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11-26-2008, 10:19 AM

Learning a kanji a day would be good, but are you learning it the right way?
I am studying kanji and so far I arrived to know 120 both readings ON and KUN, but that is not enough. I write the kanji on one side of my flash card then I turn it over and divide it in 2. Left side contains ON reading and right side KUN reading...but not only that. Under each reading I write also the translation and when I study them I repeat reading and meaning at the same time.
Knowing a bunch of sounds is not useful at all.
I will give you a an example with one of the kanji that took longer to me to learn: 生. Easy for me to say quickly now セイ、ショウ、い、う、は、なま、き、は (well actually not really easy, because I have learnt them in the way I will describe...so the come out of my mind easily as full words not just readings). But that is not the way to study them in my opinion. To me it is more useful when repeating them starting...セイ、ショウ:life. 生ける: arrange flowers. いきる: live. いかす:let live, revive, highlight a talent. なま: raw, live (of show). き: plain alcohol without ice.
うみ: birth. うむ: to give birth, to produce. うまれる: to be born. はやず: grow plants. はえる: to grow up of a plant or being born of a plant.
Of course you can't expect to get all the meanings and all the readings (think just to 上 which has tons of readings, along with 下, 生 and 付 so far the hardest to learn I have met), but it is a good way to know kanji and you will see that learning 1 a day will become rather hard.

Just my 2 cents of course...


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