I’ve been studying Japanese for about 3 weeks now. I’ve been learning kanji through Wanikani, and have been finding it pretty easy so far, although I’m sure it’ll get harder, and have very recently started working through Genki 1 alongside Bunpro for grammar, which has been going ok. My friend who …

If you’re already using Bunpro for grammar, then I can say that the new Bunpro vocab feature(s) are genuinely excellent and worth your time trying out. Bunpro vocab is currently still in its Beta stage, so you have to opt-in to the Beta program within your Account Settings. Another feature that th…

[image] believeinthenet: My friend who is fluent in Japanese advised me to use a certain core 6k Anki deck to learn vocabulary, but it’s just not sticking with me at all. I had a similar problem. I went through SRS’ing 2,000 vocabulary over a number of years, and in that time forgot most of …

Oh, I wasn’t aware of that feature, I’ll definitely give that a go and see if it works better for me than Anki then, thanks.

That Refold deck looks interesting, I’ll see how the Bunpro solution works for me first, but if not I’ll definitely consider it. The deck I’m using at the moment however already claims to be optimised, has native audio and example sentences, and I have edited the cards so that it’s Japanese to Engli…

[image] believeinthenet: The deck I’m using at the moment however already claims to be optimised, has native audio and example sentences, and I have edited the cards so that it’s Japanese to English, so I don’t know if that deck will be much of an improvement. Questions to consider for the 6K…

OP, you are doing completely fine and great tools already. I wouldn’t do the same as you now, to start so early level here though, for knowing myself to not get overwhelmed. :sweat_smile:

Personally, I would just focus on learning the vocabulary that Genki introduces to you, since you’re already using it. If you want it in Anki, put the vocab in Anki. It’s a little skewed towards classroom learning but you can use it to do the exercises so it will be immediately reinforced. …

There are already a lot of good advices in here, just keep at it and you will get better, it almost doesn’t matter what you do in the beginning as long as you do something, cause you have to learn everything anyway… eventually. Can just share how I would start, maybe there is something you can take…

I second using SRS to review words you come across reading. I usually have an easier time remembering words when I’ve already seen them in use rather than just in a vacuum (though there have definitely been some learned on WK that unexpectedly just stuck immediately) Graded readers (tadoku has a bu…

[image] ChristopherFritz: My best advice here is to make liberal use of Anki’s feature to suspend leeches automatically. Where you are with vocabulary right now, you want to spend more time on vocabulary you’re able to learn and not waste time on vocabulary you’re struggling with. If it’s vocab…

Advice for learning vocabulary?

Japanese Language

drdru December 3, 2023, 2:18pm 15

A while ago I wrote down a non conventional learning path centered around reading. In case you’re interested all the details can be found in the thread below.

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