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How long does it take to learn 1 Kanji?

All the tools I’ve seen out there are about learning Kanji Now! Fast! Locking it in your brain forever! Special mnemonic techniques! Learn hundreds of Kanji in a few days, remember them forever! While it would be lovely to flip a switch and immediately understand another language. These things take time. So I’ll ask the [...]

Posted 10 February 2008 † Khalid § feel ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , ,

Learning Kanji From Context

Tae Kim has a great final post up on the “Remembering the Kanji” books. The best part isn’t when he discusses the merits of RTK but when he describes the process he went through in learning Kanji. I may have mentioned this before but I never studied kanji; I studied the words that are made [...]

Posted 31 January 2008 † Khalid § heisig § kanji § studying ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: ,

Starting with Heisig

Keep it simple. It’s amazing to me how many people learning Japanese do everything within their power to not read anything in Japanese. As though there is this magical point when they have memorized enough Kanji, drilled enough vocab, and crammed enough grammar, reading fluently will spontaneously occur. Now, to be fair, reading Japanese requires [...]

Posted 01 December 2007 † Khalid § fluency § heisig ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , ,