I’m kind of new to WaniKani, just started today my premium plan after reaching level 4, and I was wondering if there’s any resource available (webpage, app, Anki deck, or any other) for learning non-kanji words. I know we all want to know kanji, but I don’t want to get lost in a middle of a sentence because I just know the kanji and not many kana words. I wanted to focus on other learning resources as well, to complement my WaniKani studies. I have many other apps to know vocabulary, but none of them focuses on this aspect, and I would just end up overlapping many words I already know from studying kanji.
Now, because I’m new to Japanese, only been studying for over a month, maybe I’m just missing the point. Maybe it’s not that important and I’ll end up adding kana words to my vocabulary from just natural reading.
I found that they have a topic for commonly-written kana words (#uk), but it’s a little different from non-kanji words, because there are words in that list that use kanji but are commonly written in kana, hence the difference.
I’d like to find something that used a flash card system or something similar to WaniKani. That would be great.
Have you heard of Yomichan? I love this plugin. It’s a little Japanese hover-dictionary for your browser and will translate all sorts of words for you, including kana-only words. You can also connect it to Anki so that whatever you look up can be thrown into your own custom deck.
I thought Kitsun is in open beta now, so if you’re waiting for a while on your invite you might want to pop into this thread and talk to the developer.
Besides that, there’s also quite a few Japanese vocab courses on Memrise.