brooo I love your workflow for learning kanji!! I love the idea of making it like a game and unlocking them as you learn them in the context of sentences so they actually mean something to you. gonna definitely adopt this for the future kanji I learn, thank you for sharing!! so good 😭🤎
I've been pretty overwhelmed with all the kanji learning options. The in context approach while also learning vocab, radicals, and pronunciation seems like a solid route I might try out
it is solid indeed. trust me, its much more chill and less stress. No point in learning all 2136 common kanji up front if you dont even know any words along with them. Your just force memorising the kanji but not gaining any practical reading skills. jus the ability to look at a kanji and know its meaning.
I did old school, fatboy RTK with all 2200 kanji. It has it's benefits, but I'm SO glad I ignored Matt and didn't bother with RTK3. Imo R-RTK is the best way, I think the JP1K is too minimalistic and forces useless vocab into your head. Unless it has voiced, full sentences I think its too little of two separate things that are best addressed individually.
This is fucking awesome. I've been sitting around for years and been like "why isn't there a program where you can have the content start showing only kanji you know"... well this is like a manual process to do that. A little work but not bad. I like the idea of just learning the radicals. I got through like 600 of RTK and I would maybe miss a day or two, reviews would pile up, hundreds of reviews carrying over day to day, then I can't keep up. Keeping up with around 250 radicals sounds way better..
RIGHT! I'm doing a masters in computers sciene this year, so hopefully i can learn to create an add on that automatically does this process. Or someone finds this video and makes an add on for it :) I'm glad you found the video helpful though :D Would appreciate it if you left a like on the video, so more people can be saved from RTK XD
@@LionelvsJapanTV does everyone that becomes fluent via ajatt study computer science? That's you, BritvsJapan and Khatz... I feel it's only smart people that can learn through ajatt :/
@@nihongobenkyo3102 Looool💀🤣🤣🤣🤣. Don’t kill me. That’s not even the case. My undergraduate degree was in finance. I only started doing a computer science masters last September and I started using ajjat way before that started 🤣. So yeah don’t worry
@@floatint2137 my dude, I go through phases of super Ajatt motivation, then months where I barely manage to do like 2hrs a week.. I really don't know if it's gonna happen for me. I've been studying japanese for like 5 years, and I just don't feel like it's going anywhere. How you feelin?
Hey, really great video but I have a suggestion for your next video. Whenever you get on your computer, your microphone only plays on one side of the audio device. You can duplicate your mono audio signal to both Left and Right and make it so both sides have audio. I was watching for a bit and was confused why there was no audio until I put on the other side of my earbuds.
There are words you will never be able to guess the reading of. You simply have to learn it. A common word is 今日 kyou, meaning "today". Neither of these individual kanji have similar readings.
Funny, I started RTK yesterday, and the keyword for the second symbol in your example isn't "sun", but "day" instead. Effectively, especially in context, I could guess half the meaning of the example word after only one RTK lesson!
Thank you so much, when thinking about learning Kanji I felt really stuck but after using your deck for the radicals I realized it's not that bad after all. Have a nice day!
I'm probably one of few people that likes learning kanji. Pretty much done with the jōyō kanji and will move onto frequency lists soon, heading for 3000 at the very least. I would highly recommend WK. Slow? Maybe, but you'll need a ton of vocab aswell along with grammar and immersion. Would also recommend kitsun over anki, the interface is much better and it's much easier to customize. But if you want to do it for free, anki and RTK isn't terrible.
I try to just learn by grouping by sound, usually the right hand side is for sound only. Only one chinese reading is common, and it unlocks more words than the kun readings which are somehow easier to remember anyway given their frequency. But no matter what it takes time. Interference effect is common. You have to balance the pain of a recall based approach with stuff that is actually interesting. I wouldn't use srs for vocabulary, it's unnecessary. I retain plenty just by reading and listening. Still I like your advice, really sensible and straightforward.
Hey bro, you’re welcome. I’m glad you found this💪🏾😊. Just trying to help you reach your fluency goals. Would appreciate it if you could like the video aswell😄
@@LionelvsJapanTV I was getting quite good before the pandemic started, and then things got difficult and I ended up drifting away from japanese. I'm trying to get back now, but we always need new methods!
the science is simple: comprehensible input. I have no idea why people use this for audio listening, but then suddenly blank out and don't apply it to reading. This is the way I recomend to people whot to learn kanji
Really great video and good advice. I did full RRTK with 1 English meaning for each kanji and then just learned all words in kanji after and it worked well for me, but your way also makes sense and is probably easier. Just my personal preference but I really wish you and the Migaku people wouldn't pronounce Kanji with that hard A, it might sound petty but, for whatever reason, it's painful for me to hear it every time, it makes it hard for me to listen to this video.
