Learn Kanji Fast with "Remembering the Kanji" and Anki
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- For my fully detailed guide on learning Japanese kanji using Remembering the Kanji, search Google for: "How to Learn Kanji Fast: The Ultimate Guide to Remembering the Kanji BritVsJapan"
Links
My Ultimate Guide to Learning Kanji - www.britvsjapan.com/kanji
Remembering the Kanji 1 by James Heisig (US) - amzn.to/2JCPKcL
Remembering the Kanji 3 by James Heisig (US) - amzn.to/2JC6uAO
Remembering the Kanji 1 by James Heisig (UK) - amzn.to/2HFjV1f
Remembering the Kanji 3 by James Heisig (UK) - amzn.to/2JBi6E4
(The above links are Amazon Affiliate links)
Anki - apps.ankiweb.net/
Super Simple RTK Deck - ankiweb.net/shared/info/62776...
(Note that the deck order is from an earlier version of RTK so may differ slightly to your version of the book)
Install these Fonts for the RTK Deck - www.mediafire.com/folder/cccd...
(To get the fonts working on other devices follow the instructions in my blog post)
RTK Primitive Deck - ankiweb.net/shared/info/14753...
Heisig Kanji + Keyword Cheat Sheet - aiki.info/kanji/kanji-learn.pdf
Heisig Primitive + Keyword Cheat Sheet - aiki.info/kanji/kanji-parts.pdf
MattVSJapan's "How to Make RTK Anki Cards" Video - • Video
Kanji Koohii - kanji.koohii.com/
Support Me on Patreon - / britvsjapan
My blog - www.britvsjapan.com/about/
Twitter - / britvsjapan
Useful resources for learning Japanese - www.britvsjapan.com/language-...
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
01:24 - Why You Should Use an SRS Like Anki
04:17 - Why You Should Use My Simple RTK Anki Deck
06:43 - Why You Should Use My Kanji Primitives Anki Deck
09:38 - Layout of the Flashcards in My Decks
12:25 - Mnemonics and Memory Tricks to Study the RTK Deck
18:05 - The Two Main Ways of Doing RTK (Handwriting)
21:39 - Using Community Made Stories From Kanji Koohii
#ajatt #rememberingthekanji #learningjapanese
Please note that my website domain has changed since I made this video! Any resources I refer to on matthewhawkins.co are now on britvsjapan.com instead! Thanks for watching guys and hope you found it useful! :D
Thanks!
I like your video but when I went to your website it was so riddled with ads I couldn't find anything or read much of your content. There were ads popping up every minute or so. :(
I was just trying to find the links to your anki decks
@@patriciaklein2795 Thanks for the feedback! Here's the link to the post on Anki decks www.britvsjapan.com/free-high-quality-japanese-anki-decks/ I'll see if I can tone the ads down, I've been using an ad manager and just turned it on without really thinking about it lol but thank you for bringing it to my attention and I'm glad the video was useful to you :)
@@BritVsJapan Thank you so much! I see you placed a lot of links in the description as well - thank you so much!
Dude I don’t even care about Japanese in particular but that technique of remembering a rando idea you got in the middle of the night? insanely useful. Thanks so much!
Skip to 4:17 if you already have Anki installed, lol.
king
@@daniel-ov5wl any time brother, u caught me in the middle of RTK lol I'm at 370 kanji characters
@@jaym.7045 good luck bro, cheering for you✌
@@daniel-ov5wl thank you king !
@@jaym.7045 hey, thanks. where are you now in RTK?
My story was that I *CRAFTED* a *SHELLFISH* statue as a *TRIBUTE* to the Gods.
praise the Helix Fossil !
LOL that’s the exact same kanji I’m on right now haha I had similar ideas
@@Nirr0 yoo I'm probably gonna remember that one much better just cuz you said that, thnx! and praise helix
@@deddrz2549 no worries. Keep studying!
I think it's better to make it crafting money and start associating shellfish with money because other kanji make sense that way
Saw your reddit post and blog post, and this is just great.
Props to you for supporting the wider Japanese-learning community. Inspirational, to say the least.
Hi Matt, I’ve been using Dreaming Spanish CZcams as a way to immerse and acquire Spanish. 6 months in and I’m conversational in Spanish which is insane. Next year once I feel comfortable enough in Spanish I’ll be using the same immersion technique for Japanese. I’ve watched your progress videos which are inspiring as Japanese, to me, seems like a language and culture which is VERY difficult to break into. Anyway you clearly prove it can be done so I’m excited to start my own journey. Peace. Look forward to watching all your vids to prepare myself.
