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ronnie saras

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 :)

Mori Soba

@カジットパイ Japanese vowels are not the same as Indonesian vowels for sure. As for う, I would say when う in Japanese words has pitch accent it sounds like Indonesian U. For example, うみ（海）has pitch accent on う and thatう will be pronounced like Indonesian U. うまい（旨い）doesn't have pitch accent on う and thatう will be pronounced very weak (almost like schwa sound). When あ or お doesn't have pitch accent it will be pronounced very weak (or dark sound).

Although, in Indonesian language text book (written in Japanese language) it explains インドネシア語の母音はあいうえお + あいまい母音(English schwa)です。 This means Indonesian vowels a i u e o sound like あいうえお for Japanese people. And " Jepang " sounds like ジュパン for Japanese people (J e ← same as English schwa sound). Therefore you can pronounce あいうえお by Indonesian a i u e o sounds and Japanese people understand you completely.

Japanese people pronounce らりるれろ by rolling tongue just once and sound like ra ri ru re ro. But they sometimes pronounce them like la li lu le lo and these sounds are completely recognized as らりるれろ by Japanese people. It's up to you how you want to pronounce them.

As the total islamization of Indonesia is the big threat in Indonesian society, economic domination by Chinese Indonesian people is also a big threat in Indonesia. When we look at Malaysia, Malaysian economy is pretty much controlled by Chinese Malaysians, even indigenous Malay people get more welfare from the county. To preserve diverse Indonesian culture they need to stop radical islamization and economic monopoly by Chinese Indonesians.

I know Southeast indigenous peoples generally have happy-go-lucky mentality and easily allow economic domination by Chinese migrants. That seems like an economic colonialism to me. Chinese immigrants have developed their domestic economic connections, and international economic networks throughout Asia. Chinese migrants in Southeast Asia and mainland Chinese have political conflict, but when it comes to business profit they will corporate. We should not underestimate or ignore the threat of Chinese domination in Southeast Asia. Japanese economy is threatened by mainland Chinese and Chinese migrants in Asia as well.

I guess indigenous Indonesians and Muslims want to get more education and vocational training so that they can avoid daytrippers life style. It's not sure " Making Indonesia 4.0 " will be successful, but Indonesian people must try to make it happen. To do so, eliminating Islamic fundamentalists is vital.

All comments from YouTube:

BritVSJapan

3y↑6

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

Petete52

Thanks!

Sulay

6y↑3

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.

Mike 8D

4y↑1

Hi Matt, I’ve been using Dreaming Spanish YouTube 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.

I'm Steven

3y↑5

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.

Vinicius Melo

3y↑1

i guess, this problem goes away with more practice....

Scot McPherson

6y↑1

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.

BritVSJapan

I'll put something on the anki deck page. Thanks for pointing this out! :)

Skireem

6y↑5

Great video man, I always had trouble with finding the actual primitives so thanks alot for the link and the deck!

Swashy893

6y↑25

Excellent! I'm up to 200 (doing 25 a day) great tips thanks.

Toasted Tarts

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?

TheMasked_Senshi

gabriel勝己 thanks

gabriel勝己

4y↑2

@TheMasked_Senshi 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

TheMasked_Senshi

Do you recommend 25 a day to new people

gabriel勝己

me too

daruna

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.

TheWishDragon

6y↑1

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!

Re3iRtH

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!

BritVSJapan

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.

Re3iRtH

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.

BritVSJapan

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.

Imaisuki

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! :)

Ivano Forgione

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

BritVSJapan

3y↑1

A great YouTube 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!

Bennycyl

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.

Mike

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!

BritVSJapan

6y↑1

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.

j bleez

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"

Lodororada

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.

Lodororada

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?

BritVSJapan

6y↑1

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.

Hampton Moseley

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?

Scot McPherson

This deck is pre 6th edition, but if you use https://hochanh.github.io then you won’t need the book to follow along.

BritVSJapan

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.

Abraham V.

6y↑2

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.

Liberty

6y↑1

Great job as always!

P C

5y↑3

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

Lauren A

I cant seem to find the deck can you help by linking it here, or a kanji deck you recommend

Alessandro Vitagliano

4y↑1

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.

Shadow Song

4y↑1

Hi Brit, what's difference about recognition rtk and rtk I'm confused

Should I learn rrtk and then rtk?

Sara Millar

Super helpful! Thanks for this :)

EnglishPinglish

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?

mgktts

6y↑5

This was immensely helpful. 作ってくれてありがとう。

Nico M

4y↑9

Should I wait to use anki after finishing the book or use it while I’m reading it?

Jacob Fields

4y↑7

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.

Shpend Demiri

6y↑2

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.

Pawel Cichonski

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.

Scot McPherson

Matt,
Sorry for the multiple comments. Here is another great tool to use alongside your anki deck: http://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.

AverageGamerWill

6y↑1

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

AverageGamerWill

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!

BritVSJapan

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.

Andrii Tsurkan

Thank you! That was really helpful.

Kritanta 23

4y↑3

Should i insert the story when i encounter the kanji for the first time or should i do it before starting the deck?

Max Stulz

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?

BritVSJapan

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.

ronnie saras

@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 :)

TheProstum

4y↑1

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

Wubologist

I found this video extremely helpful thank you

James Morgan

4y↑4

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.

Deddrz

4y↑1

@Peter Hebden 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

Peter Hebden

Suspend the whole deck and unsuspend cards as you get to them in the book

MrOoglebog

I appreciate this video a lot. I wasn't sure how to get my set up started.

Kaka carrot cake the super sand lesbian

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?

Safir

Also watch cure dolly’s video on kanji sounds

Safir

Just guess

Liberty

6y↑4

I downloaded the deck, it's great, your amazing and inspirational!

3hornthrasher

@leon verrips You said sarcasm as a question, didn't know it was a rhetorical question, my mistake. And no, it wasn't obvious to me, unfortunately. Maybe if you emphasized the "mine" in some way, I would've caught it, or you rephrased the sentence entirely. Sarcasm is easy to detect in verbal communication but without cues in text, it's not easy. When going solely off of context, I have to make an assumption and it now came to my attention that it was the latter. This video is literally on the subject of language learning so I just couldn't naturally assume that. How could you label this as "grammarnazi-ism" when everyone here is wanting to improve/learn a/their language? It's like calling your English teacher a grammar nazi when all she is trying to do is help in an appropriate setting (which I believe this setting was appropriate as well). He even hinted why it's wrong to use it in the way he did so he can actually learn from it rather than being told it's wrong but not know why.

leon verrips

@3hornthrasher Do you even know why I said "sarcasm" in the last post? Isn't it obviously a joke to trigger Elays grammarnazi-ism?

3hornthrasher

@leon verrips 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.

leon verrips

@3hornthrasher sarcasm?

3hornthrasher

@leon verrips *my

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ハンター

6y↑1

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?

BritVSJapan

6y↑1

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 - http://aiki.info/kanji/kanji-learn.pdf

Devotin

Thank you so much. Great video!

Nishi Jochiro

The stroke order font doesn't show stroke direction which is very important for many characters

K. L.

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-YouTuber!

K. L.

@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 :)

BritVSJapan

5y↑1

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

Drifting Wez

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

ビンガム

Big ups Matt =)

Drifting Wez

Thank you :)

BritVSJapan

6y↑1

I cover both ways of installing them here: https://www.britvsjapan.com/kanji/#Getting_the_Stroke_Order_and_Other_Fonts

MUGEN

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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2H63wUoVlU since it's also around the 3000 mark? because im not planning to invest too much time into kanji on anki(3 months+ max)

DerKumpeltyp

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...

Jay M.

4y↑92

Skip to 4:17 if you already have Anki installed, lol.

Toasted Tarts

@Jay M. aw man. take care and try to eat foods that help boost immunity

DirtyDan

@Jay M. rip

Jay M.

4y↑4

@Ruby Lea I got to around 500 in RTK, but I got coronavirus and had to stop. I was better after a week or so, but It's been atleast two months and I haven't started back up yet :( keep strong and keep going, its about time I picked up back up!! Just remember, go a comfortable speed and don't try to do too much at once. You got this :)

Ruby Lea

@Jay M. hey, thanks. where are you now in RTK?

Jay M.

4y↑1

@daniel thank you king !

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Uoipka

3y↑1

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

Iain Callaghan

Good work man. Thanks for the decks.

Yoel Marquez

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?

Walylu

Nice thumb nail! Looks better than your others. Thanks I needed this!

Basically_Caillou

Do you write the story down on the Anki card or just make the story in your mind?

ゑ

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?

a2l

"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.

Alessandro Scaccia

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

3D Printed Gamer

5y↑1

What do you do after ? Like you finish RTK then do you go back right after and learn readings?

BritVSJapan

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.

SystemCM

5y↑104

My story was that I CRAFTED a SHELLFISH statue as a TRIBUTE to the Gods.

Cassius Onyx

@Garrett Bowen Yup, I have been using Kaldrostream for since december myself =)

Garrett Bowen

a tip : you can watch series on kaldrostream. Been using them for watching a lot of movies during the lockdown.

Francisco Cabrita

@PrimeArtOnline - Piano Covers I’m curious if you have already finished the book haha

ANONYMOUS

Just be sure to pay Tribute to our dear Shellfish who got crushed by an i-beam.

Oppaiology

I have the most intricate story for every kanji which has to do will Shellfish

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kobayashi okamoto

Hey man can you tell me how to remove cards from the suspended or leech status?

Matyah M.I

Learning 3000 Kanji in 3 months by following your strategy!! Challenge Accepted!!!!!!!!!!

Mori Soba

I'm from Japan. I don't think there is special way to learn kanji. But it's natural to start with first grade 80 Kanji. Second grade 160 kanji, and then 200, 200, 185 and 181. If you mastered first 80 kanji, it would be much easier for you to learn next 160 kanji.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%8Diku_kanji

カジットパイ

@Mori Soba In terms of explaining of how the language sounds I'm actually quite good at it. I focus on the sounds first (Matt's immersion method), then working out the grammar and vocabularies by context. I'm only several months in, I only know little about other areas like grammar, vocab, nuance, etc.

I think all immigrants that were not welcomed will form a tight community. But that was not the case for Chinese in Indonesian. At first they were very friendly to the Chinese, this is when the Chinese we're about to assimilate, but slowly the Chinese businesses began flourishing, overtaking the native Indonesian.
That's when they start hating Chinese, it exploded with other political matter simultaneously during the economic recession in 1998. They loot and burn all Chinese's property. Until now Chinese and Indonesian natives is kinda in a cold war. I had Chinese friends back in my school days. I remembered they told me that their parents doesn't allow non chinese to borrow anything from them, and to stay away from non Chinese. And vice versa my parents said not to trust Chinese since they only care for their own community. It's a mess, everyone had a prejudice on each other race. Of course not everyone is like that, but most of them are.
And you are right compared to that, islamization pose more threat to the future of Indonesia

Mori Soba

@カジットパイ If you can explain better about Japanese than me, I'm not in the position to give you some advice about Japanese language.
I can't judge how Chinese Indonesians behave in Indonesia. How much integrated and assimilated are they in Indonesian society ? In Japan more and more Chinese are coming to Japan and they start behaving as if they conquered the land they are settled in. And we notice Chinese believe only in money. I hear the similar stories here and there. It's quite likely that Muslims in Indonesia hate Chinese Indonesians. Chinese migrants are hated in Thailand, Malaysia and Philippines as well.
I basically agree with you that as long as someone do their job properly, you don't mind what kind of background they have. But as far as I have personally seen or heard, Chinese immigrants build their own community and just go for making money. In Malaysia, Chinese migrants are omitted from social welfare service, which explains how Malay people see Chinese migrants.
It makes me sad that Indonesia has huge corruption problem. But I think Philippines and Vietnam are definitely more corrupt than Indonesia. Not to mention about Cambodia and Laos, that's the reason why they are underdeveloped. In my opinion, the only solution is to abolish Islamic fundamentalism and raise Muslims’ educational standards in Indonesia.

カジットパイ

@Mori Soba All Japanese words has pitch accent tho, I don't know why you said 旨い has no pitch accent, it's clearly ↓↑↓. As for 海 it's ↑↓. What I was talking about was the pronunciation of う differs between person to person, I heard some Japanese said 食べるwith strong U instead of う. Same goes for あ and お, some Japanese pronounce it darker than the other. That's why I said it can be surely said that the I and E are the same in Japanese and Indonesian. As for the other vowels they slightly differ.

