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 Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:53 pm
  I'm having trouble memorizing the different meanings for kanji symbols.
That, and I feel overwhelmed due to the fact that I'm given ten Kanji symbols at a time that have four or more different sounds/meanings.
D: And my brain hurts!!
Any suggestions? Help is DEEPLY appreciated. D:
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:30 am
Ohaayô ! I`m learning kanji by myself, I mean I don`t have a teacher, I have a book with all the kanji used and it`s diivided on 8 grades. I study 2 or 5 kanjis each day, but the important is u must take some time 4 it. At the moment my goal is to learn de 4th grade. It`s funny, and , maybe would be more easy 4 u to find a book with the meanning of all characters, and maybe make some cards. ^^ I hope it hep
Sayonara
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:39 pm
Possibly the easiest way to memorize kanji is flash cards. That or writing down the kanji ten times in a row or so.
As for me, I just look at the character for a good 20 seconds, then draw it in my head several times. It works out pretty nicely.
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:04 am
Our japanese book tells us to try and associate kanji with drawing and symbols like..
For 日、The textbook says to imagine it's a window with the sun Coming through~
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:41 pm
M y s t i x C Our japanese book tells us to try and associate kanji with drawing and symbols like..
For 日、The textbook says to imagine it's a window with the sun Coming through~ That helps so much. c:
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:11 am
Well,I guess remembering a certain story for each character is helpful,but I can seem to remember se the most...That i won't use as am example but the first letter "a" I use upside down umbrella.See if something like that helps.
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:32 am
My book said あ looks like an apple, which starts with "a".
日 is actually derived from a circle with a dot in the middle, representing the sun; the dot became a line and the circle became a rectangle. For pictorial kanji the history of the character is often very helpful.
In the long run, though, most characters AREN'T pictorial. You'll find the best tool in the long run is to learn the radicals, and then remember kanji by which radicals go into them.
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:23 am
Something that's popular with students here in Japan is a free program called Anki- just google it. You don't have to download it. It's a sort of flash card program, specially designed... it's hard to explain, the web site will have it.
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:48 am
Associating the kanji with things helps me once in a while, depending on what the kanji is. The kanji "ame/ama" has four little lines inside of the longer ones, so I can remember that it means rain. Flash cards are your best bet, probably.
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:55 pm
I learn all of my kanji from new vocabulary. I just learn the kanji and pronunciation whenever I learn a new word. So far it's been pretty effective, but I'm not exactly at a high level atm. Here's a few things to help you learn kanji. -Do what I do and incorporate Japanese into your everyday life. For example, I memorized the kanji for all of my school subjects by writing my subject names in Japanese in my homework schedule. I also write out the lyrics to my favorite Japanese songs just for fun when I'm bored in class and can safely pull out my ipod to look up the kanji for the lyrics xd -If you have Firefox, you can download an add-on called Kanjilish which is very very useful for memorizing the meanings (but not readings) of some of the first few hundred kanji. I won't go into detail, but it's a really cool way to learn kanji, so just check out the link. -As always, http://smart.fm is a great place to learn Kanji. They have great vocabulary lessons full of kanji, and when you learn a new word you're able to see the stroke order for the kanji 90% of the time.
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Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 10:54 pm
I bought "Remembering the Kanji" by James W. Heisig. It teaches you how to write them and how to remember them and what they mean, however it does not teach you how to say them, read them, or use them in a sentence because there are many ways that a lot of kanji can be written.
From there I personally believe you can probably pick up how to say them, etc. as you progress through your lessons, using their meanings also as a sort of guide. This guy's got it right when it comes to learning this stuff. I learned my basic hirigana from this guy's "Remembering the Kana" book in about 2-3 hours, no joke.
Now, for those of you who wish to save probably $70-100 it is out there on a few certain torrent sites but you didn't hear it from me. I have the 3 volumes there but I prefer using the actual book so I bought vol. 1.
I didn't really look through the second and third volumes, but I know I counted at least 2000 kanji in the first volume. Good luck!
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:55 am
I got a big box of flash cards for all the 3rd yr. kanji, sorted by lesson, from when my dad took Japanese (the book hasn't changed since then). Each card has all the readings for the character as well as three different compounds you can make with it. I found it really helps to go through them before class, since we're cramming 15~25 kanji every week. eek
Ya, flash cards are boring, but they really work, if you want them to...
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:00 am
Tougenkyou Something that's popular with students here in Japan is a free program called Anki- just google it. You don't have to download it. It's a sort of flash card program, specially designed... it's hard to explain, the web site will have it. *googlefu* http://ichi2.net/ankiOh wow, that looks awesome.. especially AnkiMini, since I jailbroke my iPod. pirate
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