Hey you guys,

I'm a brand-new Skritter user! Just started this past Sunday, and am finishing up my free trial (though I will definitely be paying for another month- this website is fantastic)

I've been studying Kanji from a book called Japanese Kanji Power by John Millen. I really like the format of the book and the way in which he presents characters, so I was thrilled to find that someone had already made a study list for it here on Skritter (though I am slightly disappointed that it doesn't include a vocab list- oh well, I may make my own later!)
However, I'm about to start my first college Japanese class in a couple of weeks, and we'll be using the textbook "Genki II", which I am THRILLED about. My high school Japanese teacher used Genki I, so I'm glad that we're using Genki II for college (I was worried to death that my teacher might use Nakama instead...)

But anyway, back to the point. I'm studying this Japanese Kanji Power list right now, but once classes start, I'd really like to use the Genki II list on here instead. It would definitely put me ahead of my classmates and accelerate my studying. However, Millen's Japanese Kanji Power covers 464 total kanji, while Genki only covers 317 (145 in Genki I, and 172 in Genki II) Would you guys recommend studying from both simultaneously, or should I switch over to Genki once my classes start?

Thanks so much for the help!

Hi smitchell38. Welcome!

I like to study from multiple sources at once. Gives more variety in the new words I see. As long as you have the motivation to accelerate your studying, why not try to finish Kanji Power while keeping one week ahead on Genki?

Staying one week ahead of the class is the best thing you can do, as it takes time for words to get through the initial SRS process and into your head, so if you don't have time to make progress on Kanji Power while doing that for Genki, then you'd want to prioritize keeping your Genki lead.

Also, Skritter is great in that as it adds words from lists, it always will check if you already have that word in your queue. In other words, no duplicates; what this means for you is that if there are any character/word overlaps between the two text books, they'll only be added once. So if the Kanji Power list uses a word/character one week, and then the next week the Genki book covers it, it'll already be in your list and you'll have been studying it. One of my favorite features this one.

Another option that's rewarding, but could be quite challenging (so be careful!), is to turn on "Study All Kanji in Lists" option and using that, study the Genki 1 list. You could decide whether or not to keep this option on when classes start in the fall, or if you're getting overwhelmed, suspend that until winter or summer vacation.

This is definitely the recommended option for students like me who already read and write Chinese fluently, so that's what I'm doing as I study Genki. To give you an idea of what that looks like, I've studied 3 chapters of Genki 1, and I've already learned to write 156 unique Japanese characters. Let me tell you, I'm on a trip to Japan right now, and it is really awesome to be able to read and write the kanji of everything that I know how to say.

Only two ?

You do need to keep on top of it otherwise the reviews take a while/get a bit overwhelming