Kanji practice

[junlove323]

Hi i just need to know what is the easiest way to Kanji for anyone? Cause i need to practice my Japanese with a buddy and learn much much more.

[FuzX]

Hate is quite hateful. Reported?

[Mazen]

Well, I guess Kanjiphilia is the beginning of being well-kanji-practiced-person.

Try to be addicted to Kanji, and make the kanji dictionary as important as your watch, TV and even computer.

Depend on some Kanji Picture Illustrated references, it really helps you to remember them and understand them well, try Kanji Pict.O.Graphix by Michael Rowley.

That's my advice for now ... hope u like it

[chryuop]

Best way to kanji? Ok, forget computer and take a nice pen in your hand and be ready to waste a bunch of paper. Best way to learn is writing over and over. This is the way I did it. I bought some very thick paper (the kind of gloss paper for printers) and cut them in small rectangles. I went online (you can find it easy) and looked for kanji that are taught in grade schools. I started with first grade (80ish kanji).
I took my small rectangles and by hand (that is a way to learn too) I made my own flashcards. On one side I drew the big kanji. I devided the other side in two. On the left side I wrote the ON reading with the meanings and on the right side the KUN reading with all the meanings.
I spent few weeks, during my lunch breaks at work, with the pile of 80 flashcards, a white sheet of paper and a pen in front of me. I would keep the flashcards with the reading/meaning upside. I would ignore the readings, just read the meanings and draw the kanji. Finished the 80 cards and restarted all over. After few weeks I didn't need the paper anymore, would just read the meaning and the kanji was in my brain easy to be pictured. From there I started all over. This time I started 10 cards at the time. Placed them in front of me with the kanji on top and started writing down the reading (ON and KUN) and would say aloud the meaning per each kanji. It takes time, it is not an easy task.
Meanwhile if you study Japanese you will encounter many phrases daily and slowly you will learn to recognize more kanji, some of them you will know just one reading, some of them maybe even more. At the moment I know well 60 kanji, but I can say that I know how to use at least in one way at least 2-300 kanji if not more.

A good program to help you learn kanji is ReadWrite Kanji, while a program with a huge number of kanji (over 6000) with reading, translations and example phrases is wakan. Both program you can find them easy with a search engine.