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That’s the Anki decks, Core2k is Core 1k & 2k combined and 6k is 3k, 4k 5k and 6k. The iKnow site does them separately in blocks of 1000 with 10 steps each with 100 words a piece.
At least that’s how I think the Anki decks work, feel free to correct me.
Yggbert what core section are you up to now? Last time I discussed iKnow you were comfortably chomping through the 4th step of 1k (i think)..
I’m on the first step of 3k now! Had some uh personal issues that have made me feel pretty lazy and not want to do anything for the last few days but I’m okay now so jumping back into it all, I was just doing reviews for most of last week. Core 2k felt like it took ages for some reason.
ScorpionVII:
I have a quick question I keep seeing people downloading/studying iknow’s core 2k/6k what happened to the other sections?What other sections? That’s all that’s on there. (Unless you’re talking about kana)
In my opinion, going the Anki route is not the greatest advice. Yes iKnow costs money. So do most good things in life. It annoys me to no end that people always create these hacky fixes to get things done for free. Pay for a good service so it can continue to flourish and get better. Don’t have money? Yes you do. Save for it. Cut some lawns…sell some crap…
As for not liking the fact that it only teaches you the meaning…what do you mean? iKnow teaches you the meaning of the word and it shows you how it would be used in context in a sentence. What more do you want? Kanji stroke order? Useless unless you plan to do calligraphy or something. Most Japanese people don’t write much anymore anyways…everything has gone digital. Just learn the word.
You could also try http://www.ReadTheKanji.com. It’s a great way to learn Kanji/vocab in context. It’s not going to hold your hand and it’s not going to teach you stroke order. It’s simply going to teach you what you actually need to know minus the fluff that…ahem…other…resources like to add in to fill pages upon pages of content. You will get EVERYTHING wrong at first most likely…but that’s the point. After a while you’ll start to remember it and you will simply have the memory of that vocab word/kanji. I prefer this method because you dont have to learn radicals, mnemonics and all that other fluff. Why learn something solely to overwrite it in your brain at a later date?
Read the Kanji is a great site, I should have just brute forced kanji either on there or on iKnow instead of doing Heisig’s RTK. I’m not sure if I’ll renew my subscription with them because I have iKnow until next April now, and it’s more likely I’ll renew that instead. Not too sure if there’s much point in having both iKnow and Read the Kanji at the same time, or is there?
iKnow is probably the best money I’ve spent on Japanese, or no that’s probably TextFugu since this place was definitely a good starting point as it gave me some structure.
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