You don't need to change anything, just leave it. Because you're going to have a dedicated sentence/vocab card for that new word anyway. So doesn't really matter if the kanji cards show up after 3 months or a year. because you'll be reviewing the new word via the new fresh 1-3 day card anyway.
kanji makes japanese easier to read than korean, and also to remember because for me it is easier to remember words written in kanji than written in kana
i have a question. it has been confusing me for weeks now. how do i know the default reading of each kanji for example 金 is mainly read as かね but 生 has different reading. how would you read that kanji alone. like for example i texted my friend "bro what is the meaning of 生" how would they read it? do they just dont read it or what. or for example if you wanna asked it in japanese in person of whats the meaning of 生 how would you say it to them. do you need to write it on paper for them to know exactly what you're talking about ? how do you deal with this problem since it can be used when someone asked you about a kanji but you dont know which readings to use
Alright. I’ll try address everything clearly. 1. 金 is not “mainly read as かね”, かね(金) is just a word that means money and it’s read かね. 金 is also a kanji that also means money. Note - some kanji are both a word and a kanji. And some kanji are just kanji/characters that are used in 2 or more character/kanji words. 2. 生 has many readings. You can’t really ask a Japanese person how a kanji is read when it’s on its own Because kanji has many readings that change depending on the context. If you’re gunna ask a Japanese person how a kanji is read, you have to ask them , “how is this kanji read in this sentence” or “how is this kanji read in this word”. Unless the kanji, is like 金 above, which can be a word on it’s own, in that case they’d reply ‘it’s read かね’. otherwise they wouldn’t know what to tell you unless you give them more context. 3. ‘Bro what is the meaning of 生’ - they’d probably not read it, they’d just recognise it. 4. 「生」っていう漢字はどういう意味ですか - ‘what’s the meaning of 生’ translation. 5. No you wouldn’t have to write it on paper. Hopefully that makes sense
Thanks a lot for your help brother! I wanted to ask if i learn the kanji using your method do i still need to practice writing it in a book or on the anki app only? Also i have some manga i really want to read that is in Japanese. Should i just fast forward copying each word i learn into the All in one kanji deck? Appreciate any advice you have brother!
If your goal is to be able to read. And you don’t care about knowing how to write, then you don’t need to ‘practice writing in a book’. Like I explained in the video, when ever you come across a word you want to learn/remember, just add it to your Anki vocab deck and also to the all in one kanji deck.
With the radicals, do you recommend just learning the english of the radicals and the way the appear or learning the pronunciations as well, or will that come with vocab?
is there a way in anki that you can sort by only recall cards that way I can practice and test myself on the stroke orders? would that even be necessary, or should I just focus on learning the stroke orders of the radicals?
No need to memorize readings when learning radicals. just meanings! when learning kanji, no need to learn readings when studying the kanji on its own via the "All in one kanji" deck either. You'll slowly learn the readings as you learn new words that contain the kanji.
