learn kanji

Well it has to happen someday…

As soon as I feel comfortable with Katakana I will begin…
Hopefully by mid May…this year, lol…hopefully.

Kanji looks so hard! I only know two or three Kanji’s but it looks so intimidating.

I hope to learn at least 100 or more Kanji characters.

sooo hard. I’m still currently looking for the proper online resources.. Anybody know good sites?
All i get are sites that introduce kanji and their english meaning. I want to see how to say it in japanese, as well as have the english meaning. I don’t want to just know the meaning in english, I want to know how to say it. I always come across sites where they give the kanji then the english meaning, but I couldn’t learn it like that. If I just learnt the english, then that would mean I’d have to learn it again in japanese…which is a frightening concept, if I have already learnt 100+ or something.

I’m really eager to learn Kanji, and I think I know 3 so far. I haven’t really had enough time to study because of school. Now we have a 2-week term break and I’m hoping I get time for all this.
sigh
it frustrates me that I had already memorized hiragana and katakana and when i came back to it months later, I forgot everything. OK, not everything, some sticked to my mind, but most of it. Almost all, actually. It’s really annoying and a waste of time when I already memorized it… I guess I’ll have to memorize it again, and this time, make sure I don’t forget

my eyes are kinda tired right now, but I’ll be back. soon.

I’m currently at 320 with the kana learned.

ピンク色の「常用漢字の学習」
１日１ページで、一週間で７ページ終わらせるぞ！
因みに４７ページあるから…７週間は確実にかかるね。
長期戦で頑張ろう。

Pink colored textbook “Studying of regular Kanji”
I’ll finish 1page a day and complete 7pages in a week.
By the way, it has 47pages in this textbook so
It will take 7 weeks at less.
Think it as a long war.

No where near starting this. I want to eventually take the Level 4 test but that won’t be for several years. I want to learn Japanese as a language, not just the symbols so I’m working on hiragana and katakana first.

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Get to know from memory at least a few hundred kanjis — writing, readings and meanings. And be reasonably fast reading and writing them.

I see learning kana as being a prerequisite for this — I want to have a good command of kanas before tackling the tougher work of kanjis!

This semester I’m taking an Elementary Japanese Class (AKA Beginners) at SDSU.
We’re 3 weeks into the semester, and I’ve already mastered hiragana. It’s the best class I’ve had thus far. Of course, I’m biased, since this has been a dream of mine since I was 12.
But hey, I’m that much closer to learning Kanji!

I used to know about 1000-1200 kanji characters in 2001. I think I might be able to remember about 20 now. I never get to use them now. I never speak Japanese anymore but I will make more of an effort to keep my diminishing ability alive. Overall considering it took me about 6 years to get to that level I would say the kanji at least was not worth it.

For me the hours,days, months etc that are needed to learn the kanji alphbet are not worth it. I would say it is worth it if you want to live in Japan permanently, intend on reading a daily newspaper and want to attempt to integrate yourself into life there as fully as possible.