(I’ve read the Beginner’s Guide, but I’d like to hear some of your opinions, specially from those of you who now have a high level of “understanding”, I guess?)
I’ve only been learning Japanese for about three weeks now.
I’ve already learned both Hiragana and Katakana, so the next rational step would be to learn Kanji.
However, a few hours ago I started with some listening/reading exercises that use only Hiragana and Katakana so that it’s easier to understand for beginners, and I thought that was extremely fun.
It felt as if my head was just “swimming” along with it, and it was exciting, everything was clicking just fine, but after I finished the lesson I felt a little bit worried, because there were a few instances in which I knew for certain a certain phrase should’ve been written with a specific Kanji.
Should I drop those exercises until I’ve learned the required 1,500/2,500 Kanji’s, or is it ok for me to keep taking those lessons and then move on to Kanji once I have a reasonable understanding on how to arrange sentences and the meaning of each word?
2 comments
don’t hyperfixate on anything. learn a little of everything as you go. each will reinforce the others.
Tbh I don’t think learning kanji without grammar makes just as grammar with kanji(vocabulary) makes sense. I’d say maybe split your time and do x% grammar and y% vocab.
But that’s just my view on it since I learn grammar and vocabulary at the same time.