I just finished the basic kanji book volume 2, so I know \~500 kanji.
I’ve been learning it by:
1. Learning how to write each kanji in a chapter
2.Add kanji and the vocab from the book into Anki deck(with reverse cards)
3. Learn the meaning of the kanji and the vocab meaning and readings through anki.
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But now I’ve finished all that I’m pretty lost on what to do. I want to learn more kanji and vocab but I just have no clue how to implement it. Do people usually add cards from other decks(e.g. the core ones) to their existing deck? or do they just start using those decks too? I’d be worried about having too many revisions per day that way.
Also I’d like to know what people think about using reverse cards for both kanji and vocab, is it common to do that, because I feel like it helps me a lot but at the same time it doubles my cards.
I’ve looked at satori reader and seen a lot of people getting vocab from there or anime, but I don’t want to miss any words that I should know at my level.
I’d appreciate any advice, thanks y’all.
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Grab a text book or a YouTube playlist – start learning some grammar. Take a break from individual Kanji study. Kinda sounds like you’re in the weeds. Cramming vocabulary is better once you have some kind of framework for building context. Learn grammar, start reading, build vocabulary without relying entirely on Anki.
If you liked basic kanji book there is also an intermediate kanji book that teach you another 500 kanji.
If you want a reference book to do your anki card you could get the “kanji in context” from Japan times book, as it covers 2136 kanji. Kanji books for Kanken or JLPT are other options.
I wouldn’t worry too much about skipping anything cause you’ll probably get it sooner or later.
Unfortunately I don’t know much about anki decks.
You should define your goal first.
So what is your ultimate goal with Japanese? Be specific if you can or describe why you want to learn in the first place
I am a big fan of the Tango Anki decks starting with Tango N5 for vocabulary. They are set up in an i +1/1t format which means they teach you with sentences but every sentence only has 1 new word. That way you see the words and grammar you have learned over and over in a natural way. I used them myself and then moved in to sentence mining later on to get to a good level of japanese. They also are set up to use many common words found in japanese. I am really big on frequency as well, I even built the Netflix frequency list.
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/866090213
When it comes to starting japanese I pretty much agree with everything in this video except I prefer the free Migaku Kanji God addon Anki addon over RTK. The addon creates RTK style cards which are based on the kanji coming up in your Anki decks.
https://youtu.be/L1NQoQivkIY
You learned vocabulary and kanji so just put it to use. Start reading and read a lot. Look up what you don’t know as you come across it and you’ll improve very quickly.
“but I don’t want to miss any words that I should know at my level.”
This doesn’t exist. You’ll have to decide by yourself if an unknown word is worth learning now.
Also you seem very worried about having the perfect method with perfect order and that’ll consume more time and energy than just learning in the end.
Learn words that appear in stuff you want to understand, that’s it.
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Also you have to decide how many decks you want. I have one with 20k+ entries including everything you could imagine, and that’s it. Some people have 10 decks and apparently do fine too.
Anki Core 2.3k or Anki Core 6k, then read a lot. That’s it. That’s all you have to do