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Originally Posted by ryuurui
This Anki stuff is not bad, I just had a look. There are many various downloads there, which one are you using for learning vocab, Kyle?
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I built my own based on Kanji in Context. The point of the book(s) is that you are learning kanji through a large number of vocabulary words. I have been doing it a couple years now at an off-and-on pace, and in that two years I've noticed a dramatic uptick in how much I can
effortlessly read.
The only problem is that I've subconsciously gotten used to a single font, so when I started doing Anki on my cell, which uses a different font for kanji, about 10% of the kanji I absolutely could not recognize just because of stylistic differences.
For example, 窮 has these words: 窮屈な、窮乏生活、窮状、困窮、窮極の、窮める、窮ま る. Now, obviously, you're learning just words by my explanation so far. That's where the "in Context" part of the book comes in. There's a workbook with these words being used in real situations. I haven't used that, and instead just read more and, when there's a confusing word I don't understand, I will actually go to Eijiro and look at sample sentences with the word.
But keep in mind, I have not tried to learn to write any new kanji. It's all about reading them + learning new vocab. Zero focus on writing (but I've noticed that since I've seen the kanji so many times now that my writing ability has gone up, too, with zero attention paid to it).