Tobberoth Wrote:I'm not criticizing you, I'm pointing out that JLPT is far from just numbers and an arbitrary collection of kanji, and it's not too smart to belittle it. There are several reasons to learn every kanji in the list, most of them good. That the government picked them and that every japanese schoolchild has to learn every single one are just two reasons.I am taking that to heart, I've recently made a JLPT/grammar deck specifically for JLPT level 4 to 1. Just to break down/study vocab/sentence necessary. Then once that's done, I'll merge it with my sentence deck. I actually have started a production deck(purely for writing reasons,nothing else. Well some monolingual stuff but that's it.). I'm adding the common stuff, so I aim to take use of frequency of kanji usage. As I would like to be able to write from memory useful things/common.) I think this applies in english as well, like you can't know every word/how to use it in context. But you can still easily be good in the language. So after I go for all the common stuff, I'll add stuff that you don't really see often, maybe from some sci-fi stuff,etc,etc.
That some of the kanji in the list are used rarely and that some common kanji (not that 珈琲 could be called daily use by any stretch of the imagination) are not in it doesn't really take anything away from it, especially not since it was made in 1981. I would recommend everyone who is serious about Japanese to sit down and learn the new kanji because they are added for a good reason. The list isn't made by some drunk politicians, there's a lot of deliberation behind it.
Edited: 2010-05-30, 9:00 pm
