Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (July 16, 2023)

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1. I was all in favour of protests against the Reddit management after it’s shitty treatment of many it’s most dedicated users, but at this point the protests have definetly outlived their usefulness, atleast when it comes to limiting the usability of this subreddit.

   Apparently our headmod u/LordQuorad has also lost faith in protests as I see you are now back to participating in normal discussions in subreddits that operate normally. **So now could we please have normal discussions in a normal subreddit here too.**

   For the people who feel strongly about not wanting to support Reddit in any way, your natural move is to take your activity elsewhere and you have my full support in that. But that’s a decision for everyone to make for themselves and I’d appreciate if you wouldn’t try to force it upon the rest of us by limiting the usability of r/learnjapanse without considering the wishes of it’s users. Because that’s just a very dicky move.

2. Just curious if anyone knows a resource like https://sethclydesdale.github.io/genki-study-resources/lessons-3rd/ but for Quartet? I figure it’s less likely because the exercises become more free-form but wanted to check if anyone knew of one.

3. For the past month I’ve been doing Heisig but instead of learning the meaning that Heisig associates with a character, I’ve been memorizing the JLPT words associated with them (skipping words that include other Kanji which I haven’t gotten to yet). 3 kanji per weekday, 9 sat/sunday for 33 kanji + associated vocab/week, grammar on weekends. Instead of Anki I use a different app that lets me create hand-drawn flashcards with SRT.

   Instead of doing it this way am I better off doing WaniKani since it’s pretty much the same thing, just without Heisig’s grouping? It’s kind of annoying constantly running into words during my grammar studies that I can’t read yet, and I don’t necessarily know if it’s a good idea to learn these words on their own outside of Heisig.

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5. How is the assimil textbook series?

6. Today I’m wrapping up with hiragana, then I’m gonna learn katakana next. What step should I take after that? Some people told me I should begin with grammar while learning Kanji along the way.

   I also have another question: since I need to know 2000 Kanji to at least read Japanese, which Kanji should I start with? Some have told me to avoid starting with Kanji for names, and focus on the ones that describe nouns, verbs and adjectives but idk.