/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>18455377
>But he has an large vocab developed over 9+ years that includes kanji that he doesn't know off by heart but part of a compound word If I go by his comments on the learn kanji page.
To provide a little added perspective, Tae Kim learned Japanese in a time before all the best digital tools we have were available. Tae Kim registered his www.guidetojapanese.org domain back in 2005 and the earliest snapshot contains a full guide in June of that year.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050604002215/http://www.guidetojapanese.org:80/
The earliest reference of the Anki SRS dates back to 2006, after Kim had learned Japanese. He also learned Japanese before text hooking tools existed, before Japanese ebooks were a thing, etc. SuperMemo was around but it wasn't free and it wasn't up until around 2006 when it started to properly support Japanese.
It was a different time and while kanji dictionaries and learning books existed, it wasn't remotely as easy as isolating aspects of them and learning how to physically write thousands of kanji just by spending a handful of minutes a day with an Anki deck. A learner now can easily decide to dedicate and extra 15 to 20 minutes of their day for a couple of years and be able to physically reproduce any of the characters they read.

As for the decision to do or not to do and any positives or negative thereof, no further comment. There are a million of these discussions archived online and my thoughts are that if you are personally interested, try using relevant keywords in any of the 4chan archives for /jp/, /int/ or /a/.

>>18455698
The kanji for wolf is 幼女.