I need some help furthering my kanji learning. I'm having trouble finding a medium to learn the… - Feed Post by Nyanpasu

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  mog86uk

  I'd definitely suggest Slime Forest Adventure, which is game you download onto your computer. The game format is a very basic RPG and it teaches how to read kanji meanings primarily. The free version has around 1,000 kanji though.
  
  If you like the free version, the full version costs $20 and has 1,972 kanji which includes every single one of the 1,945 kanji in the pre year 2010 Jouyou list! The full version has readings training for all the kanji, however it doesn't teach every single On reading, but only focuses on one main reading per kanji.
  
  This might not suit what you are after at all. For me I didn't like most of the other methods like Memrise, Anki, etc... Slime Forest Adventure (and JCJP) are perfect for me. ^^
  
  If you are interested in how many kanji JCJP teaches in terms of Jouyou and JLPT, I calculated the totals here:
  http://japaneseclass.jp/forum/thread/1202

  February 9, 2015 at 8:33am
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  Nyanpasu

  Thanks for the reply, but i'm not in a position to pay money to learn japanese. Any other ideas, guys?

  February 9, 2015 at 8:41am
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  mog86uk

  What didn't you like about Anki?

  February 9, 2015 at 8:51am
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  pierre_m

  I'll second anki, its free on the desktop, web interface, and android. There is a pay iphone app, but use the web portal from there if you don't want to pay. Windows mobile devices only have the web interface. My only caution is that android does not display Japanese fonts, unless you either root the device and install a Japanese font, or make your deck in anki use a Japanese font. But this is an android problem, not an anki problem.
  
  Android users, be careful. Its only select kanji that display in their Chinese form, so you might not notice it for a long time.

  February 9, 2015 at 4:58pm
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  Nyanpasu

  If you guys read my post, you'll find that i'm currently using Anki and asking for ALTERNATIVES....

  February 10, 2015 at 5:06am
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  mog86uk

  I definitely didn't suggest Anki. I said I didn't like it either... >_>
  
  I was asking what it was about Anki that you didn't like, to have some idea of what you might be looking for. I mean I could just suggest you go to a kanji dictionary website and keep reading all the On and Kun readings, if it's just the readings that you're interested in.
  
  Here's one where you can limit the results to all 1,130 highschool Jouyou kanji:
  http://tangorin.com/dict.php?dict=kanji&s=joyohs
  
  (To do the search I did, simply click "kanji" and in the search field write only the filter tag "+joyohs" on its own, without the quotes.)
  
  Or this dictionary, by setting the grade to 7:
  http://www.saiga-jp.com/kanji_dictionary.html

  February 10, 2015 at 7:05am
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  pierre_m

  @mog....things seem to read different in the early A.M hours. You're right, you said you didn't like it. I should stop trying to do productive work after midnight.

  February 10, 2015 at 1:38pm