Hmm, very interesting. Thanks a lot, everyone, for your continued help. Hopefully in a couple weeks all these concerns of mine will be outdated.
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Think of kanji as Greek or Latin affixes. Would you rather know what "pseudo" means and then learn words like "pseudopod" and "pseudonym," or would you rather say "oh OK, that word starts with the 'soo' sound, then the 'dough' sound, then 'pod'"? Learning what "pseudo" means gives you a gateway to learning tons of other vocab very fast. Basically, attach "pseudo" to a lot of stuff to make that new word mean "fake" whatever. Kanji lend themselves to the very same vocabulary explosion.
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That made perfect sense. Thanks for typing it all out for me.