How to best study Heisig Remembering the Kanji 2 with Skritter / RTK compounds

Japanese
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Hello,

I’m not quite there yet, but I was wondering how to achieve memorising readings as in RTK2 with Skritter. As far as I see, the pronunciation feature for the RTK 1 list is not always working. Is what I’m getting with it always Onyomi?
What would be your strategy?

Also I’d like to learn compounds formed by the RTK1/2 Kanji, ideally with Skritter. Is there a list which delivers compounds which more or less match these Kanji? Without other vocab cluttering the list.

Thanks!

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Lone characters, as in the RTK lists, only test for writing in Skritter. If you want readings or definitions, you need actual words, whether kunyomi or jukugo.

As for a list of compounds, I find this tool useful: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kanjiwordassoci/
You can import the chars you learned from Skritter, and it’ll generate a wordlist ordered by frequency.

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Hi,

Thanks for the info, and the link. I’ll check that software out! Don’t have a Windows PC around right now, but I guess you can re-import that wordlist back into Skritter?

Cheers

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I highly recommend only studying kanji in the form of actual words, and not by themselves.You can learn the kunyomi and onyomi readings from studying words themselves in context, by adding a group of high frequency words that use each kanji. That way not only are you learning the kanji, it’s readings, but also actual words themselves. 一石三鳥 ＾＾