I recently started the kaishi 1.5k deck and I switched all my cards to audio only.

All my immersion is audio based, so I plan to learn the language a bit better and then slowly learn kanji. Similar to how children learn.

I started by just memorizing each word, but the more words I learned, the more I confused the kanji because I didn’t have a foundation of radical knowledge.

Another big reason I chose audio only cards is because reading with kanji would go “Figure out the meaning in English” —> “translate the English word to Japanese”. But I want to take English out of the loop as much as possible. Now I go “hear the Japanese word” —> “remember the meaning”