Do you guys know Wani Kani?
A friend of mine recommended to me and says it is a good website to learn kanji.
But I prefer an app in the phone, especially an app that teaches the radical’s meaning.
Or do you guys have other suggestion to learn kanji besides flashcard/anki?
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I love wanikani! If you have an android, there is no app version available BUT iPhone users are in luck. Personally, I prefer it on the computer or tablet which is probably good because I have an android.
Edited: I wrote a lot about anki and compared my experience of the two apps. It seems you already know about anki. So I’m deleting it 😅
WaniiKani is amazing and highly recommended. It has an unofficial companion app called Tsurukame (iOS only, I think)) that syncs with WaniKani so you can use it on your phone. It’s pretty efficient. I use it to knock out reviews when I’m out and about.
Use what you like,
Books, WK, Kanji garden, smoke signals, post it notes
try it if it doesnt work change it
WaniKani is fantastic. There is no official app, but their UI on the website is definitely made to work well on a phone screen, it’s laid out as if it were an app.
My recommendation would be to just try it out with the phone browser, you’ll likely be just fine with that.
The first chunk of lessons are free by the way, so easy enough to check it out.
The android app I use for Wanikani is called Kakumei and it works great.
Tsurukame is a 3rd party app that syncs with wanikani, I prefer using it over the website itself.
The nice thing about it is that you can turn on an option in settings that lets you mark an answer as correct after it’s flagged wrong, I love this because I make soooo many typos. You can also add your own English definitions to be flagged as correct, if you tend to word something slightly differently that it flags as wrong.
WaniKani is… OK. It’s a decent system but I hate their mnemonics. The fact that they make up mnemonics for radicals, and force you to learn the wrong meaning for radicals, is a huge drawback in my opinion.
KanjiDamage also has mnemonics if you dont like WKs. Use whatever works for Kanji, whether thats Anki, WK, writing them out by hand, or reading them in context over and over and over until they stick. GLHF!