Aijin Wrote:To me it makes more sense to do it at the same time, so that you can instantly use what you learn. If you only learn how to write a character and it's rough English meaning, it has no practical application until you learn the readings and words that use it. But, I think that probably both ways of learning have their advantages and in the end equal the same amount of time. So whatever works best for people is greatFor me, the bad thing about learning vocab along with reading and the kanji is that there is a lot of nothing. The kanji mean nothing. The readings mean nothing. Some would say context will tell you what you need to know, but if you're just starting then context means nothing, so you drudge through the dictionary. Once you've finally managed to memorize all these elements together you then have to go back and learn context.
I would be interested in hearing more about how you guys feel that style helps you/is better than learning everything at once though! Pros/cons would be great.
By using RTK or the Movie Method then mining sentences, there still a lot of drudging if you can't fully understand the context, however, you're learning context as you learn vocabulary, and readings. The work's about equal as you say, but one seems less stressful than the other.
If there were an efficient way to learn them all at once, though, I'm sure people would be doing so.