日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 6

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>>269
What you're doing is good for basically nothing. What you're suggesting is good for slightly better than basically nothing. There's two functional ways to learn kanji:

- Practice reading the kanji in a relevant vocabulary word, and then read a sentence with that vocabulary word written in kanji
- Practice writing a kanji in a relevant vocabulary word, and then write a sentence with that vocabulary word written in kanji

This is what 99% of Japanese classes are testing on their kanji quizzes when they're not trying to save time/give students a break, and it's for a good fucking reason. The JLPT would be doing the same, except it's fucking hard to grade thousands of written kanji or hiragana readings compared with just multiple-choice recognition questions which have 80%+ accuracy in determining one's reading proficiency of the same kanji compounds.

Spoilers: there are fifty million kanji read shi or kou. Learning that way is retarded and unintuitive because not even Chinese uses single character nouns or verbs anymore.