Help me set my kanji study plan. I know it's kinda late to ask for advice at this point cause maybe I should already know which works but I can tell whatever I'm currently doing is not effective anymore.
While Japanese has no end when it comes to studying, I want to take N1 by July 2027 just to set a timeline and organize study a bit. I'm at a point where I know enough kanji for N2, have taken N2 but haven't passed it yet since no results yet (but probably flunked the reading section). Kanji wasn't really much problem in the N2.
But as of now in my studies, I'm starting to feel the difficulty of adding more in my memory. I mainly learn the kanji through vocabulary. But I didn't start out this way with the 1st 600+ kanjis I studied. Back then I wrote the kanji. Tracing them at the start, then writing them without reference. Over and over. The app I used was strict so I repeated a lot when I made mistakes. I'd say it really helped the kanji stick. It was also easier to differentiate similar looking ones.
Then when I was studying for N3 and N2, it turned to more on vocabulary and kanji recognition. I didn't write anymore. I couldn't write a lot of the kanjis I could previously write even if I can still recognize them and read them. Then comes the problem of me sometimes unable to recognize kanji when it's not paired with another.
I'm thinking about how I should move forward because there like over a thousand left needed for at least N1. What's your experience with writing kanji? And even the non Jouyou kanjis. I also learn them because novels, especially Fate Stay Night keep using them.
And if you know any reference about kanji where they make stories to remember the radicals, that would help a lot. I usually make my own story but there are just some kanji that even the radicals that make it up don't make sense to the meaning.
by ManyFaithlessness971