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Special method for kun-yomi, too?

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Hi there,

first of all I'm happy that the forum's back up Big Grin

Anyway, I finished Heisig RTK1 last September going right into something like the movie method to study the most common on-yomi for all the RTK1 Heisig kanji.
It took me until this month but I'm finally finished ^-^
It wasn't hard at all and before that I thought I'd never get on-yomi into my head.

I know that kun-yomi is way easier to remember and most of you don't specifically learn kun-yomi "isolated" anyway but just go along with the sentence method using KO2001, Kanji in Context, iKnow/smart.fm sentences and something along these lines to study the readings.

But as the movie-method-like method *g* for on-yomi worked so well for me I was thinking if there's not a method for kun-yomi as well?!

As always after finishing one big step I wonder about how to go on from there.
Although I really should get into grammar I feel like working with kanji and building up more vocab is what I want to do at the moment.

I'll continue with smart.fm sentences for fun, but apart from that I haven't decided yet what to do. Grammar sources have to wait a little bit longer, I guess.
Right now I veer between KO2001 and Kanji in Context (I have both book series).
Kanji in Context seems to be more advanced and has no English translation available (plus there's no spreadsheet for it as far as I know?!).

Right now I'm going through my Heisig deck (again), adding a few more on-yomi that were not listed in the list I was working with and along with that adding all the kun-yomi for each kanji just for completion purpose. I guess it doesn't work just learning them as I review the cards unless it's only ONE kun-yomi that reflects the keyword. So most of the time I think it's better to just take note of the kun-yomi while reviewing, but not study them at all?

What do you guys think? Any study tipps for me?

Thanks a lot in advance ^-^/
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You can't really make a method for kun'yomi like you do for on'yomi. The kun'yomi are unique in a completely different way, so you'd need a technique which can handle that uniqueness. The movie method etc builds upon the fact that there are just a few on'yomi so you only need a few movies/locations etc to make a whole set. For kun'yomi, you'd need like... one movie for each kanji. In such a situation, you're not saving any time or effort at all, so most people just ignore it and learn though context since that gives a lot more.

I'd recommend you to do the same.
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