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For comprehensible input you shouldn't need to learn the meaning when learning kanji. You should already know the meaning/sound from spoken language. There is d
by jeffreyrogers 5y ago
For comprehensible input you shouldn't need to learn the meaning when learning kanji. You should already know the meaning/sound from spoken language. There is definitely memorization required to learn to map the kanji to the words they represent, but the way most learners do it is not comprehensible input.
There are textbooks that follow a CI approach, e.g. Eleanor Jorden's. John Defrancis's textbooks are similar but for Chinese. If you look at the reviews the main complaint people have is that they are not learning kanji from the start, despite Jorden explaining exactly why she's not doing that.
Maybe CI is not the best way to learn languages like Chinese and Japanese, but the approach most learners take is definitely not CI.
- dymk 5y agoInteresting. It's hard for me to envision an efficient way of learning Japanese that doesn't involve at least some rote memorization of Kanji meanings and readings (after all, that's even how native Japanese speakers learn). But I'm interested in this approach. I'll pick up Jorden's book and give it a try.