The idea of making a primitive deck is really great and helpful to people like me, who struggle making a primitive deck and don't have any time to make an entire deck. Thanks and keep up the videos! :)
craft -> Lovecraft
shellfish -> sea creature -> octopus
Lovecraft + octopus = Cthulhu
_the cultists' _*_tribute_*_ to Cthulhu_ 🐙👏
this is the best story for this kanji EVER
This was immensely helpful. 作ってくれてありがとう。
Great video man, I always had trouble with finding the actual primitives so thanks alot for the link and the deck!
I appreciate this video a lot. I wasn't sure how to get my set up started.
Great job as always!
Hey BritVSJapan thank you so much for useful advice and explanatory video and RTK and anki!
Super helpful! Thanks for this :)
Thank you! That was really helpful.
I have a problem , when I use sub2rsr and I generate the file I have only the folder for example " death.note.media" and not the one with tsv
Should i insert the story when i encounter the kanji for the first time or should i do it before starting the deck?
how do i apply these strokeorder fonts. there are just downloads but no explenation.
Hey hello Matt, I've just finished RTK 1, and began sentence mining Tae kims book (I've been studying for 2 years traditional way (genki) so I already know a bit of grammar) but I came to a dilemma in this 2 days that I'm mining, I find myself being able to read the kanji, but when I try to write the new word I'm learning for each sentence (the i+1) I can't remember which kanji it uses, so I came with the idea of making a "kanji vocab deck" side by side with the sentence deck with "hiragana in front and kanji in the back". Is this a waste of time? Do you write each new word you came across or you just keep reading them without practicing writing anymore? Because when I see the kanji I know what word is and can read it, but when I see it in hiragana, can't write it in kanji by memory.
I hope I made myself clear, thank you.
after I finished the primitive deck, should I still review the primitives on their own alongside the heisig kanji I just started? Thank you for your video, you really helped me.
is it possible to get the fonts to display on anki on my iphone?
Hi, I've set up Anki for the first time to learn Kanji following your video. When I upload your Super Simple RTK deck, it only shows 3 Kanji. These three show as [added]. All the other Kanji are [skipped]. What does this mean and what can i do please?
How do I review specific sections in the anki decks. Cuz I want to review Lessing 16 -20 all at one can I do that?
I found this video extremely helpful thank you
Would love a video on the best way to start making sentence cards. I'm about 3/4 through RTK and am starting to think about how I want to make them, it would be great to get info from someone who knows what they're talking about when it comes to that.
Can someone please tell me what edition of RTK this deck is for? If it is not for RTK 1 I may as well create my own deck...
When I put the kanji the size is really small. How did you get that size?
Hi Brit, what's difference about recognition rtk and rtk I'm confused
Should I learn rrtk and then rtk?
I have the book but these cheat sheets are so useful. I'm going to combine your info with Matt vs Japan's card format. :D
I made it over a quarter of the way then I had a busy month....have to catch up on all of that now, so going to switch the format and see how it goes. Going to really give it a go this second time around!
Im new to this,so,i have to use both the book RTK and anki just to not forget the actual kanjis through stories?
If I make a deck is there a way to keep it in order so to say. Like I don't want it to give me something from page 200 when I am on page 30. Or does it show the kanji in the way it is created?
20:08 is it not both ways in this deck? And are this the core kanij?
Do you write the story down on the Anki card or just make the story in your mind?
started learning the primitives and ordered book 1, super excited. I already know a lot of words and basic to intermediate grammar, but I want to learn to write so i'm "starting over"
finished primitives, starting rtk officially today
thanks for the post can you link the deck here please
Hi Matt, I started using your simple RTK deck since it makes the process very speedy! However, some of the kanji seem to differ from my book! For example, in my book the kanji "curse" is listed at #108, but in your deck it's listed at around #2000. How can I fix the order of these few misplaced kanji?
The book has been updated over the years and so the order has slightly changed with each edition. I can't remember which order my deck follows but if it's different to yours then I would move any cards that appear later in my deck to a seperate temporary deck, study them, and then move them back. It's a bit of a pain but that's what I'd do.
