I’m attempting to read light novels, and some of the kanji have furigana but not all. They’re paperback which means using my phone camera to push it through Google translate. It’s slow.
Hoping that I can cram some of the more basic kanji compounds to help increase my reading speed. I usually know the kanji meaning when I see the word, but not the pronunciation.
Alternatively, is core 2000 sortable by frequency? Is that the default order? I feel like the word order is way out of wack and I forget words because they’re not in the books I’m reading. Thanks for any tips!
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Reading physicals and asking about core 2k. I wish I had this kind of motivation.
The [Core 2.3k](https://anacreondjt.gitlab.io/docs/coredeck/) was pretty much made for exactly this.
It seems like you already figured out a strategy that would work for you and don’t need further advice. Reading flow coming to a stop, whenever we encounter an unknown kanji is a common problem, though. So I wanted to describe just another option to deal with it.
I personally like to use [jpdb.io](https://jpdb.io). If they have my book I let it show me words that are new to me in the order they appear in the book. Whenever I encounter an unknown kanji, word, expression I can now glance at the screen and scroll further down the chronological list. If i want to retain a word, I select “add to front of review queue” and use their SRS.
Another option of course is to read books with furigana on all kanji. There are [a couple of publishers](https://dokushoclub.com/2022/05/15/books-with-furigana/) that specialize in that and while some of those are children’s books, they also have popular anime novelisations ([demon slayer](https://amzn.to/3xVdbK3), [jujutsu kaisen](https://amzn.to/3vHFJUY), [your name](https://amzn.to/3L8Y4jt)) and light novels ([ascendance of a bookworm](https://amzn.to/3y3EGAN))!
I recommend making a deck yourself