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Hello, simply put i’ll be updating daily to keep myself accountable. I have been studying Japanese for a while but I’ve been getting really busy with school, so I thought about the best thing to do. So I though I’d finish hanzihero within the time so I can get accustomed to learning/differentiating Hanzi/Kanji and knowing 3000+ Hanzi to smooth out my Japanese journey when I return to studying it. I intend to start out with 15 lessons a day and will be trying to ramp it up, alongside this I will most likely start doing 30 minutes of duchinese a day at 500 characters to reinforce/maintain my knowledge. Aside from this I also try to read french books for about an hour a day, for school purposes. You might think this is a stupid idea because I can really just use WaniKani or just reduce the amount of studying, and I agree but this seems to be the decision my mind wants to make and learning another extra language is always a good thing, so this is where my rant ends. :')

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Welcome aboard! I look forward to seeing your progress.

I see that you’re doing the simplified course. While I think you’ll get sufficient overlap between the simplified characters and kanji, you may get more mileage with the traditional course instead.

Out of curiousity I was able to find a Google Drive PDF outlining the similarities and differences between the kanji, traditional, and simplified script.

Though it only covers only 1945 of the joyo kanji it can still help with a ballpark, assuming the information in the tables is accurate enough.

I was able to extract the text and run some numbers and found that for the 1945 kanji, they’re:

  • 66% the same as simplified characters
  • 85% the same as traditional characters

Maybe you have separate reasons for targeting simplified though, and 66% is pretty good all things considered :slight_smile:

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Actually I did research but came to the conclusion that I’d rather learn the more frequently used script sacrificing the extra “gains” regarding kanji. Because whether or not I learn trad or simplified, it’s still going to be a tough path mastering thousands of kanji :joy:

Also with this I mark my first log. Today I also looked into comprehensible input and gathered some resources.

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Hello, you are not alone :smiley:

My flow of thoughts was similar:

  • Lets lean japanese !
  • Ok let’s use WaniKani
  • Oh there is so many kanji that came from hanzi
  • And here i am with hanzihero learning … Taiwanese ?
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and that is a very smart decision. Doing what you enjoy is the best pathway you can take to achieve anything. Also, the capacity of a young mind is limitless, and learning lenguages,a few at a time , will assist you to expand it even more. Success with all your studies.

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please do share your comprehensible input resources!

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I’m not who you asked but here’s my list of Mandarin CI channels for what it’s worth:

Bonus link:

If you’re just starting out start I’d recommend starting here: Lazy Chinese Beginner Playlist, but depending on your level and preferences something here should be useful!

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