So far with KKLC I’ve learned up to 900 kanji. Sometimes I wish I just had a bit more context with certain kanji though. The KKLC has done wonders for me so far but the graded readers have gotten some weird reception from my native Japanese speakers. I was wondering if anyone has ever done a similar route? Although I think the graded readers have helped me, I just wish I had more practice. I use the kanji study app with the graded readers addon. Kanji Study has been an unbelievably resourceful app but I’ve really considered KIC.
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I’m not familiar with Kanji in Context so idk if this’ll be helpful, but I did do KKLC->Graded readers.
I think the native speakers might look at it weirdly because… That’s what it is, it’s a bit different from normal Japanese as its made with learners in mind.
I think it’s fine though, isn’t it? It’s just supposed to ease bridging the gap until you get to proper reading and immersion.
I really like KiC, but I don’t know how valuable it is to relearn the same material over and over. I guess it is for some people, but…
Reminds me of the weird recommendation you used to see of doing Tobira after completing a different intermediate textbook. Like I guess more practice can’t hurt, but why?
I only have the sample of the KKLC readers if that’s what you’re talking about, and I didn’t like them much, and I know the first that they gave away free are probably going to be the worst just because they have so little to work with, kanji-wise.
Why don’t you pick a kanji (something around where you are, not something in the first 100 or so), type up the sentences from the KKLC reader, and I’ll type the sentences from KiC for the same kanji and we can compare. (KiC groups the kanji into ~10-15 and uses them together, but I can pull out the ones using a given kanji easily enough.)
I’m not sure how much better it really is, probably it can’t hurt you, but hard to say whether it’s worth it, so lets actually test this!
If it’s not worth it, you might just want to try reading something easy that isn’t strictly sticking to kanji you “know” anyway, like Satori reader or something.