How do Japanese students learn kanji?

[espen180]

Whenever I have to learn a new kanji, I go through the stroke order some 4-5 times for the kanji alone, then start using it in compounds. It's worked for me p until now, at least.

How do Japanese students in school learn these kanjis? Do they learn the radicals at an early stage and learn the kanjis' radical composition and radical order, og do they learn the stroke order directly, like I do?

Answers/thoughts are appreciated.

 

[undrentide]

Here're the lists of kanji to be taught at elementary school.
http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/NYAO/db/kanji/
1st grade (7 years old) : 80 kanji
2nd grade (8 years old) : 160 kanji
3rd grade (9 years old) : 200 kanji
4th grade (10 years old) : 200 kanji
5th grade (11 years old) : 185 kanji
6th grade (12 years old) : 181 kanji

First a few pages of the text books for Japanese language for the 1st grade is written in all in hiragana, after that kanji started to appear.
Wel, that's what it used to be when I was at elementary school, which was quite a long time ago...

 

[espen180]

Thanks for the list!

What I was actually wondering about is wether, for example, Japanese children learn the radicals at an early age (grade 1?), then, for example in grade 4, when they learn 完, they are told that it is a compound of radicals 二, 儿, 宀 and 元.

 

[undrentide]

No, first they learn simple kanji as a whole. I think (if I remember correctly) radicals are taught at a much later stage.

 

[espen180]

I see. Thank you for your help.

 

[masatoshi]

nice pretty cute...imagine the preschooler standing in front of 女 and crying out for pipi