Refold JP1K Deck-how to grade self understanding

[glass turret]

New to anki and I’m doing the Refold JP1k deck and the cards are in 3 stages - “recall the reading” of the kanji, then it reads it to you and you try and recall it’s meaning, and then then you flip and for step 3 it says “Grade yourself only on whether you got the meaning correct.” it’s a little unclear - does this mean I rank it based on my understanding AFTER it’s read aloud / the kana is shown or from just the kanji. I can learn way more new words by just the kana/voiced reading (pretty easily 40 words a day) but if it’s brute forcing the kanji with reading/writing/understanding I can do way way way fewer and it’s a LOT more difficult as someone with 0 exposure to kanji before.

TLDR; do I rank myself based on the understanding of the kana/spoken word/translation associated with the kanji or being able to read/remember/understand the Kanji itself

[tawny grail]

Since you're new to Anki, I'm going to explain something that might seem silly, but I think will help you.

When you study a deck, in this case JP1K, you are shown the FRONT of the card first. All of the information on the front of Anki cards is there to help you remember the information that's on the back. In other words, the information that's on the back is what you're being tested on (in this case, it's the meaning/definition for the word since the instructions are explicitly telling you to test on meaning only).

Also on the front of the card, you will notice a button that says "show answer." Hitting this button flips the Anki card to the BACK.

So, using all the help from the front of the card, as long as you remember the meaning before you flip the card to the back and get it right, you grade the card "good." If not, you grade "again"

[versed hinge]

So if you remember the meaning from either the kanji or the reading it's good? As sometimes I remember the kanji -> English (1), but I don't remember the reading -> English (2). It seems wrong to pass on kanji remembering only

E.g.

I remember on step 1 that the kanji means to order. But, I don't remember the reading

Step 1. 頼む
Step 2 頼む + たのむ (Tanomu)

[cosmic pebble]

I think the reason for passing both is because they are going to be seen together during immersion so as long as you remember one of them you'll be able to create a stronger connection during immersion.

During video/audio you may understand the pronunciation, but not kanji. In this case you would see the kanji in the subtitles reinforcing the connection. The same vice versa with understanding subtitles while actively hearing the pronunciation.

During reading is less seamless, but sometimes furigana can be written alongside the kanji helping you remember the pronunciation or if not you can look up only the pronunciation of the kanji through a Japanese only lexicon.

[fluid burrow]

I was wondering about this too. At first i didn't have Anki set up to automatically read the card out loud so i was trying to remember both the meaning of the kanji and how to say it. Sometimes i remembered the meaning of the kanji but not how to say it. I found that it was taking a long time to remember both the meaning and the actual word just based on looking at the kanji. Now I've set up Anki to automatically read the card so it's a lot easier to remember the meaning but i find that i pay less attention to the kanji. So which setting it better? automatically read the card or not?

[zinc geode]

I wouldn’t automatically read the card if your mature retention rate is above 80% without it. You shouldn’t grade jp1k on reading, but giving it a brief try before flipping the card will still be beneficial to you and won’t add much to your srs time or srs fatigue.