Six years ago I posted this beginner’s guide on to the Reviewing the Kanji forums. It proved to be popular and used by a number of people on the forum. However, over the years due to some copyright claims on Anki because Cerego/iKnow did not renew licenses for stock photo images on their widely popular Core 2k/6k series, the links in the guide are somewhat useless.
Recently, through DuoLingo I’ve been made aware of Memrise and quite like what I am seeing. While I’m no longer actively studying Japanese, I would like to bring the decks I created on Anki over to here. Hopefully they should be:
Hiragana/Katakana - using Heisig’s “Remembering the Kana” and this Remembering the Kana YouTube Series I made a few years back. The Memrise cards should test Kana words to Romaji words.
Kanji - using both Heisig’s “Remembering the Kanji” order and Coscom’s “2001.Kanji.Odyssey” groupings (1-555, 556-1110, 1111-1555, 1556-2001). The Memrise cards should test Kanji to Keyword with plenty of notes/hints/memnotes to alleviate synonym issues.
Grammar - using Tae Kim’s Guide to Japanese. Memrise cards should test a grammar point Japanese sentence to equivalent English sentence.
Vocabulary - using iKnow/Cerego’s Core 2k/6k source (released under Community Commons in 2008), optimized sorting using 2k1KO’s Kanji order for easier learning and memorization. Group into sections of 1000 words each. Memrise cards should test Kanji vocabulary to English translation with example sentence w/audio to assist. This will be the most difficult to create as an effective card.
I’ll limit this to just the beginner’s section (1000 kanji, 2000 vocab, Tae Kim grammar) though I hope if it proves popular to add in the intermediate portion as well. However, my intermediate and advanced sources for grammar and vocabulary are under copyright due to their sources.