Any differences between memorizing kanji and memorizing sentences?

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Any differences between memorizing kanji and memorizing sentences? - murtada - 2014-08-31

On a good day I'd learn about 40 kanji, could you say the same about Anki sentences (specifically Core) or do you go at a faster/slower pace?

Any differences between memorizing kanji and memorizing sentences? - john555 - 2014-08-31

murtada Wrote:On a good day I'd learn about 40 kanji, could you say the same about Anki sentences (specifically Core) or do you go at a faster/slower pace?

I don't get this "memorizing sentences". There's so many millions of possible different sentences. Does one group them by category or something, e.g., on Tuesday I'll memorize all the plumber sentences:

1. My uncle hired a plumber to fix his leaky faucet.

2. My sister's next door neighbour hired a plumber to fix her leaky faucet.
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5,876 My grade school teacher hired a plumber to fix his leaky faucet.

There's obviously hundreds of billions of different possible sentences.

Unless what is being referred to is sentence PATTERNS...

Any differences between memorizing kanji and memorizing sentences? - murtada - 2014-08-31

john555 Wrote:
murtada Wrote:On a good day I'd learn about 40 kanji, could you say the same about Anki sentences (specifically Core) or do you go at a faster/slower pace?
I don't get this "memorizing sentences". There's so many millions of possible different sentences. Does one group them by category or something, e.g., on Tuesday I'll memorize all the plumber sentences:

1. My uncle hired a plumber to fix his leaky faucet.

2. My sister's next door neighbour hired a plumber to fix her leaky faucet.
.
.
.
5,876 My grade school teacher hired a plumber to fix his leaky faucet.

There's obviously hundreds of billions of different possible sentences.

Unless what is being referred to is sentence PATTERNS...

Yes of course, my bad.

Any differences between memorizing kanji and memorizing sentences? - yogert909 - 2014-08-31

Sentences will go a lot faster because as mentioned, you aren't memorizing them. You're just getting used to grammar and cementing your vocabulary. They do take longer to read the sentence, but the failure rate is a lot lower, so overall it's much faster. If I had to guess, you will probably add over twice as many sentences as you could kanji.