Japanese Kanji 101 (and How I’d Learn Kanji Starting Over)

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  @ToKiniAndy · 3 years ago · pinned

  Something that should always be said on videos like this: This is how I would (and do) learn kanji. It’s not the ONLY way to learn kanji, and it might not even be the best for you! But it works well for me, and is very efficient, so I want to try and make it work for YOU too!<br><br>Things I used to recommend:<br>RTK - I cover in this video why I’ve shifted, despite using it myself 10 years ago.<br>Kanken Video Games - I enjoyed these for a while, but they’re actually what lead me to THIS approach. The games are lacking in many ways, and ALSO as you get further along they become quite tedious, time consuming, and the little extra steps necessary become annoying. So this is what I’ve broken everything down into. <br><br>BUT, those might work for you. So never feel like you have to quit what you’re doing if it’s working. 😊

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  @user-nm3ug3zq1y · 3 years ago

  &quot;Don&apos;t learn kanji, learn words that consist of kanji.&quot;<br><br>This is the best advice in the whole video - and maybe the only one you even need.

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  @DoubtX · 3 years ago

  Having learned about 650 kanji so far, I can&apos;t imagine trying to intentionally learn the readings. As far as I can tell, the readings side of things comes intuitively as you grow your vocabulary.

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  @azkaazeylia · 3 years ago (edited)

  I love how the kanji in the thumbnail means depression<br>Edit: They changed the thumbnail, this comment is now outdated.

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  @ronnieketchum1241 · 2 years ago

  I used to think that Kanji was useless. <br><br>Now that know how to read kanji, I realise that it makes the entire language 500 times easier to read.

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  @TheOneAndOnlyNeuromod · 3 years ago

  Kanji has a higher information density - and it’s faster to read with Kanji once you know them. &nbsp;I love it!

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  @mikaylasplanet · 2 years ago

  The Chinese: <b>laughs maniacally</b>

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  @josephscottlawrence · 3 years ago

  As a former gacha game player, I find Wanikani’s gamified level system really motivating. I highly doubt I would put as much time in if I was trying a more self-directed method. And it’s working fine—after around level 10 the process started feeling fairly intuitive.

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  @Caduceus444 · 1 year ago

  LEARN RADICALS!!!<br><br>Radicals have a strict stroke order each, but if you master them, you won&apos;t have to bother with kanji stroke order.<br><br>They are like lego pieces.<br>You can build a house by just putting them together the right way, even if you aren&apos;t an engineer.<br><br>Honestly, I never learned radicals, they came along the way as I was learning kanji, but things got A LOT easier after I recognised thier pattern.<br>I highly recommand abusing &quot;radical building&quot; for it can straight up halve the difficulty of kanji using radicals. It&apos;s a gamechanger.

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  @SADSUSHI-k8z · 3 years ago

  PLEASE I NEED TO KNOW KANJI SO I CAN DO KARAOKE TO MY FAVORITE JAPANESE 80s JAMS

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  @himanshu98455 · 3 years ago

  I think instead watching how to learn kanji, if i actually start learning kanji for once only then i can progress 😅

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  @SeaSerpentLevi · 2 years ago

  Me, a mandarin learner crawling my way into learning thousands of hanzi and watching this video to help my motivation: thank you sir ❤😂

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