Hi guys and gals! I’m relatively new here, but I’ve decided to take the Wanikani plunge after being impressed by how much I learned in the first three levels. Now, I know that Wanikani is a great resource to learn Japanese vocabulary, but it’s kinda limited to words that utilize kanji. Despite the f…

There’s the Torii app which has a kana-only mode, it’s free and available on desktop and android [image] Torii - SRS learning application for vocabulary API And Third-Party Apps Please check out the Public Features and Public Bugs boards before you request a feature or re…

I hope you find something useful! I’ve been searching for a resource like that too, although from my (limited) understanding, there are very few words that are only written in hiragana. Most words that are like that actually have kanji, but the kanji is rare/difficult/archaic so it is more often wri…

Fei: I hope you find something useful! I’ve been searching for a resource like that too, although from my (limited) understanding, there are very few words that are only written in hiragana. Most words that are like that actually have kanji, but the kanji is rare/difficult/archaic so it is more…

Ive been using https://kitsun.io for my genki study, it works alot like wanikani but there are user made decks. Im not sure if there is anything yet for kana only words but you can make your own deck with the words you want to learn.

Somebody took the Hiragana and Katakana only vocab from Core 6K and uploaded it to Memrise here If you don’t want to use Memrise you could download the Core 6k deck for Anki and just suspend/delete any words with Kanji.

If you like the way Wanikani works, it’s worth plugging iKnow again, as it has a similar setup and includes hiragana-only words (including many adverbial onomatopoeia from the core 3,000 onward). I’ve found they work very well together, provided you’re comfortable paying for two apps.

I could never get the iknow or core deck ones. They seem to just throw kanji at you, unlike wanikani that breaks stuff down with radicals and has memronics. I often see many people who love the core decks though so maybe I don’t get it lol.

I can’t stand the core decks either so you’re definitely not alone. A lot of Japanese learners for some reason seem to swear by Anki and the core decks not realizing there are plenty of other perfectly viable alternatives.

For sure I would not do the Core by itself. I started when I was pretty low level on WK and it was rough for that reason. But now I expect I can breeze through when I finally get new vocabulary (almost through my 1,500 word backlog lol) even if the kanji’s not on WK. It is a good supplement IMO, and…

I might have just hit the right level of iKnow at the right point in my Wanikani-ing, since there tend not to be a ton of unknown kanji, and when there is one, it often winds up in the next level or two of WK for me anyway. But I would also just say: The point isn’t learning the kanji. It’s learnin…

A Question Concerning Vocab Written Only in Hiragana

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MissMisc October 10, 2018, 4:20am 2

There’s the Torii app which has a kana-only mode, it’s free and available on desktop and android

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A Question Concerning Vocab Written Only in Hiragana

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