This deck is pre 6th edition, but if you use hochanh.github.io then you won’t need the book to follow along.
Hi, I have been studying for 20 days with the book "Remember The Kanji" and Anki. However, sometimes I forget the position of the kanji as primitive, for example this kanji 音 is sometimes on the right 暗, sometimes on the left 韻, I would like to know how to solve that problem. When I review the kanji I can remember the story perfectly and its kanji , but sometimes I do not remember the position of the kanji, there are some kanji that always appear in the same position, in that case there is no problem but there are others that vary a lot, sometimes left, sometimes right or sometimes up like the example I gave earlier.
i guess, this problem goes away with more practice....
A little late maybe, but he said in the video to make that part of your story (in what position the different elements is to each other). 😄
Nice video! How do I add a kanji from "remembering the kanji" to my deck when I don't know how to find it on the internet so I can copy paste it?
Here's a cheat sheet of all the RTK kanji and their keywords if you want to copy and paste them into your own deck.
Heisig Kanji + Keyword Cheat Sheet - aiki.info/kanji/kanji-learn.pdf
Should I wait to use anki after finishing the book or use it while I’m reading it?
Nico M do it while you read it, and make them as you go so it will take less time. If you do it afterwards, it will take longer to study because the kanji you studied early in the book will no longer be in your short term memory. If you do it while you read the book, the kanji will come into your long term memory as you go. You just have to study a bit every day.
What's the best way to contact you Matthew?
ah yes the good old production RTK days!
Worst 3 months of my life but it was definitely worth it xD
Hello, BritVsJapan nice video.
So I had a question that was not addressed in the video and just wanted to know if you could clarify some confusion I had with the order of the learning method to learn with the RTK method and Anki.
Basically, you start by learning all the radicals/ primitives through the cheat sheet and Anki. Then you move on to proper kanji that consist of these radicals and make stories and add them to Anki (or use your pre-made decks or other ones online).
However, my concern is; to learn, be able to write and remember Kanji wouldn't it require you to use Anki AND write the Kanji on proper paper on the side whilst going through the Anki decks? Meaning that you would have one digital copy of the Kanjis (Anki) and one virtual (as flash cards or in a notebook). Is that what you did?
Sort of. You basically just want to write out each character when each flashcard comes up. So for example a keyword is shown to you, you recall the story and then the stroke order and you then write out the character you think it is on a piece of paper. Then show the back of the card and you can check your stroke order against the stroke order shown. That's all there is to it.
I downloaded the deck, it's great, your amazing and inspirational!
What about his amazing and inspirational? jk. however..... *YOU'RE
@@VideosField nice one mine friend
@@2leonverrips2 *my
@@3hornthrasher815 sarcasm?
@@2leonverrips2 No, I'm just pointing out that your grammar isn't correct; I'm just trying to be helpful. Google the correct usage of my/mine if you're interested. I suck at explaining grammar.
Nice video! Lately I'm reviewing the rtk cards even if I already started to make my sentence cards. I saw on your blog that you, like MattvsJapan, like podcast (and maybe audiobooks too?). So, how do you listen/study with them? Do you listen an entire chapter and then watch the transcript? Do you just listen to it without looking at the transcript? I think a good explanation video or blog post would be extremely useful for every ajatters.
I didn't start really using audiobooks until I was already past the intermediate stage and getting close to "fluency". Podcasts are something that I have used since day 1 but they where always rather difficult until the later stages. I started using them both a lot more after reaching a basic level of fluency but I've never used a transcript for any of them as it's a pain in the butt to get hold of. In the case of podcasts you would have to pay a native to transcribe it and it seems like a waste of time when you could just simply listen. I could see a slight benefit of having the audio version of a book while reading it, however, remember that this while primarily increase your reading and not your listening as the thing you will be paying the most attention to in this situation would be the text version. In my opinion, all you need to do is listen to them. In most cases this means a lot of passive listening while also actively paying attention here and there. I literally just have a load of different audiobooks on my ipod and I just let it run all day long.
BritVsJapan Thank you Matt! Podcasts and audiobooks are still too difficult for me. Do you think it's ok trying to listen to podcasts and audiobooks aimed for native speaker children?
What do you do after ? Like you finish RTK then do you go back right after and learn readings?
After RTK you just want to read a lot of Japanese with furigana or watch Japanese TV shows with Japanese subtitles which, with your knowledge of kanji as a basis, allows you to pick up kanji readings really easily.
