How many kanjis should I learn per day?

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1. If you raise the number of characters you learn everyday it can very easily overwhelm you with reviews

   IF you think you have the time and motivation to review all those kanji everyday then sure you can increase it but I personally wouldn’t recommend it. At most I could see going to 15 but again that depends on how much time you’re willing to put into kanji practice

2. I definitely wouldn’t go much over 10-15. It’s not a race. The goal should be retention, not speed 🙂

3. It won’t take that long to learn 2000 kanji at this pace. 200 days may sound like a lot, but you’re actually trying to learn two danm thousands new foreign symbols and their meanings. If after one whole year you had learned 1000 kanji, it would already be great.

4. Not enough info. What else are you doing each day? What do you already know? What are your goals (reasons for learning Japanese).

5. Most textbooks will teach 10-15 characters over the course of a few weeks in introductory courses (first and second year), then up to 25 or 30 in intermediate and advanced courses (third and fourth years).

6. I find learning new ones every day plus new ones for Vocabulary you have already memorized helps if you want to learn more. The familiarity with the word you already know can be extremely helpful in learning.