Experimental techniques
Over the time I have spent learning Japanese, I have optimized some of the aspects of the learning process to suit my needs. The methods I am going to discuss in this post are very personalized and likely not the most efficient. However, they have helped me deal with knowledge gaps. The Kanji Problem: As discussed in the previous post, “Remembering the Kanji”, while providing a solid foundation, is by no means complete. Visualization and the Migaku Kanji add-on helped me expand my knowledge regarding kanji to some extent. The work that I had done so far was no doubt enough to get me to a decent level of reading comprehension. But I found that I was having trouble with remembering certain words. This was mainly because they used the Kunyomi of their component kanji instead of their Onyomi. Coupled with this was the fact that I would frequently mistake the readings of kanji that looked similar, such as, 縁 and 緑. It was quite obvious that I needed more practice outside of Anki. The P...