calm helm
So it took a few days for me to get the basics of Hiragana and Katakana down and now I am at the stage of taking on Kanji but not exactly sure where to start? I bought the JP1K Deck but not sure how it helps in starting to learn Kanji. Would anyone know a good resource or website to get started with Kanji?
Also I read (according to BritvsJapan) that I should learn Kanji Radicals first before diving into the main Kanji stuff otherwise it may get confusing. Appreciate any help. Thank You.
tidal sparrow
I'm going to say up front that the advice I'm about to give holds up for most people. There are people with learning disabilities and other divergencies that need to be considered. But if that doesn't apply to you, don't worry about it, and just follow the general advice.
For the general advice, the first thing you need to wrap your mind around is that "learning kanji" isn't really a thing. Not in the sense that you sit down and drill kanji in isolation without context. Learning radicals also falls under that. It's not that it's not helpful. The problem is that it's not necessary and is a time waste.
There's nothing you really need to do aside from diving into the JP1K and start exposing yourself to kanji through reading (shows with Japanese subtitles counts as reading). The JP1K is designed to familiarize you with a lot of the most common kanji you'll see as well as teaching you vocabulary, which is the actual useful part. Drilling radicals doesn't help you comprehend your immersion but learning words does.
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Adding onto shiki’s advice with concrete experience, learning kanji individually eats a huge amount of time. No matter what route you take to accomplish it, you’ll spend months learning to recognize and/or write 1-2k kanji with an hour or more of srs per day. By the end of it, you may be better at distinguishing certain kanji more than others, but the others will have learned 1-2k words and are enjoying immersion much more already. Beyond that, the maintenance of said kanji deck after you finish will still eat 20-30 mins out of your day. If you don’t maintenance it, most of those mnemonics you learned along the way will quickly fade from memory and the effort will have been mostly wasted.