日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 6

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>>272
No, you should do both simultaneously. Pick a kanji either by its functionality (i.e. if it's commonly used like 日 or 人) or by the Kanji Damage methodology of grouped radicals. Spend a moment reading the on'yomi and kun'yomi, but only a moment because it's not fucking important. Then learn the jukugo. Or, hell, don't even learning the systematics of kanji, just learn the jukugo if you're looking for the functional use of kanji. You should always be learning vocabulary words one at a time anyway, and you have nothing to lose by learning a vocabulary word and its reading simultaneously. While learning modern Chinese, no one does fucking hanzi study; they learn vocabulary and the one way to write a compound, even if one character has multiple readings. Hanzi are only studied individually for writing practice. This is because there's only one way to write Chinese words, and if you don't learn it you can't write something that Chinese-speakers will be able to read. Don't fool yourself into thinking Japanese is supposed to be different. There's a few exceptions where the kanji for a word isn't important, and you won't even learn them if you separate vocabulary and kanji study. The whole idea of kanji study is a wholly retarded concept and fuck JLPT and the modern world of education for trying to section kanji away from vocabulary when the two have been intrinsically linked since the silk road.

On the other hand if you want to be a juku-whore and study kanji so that you can pass the JLPT, sure, you can do that, but just go by number and JLPT test spec. You won't be developing a functional model of Japanese literacy but it doesn't matter because that's not what the JLPT tests.