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> I'm at a loss as to why you'd invest time and energy in studying kanji The explanation for that is that I used to study Japanese at Uni, and my wife is Japan

• anigbrowl 2y ago
  Ah, with two head starts like that it makes a lot more sense. Absent context I thought you had perhaps just taken it up out of curiosity or as an intellectual challenge. You might find it helpful in Anki to color-code things as you encounter them (you can do this very easily with a control and the digits 1-7), as well to switch Anki itself into German, so you have to read it to check your intervals, progress and so on. I grind Japanese for a couple of hours a night and the forced-immersion aspect helps me a lot. You might also like this site which has graduated short readings in German that start out very accessibly - I was able to read the first few cold despite never having studied the language. I think it's very important to study vocabulary in some narrative/situational context because the filling-in and inferential processes you do with a text are very important; they help you invest a word with meaning rather than just assign it. https://lingua.com/german/reading/ https://lingua.com/german/reading/