Good evening, I was wondering, how many kanjis can we learn in… - Feed Post by OmoOmo

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  mog86uk

  Counting only the kanji specifically taught in the Kanji lessons, here's a complete breakdown of the number of Jōyō kanji taught:
  
  elementary school grade 1:　80/80　(100%)
  elementary school grade 2:　160 / 160　(100%)
  elementary school grade 3:　200 / 200　(100%)
  elementary school grade 4:　200 / 200　(100%)
  elementary school grade 5:　121 / 185　(65%)
  elementary school grade 6:　29 / 181　(16%)
  junior high school (i.e. grades 7~9) : 25 / 1,130　(2%)
  
  Jōyō kanji total: 815 / 2,136　(38%)
  -- of which are Kyōiku kanji: 790 / 1,006　(79%)
  
  So, while we're quite far off from the jōyō kanji total, we're getting close to having all the Kyōiku kanji taught on here. If you were to include all the additional kanji you encounter on here but are not specifically taught in the lessons (such as within words in the Vocabulary lessons), then these totals would be considerably higher. ^^

  December 31, 2015 at 3:55am
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  OmoOmo

  Thank you for your prompt answer. Which way do you think is better to be able to read in japanese ? Learning the Kyôiku or the Jôyô ?

  December 31, 2015 at 6:32am
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  mog86uk

  Well the kyōiku kanji list is simply the first 1,006 kanji that are in the jōyō list. So of course you would be better off knowing the full 2,136 kanji in the jōyō list rather than only having learnt the first 1,006. However, the kyōiku kanji are probably a better target to aim for first before thinking about tackling the remaining 1,130 kanji in the list. ...And this site teaches most of the kyōiku kanji. ^_-
  
  All the kyōiku kanji are commonly used kanji. Whereas within the remaining 1,130 kanji in the jōyō list, nearly 100 of them don't even make it onto the list of the 2,501 most frequently appearing kanji in newspapers! There are quite a few rarely used kanji in the jōyō list, but none of those rare ones are within the kyōiku part of the list.
  
  But anyway, I'm only another random user of this site learning Japanese myself. I don't know if I'm really the right person to ask that question... I personally just learnt the rough English meanings for each of the 214 kanji radicals, then did the same for the 1,945 kanji in the previous edition of the jōyō list, not really in any specific kind of order, learning just to be able to recognise them all quickly and to instantly be able to know roughly what they mean. The readings of kanji I mostly pick up along the way while learning vocabulary, eventually knowing them just instictively... Most of my learning is just haphazardly doing whatever is interesting and fun to do, without having any study regimes or any organised orderly process to learn things in. I'm learning Japanese mainly for fun, rather than having any important goal or purpose behind doing it... ^^;

  December 31, 2015 at 8:54am
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  OmoOmo

  Thank you again for your answer, that makes it clearer. Is there really a right person to ask this to? Your point of view remains interesting. ^_^ And your way of learning based on the fun can works in my opinion. We're more likely to enjoy the learning and to not give up right? I try to combine my academic studies of Japanese and having fun by learning while watching films or reading mangas in raw version, and it's very refreshing when e.g. you have to learn all the on + kun lectures and the strike order of the kanjis that you learn in class with a Japanese teacher (more than 200 already TwT) and I'm only talking about one subject. But most of the people here have given up you know, so I think your way of learning is right.

  December 31, 2015 at 8:52pm