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Learning Kanji but not in JLPT Order

I’m planning on taking the JLPT N5 (or N4 if I can learn the material fast enough) this upcoming December. I’m going through the Genki 1 book and doing each chapter multiple times so that I can truly understand the material. When I’m feeling confident with the spellings of the words in hiragana, I go on Jisho to find the kanji equivalent. I then do the chapter one last time but incorporating the kanji instead of the hiragana. It helps me solidify the vocab while also learning new Kanji. However, some of the Kanji are N3 and up. Which I don’t mind learning but was wondering if it would be detrimental in the long run.

2 comments

  1. If the N5/N4 test uses the hiragana form of the word, then it may slow you down in recognizing it. That’s about the only potential drawback I can think of.

  2. I learnt the hiragana through naturally by only learning the kanji + the hiragana that followed the verbs.
    I was slowed down on thr N5 and N4 but I can also read closed captions way better. I see ZERO reason why anyone would want to learn くるま instead of learning 車. Completely blows my mind why I get downvoted for just wanting the best for everyone.
    People get so scared of Kanji but it should really be on the table from day one.
    The only excuse I ever get is that it takes a day/week to learn Hiragana. I get that, I also get that by the time I had memorized all the hiragana, I already had a good 300-500 kanji down pat.

    BUT as the other person said, the jlpt was unnecessarly a bit more difficult than I thought it should have been. Instead of kanji with furigana above it, the N5 is like 98% hiragana snd the N4 is about 75% hiragana.

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