So I have a close friend that spent most of her childhood in Japan but left around latter primary school so she hasn’t learned Kanji
She more or less has a near native proficiency and fluency but only in hiragana and katakana (she knows all the words, but not the kanji they’re associated with)
idk if it’s common but to give an idea she’s working for a japanese startup now and speaks fluently with them (database administrator more or less) while working at Accenture (also deployed to a japanese company as a project manager), and she even taught ESL to japanese people as well (esp those that are really bad at english, since she can teach them in japanese), and has a lot of friends she speaks to regularly there but the problem is she’s technically still illiterate (so she just googles a lot)
I’m still starting out (like really just started) so 1.5mo in:
– WK lvl7 (+KW for recall)
– BP NL5 complete (1/5 of NL4)
– done with Genki 1, starting Genki 2 shortly (using the online workbook by seth clydesdale)
– considering Anki decks, but while I’m using WK, KW and BP (+Genki) I don’t think I should add much more for now considering I have a full time job that’s really demanding so it’ll be hard to keep up
so I’m still very far away overall, but she is asking for my help learning Kanji and I was wondering if there were any good Anki decks to use for her if she already knows the words and vocabs really and just needs help associating them with Kanji? specifically reading and typing, stroke order and writing isn’t a priority since in her field she doesn’t really need to write (and mine tbh, haven’t used a pen outside of signatures since college)
She’s planning on moving to Japan to work there in the near future, and of course she needs to be able to read Kanji and not just speak though I can’t seem to find anything in Anki (since yeah, she seems like a fairly uncommon case)
Really appreciate if anyone can point me in the right direction >w< thanks!
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I think an rtk deck with example words would work best if you want something premade. But don’t have to go through all of it, at some point she would know enough kanji to just easily look up and learn the kanji she doesn’t know
If I recall correctly, Matt advised that people who are fluent but don’t know how to read should just watch stuff and read the subs at the same time. That’s probably the path I’d take too in such a situation.
I’m only a noob but whenever I know a word (but not the kanji) and I encounter the kanji spelling in anime subs, I learn it after just 1 or 2 exposures.
Off topic, but holy crap, it must be hell to memorize all those similar sounding words and homophones without knowing any kanji. I can only imagine a child being able to do that.