Things have been going smoothly as I continue to learn vocabulary based on my manga frequency lists.
In the past, I’ve tried adding cards for words as I’m reading, and those ones never seem to stick. Maybe I always ended up picking infrequent words made up of infrequent kanji, so I didn’t see them enough before they were suspended as leeches?
Working off of frequency lists based on what I’m reading (or have recently read) has been a much nicer experience.
Until now, I’ve been focusing on frequent kanji that also appear in WaniKani levels 1-20, because supposedly I’ve learned these ones already. (But in reality, I’d forgotten many of them after burning them.)
I’ve re-learned all level 1-20 kanji that appear frequently in the manga I read. (I’m not worried yet about the level 1-20 kanji that barely shows up.)
Next up: focusing on manga-frequent kanji from levels 21-30.
Here’s what my ARIA kanji frequency list currently looks like, based on the first five volumes of the re-release:
My method of learning these kanji is to add cards for the various vocabulary that they appear in within the manga I’ve OCR’d. Sometimes this includes less frequent vocabulary that the kanji appears in, but so far it’s been working out.
Recently, I’ve introduced another set of frequency lists: vocabulary frequency.
Here’s my ARIA vocabulary frequency list currently looks like:
(I actually do know a few of these, but haven’t added them to my known words list yet.)
This one’s nice because sometimes kanji I know make up a common vocabulary word I don’t know. This lets me find and learn those. It also lets me start learning frequently used non-kanji words.
I think my favorite part of this so far has been how easy it is to decide what to learn next. I can either pick from a frequency list for a specific series, or view the top items to learn across multiple series:
