Hello everyone, I'm new here and I'm hoping you can help me out!
I've been learning 日本語 for a few months, I've made a start on the Assimil workbook and recently began working my way through memorising the kanji.
I've been using Heisig's book as well as Anki for flashcards, but the deck I'm using shows the meaning on the front, and the kanji on the back. Is this the most useful way for me to do it? I find that I can conjure up the kanji in my head if I see the word, but if I then see the kanji, I can't always think what the meaning of it is. Would it be better for me to have the kanji symbol on the front of the card, and learn to extract the meaning from it that way round? Since that's how the reading will be done, when I can actually read Japanese, is it not logical to learn that way around?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, or give any advice which should help me along, because I'm rather struggling at the minute and I'm only 150 or so in!
Many thanks!
I've been learning 日本語 for a few months, I've made a start on the Assimil workbook and recently began working my way through memorising the kanji.
I've been using Heisig's book as well as Anki for flashcards, but the deck I'm using shows the meaning on the front, and the kanji on the back. Is this the most useful way for me to do it? I find that I can conjure up the kanji in my head if I see the word, but if I then see the kanji, I can't always think what the meaning of it is. Would it be better for me to have the kanji symbol on the front of the card, and learn to extract the meaning from it that way round? Since that's how the reading will be done, when I can actually read Japanese, is it not logical to learn that way around?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, or give any advice which should help me along, because I'm rather struggling at the minute and I'm only 150 or so in!
Many thanks!
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