Quick question about kanji

[yinfonn]

こんにちはミナタチ！


So i just have a question about how you go about learning kanji characters.
Currently i am learning the kanji for EVERY single audio and video lesson and i am managing to remember over 200 characters and how they join together to make another meaning etc etc.

BUT! Kanji characters has multiple pronounciations and this is where my dilemma is kicking in.
Do i learn the kanji pronounciationsfor each of the characters aswell for all these lessons? Or should i continue what i am doing? It's just remembering multiple pronounciations seems extremely hard at the rate of 1 lesson per day.

Just a few words of wisdom would help me decide what i should do!

ありがとうね！

晃彦

[orthoepy]

おはようございます　晃彦さん

maybe I can help you with this ^^

My japanese Teacher in University told me something very useful.

As you know many Kanjis have an On’Yomi (音読み) and a Kun'yomi (訓読み) reading.
You use the On’yomi reading normally when a word is made up of a multi-kanji compound.
You will use the Kun'yomi readings when a kanji has hiragana attached to it (not always but that is mostly the case).

Now for example the kanji 行 has several different readings. You just have to look what comes after the kanji
行く （いく） or 行う　（おこなう）.

There is no real rule. So, what I am doing is learning the Kanji by context and learn the reading by context, rather than study all the different pronunciations at once.

I hope this helps ^^

頑張ってください　

マーク

[yinfonn]

マークどの！
ありがとうね！


Thanks for the reply and a good one! I think i'll just continue with the method i am accustomed to then, as most of the context will occur when they occur in time.　


晃彦

[community.japanese]

晃彦san,
I know it’s hard to memorise kanji readings, however, I think Mark san’s idea, reading articles and being familiar is good.

マークさん、
どうもありがとうございました。


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