About Japanese R I actually knows how to say it correctly, even though Japanese can't tell the difference when Indonesian say it with L, I can. And maybe other foreigners that learn those languages also can. Even English L, I can definitely say that the L in Indonesian is different than English L. This is even more accentuated when an English native speaks in Indonesian. That's why I said before it's a minute detail, it's my pet peeves to learn the details of how to say it correctly, not just adequately. I even look up the tongue placement of Japanese R, and it's different than Indonesian tongue placement to say L which is a bit further back inside. I also know even in the same language there are variations of how a language is spoken between areas. I'm simply aiming for Tokyo accent, and the Indonesian pronunciation I was talking about is Jakarta accent.

At this point the future of Indonesia is black and white already. Most businesses owned by Chinese Indonesian, the Muslims don't like that at all. I don't really see how to evade them, indigenous Indonesian is just too lazy to compete with the Chinese. That's why almost all politician seats are populated by the indigenous Indonesians and the majority they are Muslim, because it's hard to manage a business. These lazy ass people need to get out of their seats, we have huge corruption problem here. Again, the root of the problem is racial problem that never cease to exist. Btw I heard Philippines were pretty corrupted too. Also it's similar to the US in terms of immigrants and racism. Personally as long as someone do their job properly, I don't mind what kind of background they have.

Mori Soba

カジットパイ

@Mori Soba I can't say Indonesian vowels are the same as Japanese vowels except for the I and E. When I learn Japanese R sound, I found out that it's the same as Indonesian R but not rolled, only tapped once. Indonesian R need to tap at least twice. If you tap slowly it will sound like an L which you recommended to say as. Which is correct pronunciation of R in Japanese. Japanese R sounds changes based on how fast they are talking. When they talk or sing slowly, the R will sound like L, when it's fast it will sound like R, when it's fast and said after ん it will sound like D. That's why foreigners said it sounds like D, R and L at the same time.

I think Indonesia won't be able to return the money in time. And I'm worrying who's the next President is. The current president is quite decent compared to the previous one, corruption ran rampant at that time.
I'd rather let Chinese rule than letting it turn into Islamic country. They tried to push their agenda by doing various Islamic movement that disturb the business district in Jakarta couple years ago. The thing is, most Chinese are very successful in business because of their diligent traits. At least they tried to make the country better. A Chinese local governor who fires all corruptors in the system were impeached due to heresy of Islam, which he didn't do, they bend all the facts just to kick the guy out. He become the governor not by votes btw, non muslim never won the election before. It's quite a rare chance to be accidentally have a non Muslim ruler.

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Edwin Contreras

5y↑20

craft -> Lovecraft
shellfish -> sea creature -> octopus
Lovecraft + octopus = Cthulhu

the cultists' tribute to Cthulhu 🐙👏

H.C. Michele

this is the best story for this kanji EVER

Toasted Tarts

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?

Toasted Tarts

@Cam Ke 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?

Cam Ke

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.

Toasted Tarts

is it possible to get the fonts to display on anki on my iphone?

Benjamin Smith

Hey! Not sure if you answer comments but what fonts did you use for your Kanji characters?

Mariano Becchi

Im new to this,so,i have to use both the book RTK and anki just to not forget the actual kanjis through stories?

Lauren A

thanks for the post can you link the deck here please

FakkuElite

Any recommended Anki decks for Kanji? I'm just starting out and planning on using it in conjunction with RTK.

Alessandro Vitagliano

Make yours

The Envy Of God

There is one for RTK 6 just type it in and it can be modified for your own story

RyuatNight

6y↑2

Def would love to see a after RTK vid

Santi Solar

5y↑1

When I put the kanji the size is really small. How did you get that size?

Backi Nator

how do i apply these strokeorder fonts. there are just downloads but no explenation.

sulayman jones

6y↑31

You guys should go to Matt vs Japan’s vid about RTK and use his card format with these decks

Cameron Burnett

4y↑2

@Anichanzu The 2nd video on this page https://massimmersionapproach.com/table-of-contents/stage-1/practice/recognition-rtk

Anichanzu

@John Cullen which video did he say to learn readings first?

BritVSJapan

4y↑2

@CaballeroMetalico That means he's likely to have changed the way he does it so I'd give his YouTube channel a check and see if he has any other videos on RTK in the past year. :)

CaballeroMetalico

@BritVSJapan The video is private =(

CJ T

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?

