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[quote=jesselt;711781]I'm not sure what you mean by "not all of them know all of Kanji." If they're native Japanese, they should know pretty much all of the Kanji that are in use. There are some that are no longer in use (though I expect most people would know a lot of those anyways.)
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I'm a Japanese native speaker and unfortunately this is not entirely true. Most people know Kanjis which are taught by the time you graduate from high school, but it not all the kanjis in use. There are actually Kanji exams for Japanese people. You are asked to tell how to "read" kanjis on university entrance exams.

My recommendation is to get the text books for real kids in Japan, and learn from them step by step. Realistically speaking, once you learn Highschool level Kanjis you are fine.

By the way, we still be able to "guess" the meaning of a Kanji from a radical orr things like that when we don't know the meaning of a kanji or how to read (pronounce) it.