I’m returning to Japan to study after a 40-year break. My go to way of learning new kanji then was a small book called Essential Kanji by P.G. O’Neill. If you came across a kanji pair you didn’t know, you had to count the strokes and go to an index and look for the kanji with the same stroke count (or radical), and find the match. You’d do the same for the 2nd, and then write it down and try to memorize it. It was very time-consuming and inefficient.
Is there a modern kanji app where you could just point your iphone at a kanji, it’ll identify it, show its usage and common kanji combinations and then you could save that to a workspace so you can study it later?
The apps I’ve seen recommended here don’t seem to make use of a phone camera, which in the age of AI, seems perfect for identifying, categorizing and memorizing new kanji. Google translate helps but it’s not easy to save for practicing.
Hope there’s a great app I just haven’t heard about.
by johnnydroppalot
