WaniKani is becoming one of the oldies in Japanese language learning.
It's an app for learning Kanji, Japanese characters, by way of decomposing them into smaller elements, giving each element a name and meaning (sometimes a historical correct one, sometimes one that is commonly referred in everyday usage, sometimes completely made up for the purpose. It's not an etymology tool, it's a tool for making remembering easier) and composing a "story" or mnemonic for each character, by way of consistent usage of the elements.
Learning of characters follow a custom order that tries to balance usage with not introducing too many new elements at a time.
Reviews of characters are ordered by spaced repetition and vocabulary (and I believe sentences too) are interspersed with kanji training.
It's parent company Tofogu, started out as an oldschool blog on Japan and language learning and has grown into a whole online magazine with staff and everything.
WaniKani was a quite ambiguous project at the time it was announced. They basically reimagined all the stories and elements in a similar vein to Remembering The Kanji, but instead of another book, they made it an online course, heavily inspired by how one would study using Anki.
It's an app for learning Kanji, Japanese characters, by way of decomposing them into smaller elements, giving each element a name and meaning (sometimes a historical correct one, sometimes one that is commonly referred in everyday usage, sometimes completely made up for the purpose. It's not an etymology tool, it's a tool for making remembering easier) and composing a "story" or mnemonic for each character, by way of consistent usage of the elements.
Learning of characters follow a custom order that tries to balance usage with not introducing too many new elements at a time.
Reviews of characters are ordered by spaced repetition and vocabulary (and I believe sentences too) are interspersed with kanji training.
It's parent company Tofogu, started out as an oldschool blog on Japan and language learning and has grown into a whole online magazine with staff and everything.
WaniKani was a quite ambiguous project at the time it was announced. They basically reimagined all the stories and elements in a similar vein to Remembering The Kanji, but instead of another book, they made it an online course, heavily inspired by how one would study using Anki.