With around two thousand kanji to learn, it may seem like a daunting task and I'm not going to lie, it is. However with these tips you will be on you way to becoming a kanji master in around six months, maybe, actually I can't really predict that as it is entirely down to how much work you put in. And you will have to put in work, lots of it, regularly but it will be very rewarding in the end.
Learning kanji should be the next thing you do after learning Hiragana and Katakana, which you should learn first , a lot of kanji dictionaries use kana to tell you how to say the kanji. Kanji although being a big task will improve your Japanese ten fold, why? The answer is simple, you will be learning around two thousand kanji, that's two thousand new words that you will learn, as well as achieving a higher level of understanding of the Japanese language, the benefits of learning kanji are obvious. As well as this without learning kanji, your Japanese writing will always be at a six year old Japanese child's level, you can do better than that, can't you?
There is no one way to learn kanji, and my way might not be perfect for you but it works for me and may work for you, you should try it out if you have no idea how you should learn them, or adapt it to suit you better! When I first started experimenting with learning kanji I steered clear of Heisig's methods, this was a mistake in my personal opinion, after finally giving it a go I found out the wonders it presented to me! So I will explain all about this and before you leave this post because you don't want to buy the book STOP, because I have a way around it!
Of course I recommend buying the book but if that isn't an option for you I will show you a way around this, being the nice person I am :). First off, if you have the book do the same as I explain but you wont have to use the extra website I present and you will get the warm feeling of supporting the author and having the book!
The website that you will be using is http://kanji.koohii.com/ and the extra website is, a personal favorite of mine, http://www.google.com
This is how I do it;
Learning kanji should be the next thing you do after learning Hiragana and Katakana, which you should learn first , a lot of kanji dictionaries use kana to tell you how to say the kanji. Kanji although being a big task will improve your Japanese ten fold, why? The answer is simple, you will be learning around two thousand kanji, that's two thousand new words that you will learn, as well as achieving a higher level of understanding of the Japanese language, the benefits of learning kanji are obvious. As well as this without learning kanji, your Japanese writing will always be at a six year old Japanese child's level, you can do better than that, can't you?
There is no one way to learn kanji, and my way might not be perfect for you but it works for me and may work for you, you should try it out if you have no idea how you should learn them, or adapt it to suit you better! When I first started experimenting with learning kanji I steered clear of Heisig's methods, this was a mistake in my personal opinion, after finally giving it a go I found out the wonders it presented to me! So I will explain all about this and before you leave this post because you don't want to buy the book STOP, because I have a way around it!
Of course I recommend buying the book but if that isn't an option for you I will show you a way around this, being the nice person I am :). First off, if you have the book do the same as I explain but you wont have to use the extra website I present and you will get the warm feeling of supporting the author and having the book!
The website that you will be using is http://kanji.koohii.com/ and the extra website is, a personal favorite of mine, http://www.google.com
This is how I do it;
- Go to The first website sign up and click on study, type in 1 in the start box or if you are using the book open it up to the first kanji, the kanji One.
- On paper (squared is preferred, even better if the squares are divided into four, it helps you ballance the character) write the frame number (eg. 1) next to it write out the kanji as neatly as possible and next to that the Heisig keyword (eg. one). Note: If you don't have the book you will have to copy the kanji from the first website and paste it into google search and after that write stroke order and you will come to a page like this and click (usually) the first link, this is how you will find out the kanji's stroke order, this is VERY important to learn perfectly! If you have the book it shows you.
- Next go to the first website, sign up if you haven't already, go to study and in the search box search for the frame number of the kanji that you are studying. Scroll down to favorite stories and pick a story that you find memorable, you see the Heisig method is all about relating a kanji to a keyword and being able to draw it from a story so this step is important. Write it down next to the kanji and its keyword you have already written.
- Do this for another 10-20 kanji per day, yes everyday and don't you dare go breaking the chain!
- Once you have done this for all the kanji that you are going to learn on that day practice writing out each new kanji three times (and only three times no drilling!). Whilst you are writing them out pay attention to the stroke order and go through the story for the kanji.
- Now we move onto the magic part, using possibly my favorite computer program to date, ANKI! What you want to do is download the Remembering the kanji deck from the shared decks in anki, set anki to give you the amount of new cards you will study per day, so if you chose ten put in 10 and then review! As you review it will give you the keyword, think about the keyword and try to write the kanji that goes with it, remember to use the correct stroke order and go through the story in your head!
- Do this everyday until you can recognize and write all the kanji in the book!
That's all for now, part of the Heisig method is that you first learn how to write and recognize the character before learning all the meanings and readings of the kanji. Don't shun it until you've tried it! This will take a while but if you dedicate yourself to it you could do it really fast and don't forget to review! Once you have learnt them all you can then move onto the meanings and readings, Heisig has a follow up book on that too.
That's all for this post, I hope you've benefited from it, it took me ages to write! Subscribe for more Japanese learning tips and resources, さようなら！
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