I’ve started learning for about a week now and want to expand my knowledge in words for hiragana and katakana before I start kanji anyone has any good anki decks that have words specifically for hiragana and katakana thanks in advance
My advice: this doesn’t matter. Find a Anki deck you like and go at it.
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4 years in for me
Honestly the Duolingo app is great for fundamentals, have a whole section for hiragana and katakana
My opinion is once you can read hiragana and katakana (no matter how slowly) continue with studying something else like kanji, vocab or grammar. You’ll get plenty of kana practice doing that.
Any Anki deck is good for hiragana and katakana and you should be able to knock those out in a week or two if you want to. I wouldn’t stress on them so much as you will get a lot of progressing going forward from there. Afterwards you should consider vocab and grammar.
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
This website is great. Has tons of graded readers that use super simple sentences (with hiragana readings) Start with level 0 as they have one sentece per page. [https://tadoku.org/japanese/en/free-books-en/](https://tadoku.org/japanese/en/free-books-en/)
I’m about 5 months in now, I’d really recommend not doing this. I know it’s tempting but you’ll have no trouble getting in the practice with kana by deciding to learn kanji or just mixed vocab especially because when you learn kanji a lot of times terms are shown spelled out to you AS kana rather than romanji. Plus, I didn’t really recognize how much I see kana every single day of my life until I learned it and I’m reading it absolutely everywhere now. I live in the US and I’m finding it in games, in art online, on people’s clothing, in television, there’s a lot to chew on.
I’d honestly recommend getting the Anki 6k core deck and working through that at your own pace. You could also consider checking out WaniKani (first 3 levels are free and those will take you a WHILE). Both will provide some degree of kana practice as well as start teaching you valuable kanji that you’ll see MUCH more often.
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My advice: this doesn’t matter. Find a Anki deck you like and go at it.
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4 years in for me
Honestly the Duolingo app is great for fundamentals, have a whole section for hiragana and katakana
My opinion is once you can read hiragana and katakana (no matter how slowly) continue with studying something else like kanji, vocab or grammar. You’ll get plenty of kana practice doing that.
Any Anki deck is good for hiragana and katakana and you should be able to knock those out in a week or two if you want to. I wouldn’t stress on them so much as you will get a lot of progressing going forward from there. Afterwards you should consider vocab and grammar.
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
This website is great. Has tons of graded readers that use super simple sentences (with hiragana readings) Start with level 0 as they have one sentece per page. [https://tadoku.org/japanese/en/free-books-en/](https://tadoku.org/japanese/en/free-books-en/)
I’m about 5 months in now, I’d really recommend not doing this. I know it’s tempting but you’ll have no trouble getting in the practice with kana by deciding to learn kanji or just mixed vocab especially because when you learn kanji a lot of times terms are shown spelled out to you AS kana rather than romanji. Plus, I didn’t really recognize how much I see kana every single day of my life until I learned it and I’m reading it absolutely everywhere now. I live in the US and I’m finding it in games, in art online, on people’s clothing, in television, there’s a lot to chew on.
I’d honestly recommend getting the Anki 6k core deck and working through that at your own pace. You could also consider checking out WaniKani (first 3 levels are free and those will take you a WHILE). Both will provide some degree of kana practice as well as start teaching you valuable kanji that you’ll see MUCH more often.