I did a quick search to see if anyone has asked this before. Nothing came up in the past 8 years.
My question: Is there any easy way to link the Kanji lookup to words? I'm doing a spiral path through Genki II. I'm on Reading and Writing lesson 17. I was able to finish and will move to Grammar lesson 18 soon.
More detail: It took some practice, but I can reliably count strokes using the technique in the back of the dictionary and get to the Kanji definition. I then get several possible pronunciations. The exercise is to go from the pronunciation to the actual word. Genki's exercises can make that interesting.
For example, the Kanji in Genki is 作りました. The exercise is to write that in Hiragana (つくりました). This took me a while as I did not recognize 作. I looked it up in the dictionary and got: make, work: サク, ク, つく(る), つく(り), どく(り)
I figured it out, but the set of possible pronunciations to look up in a dictionary slowed me a bit. Any ideas on how to make look-up less cumbersome?
by WBW1974