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12ded-md shadow-sm text-base font-medium text-green-600 border-2 border-green-600 hover:bg-gray-50">Get free eBook</a></div></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div><div class="bg-green-700"><div class="max-w-7xl mx-auto py-16 px-4 sm:py-24 sm:px-6 lg:px-8"><h2 class="text-center text-3xl font-extrabold text-gray-100 sm:text-4xl">Frequently asked questions</h2><div class="mt-6 space-y-6 divide-y divide-gray-200" data-orientation="vertical"><div data-state="closed" data-orientation="vertical" class="pt-6"><h3 data-orientation="vertical" data-state="closed" class="text-lg"><button type="button" aria-expanded="false" data-state="closed" data-orientation="vertical" id="radix-_R_dd6_" class="group text-left w-full flex justify-between items-start text-gray-100 focus:outline-none" data-radix-collection-item=""><span class="font-medium text-gray-50">Why a Japanese-English picture dictionary?</span><span class="ml-6 h-7 flex items-center"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" data-slot="icon" class="h-6 w-6 transform transition-transform duration-200 group-data-[state=open]:-rotate-180"><path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" d="m19.5 8.25-7.5 7.5-7.5-7.5"></path></svg></span></button></h3><div data-state="closed" id="radix-_R_4dd6_" role="region" aria-labelledby="radix-_R_dd6_" data-orientation="vertical" class="mt-2 pr-12 data-[state=closed]:hidden" style="--radix-accordion-content-height:var(--radix-collapsible-content-height);--radix-accordion-content-width:var(--radix-collapsible-content-width)"><div class="text-base text-gray-100">When learning Japanese, you&#x27;ll be looking up words constantly. Some words lend themselves very well to visual presentation and that&#x27;s why I created a picture dictionary for Japanese! With it, you can search for words in English (<a href="https://app.kumalearn.com/dictionary/hello" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow" class="underline ">hello</a>), Japanese (<a href="https://app.kumalearn.com/dictionary/%E3%81%93%E3%82%93%E3%81%AB%E3%81%A1%E3%81%AF" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow" class="underline ">こんにちは</a>) and romaji (<a href="https://app.kumalearn.com/dictionary/konnichiwa" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow" class="underline ">konnichiwa</a>). The picture dictionary has 180,000+ definitions, 4,000+ example sentences and 4,000+ words with pictures.</div></div></div><div data-state="closed" data-orientation="vertical" class="pt-6"><h3 data-orientation="vertical" data-state="closed" class="text-lg"><button type="button" aria-expanded="false" data-state="closed" data-orientation="vertical" id="radix-_R_ld6_" class="group text-left w-full flex justify-between items-start text-gray-100 focus:outline-none" data-radix-collection-item=""><span class="font-medium text-gray-50">What about audial and kinaesthesic learning?</span><span class="ml-6 h-7 flex items-center"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" data-slot="icon" class="h-6 w-6 transform transition-transform duration-200 group-data-[state=open]:-rotate-180"><path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" d="m19.5 8.25-7.5 7.5-7.5-7.5"></path></svg></span></button></h3><div data-state="closed" id="radix-_R_4ld6_" role="region" aria-labelledby="radix-_R_ld6_" data-orientation="vertical" class="mt-2 pr-12 data-[state=closed]:hidden" style="--radix-accordion-content-height:var(--radix-collapsible-content-height);--radix-accordion-content-width:var(--radix-collapsible-content-width)"><div class="text-base text-gray-100">Of course, visual learning is only one aspect of many. Audial and kinaesthesic learning will add depth and variety where it&#x27;s more appropriate. I started with the<!-- --> <a href="https://app.kumalearn.com/dictionary" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow" class="underline ">picture dictionary</a>, as I believe there aren&#x27;t enough good visual resources out there. Also, Kuma Learn has plans to offer games in the future!</div></div></div><div data-state="closed" data-orientation="vertical" class="pt-6"><h3 data-orientation="vertical" data-state="closed" class="text-lg"><button type="button" aria-expanded="false" data-state="closed" data-orientation="vertical" id="radix-_R_td6_" class="group text-left w-full flex justify-between items-start text-gray-100 focus:outline-none" data-radix-collection-item=""><span class="font-medium text-gray-50">
