Use an SRS program like Anki and read a lot. The more you see kanji the easier it will be to remember it.
do you use WaniKani? you learn radicals, kanji and vocabulary and then do regular reviews 🙂
write words down. daily.
I’m about 550-600 into the å¸¸ç”¨æ¼¢å— and would say from my experience in the past 3 months I’ve been studying is that the best way for introducing them is undoubtedly SRS. I think that’s pretty commonly agreed. Anki or WaniKani – whichever you find more comfortable.
As for making those kanji stick. All you can do is read. Manga or news or graded readers. Anything you can find at your level or slightly above. When you see those words and characters you recognise often enough you’ll eventually be able to breeze over them.
One bit of advice I can also give you is to use the sentence examples on Bunpro. As you can turn off the English translations for all of them and read through those whilst learning the grammar and solidifying vocab/Kanji. Bunpro also has good reading exercises
download and practice this anki deck! i recommend setting it to 15 new cards a day.
This is just how I personally did it, but I learned them in order using Essential Kanji by P. G. O’Neill. I Learned them one by one and kept writing each one by hand until I felt confident enough that I could write them without a doubt. I knew quite a bit of Japanese at the time already so it was easy to learn new usages just by reading stuff online and looking the words up. This was maybe not the smartest way to do it but I learned all the essential ones in about a year by simply using this method and putting the work in daily
For learning how to _write_ kanji, I wrote [Ringotan](http://www.ringotan.com) for that exact purpose.
It supports Wanikani so they can be used together.
I like the Matrix version of learning myself. I’d rather stick a spike in my head and learn anything I want in seconds.
But, typically I use a spaced repetition flashcard app and memorize how to write specific words.
I find learning to write them helps a lot, and then regularly using them in context
Wanikani.
There’s nothing else that works for me and it works like a charm. Basically spaced repetition with mnemonics. An anki deck with similar system works as well, but wanikani force-limits your speed so you don’t drown in reviews after a 2 weeks. Absolutely worth every cent.
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read a lot
While using an srs, you can also memorize what the kanjis are made of or what radicles are there Example: 憂 has 百,心,冬 in it. Also æ» has the katakana for ヒand ã‚¿in it
Brute force is the only thing that has truly worked for me. Flash cards, and every time you don’t get it right, write the kanji out.
I did mnemonics with and RTK anki deck with help from kanji koohii. I don’t know if it is the most efficient way but there is something to be said for the way the stories make the kanji stick into your brain.
If you are struggling I think you should definitely give mnemonics a go.
You can try jitaku if you are on iOS, it is specifically designed for kanji learning
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Use an SRS program like Anki and read a lot. The more you see kanji the easier it will be to remember it.
do you use WaniKani? you learn radicals, kanji and vocabulary and then do regular reviews 🙂
write words down. daily.
I’m about 550-600 into the å¸¸ç”¨æ¼¢å— and would say from my experience in the past 3 months I’ve been studying is that the best way for introducing them is undoubtedly SRS. I think that’s pretty commonly agreed. Anki or WaniKani – whichever you find more comfortable.
As for making those kanji stick. All you can do is read. Manga or news or graded readers. Anything you can find at your level or slightly above. When you see those words and characters you recognise often enough you’ll eventually be able to breeze over them.
One bit of advice I can also give you is to use the sentence examples on Bunpro. As you can turn off the English translations for all of them and read through those whilst learning the grammar and solidifying vocab/Kanji. Bunpro also has good reading exercises
download and practice this anki deck! i recommend setting it to 15 new cards a day.
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/917377946
This is just how I personally did it, but I learned them in order using Essential Kanji by P. G. O’Neill. I Learned them one by one and kept writing each one by hand until I felt confident enough that I could write them without a doubt. I knew quite a bit of Japanese at the time already so it was easy to learn new usages just by reading stuff online and looking the words up. This was maybe not the smartest way to do it but I learned all the essential ones in about a year by simply using this method and putting the work in daily
For learning how to _write_ kanji, I wrote [Ringotan](http://www.ringotan.com) for that exact purpose.
It supports Wanikani so they can be used together.
I like the Matrix version of learning myself. I’d rather stick a spike in my head and learn anything I want in seconds.
But, typically I use a spaced repetition flashcard app and memorize how to write specific words.
I find learning to write them helps a lot, and then regularly using them in context
Wanikani.
There’s nothing else that works for me and it works like a charm.
Basically spaced repetition with mnemonics. An anki deck with similar system works as well, but wanikani force-limits your speed so you don’t drown in reviews after a 2 weeks. Absolutely worth every cent.
Learn chinese
read a lot
While using an srs, you can also memorize what the kanjis are made of or what radicles are there
Example: 憂 has 百,心,冬 in it. Also æ» has the katakana for ヒand ã‚¿in it
Brute force is the only thing that has truly worked for me. Flash cards, and every time you don’t get it right, write the kanji out.
Try https://jpdb.io
I did mnemonics with and RTK anki deck with help from kanji koohii. I don’t know if it is the most efficient way but there is something to be said for the way the stories make the kanji stick into your brain.
If you are struggling I think you should definitely give mnemonics a go.
You can try jitaku if you are on iOS, it is specifically designed for kanji learning