Very good guide. Could I ask how to install the fonts? I've watched Matt's vid too but they just don't seem to work in the decks
I cover both ways of installing them here: www.britvsjapan.com/kanji/#Getting_the_Stroke_Order_and_Other_Fonts
Thank you :)
Big ups Matt =)
Thank you very much
I have downloaded your deck but how do I get it sorted by the Heisig number? Also, German is my native language but I feel pretty comfortable usind English, could I use both languages to make Kanji-stories or should I stick to only one? Thank you for always providing useful information for us, you are definetly my favourite ajatt-CZcamsr!
That's strange it should be in order already, maybe try deleting it and importing it again? It may also be that the book you are using is a newer version so the cards are in a slightly different order (I made this deck with an older version of the book). I don't think it matters too much, if you think English might be harder to do then stick with German but if you are comfortable with it like you say then I would use it too (your English is really good so I don't think it will matter) and thank you! I'm glad you've found it useful :D
@@BritVsJapan I'm pretty sure I messed up the order myself :D I have deleted and imported the deck again and now it's all good :)
I will try using English and if I don't know what a certain word means (some of them seem kind of old-fashioned to me) I will switch to German! Thanks again for helping me :)
Hey man. Might sound like a dumb question but if I download the deck and use it whilst working though RTK how do I make sure, when I'm doing my Anki reps for a day, that I'm only doing it with the Kanji I have currently learnt. As opposed to all 2000 odd.
Suspend the whole deck and unsuspend cards as you get to them in the book
@@peterhebden1557 ahh thats a godd idea, what I'm doing is just manually creating the deck as they come up as opposed to downloading the deck, maybe I'll switch at some point tho
The stroke order font doesn't show stroke direction which is very important for many characters
Another great video from tfblade
Hey Matt, I am really hoping that u could reply to this. By using your RTK deck, do you think it's enough to read novels/or any reading materials like u stated in this vid: czcams.com/video/t2H63wUoVlU/video.html since it's also around the 3000 mark? because im not planning to invest too much time into kanji on anki(3 months+ max)
Matt, do you have any suggestions on when to STOP reviewing RTK cards?
I've finished RTK1+3 three months ago, and I get the feeling the benefit of me continuing to review these cards is getting smaller and smaller.
I think my ability to write kanji by hand would take a big hit if I stopped reviewing, for sure. But, other than that, I get the feeling that spending more time immersing would help me flesh-out my understanding of kanji, instead of drilling the same one meaning of each kanji over and over again. Also, more time spent immersing would speed up my overall progress with Japanese, not just with the kanji aspect, and it would be more fun.
I guess my worry is that, if my assumption is wrong, I would have to go back to reviewing RTK in the future, and I'd find a gazillion reviews piled up.
Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks
If you forget some kanji’s they aren’t useful you show surf the internet in Japanese when you see a kanji you will recognize it when you need to write it on keyboard the pc will recommend it for you when you need to write it by hand most of the ones you need are going to be remembered if you don’t remember what one you can always search I wouldn’t focus that much on kanji because the only way to remember everything is to learn the grammar and the vocabulary so you’ll have stuff to associate and never forget Japanese.
I cant seem to find the deck can you help by linking it here, or a kanji deck you recommend
Hi Matt, fellow English bloke here from Bristol, I really want to start AJATT-ing as someone who wants to master a new language, but has dedication issues I feel this is a great way for me to do it, I'm currently in the research stage and found you through MattvsJapan, as someone that is in a long term relationship do you feel AJATT would still work for me?
Kind Regards, Will
Just apply the same principles that AJATT, me and other Matt talk about and you'll be fine. It does take a while too see progress though so make sure you really want it before you start.
BritVsJapan hey Matt, me again many months later oops, basically a lot of things came up in my life and I never got the chance to even start learning Japanese. However now I feel I’m ready I just have a few questions. How many hours a day should I be learning from RTK. The answer that comes to me straight away is dedicate all free time in a day to it but does that run the risk of overloading my brain with a bunch of new info. Also once I have mastered RTK how do I learn how to actually read and pronounce the characters I’ve learnt since I’m only learning basic English translations of each kanji?
Thanks in advance!