12What is SRS and how does it work?</span><span class="ml-6 h-7 flex items-center"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" data-slot="icon" class="h-6 w-6 transform transition-transform duration-200 group-data-[state=open]:-rotate-180"><path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" d="m19.5 8.25-7.5 7.5-7.5-7.5"></path></svg></span></button></h3><div data-state="closed" id="radix-_R_4td6_" role="region" aria-labelledby="radix-_R_td6_" data-orientation="vertical" class="mt-2 pr-12 data-[state=closed]:hidden" style="--radix-accordion-content-height:var(--radix-collapsible-content-height);--radix-accordion-content-width:var(--radix-collapsible-content-width)"><div class="text-base text-gray-100"><p>SRS is short for Spaced Repeititon System. It&#x27;s a flashcard system for you to learn vocabulary and kanji efficiently. You will be shown words that you don&#x27;t know more often than words you know well. Studies have shown that this improves your learning and even changes how your brain is wired. [<a class="underline text-gray-50" href="https://www.leonardoenglish.com/blog/spaced-repetition" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">1</a>]</p><p class="mt-1">It works like this:</p><ul class="list-disc list-inside"><li>You&#x27;re shown a flashcard and you&#x27;ll rate how well you know the word or kanji (&quot;Perfect&quot;, &quot;Familiar&quot;, &quot;Total black out&quot;, etc).</li><li>The system will learn how well you&#x27;ve remembered a flashcard and, over time, will smartly ask you to review flashcards you know less well.</li></ul><p class="mt-1">The smart system is driven by an algorithm called SM-2. When you&#x27;re ready to start, head on over to Kuma Learn&#x27;s<!-- --> <a href="https://app.kumalearn.com/srs?utm_medium=web&amp;utm_source=www&amp;utm_campaign=faqs" class="underline text-gray-50" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Spaced Repetition System (SRS)</a>.</p></div></div></div><div data-state="closed" data-orientation="vertical" class="pt-6"><h3 data-orientation="vertical" data-state="closed" class="text-lg"><button type="button" aria-expanded="false" data-state="closed" data-orientation="vertical" id="radix-_R_15d6_" class="group text-left w-full flex justify-between items-start text-gray-100 focus:outline-none" data-radix-collection-item=""><span class="font-medium text-gray-50">How often should I do spaced reptition?</span><span class="ml-6 h-7 flex items-center"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" data-slot="icon" class="h-6 w-6 transform transition-transform duration-200 group-data-[state=open]:-rotate-180"><path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" d="m19.5 8.25-7.5 7.5-7.5-7.5"></path></svg></span></button></h3><div data-state="closed" id="radix-_R_55d6_" role="region" aria-labelledby="radix-_R_15d6_" data-orientation="vertical" class="mt-2 pr-12 data-[state=closed]:hidden" style="--radix-accordion-content-height:var(--radix-collapsible-content-height);--radix-accordion-content-width:var(--radix-collapsible-content-width)"><div class="text-base text-gray-100"><p>There are different opinions on this but generally you want to increase your intervals between each review. One resource [<a class="underline text-gray-50" href="https://thinkhumm.com/blog/humms-guide-to-spaced-repetition-learning" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">2</a>] suggests the ideal review schedule is 1 day, 7 days, 16 days and 35 days (and continue at 35 days). 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It&#x27;s a standardised test to evaluate and certify your proficiency in the Japanese language.</div><div class="mt-1">It tests language knowledge, reading ability and listening ability, and is often used by companies to evaluate your lanugage ability if you&#x27;re a non-native speaker.</div><div class="mt-1">JLPT has five levels: N5 is the beginner level and the difficulty increases as you approach N1.</div></div></div></div><div data-state="closed" data-orientation="vertical" class="pt-6"><h3 data-orientation="vertical" data-state="closed" class="text-lg"><button type="button" aria-expanded="false" data-state="closed" data-orientation="vertical" id="radix-_R_1ld6_" class="group text-left w-full flex justify-between items-start text-gray-100 focus:outline-none" data-radix-collection-item=""><span class="font-medium text-gray-50">What is my JLPT level?</span><span class="ml-6 h-7 flex items-center"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" data-slot="icon" class="h-6 w-6 transform transition-transform duration-200 group-data-[state=open]:-rotate-180"><path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" d="m19.5 8.25-7.5 7.5-7.5-7.5"></path></svg></span></button></h3><div data-state="closed" id="radix-_R_5ld6_" role="region" aria-labelledby="radix-_R_1ld6_" data-orientation="vertical" class="mt-2 pr-12 data-[state=closed]:hidden" style="--radix-accordion-content-height:var(--radix-collapsible-content-height);--radix-accordion-content-width:var(--radix-collapsible-content-width)"><div class="text-base text-gray-100"><div>There are various aspects to JLPT (reading, listening, etc), so your level may be higher in some areas than others. You can check your JLPT level with various tools online — search for &quot;JLPT level check&quot; on Google.</div></div></div></div><div data-state="closed" data-orientation="vertical" class="pt-6"><h3 data-orientation="vertical" data-state="closed" class="text-lg"><button type="button" aria-expanded="false" data-state="closed" data-orientation="vertical" id="radix-_R_1td6_" class="group text-left w-full flex justify-between items-start text-gray-100 focus:outline-none" data-radix-collection-item=""><span class="font-medium text-gray-50">Is it necessary to learn writing before starting to learn the language?