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Since you don’t need kanji in order to speak Japanese fluently. many Japanese learners don’t bother with it at all. But there are many reasons why should start learning kanji from the first months :
- ONCE YOU START WRITING SENTENCES, HIRAGANA IS NO LONGER READABLE.
- KANJI GIVES MEANING TO WORDS.
- IT LOOKS NICER WHEN YOU WRITE IN KANJI.
- KANJI IS EASIER TO READ
There is no easy way to learn kanji but there are some ways to make it easier . Learning kanji is all about getting into a daily study habit. Even if you can only spare 15 minutes of each day to studying, it’s consistency that counts. Stick with it and take note when you start to see results, because your successes will keep you motivated to reach further successes.
Learn Radicals
Complex characters are made up of smaller parts called radicals. If you get acquainted with these radicals, it’s much easier to tell similar characters apart. You can also guess at pronunciation sometimes. Often, characters with a certain radical in common will be pronounced similarly.
Associate Images
Some people find it easy to remember characters when you make image associations. For example, the character for “person” looks like a person. The character for “stop” looks like someone extending an arm in front of them. The most famous book about this is Remember the Kanji by James Heisig. Another book about image association is Kanji Pict-O-Graphix by Michael Rowley. I personally didn’t find image association helpful, but many people do.
Use a Great Dictionary, Book, or Online Resource
Whenever you learn a new character, consult your dictionary and find words that use it. This will help the meaning stick and show how it’s used. Most kanji learning materials offer a few common vocabulary items for each entry as well. The go-to online resource for many Japanese learners is Jim Breen’s WWWJDIC, which you can access for free online. Another great resource is Kanji Damage: A very practical and context oriented online kanji book. Contains around 1700 Kanji. The irreverent style (check out the Eazy-E mnemonic) with the focus on examples might be exactly what you need.
Forget the Order
Japanese students learn kanji in an established order. There is a set of characters for each grade to learn from first through the end of high school. There is certainly some reason why Japan’s education system teaches kanji in this order, but it’s useless for you. Some books or classes use this order and some use another order. Don’t get hung up on order; just start somewhere and stick to your routine.
Read Something Interesting
When you’re studying something fun and interesting, it gives you the motivation to keep pushing on even when things get tough. Choose real-life study materials that interest you, like magazines, comics or books that you’d enjoy even if you weren’t studying Japanese. You can also watch cartoons and movies for the subtitles.
Practice with Pen Pals
Another good way to learn in real life is to exchange emails with a pen pal. There are many websites where you can easily find them. Through daily conversation, you’ll learn the characters that are most commonly used in everyday life.
Native Check
If you’re learning to write kanji, have a Japanese friend check for you. Although I’ve never formally studied writing, I’ve tried writing some of the characters I have stored in my brain, and each time it elicited laughter and furrowed brows. There are many subtleties to writing kanji and you learn these best when you have a native speaker point out your mistakes to you.
Accountability
It’s one thing when you slip on your goals and let yourself down. But it’s something entirely different when you’re letting all of your friends down. A good way to keep yourself on track is to go public with it. Post about your progress on social media or start a blog chronicling your journey to Japanese literacy. You’ll be too embarrassed to not meet your learning goals.
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