You could also use a vocab book, or Anki, but the fact that WaniKani is so well organised (and has all the fun addons, see below) made it a bit of a no-brainer for me. It uses the magic of spaced repetition to make learning most effective. Wanikani teaches you radicals/kanji/vocab and is very well set up to do all the boring bits for you (learning order etc). I’d highly recommend starting to use Wanikani as soon as you know hiragana. The Tofugu website also has lots of good articles to help you understand the basics, such as this article about the different Japanese (kun’yomi) and Chinese (on’yomi) readings each kanji might have. It’s well structured and takes you through the essential early steps (learning the different ‘alphabets’ hiragana and katakana etc), so I recommend following it (more or less) to the T. I started with Tofugu’s page ‘A Ridiculously Detailed Guide to Learning Japanese’. Let me know if you have any further recommendations! Starting off This blog will be a work in progress that will hopefully become more useful over time. I’m still very much a beginner when it comes to Japanese, but having spent since January 2023 working on it I thought I’d share what’s helped me.
In this blog I break down what I’ve found useful trying to get up to speed as quickly as possible, having moved to Japan recently.
There is a whole universe of resources out there to help you learn Japanese.
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