(Took 3 weeks to get enough karma to post in this subreddit so I been waiting on asking this for a while)
So I've made a study plan for the JLPT5 this July, and it includes getting through the Kaishi 1.5K on Anki (at a rate of 75 words a week so I can cover all the content by the start of June).
I'm currently level 19 on WaniKani so I can already recognise a ton of kanji + vocab, just not some of the more important common ones, and also use Genki and Bunpro for grammar. Additionally, I'm working on immersion with podcasts and shows.
My main JP language struggle is comprehension, like picking out words while listening, so I figured the Kaishi deck would help me recognise the more common ones. I'm a bit confused on what the right way to study the flashcards are though. Sometimes I can get the word just on it's own because I know the kanji, but if I can't then sometimes I'll read the example sentence and then get it from context – and that second bit is what I'm not sure about.
For example, I struggle to recognise 頼む on it's own, but as soon as I read the example sentence, 私はハンバーガーを頼みました, it's very obvious what the vocab means because of the word Hamburger. Sometimes I internalise the context of the sentence too and am only able to remember a word because of remembering that sentence, which is how I'm able to get the word ただ with the example sentence 私はただ彼女と話したかっただけです, which feels even more fraudulent especially because ただ has two meanings on separate flashcards.
From what I 've heard the Kaishi is good because the example sentences help you understand a word's usage, and I know that part of understanding japanese is tolerating ambiguity and figuring things out from other parts of a sentence. However I can't shake that it kind of feels like cheating to pass flashcards that way.
ig what I'm asking is, should I be ignoring the example sentences in the Kaishi flashcards when trying to recall a word?
by NoApartment7243