Hello here ! I better memorize kanji readings by learning words than by learning their readings. I've never been able to remember readings. Well, is there a button where I can change learning kanji from readings to words please ?
I know of no such functionality, but what you could do (and what I ended up doing) is that you setup a private lesson and whenever you learn a new Kanji you go through the list of words this Kanji is involved and pick one or two for each reading (that you want to learn) and add those to this lesson - obviously, the words you pick should seem useful to you as well, or at least to be words that seem to be common [to avoid just learning random words that you might never end up seeing in your lifetime as they are only used in very exclusive academic circles or similar].
Then, you setup one schedule that only includes this private lesson and whenever you learn a new Kanji you would immediatelly follow that up with learning all the new words you just put into that schedule -> daily vocab review linked to the Kanji you just learned, helping solidifying the readings you wanted to learn.
I can confirm this idea of having a self created word list. I ended up adding for the words with the most sentences as these might end up being more common.
The other way to remember the kanji is to take the word lessons for JLPT or Kentei or Genki. These have basic common words with their kanji.
In the end you will have to learn them by heart anyway. Or not... My guess is that knowing the words is more important to communicate. The meaning of the kanji is also a good help to guess a word you don't know...
My guess is that knowing the words is more important to communicate. The meaning of the kanji is also a good help to guess a word you don't know...
Actually, I learned the vocabulary by JLPT initially. So I already have a lot of known words but they're not here in renshuu. I reached the beginning of N3 for vocabulary but I don't practice enough anymore and I forget a lot of words. I used ANKI to learn and it works really well except I have too much to study every day now...
Just to chime in, renshuu works this way. As soon as you study a kanji character once in a kanji schedule, it will automatically appear in words that are in your word schedules. So they are meant to be studied back and forth, alongside one another.
If you'd like to skip that and just make all kanji appear in the words you are studying, that's an option, too. Go to the menu, then the settings icon. Jump to the Vocabulary section, and where it says "How to display unknown kanji", choose the last option.