I haven't been able to find any useful info on this so I'll ask it here;
I believe the joyo kanji are the "everyday" kanji for newspapers and such, what are the extra 1,000 for and where are they used? Obviously there's lots more than that with even less frequent use, so how important is it to do the extra 1,000 kanji in RTK early? Or, is it better to smash through the joyo kanji and then go through the extra kanji either as they appear or after some time doing sentence cards and the monolingual transition?
RTK 3 is pretty funny because there are some kanji it that are really common and that it's best that you do know these, but also the majority of the kanji in there could easily be skipped if you wanted to. A lot of the stuff in RTK 3 is used in names or words that you would normally write with katakana and therefore are many of the kanji are often kanji that can't always be read by some natives. The main reason you would want to learn them straight after is if you wanted to make sure that you could at least write these characters down if you ever needed to. If you start practicing writing them now, then as you progress and eventually find names or words that use these rarer characters then you will find that you can write them without any issues.
@@BritVsJapan Ah I understand, thanks for that. I guess I'll just slow down how many kanji I'm learning once I reach RTK3 so I can do more sentences as that seems more valuable but still learn some new kanji
When I downloaded the deck, I could only see 2 cards, so I decided to make my own. I wanted to add the font that shows the order of strokes. How do I do that?
I know this is very late, but I'll answer in case anyone else is having the same issue. If you download Matt's deck, it will save that note type, and you can then create flashcards using the same format. This will automatically show the kanji in the 4 different fonts, including the one that shows stroke order.
@@camke4645 thanks so much for answering and helping others who might need it. I have another question now though. Will the fonts display on the anki app for iphones?
Hey Matt, thanks for this. I have been doing 14 new Kanji per day - gives me a good balance with lots of other projects going on. This will take me 5.2 months just to do RTK1. Is it okay to proceed to n+1 sentences after RTK1? It will take too long to do RTK3 after 5.2 months since I am already getting anxious a bit (I think I'm ~#1200 in so far). Thanks for your thoughts!
Yeah that's fine to do. You should still do RTK 3 but there's no harm doing it alongside sentences. Just remember though that this isn't a race but a life long project so 5 months to complete RTK 1 isn't that much time at all. You are better off taking it slowly and steadily than rushing it and getting stressed out.
Thanks, I appreciate it! Is there a specific level of difficulty of reading material that you like after finishing the basic Kanji? I was thinking to order super simple manga or perhaps it is better to try something more difficult but at least in a subject matter I am somewhat interested in? Cheers.
I'd stick with manga and books with furigana for a bit because anything without furigana is going to be a pain in the ass to read.
Thank you
Good work man. Thanks for the decks.
Nice!
Is this different now that the new MIA method is around, for example lazy kanji is good ( can't believe I just said that)
Matt might have some difference advice here and I only know what I did which was essentially lazy kanji and then I did it properly a few months ago. Maybe do lazy kanji first and do RTK properly afterwards? That is essentially what me and Matt both did so I can't see why it wouldn't work.
@@BritVsJapan If it worked for both of you guys, then it's probably the way to go!
So how do we know the kanji readings?
You learn Japanese vocabulary for the Kun, the On is useless, you just see the words composed of more kanji and by the contex you deduce the Japanese word (if you know Japanese vocabularies).
And as you meet words made up with multiple kanji, you search them and your head will associate with that experience and you’ll learn them, and you can always make a Anki deck of them, this makes the Kun learnable with the vocabulary and the Kun useless, but if you want to learn it there is the version 2 of the book Remembering the Kanji.
Excellent! I'm up to 200 (doing 25 a day) great tips thanks.
me too
Do you recommend 25 a day to new people
@@themasked_senshi4521 I think you have to test first to see if It's ok for you, but I'm ok with it, now I'm at the 329 kanji and I've just started in the beginning of last week this deck
gabriel勝己 thanks
gabriel勝己 i’ve seen this video months ago. Is there a way to make my own cards and still use britvsjapan’s fonts?
Hey Matt, I have been using your super simple deck since the day your published it. I am about 500 kanji in...something I noticed because I use imiwa? and Japanese dictionary sometimes when I need help with primitives radicals when building stories, and what I noticed is your list is not RTK1 ed 6, it’s pre-ed6 or at least the card number index matches earlier RTK. Just something you might Want to mention because it doesn’t follow the Ed 6 book so some kanji will be hard to find in the book if using it.
