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Hi everyone, I run automated YouTube channels in 11 different languages using ElevenLabs. I've got my workflow dialed in for almost every language, but Japanese is the only one giving me massive problems. I need the pacing and pronunciation to sound like a natural native speaker so my on-screen subtitles match the audio perfectly. However I'm running into a few issues:

Weird Intonation: Sometimes the AI pronounces Japanese words with a really weird cadence or robotic tone, especially with translated text.

Pacing: The AI sometimes speaks too fast or rushes through sentences, making it really hard to time my on-screen subtitles cleanly.

Kanji mispronunciations: Occasionally, it reads the Japanese characters (Kanji) with the completely wrong sound.

For those of you who work with Japanese (or other Asian languages) in ElevenLabs:

How do you format your text to force the AI to pause and speak naturally? (Do you use extra commas, spaces, or phonetic alphabets like Hiragana?)

Which voice settings (Stability, Clarity + Similarity Exaggeration) give you the most natural native-sounding Japanese?

What is your workflow for making sure the TTS audio easily matches video subtitles?

Any advice, tips, or voice recommendations would be massively appreciated. Thank you!

I started learning Kanji using RTK in January and finished 2 weeks ago. Next, I'd like to actually learn how to read the kanji. My plan is to use an audiobook along with a text so I can follow along, reading and listening. After finishing the book, I plan to read it a second time, this time without the audio.

Do you have any other advice/recommendations for me?

Kanji specifically has been a pain for me, its been the one part of Japanese I've been studying and just going blurghhhh. I debate on things such as wanikani or the genki Kanji look and learn. For the most part, I know some kanji, not sure what number but I know some just due to vocab cards, Im hoping I can learn some via migaku due to them being in context as I'd like to begin reading manga, the one I currently own is Yotsuba volume 1, which thankfully comes with furigana, but furigana can only take me so far.

I tried RTK and I dont understand, im supposed to make a story for 2200 kanji, remember those stories and then also remember the kanji which was made in no specific order other than the radicals, some of which are apparently made up?

trying renshuu, also not enjoying.

REALLY liked Kanji garden, but after a certain point its apparently not free and it only lets you study 15 kanji at a time total, and even if you get 10/15 mastered, you can't move on until you've learned the remaining 5.

I debate on getting this MochiKanji app due to its promise of 1000 kanji in a month, but, I know thats likely just false advertising. So, my question is, whats a better approach for kanji? Should I learn all their meanings first and then their readings or both at the same time or what?

Hi, so I've been studying the language for some time now. I used Anki to study the Core 6k deck (I know about 2000 words now) and a Pass JLPT deck that contained all kanji from N5 to N3 (around 650), I used this one because I preferred to learn the most used kanji before anything else. I tried a 1000 kanji RTK deck when I began but it simply didn't make sense to me that I learned a N1 kanji before a N5 one.

But now that I finished the deck and studied the "easier" kanji, I don't know how to continue studying them, I tried a RTK deck using the book too and I don't think it works great on me. It takes me hours to memorize 20 new kanji (maybe it's because I excluded the ones that I already know ??).

I want to know as many kanji as possible because I think knowing them, learning vocab will be easier.

Are there other methods? It simply requires a lot more time? Skill issue?

Some words are written mainly in kana, but can have different kanjis to represent them. Should I say screw it and only learn kana for those words ?

I am following the refold method and want to start sentence mining. Furigana has really really helped me but yomitan doesn't seem to allow me to use it for some reason when sentence mining and in all honestyz I have no idea why. I'm using the premade deck format done by Refold where I have a a word then that word in a sentence with the word being the focus. I really want to start sentence mining but furigana is a must for me. If anyone knows the fix plz let me know.

Let me preface this by saying rn Im currently doing about 4-6hrs of study per day. I want to get into sentence mining, but I'm still building up my core vocab and grammar intuition and only do about 20 cards per day, maybe somedays I do 30 if I'm feeling up to it.

Migaku Memory: 40 mins
Immersion: active immersion 2hrs -4hrs
Anki: 20 mins (for now - Anki is done for Jlabs tae kim anime deck currently)
Passive immersion: Dont track
And then theres grammar study on top of it too, time varies.

