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Can any Kanjidamage users help me out?

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-05 7:05

OK, so, I've just finished learning my kana and want to go onto kanji. Heisig was good but a touch too dull for my liking, so I'm going to try out Kanjidamage.

All I'd like to know is, what exactly do I learn? Just the mnemonic/keyword, or the kunyomi, jukugo, etc.?

It just seems like an overwhelming amount to learn for each one the first time through, and I'd like to know how others who have used it went about it.

Thanks.

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-10 6:55

Perfect thread, I was looking for something like this.

Much like OP, I have recently gotten the kana under my belt successfully. I'm using Genki I-II for my grammar, and I'll be using KanjiDamage for my Kanji, as it was mostly recommended. However, upon looking over KanjiDamage, I'm finding a lot of the material to be confusing. Perhaps someone could help me out and explain a couple things.

I'll use the first Kanji for example:
http://kanjidamage.com/japanese_symbols/1

The ONyomi (Ichi, Itsu)[一] are to be used in conjugation form. This I get. However, when looking at the KUNyomi, things start to differ a bit.

The KUNyomi reading for one is ひと*つ. I'm to understand this reading is only to be used in singular form, like all other KUN readings, however what is the * and the つ in that reading supposed to mean? I'm not sure how to use either of the two with the reading of ひと.

Also, there are very many Jukugo for this reading. Are easy individual one supposed to be memorized at that point? If so, doesn't going in the "RAD Order" become defeated when you're learning advanced characters this early on? What's more, is the a way to tell which reading to use between conjugations and singular references? As in, does one have to memorize the Jukugo in order to discern reading Ichi/Itsu from Hito?

Anything that would help me understand these questions and start me on my way towards Kanji would be amazing.

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