I'll put something on the anki deck page. Thanks for pointing this out! :)
How long should it take to learn the primitive deck
You can do it alongside, it shouldn't take more than a couple of weeks though.
I see
that approach of making ALL your own stories..
I guess that's what Heisig did?
Though I feel like Heisigs stories are so genius (and some even grounded in the actual history!)... I'm not sure if I'd be able to make so good stories..
And I agree. Writing is kinda important. I used to use an old app where I have written kanji and I must say when you learn to write them, you have a much deeper relationship to the kanji.
Also I wanted to ask which edition is the deck for?
so what I did for over a year is learning Kanji with a premade deck, which had the readings, some example vocab and also stories to remember the Kanji easier... the problem is... I kinda feel it's alot of information... and I also had the flashcards implemented for reverse learning.. so I also had the cards for Kanji - Meaning and also Meaning - writing the Kanji... Is this maybe too much? I kinda waste half an hour for only Kanji review...
You guys should go to Matt vs Japan’s vid about RTK and use his card format with these decks
@@BritVsJapan The video is private =(
@@CaballeroMetalico That means he's likely to have changed the way he does it so I'd give his CZcams channel a check and see if he has any other videos on RTK in the past year. :)
@@jscul which video did he say to learn readings first?
@@anichanzu1128 The 2nd video on this page massimmersionapproach.com/table-of-contents/stage-1/practice/recognition-rtk
hi there, i am attempting again to learn kanji. previous failed attempts stem from me being unsure as to how exactly the story telling process works. i have watched many explanations on it and although there is some great info on it (your vids included - thank you), i still have holes missing in the perceived process. there are 3 specific areas that trouble me and i was hoping either yourself or one of your viewers could be so kind to validate / explain.
i have the book "remembering the kanji", use ANKI, have wanikani and bunpro, but recently have been using an android app called "kanji study" it's great as it suits my lifestyle as i can jump on multiple times each day for short stints. making me write kanji really helps with my retention. my lack of understanding of the story process is:
1) when and to which kanji do i apply stories too? i see many people have their own objects associated with kanji i.e donald trump, a pineapple, a helicopter, spiderman etc. are these assigned figures ONLY to be assigned to radicals? so when kanji containing more than one radical presents, I can use my own assigned radical names to make my story? Is this correct? If so, that would mean that before learning any kanji made up of more than one primitive, I should perfectly learn all the radicals and ensure my own assigned labels of them are remembered. I am realising i have done something wrong now as i know a few hundred kanji but it is getting more and more difficult to remember them as i dont have any stories as i have never assigned labels to any of the primitives. So, when I learn the radicals meaning, it will still hold the intended meaning, i.e shellfish radical will always mean shellfish when seen as a kanji by itself, but if i reassign the meaning to... let's say, watermelon. then each time the shellfish primitive is used in a kanji including that radical and at least one other primitive, then my story would involve a watermelon? sorry if this seems basic and obvious, i just want to get it right as i dont want to invest so much time and realize that i git the basic concept wrong (which is what i did at my first attempt lol)
so as an example: if the radical "tile" i find that i dont want to use and instead when that radical presents, i find it easier to remember "elephant", while the radical for "woman" as i have already locked that away to memory, i can use that in my stories. if a kanji appears with both the woman and tile primitive, then my story would include something about a woman and an elephant that would help me remember the meaning for the said kanji?
2) when there are complex kanji, i find it difficult to differentiate which radicals are being used. if there are 5 for example, sometimes i only see 4 and making a story won't necessarily always aid in helping me remember how the multiple radicals interact to make the kanji. many radicals i easily identify eg thread, mouth, woman etc but when there are a lot of horizontal and vertical lines crossing over each other, i find it difficult sometimes to identify primitive components. even in writing this, it seems perhaps more clear, i need to rename the radicals only, then i wouldnt be forced to try and make up a story with thread, mouth and woman in it, hmmmm light bulb moment aha. back to learning radicals.
3) when kanji is used to make words eg the ENTER and MOUTH kanji to make ENTRANCE. Am I still trying to make stories up with compound kanji? or do i just use the mnemonics process for single kanji only?