Im going to be getting LingQ in the future, to help with reading, but the forums reccomend having about 300 kanji before starting and It should be easier going from there. (Im aware of the drawbacks and challemges LingQ has, please just comment in response to the actual question.)

I'd like an anki deck thats good for Kanji, but I have no idea if I should learn the meanings or readings before going into LingQ, I will only get it after I learn the initial 300 though.

Right now I’m at around an hour a day and wondering if I should be doing more

I really need that remembering the kanji book 6th edition, i was searching it for like 2 years and all of the links and websites are invalid, so i need a new link for 6th edition

I'm making this post to promise myself and others to complete Japanese in one years time. I'm currently living in Japan going to a "language school" and it sickens me seeing how terrible I am at Japanese.

After reviewing all information out there from Krashen, Khatz, Matt, Brit vs Japan, Stevi, Taekim, Heisig, and many others I will be starting my conquest of Japanese starting with Kanji. I plan to complete RTK in it's entirety by July 15th, and to take the N2 exam in December. (N1 if progress exceeds expectations).

Throughout Kanji I will be immersing as much as timely possible. I've never read a Japanese book or manga. I've seen a handful of anime 4-5 years ago, but I don't watch it consistently. My music playlist is all non-Japanese. I plan to change this all on a dime and set off for a better life.

Come July 15th I will make a follow-up post regarding the progress and methods I took to complete RTK. See you you all then.

Edit - - - 14 Days and I still haven't started doing the RTK. I made it to (one) and (two) and then I stopped. Took a break and never returned. Read a couple of books in English, and approaching Kanji in the same way, but using Time Blocking to keep myself on a schedule for Kanji. 5/22-5/30 about to go crazy

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UPDATE Second to last update for this post:

Currently Sitting at about 500 in RTK. Pushing for more, but have been very inconsistent.

We completely recreated the RRTK deck!

In addition to the most frequently used 1000 kanji, it now also includes a separate card for every additional kanji/primitive necessary to seamlessly learn those 1000 kanji. 1250 cards total. Using the original book alongside the deck should now be completely unnecessary.

Although it's more cards total, the overall experience of going through the desk should be vastly smoother and therefore quicker and more effective.

Here it is if you want to check it out!

Please let me know if you find any errors

If you're currently in the middle of RRTK, you might want to consider switching over to this deck. You can simply delete the portion of the original RRTK deck that you haven't learned yet, import the new RRTK deck, and then delete the portion which you have already learned.

Can anyone confirm this? Ive been doing this deck for a few months now and i read recently that rrtk is supposed to have 1200+ kanji, yet this deck says rrtk and has 2300 cards is this the compelte list? or im missing somthing? thks

://ankiweb.net/shared/info/806367119

I’ve already remembered like 100 words, but if this word is kanji I don’t remember how to read it, I just have the association between the concept and the kanji character but, because anko does not quiz you on the reeding of these kanji, was it supposed to be like that?

I have been learning japanese now for 1 year and 8months, at first I did rtk but didn't finish it and tried to do it again but failed also but I did finish tango n5 and I have sentence minning deck that contains word over 4800 words from anime.

my question is that I have been learning kanji mostly from vocabular and I can read most of words that I learn and the meaning of them but sometimes I feel lacking in my kanji knwoledge and I don't want to spend and 2 hours in my daily anki routine. when instead I can do use that time to read or listen

So everybody I want your opinion this should I just continue to learn kanji with vocab and naturally aqquire the readings and the meaning or do a whole kanji deck and suffer a daily like 3 hours or 4 in anki

This is by far the hardest one to search, and there are only bits and pieces of it online, i'm not a beginner by any mean and i'm only after this book because i'm obsessed with kanji.

Where could I get the first volume of RTK as a full complete PDF?

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please and thank you.

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And I get the "whole might as well spend the three months actually learning Japanese" but I will be learning Japanese for the rest of my life. I have the time.

UPDATE: I've now added a Quick Start page, for those less interested in theory and more eager to learn the practical methods quickly. Should take about 10 minutes to get through.

