I’ve basically spent the first ~10 years between Japan and Canada. Furthest I’ve got in Japanese school enrolment was 4th grade, but in Canada, went to Saturday Japanese schools. My pronunciation is near perfect, grammar as well, but vocabulary and reading/writing kanji hold me back. Reading/writing levels of a middle school student, probably. I also haven’t hand-written in years, opting to simply use text/emails for Japanese communication.
As I want to try and learn more kanji and reinforce what I know, should I use resources suggested to English speakers learning kanji or use resources that Japanese students might use? The latter might be hard to obtain but I’ve got no preferences either way.
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The best way to learn something is whatever method is readily available to you and interesting enough that you won’t give it up.
But anyway if vocabulary and kanji are your problem, the easiest thing would probably be to download anki and some more advanced vocabulary decks and study those. And spend time writing kanji characters, it will help you both recognize and be able to reproduce them.
If it’s just vocabulary, something like anki, wanikani or jpdb.io should work just fine. I only have experience with jpdb thought.