Thank you :)
Kinda late but im just starting to learn kanji from heisigs book and to me it seems that the primitives and their meanings are there to help, sometimes if the primitives are a kanji if used alone and it has a similar meaning dont change it but if not shouldnt be a problem. The recognizing bigger kanji seems super intimidating but the way heisigs book is written most kanjo have a 1 primitive sometimes more but its usually 1 primitive added to a full kanji
@@TheProstum thx for taking the time to reply. what you responded makes sense, but i still have clarification issues lol maybe it's just me :( thx again :)
The stroke orders are not showing up even though I downloaded the fonts bruh
Hey, I was just wondering how do you figure out exactly which primitives are included in each kanji? do you just guess??? This is a great guide, but that is the only part that is really unclear for me. Please help anyone?
Just guess
Also watch cure dolly’s video on kanji sounds
I'm using this deck with Kanji Colorizer
Def would love to see a after RTK vid
I'm a little confused; shouldn't the kanji be on the front of the card and the keyword on back?
Depends on what you're going for. If your goal is to be able to write the characters from memory you have to be able to recall every stroke given its unique keyword.
If you just want to be able to recognize kanji (for typing purposes or reading) and not necessarily writing you can just put the kanji on the front and the keyword on the back.
I suggest you take a look at the AJATT website and/or the RTK video from mattvsjapan.
It's it more efficient to show the Kanji first and English as an answer?
And why don't skip stroke order as well? If you already skipping readings might as well. Well if you don't need to write then 100% skip that boy
Also, you might check KanjiDamage it's a bit cleaner in radical regard
Matt,
Sorry for the multiple comments. Here is another great tool to use alongside your anki deck: hochanh.github.io/rtk/. Just check it out...when you run into a kanji that you need help figuring out or writing a story, then just go to this website, search the keyword and it gives you hiesig's description and story as well as the top 4 or 5 stories from kohii. I find it so helpful I really don't open the book any longer unless I want hold on to paper or read his chapter/section introductions.
1K subs! :D
woah, didn't expect that
Nice thumb nail! Looks better than your others. Thanks I needed this!
Matt from MattV vs Japan have just deleted the videos i needed most!
Should I come up with stories for the primitives too?
You can if you want to, I've heard people do this and say that it works well for them.
Thank you, I started japanese a month ago from scratch, now I will use this method as a base to build my own :) I feel almost ready to start consuming content, the problem is finding the right stuff at my beginner level, meanwhile I'm using some apps and books (and now all this) :D
A great CZcams channel one of my patrons let me know about was "Comprehensible Japanese". I'd recommend checking it out! I would have loved to have had it around when I first started!
Your deck is missing a bunch of kanji regardless of the 1000 extra. Not sure if you're using the chinese version (remembering the Hanzi) or not which is also 3000.
took a look through the list and im seeing some of the missing ones way further down the list. For example Pop Song 2178 on your list instead of 57 in the book. Are you using an edition different from the 6th?
But how do you learn the onyomi and kunyomi reading
You probably know by now but it's by sentence cards
@@memestopicxd7649 no I don't know how I'm currently learning through heisig method
@Dan Pos so you don't need to learn onyomi and kunyomi you just connect vocab to kanji
One day im gonna make videos about anki that doesnt take forever to get to the point
I’m confused, someone tell me, is the keyword the same as the meaning?
kanji usually have lots of different meanings, and some of them have exactly the same meanings, so the keyword is just something to stick the information to. if the keyword and the meaning arent the same they're usually pretty similar, but it saves having to remember that this particular kanji means all these different words in english
what about pronunciations if the kanji?
Once you've done RTK you'll have a good base to start reading stuff with furigana in Anki sentence flashcards or in actual Japanese books. Watching anime and dramas with Japanese subtitles on as well is also great for learning the readings :)
This is a dope video, and exactly what I was looking for. I'd rather use Anki than go through the book and make flash cards manually. Also you and your gf are cute asf, many thanks for the videos and articles
Probably the most simplified explanations on Ajatt I have found so far. Great content and right to the point. One question: You say it isn't that necessary to learn the Primitives, however, if you are going to make stories for each Kanji using the primitive's "keywords", then wouldn't you have to learn the primitives first? I think you might have/kind of answered this question in the video, but it wasn't that clear. Keep up the good work!
So if you have the RTK books, or use the cheat sheet I linked to, then it's probably enough just to look at the radical once before making a story as they are quite simple and they will stick with the help of the story. It really depends on the person though.
I'm going to do lazy kanji first on purpose and then do it all again the other way around and learn to write them after.
