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I found some really good advice on a message board
The absolute best way to learn is just to get yourself a piece of graph paper, get a book that lists the stroke order and shows you how to draw kanji, and sit down and pracice writing. Take one kanji and write it over and over until you can write it without looking at it. Then do the same with another kanji. Then go back each time and see if you can write the ones you remembered. If you can't, it means you need to write them until you can.
It's pretty hard, but that's how Japanese kids do it.
While you are doing this, you can also either say or write the on and kun readings to the side. Then you will remember them. It is ESSENTIAL that you start linking kanji sounds up with the symbols. If you don't do so, you aren't really learning Japanese. You are just learning a new code for English.
I have been writing the Kanji over and over to memorize by rote, but hadn't realized I should write the hiragana/katakana next to it--and there is space for it in my exercise books.
September 20 2005, 04:17:33 UTC 6 years ago
Also really using the kanji helps. It takes me forever to do the exercises because I'm always looking up the kanji. :)
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