@@loloperiod9304 being unable to recall the meaning of the radicals in the future is fine. To be honest with you, me right now, I no longer do my radical deck. I just skip through it. why? Because after a certain point after memorizing alot of Kanji, when ever l see a new kanji, it just sticks in your head as a whole. I no longer use radicals to make up stories. The radicals are helpful in the beginning because they help you make stories for each kanji which will in turn make the kanji easier to remember. However after a certain point, when you've surrounded yourself in so much, kanji(switch phone/computer to Japanese, reading etc), any new kanji you see, is just like seeing a new person's face. and all that's left to do is remember that "person's"(kanji) name(kanji meaning)
@@LionelvsJapanTV I literally started this book and saw your vid. By the way, I really hoped to get an answer for one thing: I am a beginner, so I basically need to learn radicals. But I can't really learn them 18 hours a day (even though desire is present). SO the question is: Is it better to just chill away from Jap after getting tired of kanji, or is there a thing that you can do as a beginner? (I can't find that thing, my comprehension is low af)
@@АНСАБ-ж4ф loool you dont need to spend 18 hours a day on radicals. I was supposed to make a video on this but I keep getting disctracted. but The routine should be that you touch every aspect of japanese daily. So in beginner stages you'll do radical, hiragana, katakana daily until you learn them all. obviously the more time spent daily the quicker you learn. then your routine changes to learning words and sentences if possible, and kanji found in those words, and grammar. and this repeats until fluency. at certain point you can stop learning grammar actively and then spend more time on simply sentence mining and learning new words and kanji. If youre tired of kanji, then you can take a break from learning new kanji and reading and simply focus more on watching japanese content and working on your listening. Hope that answers your question🙂
Thank you for this very helpful video. However, I have a question that's been bothering me. I've been using the "Kanji Radicals" deck for a few days now and I've noticed something that confuses me. The Kanji for ice is " 氷 ", but in the deck it's written as " 冫". I assumed it's because this radical is part of the kanji for ice but that doesn't explain why the radical has the same meaning as the actual kanji? If so, is this the case for some of the other radicals? I've seen some radicals that don't look like what they are supposed to look like, but at this point I can't tell if it's because of the font or something to do with the deck itself. Please advise.
@@LionelvsJapanTV Do you recommend doing the whole deck on one device? When I switch between my laptop and phone the characters look different making it harder to remember/recognize.
@@arklight1696 On your anki desktop app, try do this. This should fix it and make the same font display on both devices. "You can change the font that appears when you're inputting words; go to Tools > Manage Note Types, highlight the note type you want to modify the font for and click "Fields..." There you should highlight each one of the fields and choose your font where it says "editing font," just select your favourite Japanese font (I'd personally go for either Meiryo or Noto Sans CJK JP). If you want to change the font for when the cards are being displayed, you'd have to modify "Cards..." instead of "Fields...". "
@@LionelvsJapanTV The 214 radicals you are talking about are actually a traditional way of classifying Kanji, I believe. Each kanji is assigned a “radical” that is present as a component within the kanji itself, but only one. Something like that. What would be more ideal is learning the basic components of all kanji, but it’s not standardised. You could probably still find some good lists though (like, say, RTK primitives, WaniKani, and whatnot). Ones that would provide a way to build every kanji you see.
brooo I love your workflow for learning kanji!! I love the idea of making it like a game and unlocking them as you learn them in the context of sentences so they actually mean something to you. gonna definitely adopt this for the future kanji I learn, thank you for sharing!! so good 😭🤎
Ay, you are very Welcome :)
I've been pretty overwhelmed with all the kanji learning options. The in context approach while also learning vocab, radicals, and pronunciation seems like a solid route I might try out
it is solid indeed. trust me, its much more chill and less stress. No point in learning all 2136 common kanji up front if you dont even know any words along with them. Your just force memorising the kanji but not gaining any practical reading skills. jus the ability to look at a kanji and know its meaning.
You’re my source of motivation and I cannot thank you enough for your work. Thank you a thousand times 💙💙💙
No sir, YOU are MY source of motivation 🔥💙, and I thank YOU a million times 😭😁.
I did old school, fatboy RTK with all 2200 kanji. It has it's benefits, but I'm SO glad I ignored Matt and didn't bother with RTK3. Imo R-RTK is the best way, I think the JP1K is too minimalistic and forces useless vocab into your head. Unless it has voiced, full sentences I think its too little of two separate things that are best addressed individually.
That’s my boi the editing and information has its Haki now yessir
Really enjoyed this video. I have been dreading getting back into a pure kanji Anki deck and this is a great idea to make it more useful. Subbed! :)
you're welcome my G :)
Going about it through furigana (without glazing over the kanji) is what is most intuitive to me.. hope it’s good
This is fucking awesome. I've been sitting around for years and been like "why isn't there a program where you can have the content start showing only kanji you know"... well this is like a manual process to do that. A little work but not bad. I like the idea of just learning the radicals. I got through like 600 of RTK and I would maybe miss a day or two, reviews would pile up, hundreds of reviews carrying over day to day, then I can't keep up. Keeping up with around 250 radicals sounds way better..