Bad idea. Do it right from the start, you'll save more time overall.
I'm living in Japan right now working full time and living alone as well as doing things like going to the gym. Since my need to be able to read Japanese and improve my Japanese is more immediate, I'd rather learn to read faster and take more time overall. Besides, Matt recommends doing lazy kanji first for various reasons. I've been learning 25 kanji every day the past 6 or so weeks. Its very difficult to learn that many every single day while having as little free time as I do. If I was trying to memorise writing them as well I would have to learn them much slower.
how’s it going
"The most frequently used 1,000 kanji comprise more than 90% of all kanji used in written Japanese." From the MIA website. They focus on the 1000 kanji first, then later you learn other kanji by context. Also they focus on recognizing the kanji rather then you writing them out, cuz who actually wants to know freaking stroke order? It's honestly way faster and more practical then this video. But yeah it depends what your goals are of course and whether you have more patience.
wait so when does reading them in japanese come into play
I've done a video on "What to do after RTK" on the channel, hopefully that'll help :)
To sum up, learn the meaning then you can read stuff with furigana such as manga and anime with subtitles so that you can learn from how a kanji is read.
WARNING: Do not use the linked anki flash cards, it is not following the 6th edition of RTK books. For example Elbow is in place 2000-something instead of nr 46.
All the kanji are there, they are just from the fifth edition. I don't see this as a problem as you need to come up with your own stories so I don't mind to just correct here and there some of the kanji NUMBERS. That's it. The deck is good.
Great information. I was having trouble following you, as you kept trailing off with your voice in a sort of mumbling way. Thanks for the information though.
got a kanji test in the next 3 day and am here watching is at 2:13 :l
Learning 3000 Kanji in 3 months by following your strategy!! Challenge Accepted!!!!!!!!!!
how did it go
What about pronucsiastion?
But how do i know how to pronounce the kanji?
that's volume 2
@@LDranzer1 so the second book has the furigana on top of the kanji ?
João Paulo Viana Alves Yes and no, it comes with the KunYomi, the idea of Vol.1 is for you to understand the meaning of the Kanji, so you can see how it is composed and how it can be used, so when you are done and understand what Kanjis are about, you can read them as you “should” on Vol 2
@@LDranzer1 thanks man
15:47 Out of context moment
Will have to use another flashcard app I downloaded a while back. Had to delete Anki because there was an "error" and it wouldn't allow me to create decks
The biggest problem is why use flashcards in the first place. I have never used flashcards. I don't understand them. I don't know why anyone would want to use them. First, it takes a long time to write them. Second, it may take a long time to read them and get the answers correctly. Third, they look boring, tiring, tedious and time-consuming.
Why not just read a book? In the same time you create and read flashcards you could just read a book. Or, if you are studying something like Physics or Mathematics, you should just solve a bunch of exercises from a textbook. Most textbooks have plenty of exercises for you to practice. All you have to do is solve them. The book author already prepared all the exercises for you, you don't need to write them, unlike flashcards.
If you are learning a foreign language you should read as much as possible. Reading is the best way to acquire vocabulary. You consult the dictionary for the words necessary to understand the text.
Reading is much more fun, entertaining and engaging than using flashcards. By reading you always see the word in context.
Flashcards on the other hand take the words out of context. It is much harder to memorize and understand them. Flashcards are completely inefficient compared to just reading.
Hi, the issue for this is that I don't know how to say kanji. How can I look up a kanji I don't know the pronunciation of?
@@moonlitee It depends. If you are reading a text online, you can just copy and paste. There are many online dictionaries where you just paste the word or kanji you are looking for and it will show you the results.
If you are reading from a printed book, you can can use software to write the kanji.
Microsoft has a software called IME that is preinstalled in any computer sold in Japan.
But I believe you can download it for free.
The software allows you to draw the kanji and it generates the text form of the kanji.
You can then copy and paste the text form in an online dictionary.
Apple probably has similar softwares, both for computer and smartphones.
You can also buy a kanji dictionary.
Most kanji dictionaries have an index with all the kanjis sorted by number of strokes.
You need to know how to write the kanji and count the number of strokes it has.
That is how Japanese children learn kanji.
@@hcm9999 Thanks for the reply. Do you know any good ways to learn stroke counts of kanji? Also, I feel like this method might harm my ability to learn the spoken reading of kanji. Is that the case?