I made two decks (Kanji + Kanji compounds reading/vocabulary) and just (Vocabulary)
The Kanji deck is the Kanji ---> Reading, english. Vocabulary is English ---> Japanese (KANA). Now is this a problem? Both I recall 99-100% I just have so much time on my hands as when I go to school here I don't understand anything anyway, so I just pop open my genki textbook, flip open my denshi jisho and just study I guess.

Kanji --> Reading/English, is a pretty common recognition deck.

English --> Kana, this is production which is less common around here. Production decks in general are less common, but can still work. The problem here is you reach a point where your English word could translate to multiple japanese words. Thus you need 'clues' to help guide you to the correct one.

I like the multiple cards per fact approach. It's something I've been doing recently and found it helps.

So overall my question is, is recalling Kanji important? If so whats a good way to learn it, I'm focusing more on my reading skills, not so much writing as most text is done on computer anyway. But I figure if I can't even recall the Kanji and only can recognize, it may cause a problem later down the road in my studies?

I have never tried Kanji production on vocab cards. I believe Nuke's guide mentions doing it on your first time with the words though...

Second, which is better may I ask. 20-30 words with all the Kanji memorized with it, or like 60+ words only kana.

Depends on your goal. If you want to be reading native materials then you should practice Kanji recognition, if you want to write by hand then production, and if you are only interested in listening/speaking then I *guess* you could just use the kana...

Personally, I would prefer to do the lesser word count but with Kanji recognition.

I'm guessing rawtoast meant something like Kana > Kanji and Kanji > Kana for the same fact. Or two example sentences in separate cards for one fact. etc..

Ah this is what I do, but never decided to flip them. I'll definitely have to try it out. However, wouldn't that double my reviews?

Sorry I don't know how to quote only one area of your post sorry ^^. 

My kanji deck is pretty much my vocab production deck, just it's compounds. It's just the reading for the compounds I was wondering if thats a bit weird.

Vocab deck is the opposite, English ---> Japanese. However it's English to kana, not Kanji.

Ah thanks I'll definitely check out the deck. Just to make sure I'm explaining right (Which I'm not good at)

Kanji deck

Ex.

Front:

飛行機

Back
ひこうき
Airplane



Also if you know,
How do you use Core 2k/6k. I've been hearing so much about it, after the audio and the word comes out. Should I write down the kanji and memorize it or something?


Edit again

I just want to make sure ;/
My production skills are absolutely horrible. I don't know why it just doesn't pop up. But like stated before, I can recall the Kanji instantly.

Does production skills come automatically? I reckon it's important and I'm planning to attend a Japanese University for my masters in about 5 years :p.

Last edited by Xanpakuto (2013 July 23, 2:20 am)

Xanpakuto wrote:

I just want to make sure ;/
My production skills are absolutely horrible. I don't know why it just doesn't pop up. But like stated before, I can recall the Kanji instantly.

I suggest you to do both production and recognition.

The whole sentence, the related vocabulary card- whatever you like, really. Nukemarine's deck (from memory- think it is Core6k, though, but could be wrong) has a blank space where the vocabulary term being tested is, with a related English term which is used to produce (kana/kanji/pronunciation- whatever you care for) the correct/ a suitable Japanese word.

People study the Core deck in varied manners.