CJ T

@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

BritVSJapan

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.

Cam Ke

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...

Tor Ljungberger

Thank you very much

moyga

6y↑1

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.

YaBoiTroy

how’s it going

moyga

6y↑1

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.

Chief Judge

Bad idea. Do it right from the start, you'll save more time overall.

Unggoy Farmer

3y↑1

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.

Unggoy Farmer

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?

craig ovenden

Nice!

Propz

5y↑1

What about pronucsiastion?

Denver Gamer

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.

Adren Hoag

got a kanji test in the next 3 day and am here watching is at 2:13 :l

Seb Beadle

I’m confused, someone tell me, is the keyword the same as the meaning?

jan Ikusu

4y↑1

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

Haste

5y↑3

So how do we know the kanji readings?

Alessandro Vitagliano

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.

Danneo

4y↑1

15:47 Out of context moment

ScimmiaDiMare

I've found RTK+Anki terrible and daunting as a process. I got to the point to know about 900 meanings of kanjis and it was just a chore to move on. At that point I knew just 1 meaning for each kanji (which is a big limit) and ZERO readings (besides the one I knew on my own already), and ZERO words. I switched to wanikani and yes, it's demanding in how frequently you need to do your reviews, but I now know the kanji meaning(s), readings (all or the most common ones), and hundreds (over a thousand so far, actually) words. In a more manageable and pleasant way of doing reviews.
Anki is the worst app experience out there, it's just TERRIBLE, but in general, the RTK method is definitely not for me. All that work and I couldn't read shit, not even level 0 of graded reading.

ScimmiaDiMare

@BritVSJapan agree. As of now, furigana is actually really bothering me on the kanjis that I know 😅

BritVSJapan

Yeah you have to build from that base after you're done with RTK by reading books with furigana to learn readings, it's not for everyone.

William Macêdo

Thank you

md7

I'm using this deck with Kanji Colorizer

Leonardo Ferreira

Another great video from tfblade

Æ-003 andré

what about pronunciations if the kanji?

BritVSJapan

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 :)

HarryMccranor

wait so when does reading them in japanese come into play

BritVSJapan

I've done a video on "What to do after RTK" on the channel, hopefully that'll help :)

That Fellow

I'm a little confused; shouldn't the kanji be on the front of the card and the keyword on back?

Oscar Hernández

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.

kobayashi okamoto

I know I'm complaining here but can this be done without anki?

Calin

It sucks on anything else. F mac users

tangente00

6y↑2

Wanikani > RTK
Kanji with Readings plus Vocabulary plus for example NHK easy is much more powerful than the RTK method imo.

Scot McPherson

6y↑5

tangente00 it’s not really. In the long run, it will slow you down because each bucket you hold kanji information in will be too big. You won’t be able to remember all of it after a while. Learning the kanji RTK first and learning more meaning and readings through context later will short circuit your learning and make it much faster later on.

fmh654

But how do you learn the onyomi and kunyomi reading

fmh654

@Dan Pos so you don't need to learn onyomi and kunyomi you just connect vocab to kanji

fmh654

@Memes Topic XD no I don't know how I'm currently learning through heisig method

Memes Topic XD

You probably know by now but it's by sentence cards

Sangeeta Chopra

5y↑3

Pls make introduction small
Too much talking

Dr. Merlot

Rtk seems a bit useless. There's no readings or compounds. Minano nihongo kanji looks better in my opinion.

Ayden Schmidt

4y↑2

The theory is you can then learn the words easier which are the readings

Polyglot Bryce

6y↑1

1K subs! :D

BritVSJapan

6y↑1

woah, didn't expect that

El DeAhí

Should I come up with stories for the primitives too?

BritVSJapan

You can if you want to, I've heard people do this and say that it works well for them.

João Paulo Viana Alves

But how do i know how to pronounce the kanji?

João Paulo Viana Alves

@LDranzer1 thanks man

LDranzer1

4y↑1

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

João Paulo Viana Alves

@LDranzer1 so the second book has the furigana on top of the kanji ?

LDranzer1

that's volume 2

hcm9999

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.

Liberty

Is this different now that the new MIA method is around, for example lazy kanji is good ( can't believe I just said that)

isaac10231

6y↑1

@BritVSJapan If it worked for both of you guys, then it's probably the way to go!

BritVSJapan

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.