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It is pretty easy, at least with the resources I used. If you struggle with the katakana look at the japanesepod101 YT channel, they have a really good video on katakana.
The absolute best way to learn kana is to make an account on memrise and spend 2 days on hiragana and 2 days on katakana. The reason for memrise is because when you learn a new symbol it'll make you repeat it 4 times in a row in different ways to really drill it into you which you don't need/get when you do sentences with Anki or other srs'. The reason for 2 days on each is to learn the first group in the first day then on the second day learn the group with dakuten/handakuten. Also you can find good mnemonics with pictures for every kana iirc
So immediately after finishing RTK how am I supposed to even start reading even if it is only one kanji? Will my vocabulary have advanced so far already that I understand all the sentence so well that I can guess the kanji's reading in the context of the sentence?
What I've been doing is just worry about the meaning in english when I'm reading along, and don't worry about the Japanese reading bc that'll just come through sentence cards
Hey a bit late to the party, I just finished the first book and it doesn't say anything about the pronunciationof the kanji (other than not to worry about them for now). So I was wondering how to go about that? Just follow N5 and so on to learn the pronunciation?
Thanks for upload mate. Do you only watch anime on the computer to make flash cards or can you make it after watching it on your phone. Just seems a pain watching anime on netflix
How long did it take you to get all the kanji down? I'm going for getting them all down in 5 months, but it might not realistic, so I'd like to get someone else's perspective.
hey matt, im still curently working on RTK 1, trying to do what I can each day, but I've been so busy with school I find it even hard to immerse lol, but what do you think about doing tae kim after RTK 1, do you think that is a good route? of course while still immersing, (reading, etc)
What AJATT thinks: no. Just no. Studying grammar is not important unless you wanna grab example sentences for your 10,000 sentences. That being said, I'd only go through it after trying to learn grammar through immersion.
I'm in a strange predicament, I can read and understand kanji **didn't do rtk** (all the 常用漢字) but I can not articulate beyond an n3 level grammar wise and I definitely lack in vocabulary; I might just read more manga.
I wouldn't really recommend applying Heisig's method for Hiragana and Katakana. It'll work, but there's definitely no need to break anything down into primitives (if that's what you meant by Heisig's method). The way I learned is using mnemonics and using pictures (in specific Tofugu's guide on Hiragana and Katakana), which I would recommend to everybody.
I've just started learning Kanji using RTK (after learning Hiragana and Katakana) and I'm planning what I want to do next. You suggested that the next step after finishing RTK would be to start reading, but I won't be able to do that without knowing any vocab or how to read the actual kanji. Is there any thing you would recommend I do alongside RTK (such as learning vocab)?
This is my problem, I’m a beginner in Japanese and I plan to use RTK but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t teach you how to read or say them? Idk, how’s your journey been?
So I don't have thr RTK but I learn the kanji and the onyomi and kunyomi also they include koohi stories from a website hochanh.github.io/rtk/rtk1-v6/index.html This is the website it includes the sounds and 2000 kanji like in the RTK basically a free and better version of RTK
Sup Matt. When I originally started with Anki I was doing single words up to about 3k words in Chinese. Front, back and listening (3 cards per each word). I did achieve some results, but i I eventually came to the point where I felt that I was cutting myself short. Now I’m doing sentence cards with a sentence on the front and the definition on the back for the 1 word I’m trying to learn in the sentence. I also include audio on the back. I’m 100 in and I just feel that some of the target words that I’m learning per card aren’t sticking Due to the fact that I’m used to my old bad habits and I seem to have to remember the whole sentence to recall that single word in my mind. Is there a way around this? Is this normal? Am I just trippin? Maybe I’m whining a bit, but I’ve been doing my cards wrong for almost 3 years I guess I’m just looking for a little insight.
If a word doesn't stick then simply deleting the card is probably the best course of action. You could of course try editing it to make it more memorable but I tended to just delete first and ask questions later, it makes your reviewing session easier and less stressful. Remember that if a word is important it will show up again and you can always make a card for it later so don't worry about deleting stuff.
Hey man! I put it on hold for my last year of Uni so I could focus on that, I still maintained it but didn't really progress at all. Have picked it up again recently and am basically just focusing on input for a while in order to bring my level up. :)
Hi from Fukuoka! Heisig has a separate book called Remembering the Kana, which I used and is great....Kanji next for me. Yes, do them first! It only takes a couple of months.
@@gary4130 yes, I agree you could learn them all first time through in a week if you put quite a bit of time into it. It depends how intensively you do it and you do have to "overlearn", consolidate and practice. You can't just "learn" as such. Spaced retrieval practice in order for things to stick. Then lots and lots of reading and writing exposure.
