Hey all! I’m a few weeks in and really enjoying it so far. Kanji + meanings are starting to stick, and the SRS rhythm makes sense to me. But I keep coming back to the same question: how do you actually put it together? WaniKani is clearly the foundation, but how does it all come together? A few t…

[image] LordsOTB: WaniKani is clearly the foundation Personally I would suggest that it is not. The foundation of Japanese is learning how to say and understand stuff: basic phrases, grammar, learning some words. All of that is common to any language. A good textbook is the traditional curate…

Thank you for that response! Out of curiosity, do you have a system that has worked for you? A textbook, a course, or something else?

I started with in person classes working from textbooks like Minna no Nihongo.

I personally did focus on WaniKani early on with everything else taking the backseat. It did work well for me because I was mainly concerned with being able to rest Japanese before anything else. As a result my Japanese abilities are completely lopsided. I don’t regret my decision, but it’s somethin…

Thank you very much! Then I think I have my answer. Start with some textbooks, and even better, take some in-person classes!

Thanks for the read! I was telling myself to focus on the reading and learn the language from the ground up. But I think I need to start striking a good balance between read/write and speak/understand

[image] pm215: Personally I would suggest that it is not. It might not be the foundation of Japanese language, but it is the foundation of Japanese language studying routine. WK provides a minimal daily routine. Yes, it’s not meant to replace other ways of studies, but it is a good foundati…

Caveat: I suck at this… I am probably somewhere around the n4 level with huge gaps. 2 hours a day I spend listening. Using mostly JLAB and core 6k anki decks. I would like to do more native immersion but dont have the energy after clearing those anki decks. I highly recommend both decks. 1.5 hours…

To answer the OP’s question, in my case it came sort of like in tiers. Tier 1 was when I was getting the very basics – kanji and grammar. Tier 2 was when I became able to read simple resources, adapted for beginners, like the ones I’ve shared in the previous post Tier 3 is where I’m now – being a…

i think the lightbulb moments for me as far as kanji were: reading 丁度 wayyyyy early and recognizing that it was a word i’d already heard and learned without kanji. correctly guessing the reading of a word based on the on’yomi readings of similar kanji or conversely, having a pretty decent sense of…

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Kami_Neko July 11, 2026, 6:05pm 20

@YandrosTheSane has posted the readathon link and let me put the Read everyday challenge link Its also a community event that moves throughtout the year in 4 phases like the readathon but in this we try to read japanese everyday.

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