I’ve been using anki to memorize kanji with anki while writing them down at the same time or will it be faster if I didn’t write them down if my goal is to be able to read and not writing
It depends on you. Writing them down helps me memorise them better. However, there people who consider that there’s no influence if you write them down or not. I also enjoy it, I really like Kanji characters. So, even if it takes me longer to do my daily Anki review, I’m not getting overwhelmed by doing it.
Btw, I only write down the ones that are new or the ones I forgot…
I cannot tell you if it will help you personally or not, but I tried it in the beginning and it did not seem to help me at all with recognition. Even if it had helped a little, it was a lot of effort and IMO that effort is better spent elsewhere.
I don’t use Anki, personally (I use WaniKani for kanji), but I do feel like for me, writing them helps me commit them to memory better than otherwise not doing it. That said, that’s very much a me thing; I also use it as an excuse to use my pens, because I like using them, but that’s neither here nor there.
If you think it might help you, give it a go. If you have a printer handy, find a printable genkouyoushi layout (or make one yourself; it’s what I did at one point, though that didn’t work for me), or if you don’t, buy something like Kokuyo Campus paper (as an example) or a notepad that’s either squared or dotted.
I think it’s a good idea when learning the first ~500 or so. Knowing the stroke order helped me with similar character recognition and especially being able to read weird fonts and poor handwriting.
After that I think it gets less useful since the kanji just start being slight variations of each other or just lego-blocked together. I still do cards where I’m prompted for a kanji from the meaning+readings but rather than physically write it out I just need to picture it in my head. e.g. for 析 I’d just make sure I pictured 木 on the left and 斤 on the right and if I did I pass the card.
Depends. If Anki alone is enough for you to remember them and being able to read them it’s not necessary. Personally I write them down and then use Anki because otherwise I won’t be able to remember but this is just me, also in my experience writing takes time so it’s not exactly faster
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It depends on you. Writing them down helps me memorise them better. However, there people who consider that there’s no influence if you write them down or not. I also enjoy it, I really like Kanji characters. So, even if it takes me longer to do my daily Anki review, I’m not getting overwhelmed by doing it.
Btw, I only write down the ones that are new or the ones I forgot…
I cannot tell you if it will help you personally or not, but I tried it in the beginning and it did not seem to help me at all with recognition. Even if it had helped a little, it was a lot of effort and IMO that effort is better spent elsewhere.
I don’t use Anki, personally (I use WaniKani for kanji), but I do feel like for me, writing them helps me commit them to memory better than otherwise not doing it. That said, that’s very much a me thing; I also use it as an excuse to use my pens, because I like using them, but that’s neither here nor there.
If you think it might help you, give it a go. If you have a printer handy, find a printable genkouyoushi layout (or make one yourself; it’s what I did at one point, though that didn’t work for me), or if you don’t, buy something like Kokuyo Campus paper (as an example) or a notepad that’s either squared or dotted.
I think it’s a good idea when learning the first ~500 or so. Knowing the stroke order helped me with similar character recognition and especially being able to read weird fonts and poor handwriting.
After that I think it gets less useful since the kanji just start being slight variations of each other or just lego-blocked together. I still do cards where I’m prompted for a kanji from the meaning+readings but rather than physically write it out I just need to picture it in my head. e.g. for 析 I’d just make sure I pictured 木 on the left and 斤 on the right and if I did I pass the card.
Depends. If Anki alone is enough for you to remember them and being able to read them it’s not necessary. Personally I write them down and then use Anki because otherwise I won’t be able to remember but this is just me, also in my experience writing takes time so it’s not exactly faster