RIGHT! I'm doing a masters in computers sciene this year, so hopefully i can learn to create an add on that automatically does this process. Or someone finds this video and makes an add on for it :)
I'm glad you found the video helpful though :D
Would appreciate it if you left a like on the video, so more people can be saved from RTK XD
@@LionelvsJapanTV does everyone that becomes fluent via ajatt study computer science? That's you, BritvsJapan and Khatz...
I feel it's only smart people that can learn through ajatt :/
@@nihongobenkyo3102 Looool💀🤣🤣🤣🤣. Don’t kill me. That’s not even the case.
My undergraduate degree was in finance. I only started doing a computer science masters last September and I started using ajjat way before that started 🤣. So yeah don’t worry
@@floatint2137 tomorrow is going to be a good day for you :)
@@floatint2137 my dude, I go through phases of super Ajatt motivation, then months where I barely manage to do like 2hrs a week.. I really don't know if it's gonna happen for me. I've been studying japanese for like 5 years, and I just don't feel like it's going anywhere. How you feelin?
was so proud when u actually decided to fully commit to learning this XD
I love your flow !!
Hey, really great video but I have a suggestion for your next video. Whenever you get on your computer, your microphone only plays on one side of the audio device. You can duplicate your mono audio signal to both Left and Right and make it so both sides have audio.
I was watching for a bit and was confused why there was no audio until I put on the other side of my earbuds.
Yeah someone else told me the same thing. Thank you very much! Will do!😄
There are words you will never be able to guess the reading of. You simply have to learn it. A common word is 今日 kyou, meaning "today". Neither of these individual kanji have similar readings.
that's correct
Funny, I started RTK yesterday, and the keyword for the second symbol in your example isn't "sun", but "day" instead. Effectively, especially in context, I could guess half the meaning of the example word after only one RTK lesson!
Thank you so much, when thinking about learning Kanji I felt really stuck but after using your deck for the radicals I realized it's not that bad after all. Have a nice day!
You are very welcome my friend 😄
I'm probably one of few people that likes learning kanji. Pretty much done with the jōyō kanji and will move onto frequency lists soon, heading for 3000 at the very least. I would highly recommend WK. Slow? Maybe, but you'll need a ton of vocab aswell along with grammar and immersion. Would also recommend kitsun over anki, the interface is much better and it's much easier to customize. But if you want to do it for free, anki and RTK isn't terrible.
I try to just learn by grouping by sound, usually the right hand side is for sound only. Only one chinese reading is common, and it unlocks more words than the kun readings which are somehow easier to remember anyway given their frequency.
But no matter what it takes time. Interference effect is common. You have to balance the pain of a recall based approach with stuff that is actually interesting. I wouldn't use srs for vocabulary, it's unnecessary. I retain plenty just by reading and listening.
Still I like your advice, really sensible and straightforward.
Bro this is genius you're literally a scientist of Japanese. Thank you for helping me add these techniques to my workflow.
A whole scientist you know 😂💀. Thank you very much. I’m glad it helped
This is amazing! Thank you
Hey bro, you’re welcome. I’m glad you found this💪🏾😊. Just trying to help you reach your fluency goals. Would appreciate it if you could like the video aswell😄
@@LionelvsJapanTV I was getting quite good before the pandemic started, and then things got difficult and I ended up drifting away from japanese. I'm trying to get back now, but we always need new methods!
@@paulinfgo exactly. Need to be innovative and stay with an open mind. Take peoples advice but always find ways to make it better
So painful watching a Japanese learning vid and hearing Anki said that way haha. Thank you though, it's a good vid.
the science is simple: comprehensible input. I have no idea why people use this for audio listening, but then suddenly blank out and don't apply it to reading. This is the way I recomend to people whot to learn kanji
It's not a guess if it's from an educated base, it's a hypothesis my guy ;) (me being pedantic)
Love and support from your favourite 団子
I’m dead 😂💀💀. Trueeee. Thank you broo💪🏾🔥
L for Lionel, L for Legend
Pretty cool video dude 💯
😂😂😂 stop it. I’m not a legend….yet
Really great video and good advice.
I did full RRTK with 1 English meaning for each kanji and then just learned all words in kanji after and it worked well for me, but your way also makes sense and is probably easier.
Just my personal preference but I really wish you and the Migaku people wouldn't pronounce Kanji with that hard A, it might sound petty but, for whatever reason, it's painful for me to hear it every time, it makes it hard for me to listen to this video.
Thank you !
And noted for future videos😂💀.
