Gee337
Neutral Good
- 19 Oct 2012
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I think I learned Kanji with a similiar method - I found a book, called Kanji and Kana, which is less detailed than the one linked above, but as someone who already spoke some Japanese, it was a really easy way to learn. I didn't have to worry too much about the meanings, because I already knew them, especially in the beginning. And it was really fun as well, realizing how the words I already knew were made of other words... It's easier to understand the logic behind words.This is an example of how similiar kanji followed each other, while trying to keep kanji of the same topic close, if possible.
After learning for about six months, (alone, in addition to my normal studies in my last year in grammar school) I could recognize about 1000 kanji - but not write all of them down. Just remember the meaning if I saw it somewhere. (Sometimes I didn't even remember the reading, only the meaning.) Especially with more complicated ones. But that was exactly my goal, as I expected the test for MEXT scholarship to be reading only, so I had to jam as many kanji in my head as I could in half a year. ^^
After learning for about six months, (alone, in addition to my normal studies in my last year in grammar school) I could recognize about 1000 kanji - but not write all of them down. Just remember the meaning if I saw it somewhere. (Sometimes I didn't even remember the reading, only the meaning.) Especially with more complicated ones. But that was exactly my goal, as I expected the test for MEXT scholarship to be reading only, so I had to jam as many kanji in my head as I could in half a year. ^^