r--漢字 — 100+

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@2100+ “Another possibility I see, is that at some point I deviate from my current procedure of learning to read and write every kanji and create a separate recognition only deck.”

… which is what I ended up doing in late January this year. So here’s the first checkpoint for recognition only kanji.

102 kanji, 95 words, 124 days^{(since the creation of the recognition only deck)}

In part I add stuff I already know, whenever it comes to my mind. Like 喧嘩, 厨房, and 薔薇. But the bulk of the first 100 are from words I picked up while reading books—lots from 同時通訳はやめられない, like 顰蹙, 醍醐味, and 憔悴.

Observations from using a recognition only deck so far:

• I think I got more vigilant with actually looking up words I can’t read that I come across, instead of just deducing blanks from context.
• Awareness of kanji (components’) 音読み is bliss. I feel like I usually go from kanji parts to reading to meaning. For example, reading 恫喝 I spot 同 and the right part of 渇¹, at which point I know どうかつ which then leads me to the meaning.
  ¹⁾ I’m aware of 曷 which would also help w/ e.g. 葛藤 but my brain always recalls the 渇 from 渇水.
• I still haven’t tackled names yet. I’m considering to just add some cards for the most common readings of the most common names and maybe some well known people.

So yeah … multi track drifting deck kanji’ing. I’d be surprised if there weren’t more updates to come in the future.