Hi Matt, what I don't understand is will you be able to read just by finishing RTK? Shouldn't there be a lot more vocabs to remember? I'm at around 550 RTK kanji atm :)
You won't be able to read straight away, its a long ongoing process and RTK is just the base. RTK is simply to make it so you can recognise individual kanji, and then by attempting to read you will slowly but surely pick up words and phrases. In other words, you learn to read by reading. Hopefully that makes sense :)
Who are all these people you think are learning 2000+ Kanji and not learning Hiragana/Katakana? This seems like a strange fringe minority group to spend the first 2 minutes of a video on :/
Hey man, what do you think of learning just by listening? I was thinking using google translate to make audio only SRS cards of nouns and verbs, where you would use images to represent those words. This isn't even necessary, but i think it would help a lot. Maybe even simple sentences using the same verbs and nouns like "i eat apple" "i eat apples" i ate an apple" i'll eat an apple", you get the point. Since google translate is most of the time perfect/accurate for simple and short sentences like this one i think it would be a great strategy. You just have to be careful to hide the romaji when you're doing it otherwise your brain might try to create a 'shorcut' to process the sounds faster.
Sorry for the late reply! This is definitely doable and you could use Subs2SRS cards from TV shows and just cut out or ignore the text for the sentences. I would not recommend Google translate at all as it really isn't as accurate as you might think, even for short sentences. But certainly learning from just listening is doable and probably better for you overall and if you wanted to learn to read later on it won't be too difficult.
Using subs2srs you could probably get pretty far without Kanji even, always using furigana. Though it‘s obviously more efficient to learn kanji (the actual readings) with your new words instead of learning Japanese without kanji and then doing them afterwords more similar to how Japanese people do it.
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Thanks for the continued support guys, even despite the lack of uploads, it means a lot! :) I've got more videos coming soon! :))
P.S. I'm also working on a patreon discord server and have been streaming occasionally over on twitch @britvsjapan, come follow and say hi :)
Just finished with RTK 2200 kanji’s. Man it was one hell of a long journey but definitely worth it. Good luck to anyone who is about to start.
good job! I'm at 180 and have that long journey ahead lol
bout to finish this week. can’t wait to move on to vocab
@@saiyanrivals1612 how's the vocab going?
I've finished 2000 Kanji but I still don't know katakana :)
Guess I'll do that now.
Lmao same here
@Emanuel Sarbu how is it going?
BRUH SNDNF
@@Sadadako I've slowly been learning them with sentences from Tnago N5.
xD
It is pretty easy, at least with the resources I used. If you struggle with the katakana look at the japanesepod101 YT channel, they have a really good video on katakana.
The absolute best way to learn kana is to make an account on memrise and spend 2 days on hiragana and 2 days on katakana. The reason for memrise is because when you learn a new symbol it'll make you repeat it 4 times in a row in different ways to really drill it into you which you don't need/get when you do sentences with Anki or other srs'. The reason for 2 days on each is to learn the first group in the first day then on the second day learn the group with dakuten/handakuten. Also you can find good mnemonics with pictures for every kana iirc
So immediately after finishing RTK how am I supposed to even start reading even if it is only one kanji? Will my vocabulary have advanced so far already that I understand all the sentence so well that I can guess the kanji's reading in the context of the sentence?
Read websites, kindle etc and use a dictionary
go to bilingual manga and read, it has furigana and translation i recommend reading yotsuba
Oh yes you’re back
good morning i have a question how can i read if i dont know the reading of the kanji that i'm reading
What I've been doing is just worry about the meaning in english when I'm reading along, and don't worry about the Japanese reading bc that'll just come through sentence cards
Your channel is so underrated
I've bought RTK1 but i already know 1800 words, which i don't really know how many are kanjis, so i don't know what to do now
Do you recommend doing Tango N5 on anki after finishing it? I’ve got a couple hundred left of RRTK not sure if I should or not
Hey a bit late to the party, I just finished the first book and it doesn't say anything about the pronunciationof the kanji (other than not to worry about them for now). So I was wondering how to go about that? Just follow N5 and so on to learn the pronunciation?
Thanks for upload mate. Do you only watch anime on the computer to make flash cards or can you make it after watching it on your phone. Just seems a pain watching anime on netflix
How long did it take you to get all the kanji down? I'm going for getting them all down in 5 months, but it might not realistic, so I'd like to get someone else's perspective.
Are you doing only kanji for 5 months or other stuff too?
im one year late but if u do 10 kanjis a day (consistent) it should take about 8 months
hey matt, im still curently working on RTK 1, trying to do what I can each day, but I've been so busy with school I find it even hard to immerse lol, but what do you think about doing tae kim after RTK 1, do you think that is a good route? of course while still immersing, (reading, etc)
What AJATT thinks: no. Just no. Studying grammar is not important unless you wanna grab example sentences for your 10,000 sentences. That being said, I'd only go through it after trying to learn grammar through immersion.
Lazy kanji deck, immerse every possible minute and dont bother with grammar books until much later as a refresher.
I'm in a strange predicament, I can read and understand kanji **didn't do rtk** (all the 常用漢字) but I can not articulate beyond an n3 level grammar wise and I definitely lack in vocabulary;
I might just read more manga.
I wouldn't really recommend applying Heisig's method for Hiragana and Katakana. It'll work, but there's definitely no need to break anything down into primitives (if that's what you meant by Heisig's method). The way I learned is using mnemonics and using pictures (in specific Tofugu's guide on Hiragana and Katakana), which I would recommend to everybody.
