As I’ve been meaning to do something like this for a while, I thought I’d first adapt what I wrote for joining the ABBC as some initial content, and then build from there.
After I rewrote the material for Manga Kotoba, I incorporated the changes directly back into the thread. (That’s the update I made the other day.)
While I was working on improving the content, I decided to ask Grok (AI) to outline topics for such a guide, to see if it would come up with anything worth adding. Aside from getting some good ideas, Grok also mentioned:
A while back, I loaded up on Migaku cards for the rest of grade two kanji (at least those available in the Migaku kanji course), and vocabulary cards for those kanji based on words in manga I’m reading. (I was going to start the latter at grade 3, but why wait?)
After some time, I’m finally down to about 30 to 50 reviews per day. A bit more managable, as I was getting around 200 per day for a while there.
Kanji
I haven’t been keeping at daily reading from the Maruko grade 2 kanji book.
I’m planning to push to finish grade 2, then try something different before decided on starting up grade 3. I’d like to try reading a manga where one of my focuses is learning new kanji as I read each volume. (Based on kanji frequency lists.) Just to see how that goes.
One area I struggle with when learning words for a kanji is when I can’t see a clear link between the word and the meanings of the kanji. I realize there won’t always be one, but if there is one it may help me to know it. I’ll be checking meanings for kanji from Kanjipedia, and looking into how certain words relate to a specific meaning. Will I benefit from this, or will it just be a waste of time? That’s what I’ll be finding out.
Manga Kotoba
I’ve been improving the database backend, so not much new visible.
I did add links to WaniKani book clubs, tentatively in the "More Info" section.