I was literally gonna do something like this!
GREAT MINDS THINK alike!
Sounds pretty similar to what Refold suggests to do with their JP1K deck. Great video!
I Don’t know what the JP1K deck is but Thank you!🙏🏾🔥😄
Nice video Richard
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So original
Question: What you do if you have a new vocabulary but the card is set to 3 months only?
I tweak the deck so the limit is only 1 month longer.
You don't need to change anything, just leave it. Because you're going to have a dedicated sentence/vocab card for that new word anyway. So doesn't really matter if the kanji cards show up after 3 months or a year. because you'll be reviewing the new word via the new fresh 1-3 day card anyway.
why suspend the recall cards and not just delete them?
i mean, you can do whatever you want lool. I only suspend it incase you might want t learn how to write japanese sometime in the future :)
@@LionelvsJapanTV ahh okay okay, thanks 😊
@@ameeralhu no problem :)
kanji makes japanese easier to read than korean, and also to remember because for me it is easier to remember words written in kanji than written in kana
i have a question. it has been confusing me for weeks now. how do i know the default reading of each kanji for example 金 is mainly read as かね but 生 has different reading. how would you read that kanji alone. like for example i texted my friend "bro what is the meaning of 生" how would they read it? do they just dont read it or what. or for example if you wanna asked it in japanese in person of whats the meaning of 生 how would you say it to them. do you need to write it on paper for them to know exactly what you're talking about ? how do you deal with this problem since it can be used when someone asked you about a kanji but you dont know which readings to use
Alright. I’ll try address everything clearly.
1. 金 is not “mainly read as かね”, かね(金) is just a word that means money and it’s read かね. 金 is also a kanji that also means money. Note - some kanji are both a word and a kanji. And some kanji are just kanji/characters that are used in 2 or more character/kanji words.
2. 生 has many readings. You can’t really ask a Japanese person how a kanji is read when it’s on its own Because kanji has many readings that change depending on the context. If you’re gunna ask a Japanese person how a kanji is read, you have to ask them , “how is this kanji read in this sentence” or “how is this kanji read in this word”. Unless the kanji, is like 金 above, which can be a word on it’s own, in that case they’d reply ‘it’s read かね’. otherwise they wouldn’t know what to tell you unless you give them more context.
3. ‘Bro what is the meaning of 生’ - they’d probably not read it, they’d just recognise it.
4. 「生」っていう漢字はどういう意味ですか - ‘what’s the meaning of 生’ translation.
5. No you wouldn’t have to write it on paper.
Hopefully that makes sense
A legenda falhou bem na hora que voce ia dar o metodo que sacanagem 😅😭 to dando meus pulos para entender o que você falou no vídeo
LOOOOOOL. thats unlucky
Thanks a lot for your help brother! I wanted to ask if i learn the kanji using your method do i still need to practice writing it in a book or on the anki app only? Also i have some manga i really want to read that is in Japanese. Should i just fast forward copying each word i learn into the All in one kanji deck? Appreciate any advice you have brother!
If your goal is to be able to read. And you don’t care about knowing how to write, then you don’t need to ‘practice writing in a book’.
Like I explained in the video, when ever you come across a word you want to learn/remember, just add it to your Anki vocab deck and also to the all in one kanji deck.
How important is radical study?
on a scale from 1-10, I'd say 8.5. It definitely makes your kanji character study MUCH easier. I really would NOT recommend skipping it.
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Cyamonnn😂
With the radicals, do you recommend just learning the english of the radicals and the way the appear or learning the pronunciations as well, or will that come with vocab?
Just learn the English meaning
is there a way in anki that you can sort by only recall cards that way I can practice and test myself on the stroke orders? would that even be necessary, or should I just focus on learning the stroke orders of the radicals?
I'm not sure. haven't used Anki in a while. But you don't need to learn stroke order.
for learning radica;s do we only learn the meaning of the kanji lets say 人 person? Or do I have memorize all the different readings
No need to memorize readings when learning radicals. just meanings!
when learning kanji, no need to learn readings when studying the kanji on its own via the "All in one kanji" deck either. You'll slowly learn the readings as you learn new words that contain the kanji.
@@LionelvsJapanTV I have question what if when I I’m done with radicals meaning and later on I can’t recall the meaning in the future is that bad?
