommend Anki anyway because Wanikani has some pretty glaring holes particularly concerning words that aren’t written in kanji, and you’ll want to learn more vocab than it has anyway at some point. Or find a pre-made one that suits you (you get what you pay for in terms of quality though). If you’d rather save the money instead, just get Anki and make your own deck. You just show up on this web site every day and do what it says and you’re guaranteed to learn 6000-odd words and their pronunciation and their kanji. At the start of your journey you don’t have to figure out how to even start with little understanding of what you need to do. You have to do the learning yourself but you can save some time that would not be used for learning. Paying someone for this kind of work is pretty much the only shortcut you can get. Wanikani is one of many ways to pay people to do some of the administrative work for you. You can learn Japanese entirely for free there are enough resources online. Aka its like learning 2000 words in 4 months (which i did for chinese lol) - not long enough to ‘memorize’ them perfectly, but enough exposure that I could recognize enough words to now find shows and some books comprehensible.I haven’t burned everything, and they keep adding entries, but it’s pretty close to complete. But you won’t have a guess at how to pronounce new words necessarily - you will need to learn that word by word until you pick up some of the common kanji readings from doing that. I imagine the idea with this plan is to broaden general understanding - you can quickly cover enough kanji to get an overall idea of the meaning of them when you start learning vocabulary/have meaning to connect new words to. So I imagine the idea is you save some time not memorizing the readings, and plan to learn the readings with vocabulary (so maybe vocabulary takes a bit longer?). However, learning just meanings means general projections tend to suggest it takes 2 months to learn 2,000 kanji meanings (if you’re super diligent), to 6 months. Refold specifically thinks a learner should learn 500-1000 kanji meanings before diving into grammar/vocab more. This is an interesting take to me, because the other prevailing opinion is one mia/Refold has (and most Hesig’s Remember the Kanji book users share) - that a person should learn the meanings of kanji first, and then learn readings with vocabulary.
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