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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
I've heard that this book doesn't actually teach you how to say the Japanese word for the Kanji. Just how to remember it and recognize it in English. Is that so?
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If you want one that will help you legitimately learn kanji and tons of vocabulary, check out Kanji in Context. With it, I've learned hundreds of kanji and thousands of new vocabulary in a matter of months, with an hour or less per day on average.
I'm closing on 100% of the pre-2010 joyo kanji!
And I'm not the only one: I got the inspiration from another guy who claimed to have learned 1000 of the joyo kanji in a couple months by spending 4–5 hours per day of study on them.
My experience is that this is 100% possible if you study properly and already have a decent foundation. This is what is happening to me.
I'm probably 2–3 months away from 2000 kanji. I seem to have forgotten a few hundred since I lived in Japan, so I started back at about kanji #700 and have been flashcarding them all since the late spring.
Such progress is amazing! I seem to retain about 80% of the vocabulary/kanji over a month of study. Granted, I'm only going JP->EN and only focusing on reading, so I can't write many of them by hand (nor can many young Japanese!). I also cannot use them all in conversation yet fluently. But I'm getting there.
In summation, Kanji in Context is 300% recommended!