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[Jimmeny]

I use smart.fm for learning vocabulary and used kanagrams.com for learning kana. Is there anything similar to Kanagrams (and free) for learning kanji? I am really struggling at the moment. I was trying to pick up 20 a day but I am finding this very hard. At the rate I am going at the moment it will take me many years to be able to read even one page of a newspaper.

Cheers,
Thomas

[jettyke]

There is, http://www.tbns.net/knuckles/

but it sucks very much, believe me. You dont want to learn kanji that way, it toook me a long time and I didnt remember much.
Better use the heisig method here, It helped me tremendously,

http://kanji.koohii.com/

[Javizy]

Better use the heisig method here, It helped me tremendously,

http://kanji.koohii.com/

Ya, 20 a day is standard, and you can do many more if you have time. RTK all the way.

[jettyke]

Basically yeah, RTK is such an effective way to study that my maximum amount of learned kanji in 1 day was as much as 142, if anyone here believes it. I usually did 50 a day. So it´s definitely worth trying out.

[mslozada]

Basically yeah, RTK is such an effective way to study that my maximum amount of learned kanji in 1 day was as much as 142, if anyone here believes it. I usually did 50 a day. So it´s definitely worth trying out.

Question: 142 Kanji in 1 day?
Answer: impossible, never.

you have to be a gifted person to be able to do this, lol

[Javizy]

Question: 142 Kanji in 1 day?
Answer: impossible, never.

you have to be a gifted person to be able to do this, lol

I did a similar amount on the first day. I think pretty much everyone does. The first 500 or so are a breeze, although it gets tougher towards the last quarter of the book. You don't waste hours and hours writing out characters hundreds of times; there's no reason it should take forever.

Learning to write/recognise them is only the first step anyway, so it wouldn't be very good if it did take a long time