Best way to learn Kanji?

Question

Any suggestions?

Websites, videos, textbooks, workbooks, any reccomendations are more than welcome!

As well as studying techniques, I'd love some of those too. Thanks!

Cheers, Kyrstin

Answer 1

hi!

It took a few years learning Japanese, learning during one of the most useful tools that I had available to me is the network. Then a list of my favorite sites and that I think are really useful to learn Japanese.

Grammar:

     * Guidetojapanese: I know the best site to learn basic grammar Japanese. It goes straight to the point.

http://www.guidetojapanese.org/

     * Jgram: compilation with "all" the most important points of grammar ordered by Japanese standards

http://jgram.org/

Dictionaries:

     * Alc: surely the best Japanese-English dictionary, but is aimed at Japanese. It is based on the dictionary commercial Eijiro.

http://www.alc.co.jp/

     * EDICT:

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Ejwb/www...

     * Goo: another widely used by Japanese dictionary with many search options and usage examples.

http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/

     * RUIG: thesaurus.

http://thesaurus.weblio.jp/category/ruig...

Kanji:

     * Kanjisite: barely has just over 1,000 kanji explained but it is one of the best sites that I know to be simply reviewing lists of kanji you know it or not.

http://www.kanjisite.com/

     * JapaneseKanji.com: This site also is great to revise the plan in kanji flashcards.

http://www.japanese-kanji.com/

     * Kanji practice: website very Curran who has even videos showing the calligraphy of each character.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~kanji/

     * Kanjiaday: is fine to sign up to RSS and receive a kanji a day.

http://www.kanji-a-day.com/

Various:

     * MLC: Web PDFs with many exercises and material for downloading.

http://www.mlcjapanese.co.jp/Download.ht...

     * Manythings: a lot of material and links, including lists of vocabulary for exams JLPT

http://www.manythings.org/japanese/

http://www.manythings.org/japanese/jlpt/...

     * Pear pear penguin: advanced lessons with something that always learn something.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/columns/0002...

     * Japanesepoc101: podcasts to learn Japanese.

http://www.japanesepod101.com/index.php

     * Mahalo: more links!.

http://www.mahalo.com/Japanese

     * Rikai: furigana and tool that adds extra information to Kanji of the site you're reading. To get the most out it is best to settle this add-on

http://www.rikai.com/perl/Home.pl

Answer 2

good ol' "kakitori".

it's a method practiced in japanese elementary schools.

you write "hiragana" at the left column, write the corresponding "kanji" at the right column.

know use a ruler to hide the kanji column. write the kanji by reading the hiragana on the left column.

小学校

しょうがっこう

like the above except make it vertical.

the best way is to write the kanji.