I found this amazing site that lists kanji by frequency in newspapers and the 10 most used compounds for that kanji. I am not sure if it has been shared here before but I think it would be a great resource for anyone who has finished RTK1.

I am sorry for not posting this in the kanji lists topic if that is where it belongs.

http://kanjicards.org/kanji-list-by-freq.html

Without any sort of sentences to go along with it, it's not very useful (especially since most people don't care about reading newspapers).

yudantaiteki Wrote:Without any sort of sentences to go along with it, it's not very useful (especially since most people don't care about reading newspapers).

Thank you for the reply.

I think it's usefulness is what the user makes of it. For example I would create my own sentences using the kanji compounds and maybe add them into an SRS deck. I do not feel that the kanji being from a newspaper is at all a factor here as the kanji compounds are still common nonetheless.

Each to their own though. Some people may find this useful, others may not.

1. Newspapers provide a ridiculously disproportionate coverage of one specific topic: politics. That means you'll miss out on important words that should be learned ASAP.
2. They are also filled with relatively difficult terms, not suitable for beginners. This list makes no effort to list terms in order of difficulty.
3. This list provides no context or grammar.
4. Each Kanji has two or more readings showing up all bunched together. It's gonna confuse the hell out of you, trust me.

Those are all objective reasons to find a better resource. Not an "each to their own" situation.

On the other hand I'd agree. After looking at other resources such as the QuickKanji dictionary I have to come to realise there's better ways to learn simpler compounds.

Thank you.

I'm pretty sure a lot of these criticisms must apply to Core as well, the amount of business/political terms is ridiculous. It teaches you about 5 words for politics before even hitting tooth brush.

Quote:For example I would create my own sentences using the kanji compounds and maybe add them into an SRS deck

Unless you can get a native speaker to check your sentences, this isn't a good idea (and even then it's probably better to use sentences created by native speakers)

yudantaiteki Wrote:

Quote:For example I would create my own sentences using the kanji compounds and maybe add them into an SRS deck

Unless you can get a native speaker to check your sentences, this isn't a good idea (and even then it's probably better to use sentences created by native speakers)

This is spot-on: it's super easy to make dumb mistakes at any level when dealing with new vocab/grammar. I still have native speakers check even the simplest stuff just to be sure--it'd be pretty awful to SRS a mistake.

Although it can be difficult finding simple sentences at lower proficiency levels, I worked my way up to 2000 words using nothing but tatoeba.org and a sentence deck. You may find the odd sentence in there, but most are quite good.