</span><span class="ml-6 h-7 flex items-center"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" data-slot="icon" class="h-6 w-6 transform transition-transform duration-200 group-data-[state=open]:-rotate-180"><path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" d="m19.5 8.25-7.5 7.5-7.5-7.5"></path></svg></span></button></h3><div data-state="closed" id="radix-_R_5td6_" role="region" aria-labelledby="radix-_R_1td6_" data-orientation="vertical" class="mt-2 pr-12 data-[state=closed]:hidden" style="--radix-accordion-content-height:var(--radix-collapsible-content-height);--radix-accordion-content-width:var(--radix-collapsible-content-width)"><div class="text-base text-gray-100"><div>Japanese has three alphabets: <em>hiragana</em> ひらがな, <em>katakana</em> カタカナ (~50 characters each) and <em>kanji</em> 漢字 (2,000+ characters). 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12read an overview here</a>.</div><div class="mt-1">You often start learning hiragana and katakana because they&#x27;re the basic (phonetic) alphabets that allow you start reading beginners&#x27; materials. Because they&#x27;re phonetic, they&#x27;re also used to annotate <em>kanji</em>, so you might see small hiragana written above kanji to help the reader (&quot;furigana&quot;, which<!-- --> <a class="underline text-gray-50" href="/ebooks/">Kuma Learn eBooks</a> <!-- -->also do).</div></div></div></div><div data-state="closed" data-orientation="vertical" class="pt-6"><h3 data-orientation="vertical" data-state="closed" class="text-lg"><button type="button" aria-expanded="false" data-state="closed" data-orientation="vertical" id="radix-_R_25d6_" class="group text-left w-full flex justify-between items-start text-gray-100 focus:outline-none" data-radix-collection-item=""><span class="font-medium text-gray-50">What&#x27;s an effective approach to learning <em>kanji</em> 漢字?</span><span class="ml-6 h-7 flex items-center"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" data-slot="icon" class="h-6 w-6 transform transition-transform duration-200 group-data-[state=open]:-rotate-180"><path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" d="m19.5 8.25-7.5 7.5-7.5-7.5"></path></svg></span></button></h3><div data-state="closed" id="radix-_R_65d6_" role="region" aria-labelledby="radix-_R_25d6_" data-orientation="vertical" class="mt-2 pr-12 data-[state=closed]:hidden" style="--radix-accordion-content-height:var(--radix-collapsible-content-height);--radix-accordion-content-width:var(--radix-collapsible-content-width)"><div class="text-base text-gray-100"><div>Once you&#x27;ve mastered hiragana and katakana (ひらがな and カタカナ), you can start learning with beginner resources written in Japanese. But you&#x27;ll soon start to see lots of kanji (漢字).</div><div class="mt-1"><em>Tip #1</em>: there are a couple of tricks: (a) learn &quot;radicals&quot; — components of kanji (e.g. 日 in 明) — rather than trying to remember each individual stroke of every kanji and (b) create &quot;stories&quot; for kanji. Stories work because kanji is logographic and human beings tend to remember stories well. A popular method for (b) is called &quot;Heisig&#x27;s Remembering the Kanji&quot; (RTK).</div><div class="mt-1"><em>Tip #2</em>: it&#x27;s easier to learn kanji when they&#x27;re read/written in context. For example, you&#x27;ll learn crime kanji (e.g. <em>detective</em> 探偵, tantei) when you read crime novels or manga such as Detective Conan. Of course, you can also use the<!-- --> <a href="https://app.kumalearn.com/dictionary" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow" class="underline ">Japanese-English picture dictionary</a>, to learn kanji with pictures.</div><div class="mt-1"><em>Tip #3</em>: use efficient learning methods such as SRS to learn kanji that you don&#x27;t know well first. The spaced repetition system will ask you to review kanji that you know less well.</div></div></div></div><div data-state="closed" data-orientation="vertical" class="pt-6"><h3 data-orientation="vertical" data-state="closed" class="text-lg"><button type="button" aria-expanded="false" data-state="closed" data-orientation="vertical" id="radix-_R_2dd6_" class="group text-left w-full flex justify-between items-start text-gray-100 focus:outline-none" data-radix-collection-item=""><span class="font-medium text-gray-50">Where is Kuma Learn headed?</span><span class="ml-6 h-7 flex items-center"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" data-slot="icon" class="h-6 w-6 transform transition-transform duration-200 group-data-[state=open]:-rotate-180"><path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" d="m19.5 8.25-7.5 7.5-7.5-7.5"></path></svg></span></button></h3><div data-state="closed" id="radix-_R_6dd6_" role="region" aria-labelledby="radix-_R_2dd6_" data-orientation="vertical" class="mt-2 pr-12 data-[state=closed]:hidden" style="--radix-accordion-content-height:var(--radix-collapsible-content-height);--radix-accordion-content-width:var(--radix-collapsible-content-width)"><div class="text-base text-gray-100">Kuma Learn started with a <a href="https://app.kumalearn.com/dictionary" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow" class="underline ">picture dictionary</a> as well as<!-- --> <a href="/ebooks/">eBooks</a> but now also offers a<!-- --> <a href="https://app.kumalearn.com/srs?utm_medium=web&amp;utm_source=www&amp;utm_campaign=faqs" class="underline text-gray-50" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Spaced Repetition System (SRS)</a> <!-- -->
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