Hello everyone,
I recently bought Minna no nihongo main textbook 1 & 2 and also the translations, vocabularies and grammar explanations books in my native language. My short term goal is JLPT N4 in around 6 months (I think this should be doable, no?).
I’m planning to use these books this way, for each chapter:
\- Memorize vocabs (minus the kanji) and the grammar in the explanations books.
\- Go to the main book and do the exercises.
I’m planning to memorize the kanji for the JLPT from other sources than minna no nihongo, but **only after I finished the books.**
The question is, do you think this learning method will be effective? Or should I memorize the kanji each time I find a new one while going through each chapter?
Thanks!
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Memorizing kanji takes a long time, I’d get started on it as soon as possible, especially since you wanna take N4 so soon. You have no time to waste if you want to do that. You need to do everything in parallel. Vocab, kanji and grammar.
Minna no Nihongo, Genki, etc. are designed for classroom work so there are some items missing from the textbook. You can use online resources to fill in areas you want to bolster (see the starter’s guide here).
In full-time language school, we did about 2 chapters per week.
The first two weeks, we memorised the kana (in parallel with the textbook work).
A bit later, we started with a separate kanji book. In many language schools, students learn to write the kanji, which is time consuming.
JLPT does not really test output (writing and speaking).