I keep seeing this book being recommended on this sub (and I love it so far), but I also see a general consensus against learning kanji separately from their use cases. How can I use it to properly memorize and learn kanji?
Should I read the book as is and only bother with learning the pronunciations when I see the kanji in another resource (rather than writing the pronunciations in the margins)? Should I only consult the book when I come across an unfamiliar kanji in a sentence and otherwise not read it linearly? Any help is appreciated 🙂
Edit: I meant *vocabulary in the title, not grammar
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The book teaches you how to write them. That’d it. No readings. No anything else.
The keyword given is literally just so you have something to put on the other side of a flashcard. Usually the keyword is related to the meaning/or words it’s used in. If it isn’t, then I use my own keyword that fits that description.
So for 目 the keyword given is “eye”. Since this is the actual kanji for an eye. It stays. “Eye” on one side, how to write the kanji on the other.
Then when I go to make the vocabulary card for it. I have the kanji and pronunciation with “eye” on the back.