So I am currently working on my N5/N4 Japanese! Still a beginner but I’m getting there! I am likely going to finish the N5 content by the end of June so I’m going to decide at that point if I want to jump into N4 stuff or just take the N5 test but the plan is to do the JLPT in one of these levels at the end of this year.
That being said, I have been partly using the app Mochi Mochi to do vocabulary and reading practice. I have been going through all of the vocabulary words in the Mochi Mochi app for N5 but am also using Pimsleur for conversational practice, a Kanji workbook to learn and write kanji, and a JLPT N5 study guide for grammar rules and learn some of the more test taking nuances.
All that said, I have begun to notice that Mochi Mochi is teaching me way more advanced Kanji than is presented in any of my other learning material. Nearly every vocabulary word I learn is written out in Kanji and not in Kana in Mochi Mochi. In terms of the other learning material, it says I need to learn about 80 kanji but Mochi Mochi frequently expects me to memorize numerous Kanji-based words that are for N4 or higher levels I haven’t gotten too yet cause they don’t appear in my other study books.
What should I do here? I really appreciate the app Mochi Mochi but I also really want to learn N5 material really well before jumping to other stuff and I’m worried that Mochi Mochi is somehow not teaching me the right material if it is giving me tons of advanced Kanji characters super early. But what do you y’all think? Do you have experience with Mochi Mochi? Is it valuable to keep using or should I just switch to setting up the N5 vocabulary words in an anki deck and going that route?
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I would be happy to share specific examples of words I noticed that the app is testing me on that have advanced Kanji characters if anyone is curious.
>Mochi Mochi is teaching me way more advanced Kanji than is presented in any of my other learning material.
You might as well learn it. Unless you plan to stick to strictly learning materials (not the best idea), you will realistically not see a lot of common vocabulary in kana-only if they have common kanji (by Japanese standards, as opposed to students and resources for students that simply can’t read much of anything yet).