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Hey guys what's the best way for studying kanji? Do you study kanji based on the official 常用漢字 list? Or do you base it base from the usefulness? If the latter then how would one know if a kanji is more useful than the other? Any proficient guys there that bothered learning even up to 人名用漢字?
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  • slawyn
    i use kanjidamage to learn kanji and read stuff to hold it in my head.
    Learning by radicals is the easiest way.
    As for reading ,i.e newspaper most of the kanji there are used to describe names or for very very formal words that you will probably won't need unless you you're going to be living in Japan.
    I recommend getting a tight grasp on the flow of the speech by listening to it and reading whatever articles on the net.
    Kanji comes naturally if you focus on using it and not learning it blindly.
  • zeto
    and by blindly you mean only memorizing kanji e.g.(memorizing the meaning, kun and on reading, stroke) but without learning how it's used? Yeah that's what I actually do. I think 1,700 kanji in kanjidamage is not enough to be proficient. Compulsive as I am, I would probably be learning up to jinmeiyou kanji.
  • slawyn
    Depending on what you need it for and your willpower you might just pull that off ,but it's quite a long term.
  • WhiskeyMcGhee
    Honestly, a whole book could be written on just HOW to study kanji. Some people actually don't like learning by radicals, and rightfully so, as it can be confusing. The best thing, IMHO, is contextual learning. Kanji make up words, vocab, so you learn the most common readings through the words you actually need. Why waste time memorizing a bunch of mostly useless on-yomi? Even with names, you're going to start recognizing general rules for what makes what. That said, I like to use mostly Core2k decks with Anki, usually with sentences and audio readings for context. Otherwise, I'm here reading the newspaper clippings. Ultimately, it depends on what you wanna do with the language. If you just wanna read some shounen manga, you won't have to go so far, if you wanna read the classics, then you might just have to start getting into classical Japanese.
  • souljabri557
    Do it by stroke order first, but still try to group them by vocabulary a little bit. In other words don't start by learning a 100-stroke kanji even if it's a simple word like "outside." You'd be better off learning a never-used word with only two strokes.
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