[auran]

Originally Posted by anrakushi

it is great everybody is trying to help but lets try not spread too much incorrect information. luckily kunitokotachi has been correcting along the way ^^ also i think auran just forgot to type the 1 in front of the 940, making it 1940 ^^

That hiragana and katakana table is lacking... you can find complete one below:
Hiragana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Katakana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

i don't particularly agree with flash cards, i agree with repetition in writing them over and over. this method taught me both of these in 2 weeks during my lunch break and this time only at work.

as for kanji.. well if you can find a table with all of them listed then that would be a huge table.. one of my dictionaries i use has 12,000+ kanji in it. the 大漢和辞典 (comprehensive chinese-japanese dictionary) has over 50,000 individual kanji entries and many many more compound entries. of course as kunitokotachi said you need a little less than 2000 to meet the standard list you should know.

it seems daunting but i assure you once you get stuck into them you start to understand it a lot better and things come together nicely. those first few characters might be hard but as you move along it gets easier even though the characters may be more complex.

yeah i actually did