日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 6

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日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 4
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日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 5
http://dis.4chan.org/read/lang/1330050873/1-40

>>963

"40k kanji" - Why do people keep intimidating themselves like that? You don't even use most of them on a daily basis; the jouyou kanji count is only ~5% of that (2136).

If you really can't get over that, think of kanji as nothing more than an spatial arrangement of strokes, in the same way that English words are a linear arrangement of letters. You know how sometimes you can guess at the meaning of a word from its roots? Same goes for kanji - the radicals can sometimes give you hints on meanings.

tl;dr stop scaring yourself and just get used to the language