Guides
Guides
Methods, real numbers and practical advice to learn kanji and prepare for the JLPT.
How many kanji do you need to know? The honest numbers, from N5 to reading a novel
There are 50,000+ kanji in the biggest dictionaries, 2,136 on the official jōyō list, and about 2,000 between you and a Japanese newspaper. Here is what the numbers actually mean — and which ones matter at each stage.
Spaced repetition: the science of remembering more, with less effort
How spaced repetition works, where it comes from, and why it let me learn 300 kanji and 1,000+ Japanese words in 18 months — with Anki for vocabulary and Kanzen for kanji.