[mkfuba07]

I actually love studying kanji, because it speeds up my memorization of vocab that I'm learning at the same time. But the hardest thing for me is all of the conjugations that I was told Japanese didn't have. There's present positive, present negative, past casual negative, etc. I have trouble keeping all of the "-かった"s, "じゃなかった"s, and "だった"s straight. I think I just have to study more, but I can't pull myself away from kanji XD

Of course, this may just be because I started Japanese three months ago, while the rest of my class started 13 months ago... I think it'll take some tome anyways, and I agree with whoever said you really have to live there for a while to fully internalize everything.