5/31/2023 0 Comments Ikanji touch app or wanikaniYou’ll use a mnemonic to learn the radical. These are little stories to help you to remember the meaning and/or reading of each item. MnemonicsĮvery radical, kanji, and vocabulary word you learn on WaniKani comes paired with a hand-crafted mnemonic written by one of our loving staff. It doesn’t take long to see our focus on the long-term pay off. But, a couple months in you’ll know all these common kanji, plus a couple hundred more. And, you’re not overwhelmed by something with 13 strokes right from the start.īy doing this, you do miss out on some super common kanji right in the beginning. This way we can teach you more complicated kanji (in structure) using your knowledge of simpler kanji. So, we go the other way: more simply structured kanji, even if the meaning is too difficult for a kindergartener to understand. WaniKani assumes you’re an adult, or at least not an elementary school student. ![]() Even if the structure of a kanji is more complicated (that is, more strokes), they are more likely to learn it if the kanji’s meaning is simple and common. This makes sense because Japanese kids are just that: kids. Japanese children learn kanji in order of both usefulness and how simple the meaning of the kanji is, not how simple the structure is. Kanji Learning for Adults, not Japanese Children Of course, how we do that is important to know, and that will be covered in the next few sections. On Wanikani, we consistently get members to ~2,000 kanji in one or two years. Using traditional methods, a university student may learn ~1,000 kanji in four years (if they’re really, really lucky). We throw away short-term gains so you can reach that finish line faster. For us, that’s about 2,000 kanji (that’s most of the Joyo kanji, plus some others) and 6,000 useful vocabulary words. The WaniKani system is focused on the finish line. ![]() Here’s how we do it: A Focus on the Finish Line So if all learning is hard, what makes WaniKani different? We took the incredibly difficult task of learning kanji (what to learn, when to learn it, how to learn it, etc) and simplified it so you can just sit down and do steps 1-3. If you want to feel like you’re learning without gaining substance you can go anywhere. But, if you actually want to learn something, and learn it to real fluency… it’s going to be hard. The word “easy” is a word copywriters use to get you to buy their language learning product, be it textbook, audio program, or app. In order to do this, all you need to do is: If you try WaniKani, you’ll be able to complete the incredibly simple task of learning ~2,000 kanji (both meaning and reading) and 6,000+ Japanese vocabulary words.
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