Hello everyone,

I would like to briefly post my story of suffering today, maybe someone has a tip or advice for me.

I have been trying to learn Japanese for a few months now. I try to do something every day, but due to everyday life and stress I often only manage repetitions, if at all.

So far I've tried to learn vocabulary and not kanji, which went well at first. But then I realized that I quickly reach my limits because I simply can't remember certain words.

So I made myself a new Anki deck and made the kanji from all the vocabulary as individual cards. The aim is to learn the general meaning of a kanji alongside the vocabulary so that I can remember the vocabulary better when I see the kanji.

When I did 58 reviews of kanjis today, some went great. With others I had to grit my teeth. In the end, the 58 reviews (which included 20 new cards, 38+20) took me 286 attempts, about 58 minutes.

In the end, I got annoyed and reached for pen and paper and started drawing the kanji, which helped in the end. However, I then realized why I apparently mix up vocabulary so often.

As soon as one kanji is very similar to another, I mix them up very easily. Example:

持 時 待

At the moment I'm thinking about putting the individual parts of a kanji on the back of the card to create an awareness of the differences.

Nevertheless, I wanted to ask if any of you had similar problems and how you dealt with them?