I've just started learning Kanji using RTK (after learning Hiragana and Katakana) and I'm planning what I want to do next.
You suggested that the next step after finishing RTK would be to start reading, but I won't be able to do that without knowing any vocab or how to read the actual kanji. Is there any thing you would recommend I do alongside RTK (such as learning vocab)?
This is my problem, I’m a beginner in Japanese and I plan to use RTK but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t teach you how to read or say them? Idk, how’s your journey been?
So I don't have thr RTK but I learn the kanji and the onyomi and kunyomi also they include koohi stories from a website
hochanh.github.io/rtk/rtk1-v6/index.html
This is the website it includes the sounds and 2000 kanji like in the RTK basically a free and better version of RTK
You ever sort this out. I have the same question. How are you supposed to read when you cannot pronounce the kanji
How did this go?
Sup Matt. When I originally started with Anki I was doing single words up to about 3k words in Chinese. Front, back and listening (3 cards per each word). I did achieve some results, but i I eventually came to the point where I felt that I was cutting myself short. Now I’m doing sentence cards with a sentence on the front and the definition on the back for the 1 word I’m trying to learn in the sentence. I also include audio on the back. I’m 100 in and I just feel that some of the target words that I’m learning per card aren’t sticking Due to the fact that I’m used to my old bad habits and I seem to have to remember the whole sentence to recall that single word in my mind. Is there a way around this? Is this normal? Am I just trippin? Maybe I’m whining a bit, but I’ve been doing my cards wrong for almost 3 years I guess I’m just looking for a little insight.
@Michael thanks bro. Sounds like that'll help a lot. I will give it a try. 👍
If a word doesn't stick then simply deleting the card is probably the best course of action. You could of course try editing it to make it more memorable but I tended to just delete first and ask questions later, it makes your reviewing session easier and less stressful. Remember that if a word is important it will show up again and you can always make a card for it later so don't worry about deleting stuff.
BritVsJapan very useful. Thank!
Yess! New video =D
Very useful
Hey Matt, what's your update on your studies. Still doing Japanese right? And how has your progress been? Cheers.
Hey man! I put it on hold for my last year of Uni so I could focus on that, I still maintained it but didn't really progress at all. Have picked it up again recently and am basically just focusing on input for a while in order to bring my level up. :)
@@BritVsJapan of
Hi from Fukuoka! Heisig has a separate book called Remembering the Kana, which I used and is great....Kanji next for me. Yes, do them first! It only takes a couple of months.
it takes a couple months to learn kana? more like a couple days
We're not all as clever as you, Komi MIA ;)
It should take a week at most; "a couple of months" just sounds like procrastination
@@gary4130 yes, I agree you could learn them all first time through in a week if you put quite a bit of time into it. It depends how intensively you do it and you do have to "overlearn", consolidate and practice. You can't just "learn" as such. Spaced retrieval practice in order for things to stick. Then lots and lots of reading and writing exposure.
didnt you said that you should stay away from reading for the first 6 months to a year?
Long time no see you bro.
Start this after RTK1 or RTK3?
At least after 1. You can do 3 before or alongside, but I personally did 3 before.
@@BritVsJapan Thanks, finished 1 today and started on 3 today.
Hi Matt, what I don't understand is will you be able to read just by finishing RTK? Shouldn't there be a lot more vocabs to remember? I'm at around 550 RTK kanji atm :)
You won't be able to read straight away, its a long ongoing process and RTK is just the base. RTK is simply to make it so you can recognise individual kanji, and then by attempting to read you will slowly but surely pick up words and phrases. In other words, you learn to read by reading. Hopefully that makes sense :)
Who are all these people you think are learning 2000+ Kanji and not learning Hiragana/Katakana? This seems like a strange fringe minority group to spend the first 2 minutes of a video on :/
Hey man, what do you think of learning just by listening? I was thinking using google translate to make audio only SRS cards of nouns and verbs, where you would use images to represent those words. This isn't even necessary, but i think it would help a lot. Maybe even simple sentences using the same verbs and nouns like "i eat apple" "i eat apples" i ate an apple" i'll eat an apple", you get the point. Since google translate is most of the time perfect/accurate for simple and short sentences like this one i think it would be a great strategy.
You just have to be careful to hide the romaji when you're doing it otherwise your brain might try to create a 'shorcut' to process the sounds faster.
Sorry for the late reply! This is definitely doable and you could use Subs2SRS cards from TV shows and just cut out or ignore the text for the sentences. I would not recommend Google translate at all as it really isn't as accurate as you might think, even for short sentences. But certainly learning from just listening is doable and probably better for you overall and if you wanted to learn to read later on it won't be too difficult.
Using subs2srs you could probably get pretty far without Kanji even, always using furigana. Though it‘s obviously more efficient to learn kanji (the actual readings) with your new words instead of learning Japanese without kanji and then doing them afterwords more similar to how Japanese people do it.
@@bartbabbe japanese and every human learn by the sounds first. No kanji or letters.
サンlI But they don‘t do sentence mining and never look stuff up. It would make the process a lot slower if you tried to imitate that.
@@bartbabbe That's the downside, but if you have the time to do it its the best approach.