Mars Prism Makeup Wrote:Random question but should I be recognition from the kanji, the keyword, or both? Because my deck asks both. It'll quiz on what the keyword is, showing the kanji and it'll also show the keyword and you have to write the kanji. Which is better?
I've always done keyword->kanji and required correctly writing the character to pass.
Honestly I don't see any reason to do kanji->keyword, if you want to drill on pure recognition then why bother with RTK, and why not just skip straight into brute-forcing vocab words with kanji?
Still, many people -do- drill kanji to keyword and say it helps, which makes no sense to me... but then again learning styles differ. I've always found a strong connection between writing out my study materials and retention of what I'm learning about... in college I became a big note-taker both in class and while reading my texts for just that reason. It actually turns out that taking handwritten notes is -much- better for retention than typing notes, and any kind of note-taking is better than just recording the class for a later re-listen. Of course writing out reviews is not quite the same as note-taking, but it has similarities in the time taken where you're forced to think about the material and the engagement of multiple senses in the learning process.
For what it's worth, I'd say you in particular should be drilling keyword->kanji, since you have fluent friends and intend to communicate in Japanese, I can easily imagine that you'll be writing postcards or something where you do actually need to be able to write the kanji. If I'm wrong about that and you don't care about being able to write, then I suppose there's merit to looking at doing it the other way around. There are reasons to think that drilling kanji->keyword gets you to reading faster (which is presumably your primary goal), at the cost of not being able to write.
Edit: Also... I wanted to ask, how did you get dethroned? You used to be a Queen!
Edited: 2016-06-11, 11:55 pm