>>4629204Some cool anon made this post for me that's been working well:
"If you don't know Hiragana/Katakana:
https://realkana.com/hiragana/How:
Switch to tab labeled Hiragana. Check 1 column. Look at the column.
Make a pneumonic for each character. Literally something distinct and memorable, you need a crutch for the first few successes.
Press the red study button.
Do it for a while to solidify.
Next column. After a few columns, do random variations of columns. Over and over for like an hour. Always rely on the pneumonic crutch to solidify your capacity to get them right initially. After an hour. Drop it. Wait a bit, do something else. Come back in a bit. Repeat, increasing your kana further and further.
You want to be able to recognize kana in around a week or two. Not as difficult as it sounds, I promise.
Around a day or two once you recognize a few columns, begin this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg9uYxuZf8x_A-vcqqyOFZu06WlhnypWjWatch ~3 a day is my recommendation. Watch them multiple times if you feel as if you've been simply "listening" instead of "learning" what they're saying(i.e. spacing and letting it become white noise). Make sure to be honest with yourself here.
Then you get to trying to build basic Kanji recognition.
https://www.wanikani.comThis is a slow-paced lesson plan that times lessons for you, they literally become available when the program believes you to be able to gain the most from them. Just check it every day. It starts with radicals.
Then, download Anki
https://apps.ankiweb.net/Download this add-on for it
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/3918629684Easy to way to download it is in Anki, once you have it downloaded, at the top click Tools -> Add-ons -> and now in this new menu click "Get Add-ons" on the right, and enter this code in the text box:
3918629684
Restart Anki to finish
Then download this:
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2141233552Big blue download button
Double click the file in your Downloads folder, should initiate installing the deck
Open Anki again, click the Core 2k deck
Begin
You will not recognize the kanji initially
This is ok
Be inquisitive
Google freely. It will give you the kanji in sentences with lots of other kanji and words and letters.
In spare time, google basics of Japanese sentence structure. There are a LOT of resources for this. Learn how particles work. Shockingly simple that it doesn't even need a particular lesson plan, just get a few opinions through natural google-fu.
I also like this web-site:
https://maggiesensei.com/Literally pick an article or two a day from here at random and go through it. It has the stuff in both kanji, furigana(the hiragana reading of a kanji) and romaji(how to pronounce with English letters)
You want to inject a little random trivia here and there just to broaden your esoteric knowledge.
And because it uses sentences, as you learn how to sue things, you can mine the sentences those things are used in.
Remember not to cram. You want to study for around ~2 hours at most, and then rest. You want to, over the course of a study, review the same thing until you can get it right in that session."