@@loloperiod9304 being unable to recall the meaning of the radicals in the future is fine. To be honest with you, me right now, I no longer do my radical deck. I just skip through it. why? Because after a certain point after memorizing alot of Kanji, when ever l see a new kanji, it just sticks in your head as a whole. I no longer use radicals to make up stories. The radicals are helpful in the beginning because they help you make stories for each kanji which will in turn make the kanji easier to remember.
However after a certain point, when you've surrounded yourself in so much, kanji(switch phone/computer to Japanese, reading etc), any new kanji you see, is just like seeing a new person's face. and all that's left to do is remember that "person's"(kanji) name(kanji meaning)
@@LionelvsJapanTV for manga kanji you don’t know do you create you’re own cards like how you did on the Japanese core deck in the video?
@@loloperiod9304 sorry, what do you mean?
Where's your shared deck?
In the description of this video my good sir("How to Setup Anki to Learn Japanese (Part 1)") - th-cam.com/video/SQD30DH5o8I/w-d-xo.html
@@LionelvsJapanTV appreciated! 🙏
Bro thanks
You're welcome
@@LionelvsJapanTV I literally started this book and saw your vid. By the way, I really hoped to get an answer for one thing: I am a beginner, so I basically need to learn radicals. But I can't really learn them 18 hours a day (even though desire is present). SO the question is: Is it better to just chill away from Jap after getting tired of kanji, or is there a thing that you can do as a beginner? (I can't find that thing, my comprehension is low af)
@@АНСАБ-ж4ф loool you dont need to spend 18 hours a day on radicals. I was supposed to make a video on this but I keep getting disctracted. but The routine should be that you touch every aspect of japanese daily.
So in beginner stages you'll do radical, hiragana, katakana daily until you learn them all. obviously the more time spent daily the quicker you learn.
then your routine changes to learning words and sentences if possible, and kanji found in those words, and grammar. and this repeats until fluency. at certain point you can stop learning grammar actively and then spend more time on simply sentence mining and learning new words and kanji.
If youre tired of kanji, then you can take a break from learning new kanji and reading and simply focus more on watching japanese content and working on your listening.
Hope that answers your question🙂
@@LionelvsJapanTV Thank you. I really appreciate you spending time to explain this stuff. I found no content as usefull as yours by far)
Those Decks come preinstalled with anki?
You related to cilivanis?
FGS LOOOL. no i'm not
Thank you for this very helpful video. However, I have a question that's been bothering me. I've been using the "Kanji Radicals" deck for a few days now and I've noticed something that confuses me.
The Kanji for ice is " 氷 ", but in the deck it's written as " 冫".
I assumed it's because this radical is part of the kanji for ice but that doesn't explain why the radical has the same meaning as the actual kanji? If so, is this the case for some of the other radicals?
I've seen some radicals that don't look like what they are supposed to look like, but at this point I can't tell if it's because of the font or something to do with the deck itself. Please advise.
Just take it as it my bro. And find out on your way :)
@@LionelvsJapanTV
Do you recommend doing the whole deck on one device? When I switch between my laptop and phone the characters look different making it harder to remember/recognize.
@@arklight1696 On your anki desktop app, try do this. This should fix it and make the same font display on both devices.
"You can change the font that appears when you're inputting words; go to Tools > Manage Note Types, highlight the note type you want to modify the font for and click "Fields..." There you should highlight each one of the fields and choose your font where it says "editing font," just select your favourite Japanese font (I'd personally go for either Meiryo or Noto Sans CJK JP).
If you want to change the font for when the cards are being displayed, you'd have to modify "Cards..." instead of "Fields...". "
from - www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/4gi9cj/why_do_my_kanji_in_anki_pc_get_displayed_as/
Only 20 seconds in, and you made the most basic BIG mistake - you called YOURSELF a sensei. Bye bye...
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This isn't an airport; no need to announce your departure.
@@theone4808 people are funny man😂
Each kanji has only 1 radical though...
?
@@LionelvsJapanTV The 214 radicals you are talking about are actually a traditional way of classifying Kanji, I believe. Each kanji is assigned a “radical” that is present as a component within the kanji itself, but only one. Something like that. What would be more ideal is learning the basic components of all kanji, but it’s not standardised. You could probably still find some good lists though (like, say, RTK primitives, WaniKani, and whatnot). Ones that would provide a way to build every kanji you see.