Learning Kanji

How do I learned kanji? Individually? A few characters in a compound? To me, it seems like learning the individual characters would be like learning how to read and write English by memorizing prefixes and suffixes. Am I looking at it wrong?

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>>1

I don't get what do you mean. Could you explain more.

>>1
Just read a lot of Japanese.  Have a dictionary program open (I suggest JWPce, google it), and when you come to kanji you don't know (which will be a lot at first) copypasta them into your dictionary and look them up.  After a while you will memorize them naturally.  Try remembering the "on" readings of kanji, as they are the readings most often used in compounds.  If you can memorize most of the readings for basic kanji, you'll be able to sound out words even if you've never seen them before.  Also remember that each individual kanji has meaning, and try to remember the basic meaning behind each kanji rather than just thinking of them as sounds.  I recently started taking biology in Japanese, and as such was learning the names of various cell parts and whatnot.  I found that thanks to kanji, I was able to guess the meanings of a lot of terms, such as 光合成 (photosynthesis), thanks to the kanji which have the basic meanings "light", "combine", and "make".

As for writing, you just have to write a lot of Japanese, but don't worry about it too much as a lot of Japanese people suck at writing kanji too.  It's the same as how English speakers rely on spellcheck too much and everyone is forgetting how to spell; everyone in Japan is so used to using cellphones and computers that they are forgetting how to write kanji by hand.  If you always carry a cellphone or electronic dictionary, you can just use that to look up kanji you forget how to write when writing by hand (that's what I do).  The other day I had to show a Japanese person how to write the word 使う (use), which was embarresing for him.

>>13
What is the best way to go about learning kanji? Learn each character individually (on'yomi, kun'yomi, English meaning, stroke order) like that, or learn them as parts of compounds- 上げる, for example.
Although, >>14 already answered my question, thanks.

I found the best way for me to learn kanji was to read the book "Remembering the Kanji" - it introduced a way of memorizing kanji that I could agree with, as opposed to the way Japanese government has divided kanji into groups depending on how commonly used they are.

http//www.ic.nanzan/...

If you check the lower edge of the page, you'll find a link to download the first (of three) chapters of this book in PDF format. It certainly revolutionized my kanji studying, and also demystified any and all problems I used to have with radicals.

>>15
Oh, now I got it. I have tried both methods. I'd say that what >>14 suggested worked better for me.

But learning to write kanji with this method is rather hard if you don't have anything to write in japanese. Is there any good books (or web pages) where would be simple stories in kana or roomaji so that you could write them with kanji, then?

The best way to learn Kanji is to learn Chinese.

>>18
What's the best way to learn written Chinese, then?
You answered nothing.

You bloody imbecile, I did answer your question--
"How do I learned kanji?"
I answered it in the most fundamental fashion,
so that even a thick-headed weeaboo fool such as yourself
might be able to understand what I meant to say.
Chinese is the language of future
world economic prosperity. So, just learn Chinese.

You stupid shit.
That wasn't my fucking question, you retard.
My question:
"how do I learn kanji?"
Your response:
"LEARN CHINESE LOL"
Ever consider maybe I am learning Chinese? Didja? No. You didn't. Know why? You just wanted to call someone a weeaboo. I said kanji because, knowing 4chan, they'd be more familiar and comfortable with that term.
You useless cunt. I hate you.

CRAWLING IN MY SKIN.
THESE WOUNDS.
THEY WILL NOT HEAL. ;(

You know, I tried to be reasonable. Look what happened.

"Stupid shit," "retard," caps lock with "lol,"
"cunt," and hating people who you have never met, and who you will never meet, from the internet.
Did someone just say "underage user?"

No, no one said it.

JAPAN IS BETTER THAN CHINA.

JAPAN IS SMALLER THAN CHINA.

The entire Japanese culture, outside of Animu and perverse sexual fetishes, originates from the Chinese culture. And, when I speak of culture, I am referring to history, art, music, literature, language, etc., etc., etc.

And the above poster is correct in asserting that China is overwhelmingly larger than China. In addition to territorial size are, of course, also ocular and penile size.

Oops. I mean China > Japan.
You get the picture.
Now, see, if you had created a topic regarding
your willingness to learn katakana,
I would have left you alone, but your hardheadedness
is laughable.

My hardheadedness? Your response had nothing to do with my question. I'm sorry you failed reading comprehension as a child.
You are, on the other hand, a master troll.

>>30
Actually, I would say his trolling was weak at best.

It worked for me. It could have been better. Actually, come to think of it, a master troll wouldn't have gotten caught so readily. I guess he fails.

>>32
Are you just typing whatever comes to mind? 'cos you sound really retarded contradicting yourself so much.
Protip: You are allowed to edit your post before you submit! Proof-reading FTW

If you'll notice, I said "actually, come to think of it," implying a change of heart.
You are literate, yes?

>>1
Go to 4chan and ask "How do I learned kanji? Individually? A few characters in a compound? To me, it seems like learning the individual characters would be like learning how to read and write English by memorizing prefixes and suffixes. Am I looking at it wrong?" People will tell you to go to 4chan and ask "How do I learned kanji? Individually? A few characters in a compound? To me, it seems like learning the individual characters would be like learning how to read and write English by memorizing prefixes and suffixes. Am I looking at it wrong?" People will tell you to go to 4chan and ask "How do I learned kanji? Individually? A few characters in a compound? To me, it seems like learning the individual characters would be like learning how to read and write English by memorizing prefixes and suffixes. Am I looking at it wrong?" People will tell you to go to 4chan and ask "How do I learned kanji? Individually? A few characters in a compound? To me, it seems like learning the individual characters would be like learning how to read and write English by memorizing prefixes and suffixes. Am I looking at it wrong?" People will tell you to go to 4chan and ask "How do I learned kanji? Individually? A few characters in a compound? To me, it seems like learning the individual characters would be like learning how to read and write English by memorizing prefixes and suffixes. Am I looking at it wrong?" People will tell you to gtfo the internets and go take a fucking Japanese language class.

>>34
Well once you thought of it, you can proceed to use the backspace key!