日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 5

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Thanks for the advice! Yeah I kinda came to the conclution that I will need to disover a new method of studying. I might pick up manga even though it doesn't interest me very much, I've heard people say good things about it for this purpose. I would love to watch movies as well, but they're difficult for me to find and I won't tread on anime teritory.

I might go for that JLPT N3 thing you mention, since I don't care much for "fun" when learning. I just want progress, and I'm afraid I won't feel the progress if I read manga etc and thereby lose motivation.

All in all though, you would not reocmmend me getting the IJ book? Better go with A Dictionary of Japanese Grammar or some such?

I tried core 2k for anki, but the cards were just painfully bad. Core 6k may be more up my speed now, but I'm not sure if that's how I'd like to learn kanji (which in turn gives me vocabulary). I've been looking into RTK as you mention instead. And yes, kanji look and learn overlaps completely with the 300 or so from genki. It covers all kanji "up to JLPT2" (I think they mean all for JLPT3, then starting on those required for JLPT2)

Lengthy reply got lengthy. Thanks again for the advice!