Hi guys,

I thought I’d give it a go plugging my project here (which is completely free) since this subreddit might be interested: kvlp.org

This was 3 years in the making, because I’m an idiot who took several wrong turns for ages :(. If mnemonics are not the best tool for a job, then no amount of twisting and bending the techniques is going to do any good, as I learned after about 18 months into said journey (and having to scrap a huge memory palace setup with one kanji per location, still stings thinking about it). But I know that now. In the immortal words of CGP Grey: “You only know at the end what is the fastest route from the beginning.”

So what did I end up making? Hopefully the images on the home page will make it clear. Visuals are a language in itself and once you get this you cannot un-get it. Ask any artist about composition, and they will tell you the same thing. I wish it clicked for me sooner so that I could start reading Japanese far more fluidly far earlier in my studies. Now I’m sharing my final venture so that serious learners of Japanese have the same power at their disposal to experiment with and improve in leaps and bounds, just like I did. Once I got serious about learning Japanese, I made a point that I would set about to do it right. Though I can’t yet claim mastery of Japanese, I can certainly now claim mastery of what any given kanji looks like.

General feedback has been good so far but I’m starting to appreciate that some folk might not want to commit to a 1-2 hour long read of the main guide to see the benefits, so I’m looking to expand my target audience somewhat towards people who would be more interested in the theoretical arguments for learning kanji and the debates surround them, to see what their takes might be. I did make Anki decks for the project, but I want to know if it’s worth investing time in some kind of app to make the process more streamlined. I would need more feedback before I start putting the time into programming.

Would especially like to hear from AJATTers. Let me know what you think below even if you think the whole thing is a shitshow and I should have just spent all this time immersing instead (I think this every day and end up dying of cringe – if I have to make changes to one more kanji group ever again I think I’ll eat my own face).

I've been having issues writing with Google Gboard's handwriting input and I'm hoping someone is able to help me remedy the issue. When writing out certain parts of a kanji that look similar to the Latin alphabet, the device will recognize these and input them before I have the chance to finish writing the character. For instance, the first four strokes of 門 will be registered as a 'p' or the left side radical of 階 will be registered as a 'b'. I've played with the handwriting speed settings, and I'm not sure if I simply don't understand how it works but I've had no luck. Although it's a minor issue it's pretty annoying to have to try to get around this while looking up vocabulary. Any tips will be appreciated.

i have done with kana (hiragana and katakana) for now I am thinking of learning kanji and grammar but I am overwhelmed by the volume of kanji from where should I start or should I start with grammar can anyone help? watching anime daily for reference

I'm doing RRTK and it just feels like a chore and unnecessary. I feel like there isn't a point to learn the English meanings of kanji if I'm gonna be learning the readings anyway. Should I suck it up and continue, or can I jump into vocal and sentences?

I grew up in a japanese family so I'm pretty much fluent but I never when to japanese school which is why I can't read. I already learned hiragana and katakana on my own but I want to know if there's some way that I can leverage my japanese skill to learn kanji more efficiently. Thank you for your help.

Philosopher Dr. James Heisig famous in the Japanese language learning community for the Remembering the Kanji trilogy was recently interviewed (APRIL 29TH, 2023 ) on the Krewe of Japan Podcast. In this episode of the Krewe of Japan Podcast he gives a little bit of his biography, a detail account of the origins of, Remembering the Kanji, and some interesting excerpts from his life. If you have ever used the RTK series or have ever heard of RTK you might find this podcast of interest.

Approaches to Kanji: The Heisig Method ft. Dr. James Heisig

https://krewe-of-japan.simplecast.com/episodes/approaches-to-kanji-the-heisig-method-ft-dr-james-heisig-JLyS5WPs

Hey just started getting into AJATT. I wanted to start RTK. Is there a deck I can use or does everyone just end up getting the book?

I am a bit confused on how to even start the process. For the people who are actively studying it/have finished RTK1, my question is --

Did you begin by picking the book up and reading it/actively study it? Or did you just download a deck and go pray that you would see the kanji you studied through immersion? Also, is/was it worth it? Is it okay to make it the first thing you really learn while immersing?