And that’s what this 97-Day Kanji Challenge Post is all about: an amalgamation of the best tools available for learning kanji. But the only way to learn kanji fast and effectively is to combine the best ones. There are a ton of useful kanji study tools and methods out there. Not only that, but they want money for it, too. Using Only 1 Kanji Study ToolĪ lot of people will write books and blog posts and just about anything you can think of in which they tell you about “the best, fastest, most awesome way to learn the kanji”…which, as coincidence would have it, is their way. So you should learn the parts first, then the kanji as a whole. Kanji are made up of parts… and those parts have meaning. I’m just saying that it wastes an unbelievable amount of time. I’m not saying it’s impossible to learn this way. There’s another word for this method: masochism. That’s because they teach kanji in the same way that Japanese children learn them-stroke by stroke, over the course of 10+ years. This is how a lot of Japanese classes will encourage you to learn the kanji. I know what I always used to think: Is it possible? It will seem much less atrocious if you don’t try to take it all in at once. How can we ever hope to do it? How can we, in a year, master something that Japanese people themselves are expected to learn only by the end of high school? I mean, look at all of them: The sheer number of Kanji that must be learned in order to obtain Japanese fluency (JLPT N1) is just ridiculous. The other unique thing about them is that there are thousands of them! The unique thing about Kanji is that the characters have meaning, as opposed to how hiragana and katakana are simply used to represent sounds. The characters are actually Chinese characters that the Japanese began to adopt well over 1,000 years ago. Kanji is the third of the three pillars of the Japanese writing system (the other two being hiragana and katakana). They are like the most beautiful, fascinating, insufferable lover. Kanji! Its endless curves, the way they combine to make words, make meaning of concepts in forms I’d not thought before, the way writing can be a visual art, the incredible depth and history. There’s also a lot of cool stuff about learning Japanese on our links page: The Best Sites for Learning Japanese. LEARN KANJI ONLINE FOR FREEYou can download it for free by signing up for our newsletter. This post on the fastest way to learn the kanji is a (now-outdated) excerpt from the Hacking Japanese Supercourse, an all-inclusive guide to mastering Japanese. LEARN KANJI ONLINE HOW TOUpdate: There is a now an updated, thoroughly more incredible version of this post here: “ Hacking the Kanji – How to learn the kanji easily and remember them permanently.” Check it out, if you please.
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