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I got myself some #japanese "Graded Readers" from #tadoku over the holidays

These are beginner/learner friendly story booklets. One simple story per booklet. Completely in Japanese, but with furigana on top of the kanji. There's also downloadable mp3s with people reading them, for listening practice

I got the Level 0 bundle, with 18 small booklets. They're still bound left to right, and the text is horizontal

I also go the Level 1 bundle, with 15 small booklets. Those are "properly" right to left, and the text is vertical and also right to left

#japaneselearning #learningjapanese

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Sven "DrMcCoy" Hesse Jan 10

Been slowly working my way through them. It's really motivating when you can just understand them. Mostly without even looking up any words

But the furigana help really massively. I can already recognize a lot of kanji, but not all of them. And even if I do, I don't have their reading in my head

Which means, I really need to buckle down and learn the kanji properly

I did start wanikani, but... yeah, no, I don't want to learn the kanji separate from the vocab. That's just terrible, awful, useless

I want to learn the vocab with the kanji!

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Sven "DrMcCoy" Hesse Jan 10

I could probably use the graded readers to grind through them, but... the furigana are then detrimental

So I started creating an Anki deck for the kanji vocabulary inside the graded readers, and I'll use that to memorize the vocab with their kanji and their readings

It's kinda slow, though

Just going through the first Level 0 booklet (桜, さくら, sakura, cherry blossoms) and creating a Anki card for every word with kanji, and also adding some related words (there's north and south, so I added east and west too, for example), took 2 hours

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Sven "DrMcCoy" Hesse Jan 11

Progress...