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For the record, here's the "flash cards" I've been making/using for about 3 days since I started caring about actually remembering and internalizing words/kanji. I also have a set of physical cards I make to accompany it since I'm unable to access the Anki app at work, but I have lots of down time and am able to bang out cards quite often. I'll also practice writing them from memory.

I make all the cards myself as I encounter/learn a new word or phrase. One of the problems I think people have with the notion of kanji is that the same kanji can be read so many different ways and mean so many different things. However, my brain has had no trouble wrapping itself around the fact that can be read as "yama" or "san" depending on what word it's a part of. For example, "Yamaotoko" or Mountain man, but then "takusan" (a lot of) is a thing, and even "Fujisan" (Mt. Fuji) happen. I think if you try to learn that just means what it means in context as opposed to learning every single possible thing it can mean and every way it can be read, you'll have a much easier time with this.

I know some people really like to simply crank out Kanji flash cards from huge databases and learn it in a very rote fashion, but I think I'd just get frustrated by such a method. Right now I'm averaging 20-ish new things a day that I commit to cards. Some people do more, but that's not exactly a terrible pace imo. Some people will tell you that you MUST learn 2000 kanji in x amount of time... But I'm not sure many people who try it are actually learning anything.

IDK we'll see. At this point it's a game to me and I'm not doing it for "good" reasons besides to sort of prove that this can work.
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